Fall’s big books share some secrets — and a few thrills, too
NEW YORK – Plenty of big-name authors have new books headed for stores this fall.
Booksellers got a look at the fall lineup last week at BookExpo America. Here’s a peek at what’s coming.
Memoirs
❚ “Becoming” (November) is a look back by former first lady Michelle Obama, one-half of a reported $65 million deal she and former President Barack Obama struck for separate memoirs.
❚ Sally Field dishes on onetime love Burt Reynolds and much more in “In Pieces” (September).
❚ Singer Tina Turner turns up the volume in “My Love Story” (October).
❚ The Who’s lead singer Roger Daltrey hopes to create a sensation with his so-far untitled life story (October).
Celebrities
❚ Actress and book champion Reese Witherspoon shares her love for all things Southern in “Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits” (September).
❚ Married funny people Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally get silly in “The Greatest Love Story Ever Told,” the tale of their “epic romance” (October).
Mysteries/thrillers
Crime fans can feast on new books from legal eagle John Grisham (“The Reckoning,” October), Michael Connelly (“Dark Sacred Night,” October) and Louise Penny (“Kingdom of the Blind,” November).
More fiction
❚ Stephen King, whose thriller “The Outsider” hit stores in May, returns in October with the novella “Elevation,” about a man mysteriously losing weight while battling the lesbians next door.
❚ In “Unsheltered” (October), her first novel since “Flight Behavior,” Barbara Kingsolver takes on our polarized country in dual narratives set in the same New Jersey house, one in the present, the other in the 1870s.
❚ Nicholas Sparks promises a fresh weepy in “Every Breath” (October), inspired by a real mailbox on a deserted beach in North Carolina stuffed full of letters left by passers-by.
Nonfiction
❚ Bill O’Reilly’s “Killing” franchise continues with “Killing the SS,” about the postwar hunt for Nazi war criminals, arrives in September.
❚ Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin draws on the examples of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson in “Leadership in Turbulent Times” (September).
❚ U.S. Senator/former presidential candidate (and Trump gadfly) Bernie Sanders rallies progressives before the midterms in “Where We Go From Here” (October).
❚ Susan Orlean (“The Orchid Thief”) looks at the unsolved catastrophic 1986 fire at the main branch of the Los Angeles Public Library in “The Library Book” (October).
❚ And in “The White Darkness” (October), David Grann (“Killers of the Flower Moon”) re-creates Henry Worsley’s doomed 2015-’16 quest to walk across Antarctica alone.