Highly anticipated returns, family drama, and literary invention feature in this falls notable fiction. <\/p>\n
Top 10 <\/p>\n
The Bee Sting <\/p>\n
Paul Murray. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Aug. 15 ($30, ISBN 978-0-374-60030-3) <\/p>\n
Irish novelist Murray, who recently toured Metas virtual reality platform for New York magazine, conveys the bleakness of a territory closer to homehis countrys Midland Regionin this family drama. <\/p>\n
Come and Get It <\/p>\n
Kiley Reid. Putnam, Jan. 9 ($28, ISBN 978-0-593-32820-0) <\/p>\n
Campus hijinks ensue with the story of a University of Arkansas resident assistant who takes on extra work in hopes of buying a house after graduation and deals with pranks from dorm residents. <\/p>\n
Devil Makes Three <\/p>\n
Ben Fountain. Flatiron, Sept. 26 ($30.99, ISBN 978-1-250-77651-8) <\/p>\n
Fountains second novel comes 11 years after the NBCC-winning Billy Lynns Long Halftime Walk. The setting is Haiti, where an American expat adjusts to the new normal after the 1991 coup. <\/p>\n
Family Meal <\/p>\n
Bryan Washington. Riverhead, Oct. 10 ($28, ISBN 978-0-593-42109-3) <\/p>\n
Washington continues writing about food, which he did so well in Memorial, with a story of a bakery in Houston and two friends whose bond helps one of them get through the death of his lover. <\/p>\n
Happiness Falls <\/p>\n
Angie Kim. Hogarth, Sept. 5 ($28, ISBN 978-0-593-44820-5) <\/p>\n
A young Korean American woman frantically tries to determine what happened to her father after her younger brother returns from a park near their Virginia home without him, covered in blood and unable to speak. <\/p>\n
The Maniac <\/p>\n
Benjamin Labatut. Penguin Press, Oct. 3 ($28, ISBN 978-0-593-65447-7) <\/p>\n
Chilean writer Labatut, author of the International Bookershortlisted When We Cease to Understand the World, unspools a story involving Hungarian polymath John von Neumann and the roots of AI. <\/p>\n
My Work <\/p>\n
Olga Ravn, trans. by Jennifer Russell. New Directions, Sept. 4 ($18.95, ISBN 978-0-8112-3471-9) <\/p>\n
Danish writer Ravn returns after the speculative workplace novel The Employees with a hefty mixed-genre meditation on birth, motherhood, and writing. <\/p>\n
Tom Lake <\/p>\n
Ann Patchett. Harper, Aug. 1 ($30, ISBN 978-0-06-332752-8) <\/p>\n
Set in Northern Michigan in the spring of 2020, Patchetts latest centers on a woman and her three adult daughters as they pepper her with questions about her past during a visit home. <\/p>\n
The Unsettled <\/p>\n
Ayana Mathis. Knopf, Oct. 24 ($29, ISBN 978-0-525-51993-5) <\/p>\n
In another long-awaited return, Mathis follows up 2012s The Twelve Tribes of Hattie with the story of a familys resilience after moving from Alabama to Philadelphia in the 1980s. <\/p>\n
The Wren, the Wren <\/p>\n
Anne Enright. Norton, Sept. 19 ($27, ISBN 978-1-324-00568-1) <\/p>\n
A young writer, the descendant of a famous Irish poet, has a much different relationship with her maternal grandfathers poems than her mother does, setting the stage for a story about great art by a perhaps not-so-great man. <\/p>\n
Literary Fiction longlist <\/p>\n
Algonquin <\/p>\n
The New Naturals by Gabriel Bump (Nov. 14, $27, ISBN 978-1-61620-880-6). Bumps sophomore novel is a tragicomedy of an underground Black utopia in western Massachusetts, where a young woman from Boston settles, hoping for a sense of community and a better life. <\/p>\n
Astra House <\/p>\n
Do You Remember Being Born? by Sean Michaels (Sept. 5, $27, ISBN 978-1-66260-232-0). An acclaimed 70-something poet of modest means takes up an unexpected new career with a tech company, where she collaborates with an AI program to write poetry. <\/p>\n
Avid Reader <\/p>\n
One Woman Show by Christine Coulson (Oct. 17, $25, ISBN 978-1-66802-778-3) follows up Coulsons collection, Metropolitan Stories, with another book inspired by her work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this time a novel with a character portrait in the form of gallery wall text. <\/p>\n
Ballantine <\/p>\n
The Bookbinder by Pip Williams (Aug. 1, $28, ISBN 978-0-593-60044-3). After The Dictionary of Lost Words, Williams chronicles two sisters working as bookbinders in 1914 Oxford whose horizons are expanded as WWI draws the men away from home. <\/p>\n
