Buzz Books 2021:Fall/Winter

By Publishers Lunch

Buzz Books 2021 is a treasure-trove of what readers value the most: substantial excerpts from a curated selection of dozens of the most highly-touted books scheduled for publication this fall and winter. Such major bestselling authors as Mitch Albom, Noah Hawley, Natasha Lester, and Richard Osman are featured, along with literary greats Lauren Groff, Ruth Ozeki, Bernard Shlink and. Tiphanie Yanique. Other sure-to-be popular titles are by Patti Callahan, Anna Pitoniak and Shruti Swamy.
Buzz Books has had a particularly stellar track record with highlighting the most talented, exciting debut authors, and this edition is no exception. Ash Davidson’s Damnation Spring, Julia May Jonas’s Vladimir, and Claire Oshetsky’s Chouette are among the literary standouts.
Our nonfiction selections range from Yrsa Daley Ward’s inspirational guide that includes poetry to Gayle Jessup White, a descendant of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson on reclaiming her family’s legacy. Bestselling expert on the virtues, Ryan Holiday, addresses courage, while iconic naturalist Jane Goodall offers the Book of Hope.
Be sure to look out for Buzz Books 2021: Romance, also out in May, and Buzz Books 2022: Spring/Summer, coming in January 2022.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Publishers Lunch
• Release date: May 11, 2021
• ISBN: 9781948586429

Book preview

Introduction

For book-lovers looking to discover their next great read, Buzz Books 2021 is a treasure-trove of what readers value the most: substantial excerpts from a curated selection of dozens of the most highly-touted books scheduled for publication this fall and winter. Think of it as a compilation of 50 great singles, or a special issue of your favorite literary magazine—if only they could land these top authors all at once.

Such major bestselling authors as Mitch Albom, Noah Hawley, Natasha Lester, and Richard Osman are featured, along with literary greats Lauren Groff, Ruth Ozeki, Bernard Shlink and Tiphanie Yanique. Other sure-to-be popular titles are by Patti Callahan, Anna Pitoniak and Shruti Swamy.

Buzz Books has had a particularly stellar track record with highlighting the most talented, exciting debut authors, and this edition is no exception. Ash Davidson’s Damnation Spring, Julia May Jonas’s Vladimir, and Claire Oshetsky’s Chouette are among the literary standouts.

Our nonfiction selections range from Yrsa Daley-Ward’s inspirational guide that includes poetry to Gayle Jessup White, a descendant of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson on reclaiming her family’s legacy. Bestselling expert on the virtues, Ryan Holiday, addresses courage, while iconic naturalist Jane Goodall offers the Book of Hope.

Finally, we present early looks at new work from up-and-coming young adult authors Mahogany Brown, Dhonielle Clayton, as well as perennially popular Rick Riordan with his take on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Start reading some of the best future books right now, and please feel free to share your excitement through online reviews and social media. You can invite your friends and book group companions to download their own free copy of this ebook from any major ebookstore.

We are honored to help readers discover great new books and to assist the participating authors and publishers in reaching out to new audiences with these pre-publication excerpts.

Be sure to look out for Buzz Books 2021: Romance, also out in May, and Buzz Books 2022: Spring/Summer, coming in January 2022.

The Fall/Winter 2021 Publishing Preview

It’s another exciting season of new books ahead. Readers will find their way to many of the books previewed here and others yet to be discovered. To help you sift through the many thousands of planned fall and winter titles, we’ve selected what we think are among the most noteworthy literary, commercial, and breakout titles for adults, separated into four key categories.

You’ll be able to sample many of the highlighted titles right now in Buzz Books 2021: Fall/Winter; they are noted with an asterisk. And please remember: because we prepare this preview many months in advance, titles, content, and publication dates are all subject to change.

Fiction

This fall promises a line-up of titles from major literary authors, including new work from Louise Erdrich, Jonathan Franzen, Richard Powers, Sally Rooney, Elizabeth Strout, and Colson Whitehead. Meanwhile, our sampler features excerpts from Lauren Groff, Ruth Ozeki, emerging talent Mesha Maren and Patti Callahan, and more.

The Notables

John Banville, April in Spain (Hanover Square, 10/5)

T.C. Boyle, Talk to Me (Ecco, 9/14)

A. S. Byatt, Medusa’s Ankles (Knopf, 11/23)

Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land (Scribner, 9/28)

Dave Eggers, The Every (Knopf, 10/19)

Louise Erdrich, The Sentence (Harper, 10/12)

Joshua Ferris, A Calling for Charlie Barnes (Little, Brown, 9/28)

Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads (FSG, 10/5)

Lauren Groff, Matrix (Riverhead, 9/7)*

David Guterson, The Final Case (Knopf, 1/11)

Peter Heller, The Guide (Knopf, 8/24)

Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic (Simon & Schuster, 10/5)

Karl Ove Knausgaard, The Morning Star (Penguin Press, 9/28)

Mario Vargas Llosa, Harsh Times (FSG, 11/2)

Tom McCarthy, The Making of Incarnation (Knopf, 11/2)

Benjamin Percy, The Unfamiliar Garden (HMH, 1/4)

Richard Powers, Bewilderment (Norton, 9/21)

Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You (FSG, 9/7)

Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends (Random House, 11/2)

Wole Soyinka, Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth (Pantheon, 9/28)

Elizabeth Strout, Oh William! (Random House, 10/19)—Strout’s heroine Lucy Barton, of My Name Is Lucy Barton, returns in a new novel.

Miriam Toews, Fight Night (Bloomsbury, 10/5)

Colm Toibin, The Magician (Scribner, 9/7)

Edmund White, A Previous Life (Bloomsbury, 9/30)

Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Doubleday, 9/14)—From the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, the story of a 1960s con man.

John Edgar Wideman, Look For Me and I’ll Be Gone (Scribner, 11/9)

Joy Williams, Harrow (Knopf, 9/14)

Highly Anticipated

Laurent Binet, Civilizations (FSG, 9/14)

Patti Callahan, Once Upon a Wardrobe (Harper Muse, 10/19)*

Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures (Custom House, 10/5)

Sarah Hall, Burntcoat (Custom House, 11/2)

James Hannaham, Pilot Impostor (Soft Skull, 11/2)

Atticus Lish, The War for Gloria (Knopf, 9/7)

Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These (Grove, 12/1)*

Jon McGregor, Lean, Fall, Stand (Catapult, 9/21)

Chibundu Onuzu, Sankofa (Catapult, 10/5)

Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness (Viking, 9/21)*

Anna Pitoniak, Our American Friend (Simon & Schuster, February)*

Bernhard Schlink, Olga (HarperVia, 9/1)*

Francesca Stanfill, The Falcon’s Eyes (Harper, 2/1)

Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway (Viking, 10/5)—From The Gentleman of Moscow author.

Margaret Verble, When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky (HMH, 10/12)

Claire Vaye Watkins, I Love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness (Riverhead, 10/5)—The author’s follow-up to Gold Fame Citrus.

