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Fall fiction is here and ready to entertain you, as new novels by Nicole Krauss, Salman Rushdie and Nathan Englander can attest.


The Golden House

The Golden House

Salman Rushdie

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When powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious...


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Dinner at the Center of the Earth: A Novel

Dinner at the Center of the Earth: A Novel

Nathan Englander

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The best work yet from the Pulitzer finalist and best-selling author of For the Relief of Unbearable...


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Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming on the War Roads of Europe

Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming on the War Roads of Europe

Inara Verzemnieks

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"It's long been assumed of the region where my grandmother was born...that at some point each year...


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A Rift in the Earth: Art, Memory, and the Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial

A Rift in the Earth: Art, Memory, and the Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial

James Reston Jr.

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A Distinguished and Bestselling Historian and Vietnam Vet Revisits the Culture War that Raged around...


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Nonfiction recommendations this week will set you off on a journey, whether retracing the steps of the “Odyssey” with the memoirist Daniel Mendelsohn, or the senior-citizen workampers of “Nomadland.”


An Odyssey: A Father, a Son and an Epic

An Odyssey: A Father, a Son and an Epic

Daniel Mendelsohn

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From the best-selling author of 'The Lost', a deeply moving tale of a father, a son and the lessons...

Bones: Brothers, Horses, Cartels, and the Borderland Dream

Bones: Brothers, Horses, Cartels, and the Borderland Dream

Joe Tone

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The dramatic true story of two brothers living parallel lives on either side of the U.S.-Mexico...


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The Misfortune of Marion Palm: A Novel

The Misfortune of Marion Palm: A Novel

Emily Culliton

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A wildly entertaining debut about a Brooklyn Heights wife and mother who has embezzled a small...


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Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change

Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change

Ellen Pao

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 FINANCIAL TIMES AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR | NAMED A BEST FALL...


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The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World

The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World

Oona Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro

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A bold and provocative history of the men who fought to outlaw war and how an often overlooked...


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Two of the year’s most highly anticipated books are on this week’s New York Times list of recommendations:


Bluebird, Bluebird

Bluebird, Bluebird

Attica Locke

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Southern fables usually go the other way around: a white woman killed or harmed in some way, real or...


Thriller
One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported

One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported

E.J. Dionne Jr., Norman J. Ornstein and Thomas E. Mann

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A call to action from three of Washington's premier political scholar-journalists, One Nation After...


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Afterglow: A Dog's Memoir

Afterglow: A Dog's Memoir

Eileen Myles

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Prolific and widely renowned, Eileen Myles is a trailblazer whose decades of literary and artistic...


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The Stone Sky: The Broken Earth

The Stone Sky: The Broken Earth

N.K. Jemisin

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The remarkable conclusion to the highly acclaimed post-apocalyptic trilogy that began with...


Science fiction
At the Strangers' Gate: Arrivals in New York

At the Strangers' Gate: Arrivals in New York

Adam Gopnik

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From The New York Times best-selling author of Paris to the Moon and beloved New Yorker writer, a...


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We’re nearing the season for ghost stories — or in some cases un-ghost stories and cautionary tales about what happens when we try too hard to put our history behind us.


Fresh Complaint

Fresh Complaint

Jeffrey Eugenides

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The first collection of short fiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Virgin Suicides,...


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A Properly Unhaunted Place

A Properly Unhaunted Place

William Alexander and Kelly Murphy

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From National Book Award–winning author William Alexander comes a wryly humorous story about two...


Children
The Wolf, the Duck and the Mouse

The Wolf, the Duck and the Mouse

Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen

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Early one morning a mouse met a wolf and was quickly gobbled up... When a woeful mouse is swallowed...


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The Twelve-Mile Straight

The Twelve-Mile Straight

Eleanor Henderson

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From New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Henderson, an audacious American epic set in rural...


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Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016

Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016

Frank Bidart

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The collected works of one of contemporary poetry’s most original voices Gathered together, the...


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Several seismic events occurred in the past week including the release of a new John Green novel, “Turtles All the Way Down,” and the Ron Chernow biography, “Grant.”


Akata Warrior: Akata Witch Series

Akata Warrior: Akata Witch Series

Nnedi Okorafor

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A year ago, Sunny Nwazue, a 12-year-old American born girl raised mostly in Nigeria, was inducted...


