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Fall 2018 Book Releases We're Excited to Read

By Caroline Rogers
July 26, 2018
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Autumn in the South brings a chill to the air, a curtain of fall foliage, and a host of brand-new book releases we can’t wait to dive into. We’re looking forward to leaves crunching underfoot, sure, but we’re even more excited about new novels by Jasmine Guillory, Claire Fuller, and Barbara Kingsolver; stories by Lucia Berlin, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, and Chaya Bhuvaneswar; and poetry by Jeffrey Yang, Natasha Trethewey, and Kristen Tracy. So many great new books—where to begin? Pour yourself a cup of tea; take a leisurely browse through titles, covers, and summaries; and get excited about these new releases coming out in the fall. You’re in good company. (And if you want to browse last year’s fall book releases, we’ve got you covered there too.)
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Lake Success: A Novel by Gary Shteyngart

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A hedge-fund manager flees his life in New York while his brilliant wife, Seema, tackles the aftermath in this poignant and funny new novel from Gary Shteyngart. It's epic in scope, and it resonates powerfully, so powerfully that it just might take your breath away. (September 4)

To buy: $28, amazon.com, indiebound.org

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Crudo: A Novel by Olivia Laing

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This highly anticipated new novel from Olivia Laing delves into the life of writer Kathy Acker, whose engagement prompts more questions than answers. Through this frame, Laing contemplates state of the world, the nature of art, and the practice of living with love on a globe in tumult. (September 11)

To buy: $21, amazon.com, indiebound.org

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Ordinary People: A Novel by Diana Evans

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Two couples navigating the tensions of marriage after children are at the heart of this sharp, moving new novel by Diana Evans. In it, a couple living in south London and one in the suburb of Dorking encounter domestic crises big and small. (September 11)

To buy: $26.95, amazon.com, indiebound.org

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She Would Be King: A Novel by Wayétu Moore

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Fans of magical realism and historical fiction will devour this stunning new novel from Wayétu Moore, a story of Liberia and the African diaspora that’s populated with characters who grapple with accepting and harnessing their gifts upon a changing landscape. (September 11)

To buy: $26, amazon.com, indiebound.org

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The Dinner List: A Novel by Rebecca Serle

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This new novel from Rebecca Serle is a romance with a touch of magic that kicks off when Sabrina Nielsen’s 30th birthday party is crashed by her answer to the classic dinner party question: Which five people, dead or alive, would you invite to dinner? Things get interesting when three people from Sabrina's past (plus none other than Audrey Hepburn) show up. (September 11)

To buy: $27.99, amazon.com, indiebound.org

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The Winter Soldier: A Novel by Daniel Mason

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This historical novel about love and medicine sweeps through the landscape of World War I and follows a young medical student named Lucius as he arrives in a makeshift field hospital in the Carpathian Mountains to work alongside Sister Margarete, the only remaining nurse stationed there. (September 11)

To buy: $28, amazon.com, indiebound.org

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The Caregiver: A Novel by Samuel Park

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Told in urgent, moving, and tender prose, the novel The Caregiver follows Mara Alencar as she flees 1980s Rio de Janeiro for California, where she becomes a caregiver to a young woman with stomach cancer. It's the final novel from the late writer Samuel Park, whose experiences in Brazil and Los Angeles inspired threads of thestory. (September 25)

To buy: $26, amazon.com, indiebound.org

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The Shape of the Ruins: A Novel by Juan Gabriel Vásquez

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Conspiracy theories abound in The Shape of the Ruins, a thrilling new novel from Juan Gabriel Vásquez that unfolds a story about a theft, an arrest, and a web of secrets in the world of Colombian politics. It grips the imagination from the first page, entangling readers in the novel's dramatic twists and turns as it's led along by the narrator, also a novelist named Juan Gabriel Vásquez. (September 25)

To buy: $27, amazon.com, indiebound.org

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Transcription: A Novel by Kate Atkinson

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Transcription tells the engrossing story of Juliet Armstrong, a young woman recruited into British intelligence during World War II, whose work—and the consequences of that work—return to haunt her years later. (September 25)

To buy: $28, amazon.com, indiebound.org

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Hey, Marfa: Poems by Jeffrey Yang

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Marfa, Texas, is the inspiration for this thought-provoking collection from Jeffrey Yang, a poetic and visual exploration of the place and its contradictions, the landscape and its art. (October 2)

To buy: $20, amazon.com, indiebound.org

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Virgil Wander: A Novel by Leif Enger

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After an accident, the title character of Leif Enger’s long-awaited new novel finds himself a stranger in a place he used to know, a small Midwestern town that’s populated with curious characters whose lives unfold with humor and heart. (October 2)

To buy: $27, amazon.com, indiebound.org

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Impossible Owls: Essays by Brian Phillips

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These eight essays traverse the globe, engaging on topics as varied as tigers and tycoons, globalization and meaning, all tied together with writer Brian Phillips’ compelling voice and unrelenting curiosity. (October 2)

To buy: $15, amazon.com, indiebound.org

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Bitter Orange: A Novel by Claire Fuller

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From the author of Swimming Lessons and Our Endless Numbered Days comes a suspenseful story set in the English countryside that follows a researcher named Frances Jellico as she encounters and befriends a couple who may not be exactly what they seem. (October 9)

To buy: $25.95, amazon.com, indiebound.org

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Killing Commendatore: A Novel by Haruki Murakami

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The latest novel from Haruki Murakami arrives stateside this fall and promises a perspective-bending tale tackling the contours of love and war. (October 9)

To buy: $30, amazon.com, indiebound.org

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White Dancing Elephants: Stories by Chaya Bhuvaneswar