Sarah Winman, Still Life (Putnam, 11/2)

Emerging Voices

Hannah Lillith Assadi, The Stars Are Not Yet Bells (Riverhead, 1/11)

Monica Byrne, The Actual Star (HarperVoyager, 9/14)

Sophie Cousens, Just Haven’t Met You Yet (Putnam, 11/9)

María Amparo Escandón, L.A. Weather (Flatiron, 9/7)

Donna Everhart, The Saints of Swallow Hill (Kensington, 1/25)*

Jennifer Haigh, Mercy Street (Ecco, 1/1)

Lisa Harding, Bright Burning Things (HarperVia, 12/7)

Lorena Hughes, The Spanish Daughter (Kensington, 12/28)*

Mesha Maren, Perpetual West (Algonquin, 1/25)*—The sophomore novel from the author of Sugar Run.

Lincoln Michel, The Body Scout (Orbit, 9/21)

Sofi Oksanen, Dog Park (Knopf, 9/21) 9780525659471

Neel Patel, Tell Me How to Be (Flatiron, 12/7)

Josh Ritter, The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All (Hanover Square, 9/1)

Aysegul Savas, White on White (Riverhead, 11/30)

Asali Solomon, The Days of Afrekete (FSG, 10/19)

Shruti Swamy, The Archer (Algonquin, 9/7)*

Tiphanie Yanique, Monster in the Middle (Riverhead, 10/19)*

Sarai Walker, The Cherry Robbers (HMH, 2/1)

Debut

The upcoming season is packed with debuts. Our sampler features a range of new voices including Jessamine Chan, Ash Davidson, Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, Juhea Kim, and more.

Bisi Adjapon, The Teller of Secrets (HarperVia, 11/1) *

Uwem Akpan, New York, My Village (Norton, 11/2)

Daphne Palasi Andreades, Brown Girls (Random House, 1/4)

Natasha Brown, Assembly (Little, Brown, 9/14)

Jai Chakrabarti, A Play for the End of the World (Knopf, 9/7)

Jessamine Chan, The School for Good Mothers (Simon & Schuster, 1/4)*

Catherine Dang, Nice Girls (William Morrow, 9/7)

Ash Davidson, Damnation Spring (Scribner, 8/3)*

Katherine Faulkner, Greenwich Park (Gallery, 9/7)

Xochilt Gonzalez, Olga Dies Dreaming (Flatiron, 1/11)*

Toni Halleen, The Surrogate (Harper, 11/1)

Hazel Hayes, Out of Love (Dutton, 11/26)*

Jean Chen Ho, Fiona and Jane (Viking, 1/4)

Violaine Huisman, The Book of Mother (Scribner, 10/5)

Emily Itami, Fault Lines (Custom House, 9/28)

Lucy Jago, A Net For Small Fishes (Flatiron, 11/9)

Amanda Jayatissa, My Sweet Girl (Berkley, 11/14)*

Ethan Joella, A Little Hope (Scribner, 9/2)

Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, My Monticello (Holt, 10/5)*

Julia May Jonas, Vladimir (Avid Reader, February)*

Eva Jurczyk, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (Sourcebooks/Poisoned Pen 1/25)*

Rachel Kapelke-Dale, The Ballerinas (St. Martin’s, 12/7)

Calvin Kasulke, Several People Are Typing (Doubleday, 9/7)

James Kennedy, Dare to Know (Quirk, 9/14)*

Juhea Kim, Beasts of a Little Land (Ecco, 12/7)*

Naomi Krupitsky, The Family (Putnam, 9/7)*

Vera Kurian, Never Saw Me Coming (Park Row, 9/7)*

Katie Lattari, Dark Things I Adore (Sourcebooks Landmark, 9/14)*

Louise Nealon, Snowflake (Harper, 9/7)

Claire Oshetsky, Chouette (Ecco, 11/1)*

Nita Prose, The Maid (Ballantine, 1/4)

Kirthana Ramisetti, Dava Shastri’s Last Day (Grand Central, 12/21)*

David Sanchez, All Day Is a Long Time (HMH, 1/18)

Tamara Shopsin, LaserWriter II (MCD, 10/12)

Alison Stine, Trashlands (Mira, 10/26)

Elizabeth Weiss, The Sisters Sweet (Dial, 1/11)

Commercial Fiction

This fall, there are new titles on deck from some of the biggest names in fiction, including Liane Moriarty, Ken Follett, Nicholas Sparks, and many others, plus a collaboration between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny. In our sampler, check out excerpts from Mitch Albom, Noah Hawley, and Kimberly McCreight.

Mitch Albom, The Stranger in the Lifeboat (Harper, 11/2)*

Tove Alsterdal, We Know You Remember (Harper, 9/28)

V.C. Andrews, Out of the Rain (Gallery, 10/5)

Jeffrey Archer, Over My Dead Body (Harper, 11/2)

Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker’s Bye Bye Baby (Putnam, 11/23)

David Baldacci, Untitled (Grand Central, 11/16)

Marc Cameron, Tom Clancy Chain of Command (Putnam, 11/9)

Wiley Cash, When Ghosts Come Home (William Morrow, 9/21

Hillary Rodham Clinton, Louise Penny, State of Terror (Simon & Schuster, 10/12)

Michael Connelly, The Dark Hours (Little, Brown, 11/9)

John Connolly, The Nameless Ones (Atria/Emily Bestler, 10/12)

Tea Cooper, The Cartographer’s Secret (Harper Muse, 11/30)*

Bernard Cornwell, Sharpe’s Assassin (Harper, 11/23)

Patricia Cornwell, Autopsy (William Morrow, 11/30)

Fiona Davis, The Magnolia Palace (Dutton, 1/25)

Jeffery Deaver, The Midnight Lock (Putnam, 11/30)

Nelson DeMille, The Maze (Simon & Schuster, 12/7)

Janet Evanovich, Untitled (Atria, 11/2)

Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills, Enemy at the Gates (Atria/Emily Bestler, 9/14)

Ken Follett, Never (Viking, 11/9)

Elizabeth George, Something to Hide: A Lynley Novel (Viking, 1/11)

Tamron Hall, As the Wicked Watch: The First Jordan Manning Novel (William Morrow, 10/26)

Chris Hadfield, The Apollo Murders (Mulholland, 10/12)

Romy Hausmann, Sleepless (Flatiron, 10/5)

Paula Hawkins, A Slow Fire Burning (Riverhead, 8/31)—A new novel from the author of The Girl on the Train.

Noah Hawley, Anthem (Grand Central 1/21)*

Anthony Horowitz, A Line to Kill (Harper, 10/19)

Gerald Jay, The Hanged Man’s Tale (Nan A. Talese, 12/7)

Lisa Jewell, The Night She Disappeared (Atria, 9/7)

Iris Johansen, High Stakes (Grand Central, 9/7)

Craig Johnson, Daughter of the Morning Star (Viking, 9/21)

Natasha Lester, The Riviera House (Forever, 8/31)*

Mike Lupica, Robert B Parker’s Stone’s Throw (Putnam, 9/7)

Gregory Maguire, The Brides of Maracoor (William Morrow, 10/12)

Kimberly McCreight, Friends Like These (Harper, 9/7)*

Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Good Son (Mira, 1/11)

Johanna Mo, The Night Singer (Penguin Books, 8/31)*

Liane Moriarty, Apples Never Fall (Holt, 9/14)—The author of Big Little Lies returns with a novel about sibling rivalry and marriage.