Berkley <\/p>\n
All You Have to Do Is Call by Kerri Maher (Sept. 19, $28, ISBN 978-0-593-10221-3) draws on the true story of the Jane Collective, which helped women gain access to abortions before the Roe v. Wade decision. <\/p>\n
Bloomsbury <\/p>\n
The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng (Oct. 17, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-63973-193-0). Malaysian writer Tan is back 11 years after the Booker Prizeshortlisted The Garden of Evening Mists with the tale of a married couple visited in 1921 Penang by author Somerset Maugham, who picks up on his friends unhappiness. <\/p>\n
Catapult <\/p>\n
The Book of Ayn by Lexi Freiman (Nov. 14, $27, ISBN 978-1-64622-192-9). In this satire, Ayn Rand becomes a source of inspiration for a disillusioned debut writer after her novel is dismissed by critics. <\/p>\n
Coffee House <\/p>\n
Nefando by Mnica Ojeda, trans. by Sarah Booker (Oct. 24, $17.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-56689-689-4) combines a morality tale with a deep dive into the gamer world, as a group of Barcelona artists gets sucked into a horror game called Nefando that blurs their sense of reality. <\/p>\n
Counterpoint <\/p>\n
The Premonition by Banana Yoshimoto, trans. by Asa Yoneda (Oct. 3, $24, ISBN 978-1-64009-371-3). Japanese writer Yoshimotos 1988 novel, translated for the first time, involves a young woman struck by an unsettling feeling about her childhood. <\/p>\n
Crooked Media Reads <\/p>\n
Mobility by Lydia Kiesling (Aug. 1, $28, ISBN 978-1-63893-056-3). The daughter of an American diplomat has written a novel about privilege and the Caspian Sea oil boom, centered on a teenage girl growing up with her foreign service family in 1998 Azerbaijan. <\/p>\n
Doubleday <\/p>\n
Normal Rules Dont Apply: Stories by Kate Atkinson (Sept. 12, $28, ISBN 978-0-385-54950-9) is a thematically linked collection featuring protagonists as diverse as a queen, a secretary, and a gambler. <\/p>\n
Ecco <\/p>\n
Brooklyn Crime Novel by Jonathan Lethem (Oct. 3, $30, ISBN 978-0-06-293882-4) returns to the terrain of Lethems most celebrated work and covers five decades of a Brooklyn neighborhoods economic upheaval and racial tensions. <\/p>\n
Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo (Aug. 1, $30, ISBN 978-0-06-320726-4). The YA authors adult debut follows a clairvoyant woman and her Dominican American family in Santo Domingo and New York. <\/p>\n
Europa <\/p>\n
A Volga Tale by Guzel Yakhina, trans. by Polly Gannon (Sept. 19, $28, ISBN 978-1-60945-934-5). Russian writer Yakhina draws on the history of a 17th-century German settlement in Russia with a love story involving the composer Jakob Bach, who spins a series of fairy tales for his daughter. <\/p>\n
Farrar, Straus and Giroux <\/p>\n
Absolution by Alice McDermott (Nov. 7, $28, ISBN 978-0-374-61048-7). The National Book Award winner chronicles two women who meet in Vietnam during that war, where one of their husbands is a Navy lawyer and the other a corporate bigwig. In the present day, they reexamine their commitment to their husbands work. <\/p>\n
Blackouts by Justin Torres (Oct. 10, $27, ISBN 978-0-374-29357-4). The author of We the Animals draws on an early-20th-century book called Sex Variants: A Study in Homosexual Patterns in this tale of a young man caring for an older man at the end of his life. <\/p>\n
Feminist Press <\/p>\n
The Singularity by Balsam Karam, trans. by Saskia Vogel (Jan. 24, $16.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-55861-193-1). A woman takes care of a family of refugee children after their mother dies by suicide in Swedish writer Karams latest. <\/p>\n
Graywolf <\/p>\n
Im a Fan by Sheena Patel (Sept. 5, $17 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-64445-245-5) is told from the perspective of an unnamed young woman as she strikes up an unbalanced relationship with a powerful married man. <\/p>\n
Grove <\/p>\n
So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men by Claire Keegan (Nov. 14, $20, ISBN 978-0-8021-6085-0). The title story of this triptych on regret and secrets has already appeared in the New Yorker, which previously ran Keegans novella Foster. <\/p>\n
Grove\/Gay <\/p>\n