Fantasy history
Complete Stories: Kurt Vonnegut

Complete Stories: Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut

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Here for the first time is the complete short fiction of one of the twentieth century's foremost...


Fiction anthology
Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919

Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919

Mike Wallace

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Published in 1998 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History, GOTHAM: A History of New York to 1898...


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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

Matthew Walker

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'A top sleep scientist argues that sleep is more important for our health than diet or exercise' The...


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The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World

The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World

Michael Ignatieff

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What moral values do human beings hold in common? As globalization draws us together economically,...


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Books about Russian history and current events round out our list this week, from biographies of Lenin and Stalin to Masha Gessen’s study of post-Soviet life, “The Future Is History.”


Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror

Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror

Victor Sebestyen

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Victor Sebestyen's riveting biography of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin--the first major biography in English...


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For Two Thousand Years

For Two Thousand Years

Mihail Sebastian and Philip O Ceallaigh

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'Nothing I have read is more affecting than Mihail Sebastian's magnificent, haunting 1934 novel, For...

The Resurrection of Joan Ashby

The Resurrection of Joan Ashby

Cherise Wolas

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‘A stunning debut – because there is nothing debut about it’ A.M. Homes Aged 13, Joan Ashby...


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The Meaning of Belief: Religion From an Atheist’s Point of View

The Meaning of Belief: Religion From an Atheist’s Point of View

Tim Crane

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Current debate about religion seems to be going nowhere. Atheists persist with their arguments, many...


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There is something for everyone this week, from difficult, essential history to fiction set in the 18th century to several new books for young readers.


GOOD NIGHT, PLANET

GOOD NIGHT, PLANET

Liniers

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In this tender, funny tale for early readers from internationally renowned cartoonist Liniers, a...


children
Tumble & Blue

Tumble & Blue

Cassie Beasley

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Circus Mirandus comes the magic-infused story of a...


children science fiction fantasy
Stars Beneath Our Feet

Stars Beneath Our Feet

David Barclay Moore

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A boy tries to steer a safe path through the projects in Harlem in the wake of his brother's death...


children
After the Fall

After the Fall

Dan Santat

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After the fall, Humpty Dumpty is a broken egg. Life is tough: he's so afraid of heights, he can't...


children comedy
A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa

A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa

Alexis Okeowo

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'Absolutely essential reading, period' Alexandra Fuller, bestselling author of Don't Lets Go to the...


history social issues culture
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Politics plays the leading role in this week’s list of recommendations, starting with Joe Biden’s memoir about his son Beau’s death from brain cancer in 2015:


Catapult: Stories

Catapult: Stories

Emily Fridlund

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"Fridlund writes of families, marriage, and childhood as if our received wisdom--what we thought we...


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The Last Ballad

The Last Ballad

Wiley Cash

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The author of the celebrated bestseller A Land More Kind Than Home returns with this eagerly awaited...


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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

Adam Rutherford

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This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to...

The Shadow District

The Shadow District

Arnaldur Indridason and Victoria Cribb

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OLD CRIMES, NEW CONSEQUENCES THE PAST In wartime Reykjavik, a young woman is found strangled...


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President McKinley: Architect of the American Century

President McKinley: Architect of the American Century

Robert W. Merry

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"A deft character study of a president."--The New York Times Book Review "A valuable education on...


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You’ll find a pair of satirical Chinese novellas, a symphonic look at Germany’s fraught history and, in Leni Zumas’s “Red Clocks,” a dystopian vision of American patriarchy in this week's selection.


Gorilla and the Bird

Gorilla and the Bird

Zachary McDermott

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The story of a young man fighting to recover from a devastating psychotic break and the mother who...

Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America

Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America

Catherine Kerrison

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The remarkable untold story of Thomas Jefferson's three daughters--two white and free, one black and...

Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World

Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World

Noah K Strycker

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In 2015, Noah Strycker, a young American birder, became the first person to see more than half of...

The Years, Months, Days

The Years, Months, Days

Yan Lianke

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A terrible drought hits the population of a small mountain village and they flee to better climes....

Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic

Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic

David Frum

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As the President of the United States, Donald Trump continually voices admiration for brutal...


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