Jo Nesbo, The Jealousy Man and Other Stories (Knopf, 10/26)

Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery (Pamela Dorman, 9/28)*

James Patterson, Fear No Evil (Little, Brown, 11/22)

James Patterson, Nancy Allen, Jailhouse Lawyer (Little, Brown, 9/20)

Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds (Minotaur, 8/24)

J. D. Robb, Forgotten in Death: An Eve Dallas Novel (St. Martin’s, 9/7)

Nora Roberts, The Becoming: The Dragon Heart Legacy, Book 2 (St. Martin’s, 11/23)

Tom Rosenstiel, The Days to Come (Ecco, 12/7)

Craig Russell, Hyde (Doubleday, 9/28)

Alex Schulman, The Survivors (Doubleday, 10/5)

Alexander McCall Smith, The Joy and Light Bus Company: No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (22) (Pantheon, 10/26)

Nicholas Sparks, Untitled (Grand Central, 9/28)

Neal Stephenson, Termination Shock (William Morrow, 11/16)

Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted (Park Row, 10/5)

Nonfiction

This season’s nonfiction features memoirs by Katie Couric, Jamie Foxx, Billy Jean King, Joy Harjo, Sarah Ruhl, and Marie Yovanovitch, as well as vital social justice works by the history-making activists Anita Hill and Tarana Burke. The Coronavirus, Donald Trump, and racism are also covered in many new titles. Other highlights: An oral history of Anthony Bourdain; Stanley Tucci’s My Life in Food; a new book of essays from Susan Orlean; and David Copperfield’s history of magic.

Politics & Current Events

Gerard Baker, What Went Wrong: How America Conquered the World and then Defeated Itself (Twelve, 9/7)

Curtis Bunn, Michael H. Cottman, Patrice Gaines, Nick Charles, Keith Harriston, Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America (Grand Central, 10/5)

Ryan Busse, Gunfight: My Battle Against the Industry that Radicalized America (Public Affairs, 10/19)

Josh Chin, Liza Lin, Surveillance State: Inside China’s Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control (St. Martin’s, 9/28)

Andrew Cockburn, The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine (Verso, 9/21)

Ellis Cose, The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America (Amistad, 9/14)

Chris Cuomo, Deep Denial (Custom House, 10/26)

David M. Drucker, After Trump: Inside the Not-So-Civil War to Command the GOP (Twelve, 9/21)

Anthony Fauci, Expect the Unexpected: Anthony Fauci on Truth, Service, and the Way Forward (Nat Geo, 11/2)—By the leader of the White House’s Coronavirus Task Force.

Newt Gingrich, Beyond Biden: The Path Back to a Triumphant America (Center Street, 10/5)

Victor Davis Hanson, The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America (Basic, 10/5)

Fiona Hill, There Is Nothing for You Here: Opportunity in an Age of Decline (HMH, 10/5)

David Cay Johnston, The Big Cheat: How Donald Trump Fleeced America and Enriched Himself and His Family (S&S, 9/21)

Bruce Jones, To Rule the Waves: How Control of the World’s Oceans Determines the Fate of the Superpowers (Scribner, 9/14)

Colin Kahl, Thomas Wright, Aftershocks: Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order (St. Martin’s, 8/24)

Parag Khanna, Move: The Forces Uprooting Us (Scribner, 10/5)

Michael Levitin, Generation Occupy: Reawakening American Democracy (Counterpoint, 9/14)

Tim Mak, Misfire: Inside the Downfall of the NRA (Dutton, 11/2)

Tim Marshall, The Power of Geography: Ten Maps that Reveal the Future of Our World (Scribner, 12/7)

Ethan Michaeli, Twelve Tribes: Promise and Peril in the New Israel (Custom House, 11/16)

Casey Michel, American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World’s Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History (St. Martin’s, 11/16)

Mark Oppenheimer, Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood (Knopf, 10/5)

Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami, Jeremy M. Weinstein, System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot (Harper, 9/21)

Peter Robison, Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing (Doubleday, 11/16)

Alec Ross, The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People—and the Fight for Our Future (Holt, 9/14)

Mike Rothschild, The Storm is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything (Melville, 9/21)

Jennifer Rubin, Resistance: How Women Saved Democracy from Donald Trump (William Morrow, 9/21)

Philip Rucker, Carol Leonnig, Untitled (Penguin Press, 1/18)—On Donald Trump’s final year

Eli Saslow, Voices from the Pandemic: Americans Tell Their Stories of Crisis, Courage and Resilience (Doubleday, 9/28)

Suzanne Schneider, The Apocalypse and the End of History: Modern Jihad and the Crisis of Liberalism (Verso, 9/7)

Saul Singer, Dan Senor, The Genius of Israel: What One Small Nation Can Teach the World (Avid Reader, 11/16)

William Sommer, Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Reshaped America (Harper, 11/9)

Eric Swalwell, Endgame: Inside the Impeachments of Donald J. Trump (Abrams, 9/14)

Adam Tooze, Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy (Viking, 9/7)

John Vandemoer, Rigged Justice: How the College Admissions Scandal Ruined an Innocent Man’s Life (HarperOne, 9/28)

David Wessel, Only the Rich Can Play: How a Billionaire Sold Washington a Bonanza for the Wealthy as a Way to Help the Poor (Public Affairs, 10/5)

George F. Will, American Happiness and Discontents: The Unruly Torrent, 2008-2020 (Hachette, 9/14)

Social Issues

Aja Barber, Consumed: On colonialism, climate change, consumerism & the need for collective change (Brazen, 9/14)

Sesali Bowen, Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist (Amistad, 9/8)

Keith Boykin, Race Against Time: The Politics of a Darkening America (Bold Type, 9/14)

Tarana Burke, Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement (Flatiron/Oprah, 9/14)

Sheryll Cashin, White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality (Beacon, 9/14)

Patrisse Cullors, An Abolitionist’s Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World (St. Martin’s, 10/5)

Jessie Daniels, Nice White Ladies: The Truth about White Supremacy, Our Role in It, and How We Can Help Dismantle It (Seal, 10/12)

Bobby Duffy, The Generation Myth: Why When You’re Born Matters Less Than You Think (Basic, 10/26)

Michael Eric Dyson, Entertaining Race: Performing Blackness in America (St. Martin’s, 11/2)

Andrea Elliott, Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City (RH, 10/5)

Carl Erik Fisher, The Urge: Our History of Addiction (Penguin Press, 1/18)

Danielle Friedman, Let’s Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World (Putnam, 1/4)

Jonathan Gottschall, The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears them Down (Basic, 11/23)

Edward Glaeser, David Cutler, Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation (Penguin Press, 9/7)

Steven Hale, Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber (Melville, 1/11)

Keeda Haynes, Bending the Arc: My Journey from Prison to Politics (Seal, 11/16)

Chris Hedges, Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison (S&S, 10/19)

Kristin Henning, The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth (Pantheon, 9/28)

Anita Hill, Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence (Viking, 9/28)

Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present (Norton, 9/7)

Kenya Hunt, Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic (Amistad, 11/9)