Hot Springs Drive by Lindsay Hunter (Nov. 7, $27, ISBN 978-0-8021-6145-1) delves into themes of body issues and hunger in a tale of friendship and jealousy based on a real murder. <\/p>\n
Harpervia <\/p>\n
People Collide by Isle McElroy (Sept. 26, $28.99, ISBN 978-0-06-328375-6) follows up their hit debut, The Atmospherians, with a fantastical novel about a man who wakes up in his wifes body. <\/p>\n
Hogarth <\/p>\n
Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham (Jan. 23, $27, ISBN 978-0-593-44823-6). Theater critic Cunningham makes his fiction debut with a bildungsroman about a Black man working on an Obama-like senators presidential campaign. <\/p>\n
Kensington <\/p>\n
When the Jessamine Grows by Donna Everhart (Jan. 23, $16.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-4967-4070-0). A North Carolina woman tries to keep her family out of the Civil War. <\/p>\n
Knopf <\/p>\n
Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri, trans. by the author and Todd Portnowitz (Oct. 10, $27, ISBN 978-0-593-53632-2). Originally written in Italian, Pulitzer winner Lahiris stories convey a series of perspectives on Italys capital from locals and tourists alike. <\/p>\n
Wellness by Nathan Hill (Sept. 26, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-53611-7) centers on a married couple dealing with the 21st centurys rapid cultural changes 20 years after meeting in college in the 1990s. <\/p>\n
Little, Brown <\/p>\n
The Apology by Jimin Han (Aug. 1, $28, ISBN 978-0-316-36708-0) is a South Korean ghost story set over several decades of the countrys history. It features a late matriarch tasked in the afterlife with reversing her familys curse. <\/p>\n
Liveright <\/p>\n
The Pole by J.M. Coetzee (Sept. 19, $26, ISBN 978-1-324-09386-2). A journeyman Polish pianist attempts to seduce a wealthy Spanish patron of the arts in the Nobel Prize winners latest, which poses questions about the pairs shifting power dynamic. <\/p>\n
Mariner <\/p>\n
America Fantastica by Tim OBrien (Oct. 24, $32, ISBN 978-0-06-331850-2). The National Book Award winner returns to fictionafter the memoir Dads Maybe Bookwith a picaresque of a down-and-out journalist who commits a bank robbery and becomes a fugitive. <\/p>\n
Morrow <\/p>\n
The Leftover Woman by Jean Kwok (Oct. 10, $30, ISBN 978-0-06-303146-3). A mother travels from China to New York City to search for her daughter, who was taken away from her as a result of Chinas one-child policy. <\/p>\n
New York Review Books <\/p>\n
Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt (Sept. 19, $17.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-68137-781-0). British writer Boyt makes her U.S. debut with a novel about a woman who takes care of her granddaughter while her daughter deals with a drug addiction. <\/p>\n
One World <\/p>\n
The Golem of Brooklyn by Adam Mansbach (Sept. 26, $18 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-593-72982-3). The author of Go the F**k to Sleep returns to adult fiction with a tale of antifascists who reanimate a golem to help fight white supremacists after a rally in Charlottesville, Va., reminiscent of Unite the Right. <\/p>\n
Overlook <\/p>\n
The Men Cant Be Saved by Ben Purkert (Aug. 1, $26, ISBN 978-1-4197-6713-5) traces the rise, fall, and reinvention of a young copywriter for an ad agency, who, after he gets fired, burrows into the kabbalah and abuses prescription pills. <\/p>\n
Pantheon <\/p>\n
A House for Alice by Diana Evans (Sept. 12, $28, ISBN 978-0-593-70108-9) draws on the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire in London for an account of a British Nigerian family affected by the disaster. <\/p>\n
Penguin Press <\/p>\n
The Fraud by Zadie Smith (Sept. 5, $29, ISBN 978-0-525-55896-5) gathers a disparate set of characters in 1873 London for the trial of an Australian man accused of fraud. <\/p>\n
The Wolves of Eternity by Karl Ove Knausgrd (Sept. 19, $35, ISBN 978-0-593-49083-9) takes another step away from My Struggle with a dual-timeline narrative involving a Norwegian man in the mid-1980s who wonders about his fathers identity and a woman working as a biologist in present-day Russia. <\/p>\n
Random House <\/p>\n
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