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Sixteen stories make up this enthralling, vivid debut collection from writer and physician Chaya Bhuvaneswar. The stories span centuries, from Renaissance Portugal to present-day India, and provide powerful glimpses into experiences of grief, violence, and betrayal. (October 9)

To buy: $16.95, amazon.com, indiebound.org

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Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

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Mississippi-born writer Kiese Laymon has penned a mighty memoir in Heavy, a tectonic examination of his life and experience in the world, which is illuminated moment by moment through the unraveling of a lifetime of closely kept secrets. (October 16)

To buy: $26, amazon.com, indiebound.org

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Melmoth: A Novel by Sarah Perry

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After last year’s fantastic novel The Essex Serpent, Sarah Perry is back with another mysterious tale, this one about a translator named Helen Franklin who, once she hears a folk tale about a figure called Melmoth the Witness, finds herself in proximity to a very peculiar disappearance. (October 16)

To buy: $27.99, amazon.com, indiebound.org

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The Winters: A Novel by Lisa Gabriele

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This thrilling tale is set in the Hamptons, where secrets threaten to derail a family of well-to-do Long Islanders—a young woman, her fiancé, and his teenaged daughter—who are haunted by a mystery with an icy grip. (October 16)

To buy: $26, amazon.com, indiebound.org

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Unsheltered: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver

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Two families separated by time but connected by place are at the heart of Barbara Kingsolver’s new novel, a story in which a woman named Willa Knox begins to research the history of her home and unearths Thatcher Greenwood, a science teacher from the 1880s whose life echoes through the intervening years. (October 16)

To buy: $29.99, amazon.com, indiebound.org

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Friday Black: Stories by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

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The stories in this collection are aching and powerful dispatches on race, violence, and the modern world. Take George Saunders’ word for it: He calls Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Friday Black, “An excitement and a wonder: strange, crazed, urgent and funny...The wildly talented Adjei-Brenyah has made these edgy tales immensely charming, via his resolute, heartful, immensely likeable narrators, capable of seeing the world as blessed and cursed at once.” (October 23)

To buy: $14.99, amazon.com, indiebound.org

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Little: A Novel by Edward Carey

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This darkly comic, macabre tale spins a story about an orphan named Marie Grosholtz (nicknamed "Little") who was born in 18th-century Switzerland and developed her sculpting talents in Revolutionary-era Paris, eventually becoming the famed Madame Tussaud. (October 23)

To buy: $27, amazon.com, indiebound.org

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Family Trust: A Novel by Kathy Wang

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In this funny and compelling family drama, the question of inheritance brings together the family of Stanley Huang, who has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and whose ex-wife, current wife, and children struggle with the idea of both losing Stanley and inheriting a possible fortune. (October 30)

To buy: $26.99, amazon.com, indiebound.org

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The Proposal: A Novel by Jasmine Guillory

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Fans of Jasmine Guillory's novel The Wedding Date will be over the moon for her latest, a lighthearted story to get lost in that begins with a disastrous public proposal and explores the newfound friendship and unexpected love story that grows from catastrophe. (October 30)

To buy: $15, amazon.com, indiebound.org

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Evening in Paradise: More Stories by Lucia Berlin

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Fans of Lucia Berlin’s short fiction should pick up this new collection, a selection of stellar stories that are, at turns, lively, memorable, and sharp. It's the follow-up to 2015’s posthumously published A Manual for Cleaning Women. (November 6)

To buy: $26, amazon.com, indiebound.org

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Half-Hazard: Poems by Kristen Tracy

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Half-Hazard, a collection of poetry by Kristen Tracy, explores the funny, the broken, and the imperiled through memorable verse, entertaining perspectives, and a wry look at the world. (November 6)

To buy: $16, amazon.com, indiebound.org

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Monument: Poems New and Selected by Natasha Trethewey

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A former poet laureate of the United States, Natasha Trethewey is back with a collection of poems both new and selected that illuminate shared national traumas and give voice to issues of gender, race, loss, remembrance, and healing. (November 6)

To buy: $26, amazon.com, indiebound.org

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The Kinship of Secrets: A Novel by Eugenia Kim

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Two sisters separated by a war and an ocean are at the center of this new novel by Eugenia Kim. In it, one daughter is left behind in South Korea while her family takes her sister to the United States in hopes of building a new life. (November 6)

To buy: $26, amazon.com, indiebound.org

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The Latecomers: A Novel by Helen Klein Ross

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Helen Klein Ross’ latest novel is a centuries-spanning family saga about Bridey, a sixteen-year-old Irish immigrant bound for New England who finds herself alone, pregnant, and facing an uncertain life, as well as her descendants, whose lives are altered by the mysteries of Bridey’s past. (November 6)

To buy: $27, amazon.com, indiebound.org

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Night of Miracles: A Novel by Elizabeth Berg

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From the author of The Story of Arthur Truluv comes this novel about community and caring for one another that sees Lucille Howard, a friend of Arthur Truluv’s, step in to take care of her neighbors' son when fate intervenes and disrupts their lives. (November 13)

To buy: $26, amazon.com, indiebound.org

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All the Lives We Never Lived: A Novel by Anuradha Roy

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Anuradha Roy’s new novel is a story of family, love, and loss; it introduces readers to Myshkin, who is abandoned by his mother, Gayatri, and who must unravel the mysteries of her life to learn about his own. (November 20)

To buy: $26, amazon.com, indiebound.org

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Come with Me: A Novel by Helen Schulman

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Come with Me is an absorbing new novel about Amy Reed, a PR rep, mother, and wife, who works in tech, specifically in a start-up exploring an the possibility of an algorithm that allows people to access alternate lives, all the ones they didn’t get to live for one reason or another. (November 27)

To buy: $26.99, amazon.com, indiebound.org

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