Kimberly Jones, How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That’s Rigged (Holt, 11/16)

Solomon Jones, Ten Lives, Ten Demands: Life and Death Stories, and a Black Activist’s Blueprint for Racial Justice (Beacon, 11/2)

Randall Kennedy, Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture (Pantheon, 9/7)

George Makari, Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia (Norton, 9/14)

Tony Messenger, Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice (St. Martin’s, 12/7)

Jessica Nordell, The End of Bias: A Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias (Metropolitan, 9/21)

Lise Olsen, Code of Silence: Sexual Misconduct by Federal Judges, the Secret System That Protects Them, and the Women Who Blew the Whistle (Beacon, 10/12)

Evan Osnos, Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury (FSG, 9/14)

Jillian Peterson, James Densley, The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic (Abrams, 9/7)

Nigel Poor, Earlonne Woods, This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life (Crown, 10/12)

Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom (Astra House, 10/5)

Sam Quinones, The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Age of Fentanyl and Meth (Bloomsbury, 10/12)

Emily Ratajkowski, My Body (Metropolitan, 10/19)

Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez, For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color (Seal, 9/7)

Andrew Ross, Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing (Metropolitan, 10/12)

Saumya Roy, Castaway Mountain: Love and Loss Among the Wastepickers of Mumbai (Astra House, 9/7)

Kyla Schuller, The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism (Bold Type, 10/5)

Michael Shellenberger, San Fransicko: Why the Left Ruins Cities (Harper, 10/12)

Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century (FSG, 9/21)

Matthew Stewart, The 9.9 Percent: The New Aristocracy That Is Entrenching Inequality and Warping Our Culture (S&S, 10/12)

Abe Streep, Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana (Celadon, 9/7)

Benjamin van Rooij, Adam Fine, The Behavioral Code: The Hidden Ways the Law Makes Us Better or Worse (Beacon, 10/19)

Jon Yates, Fractured: Why our societies are coming apart and how we put them back together again (HarperNorth, 9/7)

Business, Science & Technology

Marco Alverà, The Hydrogen Revolution: A Blueprint for the Future of Clean Energy (Basic, 11/16)

Robin George Andrews, Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond (Norton, 11/2)

David Attenborough, The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth (William Collins, 10/19)

Alice Bell, Our Biggest Experiment: An Epic History of the Climate Crisis (Counterpoint, 9/21)

David Bodanis, The Art of Fairness: The Power of Decency in a World Turned Mean (Abrams, 9/7)

Brendan Borrell, The First Shots (HMH, 10/26)

Holly Jean Buck, Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero is Not Enough (Verso, 10/19)

Max Chafkin, The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power (Penguin Press, 9/21)

Neil Dahlstrom, Tractor Wars: John Deere, Henry Ford, International Harvester, and the Birth of Modern Agriculture (Matt Holt, 1/11)

Philipp Dettmer, Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive (RH, 9/28)

John Doerr, Speed and Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now (Portfolio, 10/5)

Rob Dunn, A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species (Basic, 11/9)

Bartow J. Elmore, Seed Money: Monsanto’s Past and Our Food Future (Norton, 10/12)

Brian Fagan, Nadia Durrani, Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors (Public Affairs, 9/21)

Priya Fielding-Singh, How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America (Little, Brown Spark, 10/5)

Martin Ford, Rule of the Robots: How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Everything (Basic, 9/14)

Porter Fox, The Last Winter: The Scientists, Adventurers, Journeymen, and Mavericks Trying to Save the World (Little, Brown, 11/2)

Jane Goodall, Doug Abrams, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times (Celadon, 10/19)

Dave Goulson, Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse (Harper, 9/28)

David Graeber, David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (FSG, 10/19)

Thor Hanson, Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change (Basic, 9/28)

Katharine Hayhoe, Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World (Atria/One Signal, 9/21)

Chip Heath, Karla Starr, Making Numbers Count: How to Translate Data into Stories That Stick (Avid Reader, 9/7)

Josiah Hesse, Runner’s High: How a Movement of Cannabis-Fueled Athletes Is Changing the Science of Sports (Putnam, 9/14)

Jonathan E. Hillman, The Digital Silk Road: China’s Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future (Harper Business, 10/19)

Steven S. Hoffman, The Five Forces That Change Everything: How Technology is Shaping Our Future (Matt Holt, 8/10)

Phil Jones, Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism (Verso, 10/5)

Henry A Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Daniel Huttenlocher, The Age of A.I.: And Our Human Future (Little, Brown, 9/14)

Jonathan A. Knee, The Platform Delusion: Who Wins and Who Loses in the Age of Tech Titans (Portfolio, 9/7)

Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity Is Nearer (Viking, 11/2)

Howard Markel, The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA’s Double Helix (Norton, 9/21)

Johnjoe McFadden, Life is Simple: How Ockham’s Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe (Basic, 9/28)

James Andrew Miller, Tinderbox: HBO’s Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers (Holt, 9/14)

Christopher Mims, Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door—Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy (Harper Business, 9/14)

Vanessa Nakate, A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis (HMH, 11/2)

Elsa Panciroli, Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution (Bloomsbury Sigma, 9/7)

Jonathan Pelson, Wireless Wars: China’s Dangerous Domination of 5G and How We’re Fighting Back (BenBella, 9/28)

Steven Pinker, Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters (Viking, 9/28)

James Poskett, Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science (HMH, 11/9)

Cassandra Leah Quave, The Plant Hunter: A Scientist’s Quest for Nature’s Next Medicines (Viking, 10/12)*

Nichola Raihani, The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World (St. Martin’s, 8/31)

Jonathan Reisman, The Unseen Body: A Doctor’s Journey Through the Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy (Flatiron, 10/26)

Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law (Norton, 9/14)

Patrick Roberts, Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World—and Us (Basic, 9/14)

David Rose, SuperSight: What Augmented Reality Means for Our Lives, Our Work, and the Way We Imagine the Future (BenBella, 10/26)

Fred Scharmen, Space Forces: A Critical History of Life in Outer Space (Verso, 11/2)

Anil Seth, Being You: A New Science of Consciousness (Dutton, 10/12)

Beth Shapiro, Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined—and Redefined—Nature (Basic, 10/19)

Robby Soave, Tech Panic: Why We Shouldn’t Fear Facebook and the Future (Threshold, 9/28)

Natalie Starkey, Fire and Ice: The Volcanoes of the Solar System (Bloomsbury Sigma, 9/28)

Jude Stewart, Revelations in Air: A Guidebook to Smell (Penguin, 10/26)

Nicole Stott, Back to Earth: What Life in Space Taught Me About Our Home Planet—And Our Mission to Protect It (Seal, 10/12)

Roanne van Voorst, Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals: The Future of Food (HarperOne, 12/28)

Kinari Webb, Guardians of the Trees: A Journey of Hope Through Healing the Planet (Flatiron, 9/28)

Howard L. Weiner, The Brain Under Siege: Solving the Mystery of Brain Disease, and How Scientists are Following the Clues to a Cure (BenBella, 10/19)

Robin Wigglesworth, Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever (Portfolio, 10/12)

History & Crime

Marc Andrus, Brothers in the Beloved Community: The Friendship of Thich Nhat Hanh and Martin Luther King Jr. (Parallax, 9/28)

