BOOKS to FALL Into
Savor October’s literary harvest with eight new must-reads, including Julie Andrews’ Hollywood tell-all.
1. Olive, Again (Random House, Oct. 15), $27 ,by Elizabeth Strout In the sequel to her Pulitzer Prize–winning Olive Kitteridge, Strout reintroduces the complicated and poignant life of matriarch Olive as she evolves through a relationship with her son, a second marriage and a cast of Crosby, Maine, characters.
2. I Really Needed This Today (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, Oct. 15), $24, by Hoda Kotb An extension of her uplifting Instagram quotes, Kotb’s latest book includes short stories and 365 quotes and words to live by that “comfort you, motivate you and leave you thinking, I really needed this today.” Visit Parade.com/hoda 4 | OCTOBER 13, 2019 for an interview with the Today host and 10 heartfelt quotes from her new book.
3. Find Me (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Oct. 29), $27, by André Aciman The follow-up to the bestselling (and Hollywood beloved) Call Me by Your Name, Find Me opens 20 years after Elio and Oliver’s whirlwind romance, reuniting readers with their intoxicating love story. Expect an unpredictable plot and a father’s life-changing encounter.
4. Red at the Bone (Riverhead Books), $26, by Jacqueline Woodson One of fall’s most talked about novels, Red at the Bone explores the bonds and strains of family, class, race and identity—and the effects of parenthood, for better or worse— as it follows two families forward and backward in time.
5. All This Could Be Yours (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Oct. 22), $26, by Jami Attenberg Big Little Lies meets Succession in the scorching heat of the Big Easy—that’s All This Could Be Yours, the story of a power-hungry patriarch on his deathbed and a family reckoning with a secret past. Money, power and family are touched upon through Attenberg’s emotional, humorous and sharply written accounts.
6. Dear Girls (Random House, Oct. 15), $27, by Ali Wong In an absurdly funny series of letters to her daughters, comedian Ali Wong covers everything from the unpleasantries of dating to reconnecting with her roots in Vietnam to working among males as a stand-up comic.
7. The Revisioners (Counterpoint, Nov. 5), $25, by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton In her new novel, National Book Award–nominated Sexton spans nearly 100 years to tell the tale of two precarious sets of friendships, their descendants and the racial divide they cross in the South.