Amy Argetsinger, There She Was: The Secret History of Miss America (Atria/One Signal, 9/7)

Marc David Baer, The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs (Basic, 10/5)

Bret Baier, To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant and the Grand Bargain of 1876 (Custom House, 10/12)

A. J. Baime, White Lies: The Double Life of Walter White and America’s Darkest Secret (HMH, 2/1)

Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History (Basic, 10/26)

Chris Begley, The Next Apocalypse: The Art and Science of Survival (Basic, 11/16)

Jeff Benedict, The Dynasty (Avid Reader, 9/7)

Kevin Birmingham, The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece (Penguin Press, 11/9)

Giulio Boccaletti, Water: A Biography (Pantheon, 9/14)

John Boessenecker, Wildcat: The True Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West’s Most Notorious Woman Bandit (Hanover Square, 11/2)

Kevin Boyle, The Shattering: America in the 1960s (Norton, 10/26)

Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them (St. Martin’s, 10/19)

H. W. Brands, Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution (Doubleday, 11/9)

John R. Bruning, Fifty-Three Days on Starvation Island: The World War II Battle That Saved Marine Corps Aviation (Hachette, 10/12)

Fernando Cervantes, Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest (Viking, 9/7)

Tom Clavin, Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival (St. Martin’s, 11/2)

Matthew A. Cole, Code Over Country: The Tragedy and Corruption of SEAL Team Six (Bold Type, 11/2)

Thomas McKelvey Cleaver, The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club: Naval Aviation in the Vietnam War (Osprey, 10/12)

Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe, The Vanderbilts: An American Dynasty (Harper, 9/21)

David Copperfield, Richard Wiseman, David Britland, Homer Liwag, David Copperfield’s History of Magic (S&S, 10/26)

Max Cutler with Kevin Conley, Cults: Inside the World’s Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them (Gallery, 9/21)

Michael Daly, New York’s Finest: The Greatest Stories of the NYPD and the Hero Cops Who Save the City (Twelve, 12/7)

Jeremy Dauber, American Comics: A History (Norton, 11/2)

Alison Hawthorne Deming, A Woven World: On Fashion, Fishermen, and the Sardine Dress (Counterpoint, 8/24)

Edward Dolnick, The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone (Scribner, 10/19)

John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker, When a Killer Calls: A Haunting Story of Murder, Criminal Profiling, and Justice in a Small Town (Dey Street, 11/16)

Martin Dugard, Taking Paris: The Epic Battle for the City of Lights (Dutton Caliber, 9/7)

Gregg Easterbrook, The Blue Age: How the US Navy Created Global Prosperity—And Why We’re in Danger of Losing It (Public Affairs, 9/7)

Caroline Elkins, Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire (Knopf, 1/18)

Joseph J. Ellis, The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783 (Liveright, 9/21)

Noah Feldman, The Broken Constitution: Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America (11/2)

Ada Ferrer, Cuba: An American History (Scribner, 9/7)

Rebecca Frankel, Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love (St. Martin’s, 9/7)

Howard W. French, Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War (Liveright, 10/12)

Matthew Gabriele, David Perry, The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe (Harper, 12/7)

Janine di Giovanni, The Vanishing: Faith, Loss, and the Twilight of Christianity in the Land of the Prophets (Public Affairs, 10/5)

Robert A. Gross, The Transcendentalists and Their World (FSG, 11/9)

Kevin R. C. Gutzman, The Jeffersonians: The Visionary Presidencies of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe (St. Martin’s, 12/14)

Garrett M. Graff, Watergate: A New History (Avid Reader, 11/2)

Heather Hansman, Powder Days: The Hidden History of Skiing and the Legend of the Ski Bum (Hanover Square, 11/9)

Toby Harnden, First Casualty: The Untold Story of the CIA Mission to Avenge 9/11 (Little, Brown, 9/7)

Michael Harriot, Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America (HMH, 1/25)

Linda Hirshman, The Color of Abolition: How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation (HMH, 2/8)

James Holland, Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment’s Bloody War From D-Day to V-E Day (Grove, 11/21)

Don Hollway, The Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada (Osprey, 9/7)

Kinshasha Holman Conwill, Paul Gardullo, Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies (Amistad, 9/14)

James Horn, A Brave and Cunning Prince: The Great Chief Opechancanough and the War for America (Basic, 11/2)

Woody Holton, Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution (S&S, 10/19)

Harald Jähner, translated by Shaun Whiteside, Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955 (Knopf, 1/11)

Mohamad Jebara, Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait (St. Martin’s Essentials, 10/12)

Dan Jones, Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages (Viking, 10/26)

Reece Jones, White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall (Beacon, 9/28)

Chris Joyner, The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson: A Battle for Racial Justice During the Dawn of the Civil Rights Era (Abrams, 9/14)

Brian Kilmeade, The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America’s Soul (Sentinel, 11/2)

James Kirchick, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington, from FDR through Clinton (Holt, 2/15)

Neil Lanctot, The Approaching Storm: Roosevelt, Wilson, Addams, and Their Clash Over America’s Future (Riverhead, 10/26)

Mark Lause, Soldiers of Revolution: The Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune (Verso, 10/26)

Andrew Lawler, Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World’s Most Contested City (Doubleday, 11/2)

Dick Lehr, White Hot Hate: A True Story of Domestic Terrorism in America’s Heartland (HMH, 11/9)

Paul Lockhart, Firepower: How Weapons Shaped Warfare (Basic, 10/19)

Douglas London, The Recruiter: Spying and the Lost Art of American Intelligence (Hachette, 9/28)

David Loyn, The Long War: The Inside Story of America and Afghanistan Since 9/11 (St. Martin’s, 10/5)

Kyle T. Mays, An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States (Beacon, 11/2)

Mark Mazower, The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe (Penguin Press, 11/16)

David McKean, Watching Darkness Fall: FDR, His Ambassadors, and the Rise of Adolf Hitler (St. Martin’s, 11/2)

John C. McManus, Island Infernos: The US Army’s Pacific War Odyssey, 1944 (Dutton Caliber, 11/9)

Walter Russell Mead, The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People (Knopf, 1/25)

Marc Meyers, Rock Concert: An Oral History of an American Rite of Passage (Grove, 11/9)

Omar Mouallem, Praying to the West: How Muslims Shaped the Americas (S&S, 9/21)

Samuel Moyn, Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War (FSG, 9/7)

Peter Neumann, translated by Shelley Frisch, Jena 1800: The Republic of Free Spirits (FSG, 11/2)

Maureen O’Connell, Undoing the Knots: Five Generations of American Catholic Anti-Blackness (Beacon, 12/14)

John Oller, Rogues’ Gallery: The Birth of Modern Policing and Organized Crime in Gilded Age New York (Dutton, 9/21)

Mallory O’Meara, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol (Hanover Square, 10/19)

James Patterson, Matt Eversmann, E.R. Nurses: True Stories of America’s Greatest Unsung Heroes (Little, Brown, 10/18)

Matthew Pearl, The Taking of Jemima Boone: The True Story of the Kidnap and Rescue That Shaped America (Harper, 10/5)*

Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation (Ecco, 10/26)

Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library: A Fragile History (Basic, 11/9)

Nathaniel Philbrick, Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy (Viking, 9/14)

Fernanda Pirie, The Rule of Laws: A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World (Basic, 11/9)

Joshua Prager, The Family Roe: An American Story (Norton, 9/14)

Maureen Quilligan, When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe (Liveright, 10/12)

Andrés Reséndez, Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery (HMH, 9/14)

Brad Ricca, True Raiders: The Untold Story of the 1909 Expedition to Find the Legendary Ark of the Covenant (St. Martin’s, 9/21)

Andrew Roberts, The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III (Viking, 11/2)

Andy Robinson, Gold, Oil and Avocados: A Recent History of Latin America in Sixteen Commodities (Melville, 8/17)

David M. Rubenstein, The American Experiment: Dialogues on a Dream (S&S,9/7)

Elizabeth D. Samet, Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness (FSG, 11/30)

Kelefa Sanneh, Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres (Penguin Press, 10/19)

Joe Scarborough, Saving the Union: Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the Fight for the Future of America (Harper, 11/16)

Diana Schaub, His Greatest Speeches: How Lincoln Moved the Nation (St. Martin’s, 11/16)

Meriel Schindler, The Lost Café Schindler: One Family, Two Wars, and the Search for Truth (Norton, 10/12)

Mayukh Sen, Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America (Norton, 11/2)

Edward Shawcross, The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World (Basic, 10/19)

Laura Shin, The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze (Public Affairs, 11/2)

Benjamin T. Smith, The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade (Norton, 8/10)

Charles Spencer, The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream (William Collins, 10/19)

Dana Stevens, Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century (Atria, 10/5)

Mark Stille, The United States Navy in World War II: From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa (Osprey, 11/9)

Patrick Strickland, The Marauders: Conspiracy Theories, Militias, And Violence On The U.S. Border (Melville, 1/25)

Salamishah Tillet, In Search of The Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece (Abrams, 1/18)

Enzo Traverso, Revolution: An Intellectual History (Verso, 10/19)

Dr. Rachel Trethewey, The Churchill Sisters: The Extraordinary Lives of Winston and Clementine’s Daughters (St. Martin’s, 11/23)

Jing Tsu, Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern (Riverhead, 1/18)

Ricky Tucker, And the Category Is…: Inside New York’s Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community (Beacon, 12/7)

Anthony Tucker-Jones, Churchill, Master and Commander: Winston Churchill at War 1895–1945 (Osprey, 11/9)

Volker Ullrich, translated by Jefferson Chase, Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich (Liveright, 9/7)

Alex von Tunzelmann, Fallen Idols (Harper, 10/19)

Jeffrey Veidlinger, In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918–1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust (Metropolitan, 10/12)

James A. Warren, Year of The Hawk: America’s Descent into Vietnam, 1965 (Scribner, 11/16)

Joseph Weisberg, Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy for the Second Cold War (Public Affairs, 9/28)

Mary Wellesley, The Gilded Page: The Social Lives of Medieval Manuscripts (Basic, 10/12)

Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Churchill’s Shadow: The Life and Afterlife of Winston Churchill (Norton, 10/12)

Chris Whipple, The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future (Scribner, 10/26)

Craig Whitlock, The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War (S&S, 9/28)

Essays, Criticism, & More

Colette Brooks, Trapped In the Present Tense: Meditations on American Memory (Counterpoint, 1/18)

Jill Louise Busby, Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity (Bloomsbury, 9/7)

Gabrielle Civil, the déjà vu (Coffee House, 2/22)

Josh Cohen, How to Live. What to Do: In Search of Ourselves in Life and Literature (Pantheon, 10/26)

David Damrosch, Around the World in 80 Books: A Literary Journey (Penguin Press, 11/9)

Amber A’Lee Frost, Dirtbag: Essays (St. Martin’s, 11/2)

Roxane Gay, How to Be Heard (Harper, 11/16)

Farah Jasmine Griffin, Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature (Norton, 9/14)

Ryan Holiday, Courage is Calling (Portfolio, 9/8)*—First book of a new series on the cardinal virtues of ancient philosophy by this bestselling author

Siri Hustvedt, Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays (S&S, 12/7)

Tina Jordan (edited by), The New York Times Book Review: 125 Years of Literary History (Clarkson Potter, 11/16)

Amy Leach, The Everybody Ensemble: Donkeys, Essays, and Other Pandemoniums (FSG, 10/19)

Mark McGurl, Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon (Verso, 10/19)

Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel, Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love (Knopf, 11/16)

Patrick Nathan, Image Control: Art, Fascism, and the Right to Resist (Counterpoint, 8/17)

Nick Offerman, Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American in Search of the Real Dirt (Dutton, 10/12)

Susan Orlean, On Animals (Avid Reader, 10/5)

Phoebe Robinson, Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays (Tiny Reparations, 9/28)

Zibby Owens, Moms Don’t Have Time To Have Kids (Skyhorse, 11/2)*—Second anthology edited by podcast host

Anna Della Subin, Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine (Metropolitan, 11/30)

Maria Tatar, The Heroine with 1001 Faces (Liveright, 9/14)

Anne Waldman, Bard Kinetic (Coffee House, 3/1)

Yrsa Daley Ward, The How (Penguin Books, 11/2)*

Jeanette Winterson, 12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next (Grove, 10/12)

Biography & Memoir

Annabel Abbs, Windswept (Tin House, 9/7)

Christopher Andersen, The Brothers: Inside the Private Worlds of William and Harry (Gallery, 11/30)

Carmelo Anthony, Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised (Gallery, 9/14)

Donald Antrim, One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival (Norton, 10/12)

Debby Applegate, Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age (Doubleday, 11/2)

Paul Auster, Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane (Holt, 10/26)

Charles Band, Confessions of a Puppetmaster (William Morrow, 11/16)

Gertrude Beasley, My First Thirty Years: A Memoir (Sourcebooks, 9/28)—Originally published in 1925 and suppressed.

Valerie Bertinelli, Enough Already: Learning to Love the Way I Am Today (HMH, 1/18)

Keisha N. Blain, Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America (Beacon, 10/5)

Jenna Blum, Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog (Harper, 11/2)

Patrick Boucheron, translated by Willard Wood, Trace and Aura: The Recurring Lives of St. Ambrose of Milan (Other, 1/18)

Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear (RH, 9/28)

Rick Bragg, The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People, Lost and Found (Knopf, 9/21)

David S. Brown, The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams (Scribner, 11/9)

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality (Pantheon, 1/25)

Ann Burgess with Steven Constantine, A Killer By Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind (Hachette, 12/7)

Paul Cantor, Most Dope: The Extraordinary Life of Mac Miller (Abrams, 1/18)

Mary Childs, The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All (Flatiron, 10/12)

LaDoris Hazzard Cordell, Her Honor: My Life on the Bench...What Works, What’s Broken, and How to Change It (Celadon, 10/5)

Jay Cost, James Madison: America’s First Politician (Basic, 11/2)

Katie Couric, Going There (Little, Brown, 10/26)

Luca Crippa, Maurizio Onnis, The Auschwitz Photographer: The Forgotten Story of the WWII Prisoner Who Documented Thousands of Lost Souls (Sourcebooks, 9/7)

Cathy Curtis, A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick (Norton, 11/16)

Alexander Danchev, Magritte: A Life (Pantheon, 11/30)

Jesse Dayton, Beaumonster: A Memoir (Hachette, 11/9)

Michael Dell with James Kaplan, Play Nice but Win: A CEO’s Journey from Founder to Leader (Portfolio, 10/5)

Daniel de Visé, King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King (Grove, 10/5)

Mondiant Dogon with Jenna Krajeski, Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds: A Refugee’s Search for Home (Penguin Press, 10/12)

Ross Douthat, The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery (Convergent, 10/26)

Lou Drawoh, Untitled (William Morrow, 10/19)

Tiffanie Drayton, Black American Refugee (Viking, 11/9)

Peter Duchin, Patricia Beard, Face the Music: A Memoir (Doubleday, 12/7)

Gavin Edwards, Bad Motherfucker: The Life and Movies of Samuel L. Jackson, the Coolest Man in Hollywood (Hachette, 10/19)

Joe Exotic, Tiger King: The Official Tell-All Memoir (Gallery, 11/9)

Boyah J. Farah, America Made Me a Black Man: A Memoir (Harper, 9/14)

Evie Meg Field, My Nonidentical Twin: What I’d like you to know about living with Tourette’s (Mobius, 10/26)

Charles Finch, What Just Happened (Knopf, 11/2)

Michael Stewart Foley, Citizen Cash: The Political Life and Times of Johnny Cash (Basic, 12/7)

Sara G. Forden, The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed (Custom House, 10/26)

Sutton Foster, Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life (Grand Central, 9/21)

Jamie Foxx, Act Like You Got Some Sense (Grand Central, 10/19)

Liz Fraser, Coming Clean: A true story of love, addiction and recovery (Green Tree, 11/30)

Harry Freedman, Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius (Bloomsbury Continuum, 11/2)

Ruben Gallego with Jim DeFelice, They Called Us Lucky: The Life and Afterlife of the Iraq War’s Hardest Hit Unit (Custom House, 11/2)

Benjamin Gilmer, The Other Dr. Gilmer: Two Men, a Murder, and Their Unlikely Fight for Justice (Ballantine, 1/18)

Sharon Gless, Apparently There Were Complaints: A Memoir (S&S, 12/7)

Nancy Goldstone, In the Shadow of the Empress: The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters (Little, Brown, 9/21)

Avani Gregg, Backstory: My Life So Far (Gallery, 9/28)

Allen C. Guelzo, Robert E. Lee: A Life (Knopf, 9/28)

Joy Harjo, Poet Warrior: A Memoir (Norton, 9/7)

Taylor Harris, This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown (Catapult, 1/4)

Magda Hellinger, Maya Lee, David Brewster, The Nazis Knew My Name: A Remarkable Story of Survival and Courage in Auschwitz (Atria, 11/2)

Patricia Highsmith, Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks: 1941-1995 (Liveright, 11/16)

Tristram Hunt, The Radical Potter: The Life and Times of Josiah Wedgwood (Metropolitan, 11/9)

Martin Indyk, Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy (Knopf, 10/5)

James Ivory, Solid Ivory: Memoirs (FSG, 11/2)

Curtis 50 Cent Jackson, Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter (Amistad, 9/21)

Chai Jing, translated by Yan Yan, Seeing: A Memoir of Truth and Courage from China’s Most Influential Television Journalist (Astra House, 12/7)

Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult (William Morrow, 11/30)

Alfons Kaiser, Karl Lagerfeld: A German in Paris (Cernunnos, 2/8)

Andrew D. Kaufman, The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky (Riverhead, 8/31)

Daniel Dae Kim, Untitled (Harper, 10/12)—Memoir by the Korean-American actor and activist

Billie Jean King, All In: An Autobiography (Knopf, 8/17)

Robby Krieger, Set the Night on Fire: My Many Lives and Deaths as the Guitarist of The Doors (Little, Brown, 10/12)

C. M. Kushins, Beast: John Bonham and the Rise of Led Zeppelin (Hachette, 9/7)

Pat LaFrieda with Cecilia Molinari, Glorious Beef: The LaFrieda Family and the Evolution of the American Meat Industry (Ecco, 10/26)

Tabitha Lasley, Sea State: A Memoir (Ecco, 12/7)

Laurence Leamer, Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era (Putnam, 10/12)

Nice Leng’ete, The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree: How I Fought to Save Myself, My Sister, and Thousands of Girls Worldwide (Little, Brown, 9/14)

Daniel Barban Levin, Slonim Woods 9: A Memoir (Crown, 9/7)

Rachel Lindsay, Miss Me with That: Hot Takes, Helpful Tidbits, and a Few Hard Truths (Ballantine, 1/11)

Bobby Love, Cheryl Love, The Redemption of Bobby Love: A Story of Faith, Family, and Justice (HMH, 10/5)

John Lurie, The History of Bones: A Memoir (RH, 8/17)

Judith Mackrell, The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II (Doubleday, 11/2)

Drew Magary, The Night the Lights Went Out: A Memoir of Life After Brain Damage (Harmony, 10/5)

David Magee, Dear William (Matt Holt, 11/2)

Ivan Maisel, I Keep Trying to Catch His Eye: A Memoir of Loss, Grief, and Love (Hachette, 10/26)

Ann Marks, Vivian Maier Developed: The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny (Atria, 11/2)

Kati Marton, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel (S&S, 10/26)

Amy McGrath with Chris Peterson, Honor Bound: An American Story of Dreams and Service (Knopf, 8/3)

Tyler Merritt, I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America (Worthy, 9/14)

Mark Messier with Jimmy Roberts, Untitled (Gallery, 10/26)—Memoir by Hall of Fame hockey player and six-time Stanley Cup champion

Alyssa Milano, Sorry Not Sorry: Stories I Have Lived (Dutton, 10/26)

Hayley Mills, Forever Young (Grand Central, 9/7)

Anne Elizabeth Moore, Gentrifier: A Memoir (Catapult, 10/19)

Allison Moorer, I Dream He Talks to Me: A Memoir of Learning How to Listen (Hachette, 10/12)

Joe Moshenska, Making Darkness Light: A Life of John Milton (Basic, 10/26)

Elizabeth Cummins Muñoz, Mothercoin: The Stories of Immigrant Nannies (Beacon, 1/18)

John Musgrave, The Education of Corporal John Musgrave: A Memoir (Knopf, 11/2)

Ian O’Connor, Coach K: The Rise and Reign of Mike Krzyzewski (HMH, 2/15)

Indra Nooyi, My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future (Portfolio, 9/28)

Catherine Ostler, The Duchess Countess: The Woman Who Scandalized Eighteenth Century London (Atria, 11/9)

Kal Penn, You Can’t Be Serious (Gallery, 11/2)—From Hollywood to the White House

Cassandra Peterson, Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark (Hachette, 9/21)

Joseph Pfeifer, Ordinary Heroes: A Memoir of 9/11 (Portfolio, 9/7)

David Philipps, Alpha: Eddie Gallagher and the War for the Soul of the Navy SEALs (Crown, 8/24)

Keith Phipps, Age of Cage: Four Decades of Hollywood Through One Singular Career (Holt, 11/9)

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Part One: Fiction

SUMMARY

What would happen if we called on God for help and God actually appeared?

In Mitch Albom’s profound new novel of hope and faith, a group of shipwrecked passengers pull a strange man from the sea. He claims to be the Lord. And he says he can only save them if they all believe in him. Adrift in a raft after a deadly ship explosion, nine people struggle for survival at sea. Three days pass. Short on water, food and hope, they spot a man floating in the waves. They pull him in.

Thank the Lord we found you, a passenger says.

I am the Lord, the man whispers.

So begins Mitch Albom’s most beguiling and inspiring novel yet.

Albom has written of heaven in the celebrated number one bestsellers The Five People You Meet in Heaven and The First Phone Call from Heaven. Now, for the first time in his fiction, he ponders what we would do if, after crying out for divine help, God actually appeared before us? What might the Lord look, sound and act like?

In The Stranger in the Lifeboat, Albom keeps us guessing until the end: Is this strange and quiet man really who he claims to be? What actually happened to cause the explosion? Are the survivors already in heaven, or are they in hell?

The story is narrated by Benji, one of the passengers, who recounts the events in a notebook that is later discovered—a year later—when the empty life raft washes up on the island of Montserrat. It falls to the island’s chief inspector, Jarty LeFleur, a man battling his own demons, to solve the mystery of what really happened.

A fast-paced, compelling novel that makes you ponder your deepest beliefs, The Stranger in the Lifeboat suggests that answers to our prayers may be found where we least expect them.

EXCERPT

Chapter 1

Sea

When we pulled him from the water, he didn’t have a scratch on him. That’s the first thing I noticed. The rest of us were all gashes and bruises, but he was unmarked, with smooth almond skin and thick dark hair that was matted by seawater. He was bare-chested, not particularly muscular, maybe twenty years old, and his eyes were pale blue, the color you imagine the ocean to be when you dream of a tropical vacation—not the endless gray waves that surround this crowded lifeboat, waiting for us like an open grave.

Forgive me for such despair, my love. It’s been three days since the Galaxy sank. No one has come looking for us. I try to stay positive, to believe rescue is near. But we are short on food and water. Sharks have been spotted. I see surrender in the eyes of many onboard. The words We’re going to die have been uttered too many times.

If that is to be, if this is indeed my end, then I am writing to you in the pages of this notebook in hopes you might somehow read them after I am gone. I need to tell you something, and I to tell the world as well.

I could begin with why I was on the Galaxy that night, or Dobby’s plan, or my deep sense of guilt at what happened, even though I cannot be sure of what happened. But for now, my love, the story must begin with this morning, when we pulled the young stranger from the sea. He wore no lifejacket, nor was he holding onto anything when we spotted him bobbing in the waves. We let him catch his breath, and then, from our various perches in the boat, we introduced ourselves.

Lambert, the boss, spoke first, saying, Jason Lambert, I owned the yacht. Then came Nevin, the Brit, who apologized that he could not rise for a proper welcome, his injured leg being so swollen. Geri just nodded and methodically balled up the rope she had used to tug the man in. Yannis offered a handshake and cracked, I’m Yannis, the only sane one here. Nina mumbled Hi with a quick wave. Mrs. Laghari, the woman from India, said nothing; she clearly didn’t trust the newcomer. Jean Phillipe, the Haitian cook, smiled and said, Welcome, brother but kept a palm on his sleeping wife’s shoulder, Bernadette, who is wounded from the explosion, badly wounded, I believe. The little girl we call Alice, who hasn’t spoken since we found her clinging to a deck chair in the ocean, remained silent.

I went last. Benji, I said. My name is Benji. For some reason my voice caught in my throat.

We waited for the stranger to respond, but he just looked at us, doe-eyed. Lambert said he’s probably in shock. Nevin yelled, HOW LONG WERE YOU IN THE WATER? perhaps thinking a raised voice would snap him to his senses. When he didn’t answer, Nina said, Well, thank the Lord we found you.

Which is when the man spoke.

I am the Lord, he whispered.

Land

The inspector put out his cigarette. His chair creaked. It was already hot on this Montserrat morning and his starched white shirt stuck to his sweaty back. His temples were throbbing from a hangover headache.

He gazed at the thin, bearded man who’d been waiting for him when he arrived at his office.

Let’s start again, the inspector said.

It was Sunday. He had been in bed, dead asleep, when the call came. Come to the station. A man says he found a raft from the American boat that blew up. LeFleur mumbled a curse. His wife groaned and turned on her pillow.

What time did you get in last night? she mumbled.

Late, the inspector said.

How late?

Late.

He dressed, made instant coffee, poured it into a Styrofoam cup, and kicked the door frame as he left the house, banging his big toe. It still hurt.

My name is Jarty LeFleur, he said now, sizing up the man across the desk. I am the chief inspector for the island. And your name is…

Rom, Inspector.

Do you have a last name, Rom?

Yes, Inspector.

LeFleur sighed. What is it?

Rosh, Inspector.

LeFleur wrote this down, then lit another cigarette. He rubbed his head, but it didn’t help. He needed aspirin.

So you found a raft.

Yes, Inspector.

Where?

On the beach in the bay, Inspector.

"When?’

Yesterday, Inspector.

LeFleur looked up. The visitor was staring at a desk photo of him, his wife and a little girl sharing a beach towel.

Is that your family? the man asked.

"Don’t look at that. Look at me. This raft. How did you know it was from the Galaxy?"

It’s written on the inside, Inspector.

And you just found it on the beach?

Yes, Inspector.

Nobody with it?

No, Inspector.

LeFleur was sweating. He moved the desk fan closer. The story was plausible. All kinds of things washed up on the north shore. Suitcases, parachutes, drugs, fish-aggregating contraptions made in West Africa that swept into the currents and floated across the North Atlantic.

Nothing was too strange to roll in with the tide. But a raft from the Galaxy? That would be a major event. The huge luxury yacht had sun last year, 50 miles off the coast of Cape Verde. It made news around the world, mostly because of all the rich and famous people who’d been onboard. The search for survivors had been exhaustive. None were found.

LeFleur rocked back and forth. That raft didn’t inflate itself. Someone must have survived the Galaxy tragedy, at least briefly.

OK, Rom, he said, snuffing out his cigarette. Let’s go take a look.

Sea

"I am the Lord."

What do you say to that, my love? Maybe under normal conditions you might laugh or make a wisecrack. You’re the Lord? In that case, you buy the drinks. But alone in the middle of this endless ocean, tired, hungry and desperate, well, it unnerved me, to be honest. The others, too.

What did he just say? Nina whispered.

"He said he was the Lord," Lambert scoffed.

You got a first name, Lord? Yannis asked.

The man smiled. I have many names.

"Were you on the Galaxy?" Nina asked.

Where else would he have been? Nevin said.

I don’t recognize him, Lambert said.

And he’s been swimming for three days? Mrs. Laghari interjected.

You actually believe that?

She’s right, Geri piped in. The water temperature is 67 degrees. You can’t live in that for three days.