What We Think Will Be Big

Quichotte, by Salman Rushdie

(Random House; 9/3)

To paraphrase the unnamed target of Rushdie’s satire, some people are saying this is the best Rushdie in a long time.

The Testaments, by Margaret Atwood

(Nan A. Talese; 9/10)

Hulu took its liberties with the adventures of Gilead in The Handmaid’s Tale, but Atwood is at long last publishing her own sequel. The Booker Prize has already deemed it worthy of its 2019 long list.

Red at the Bone, by Jacqueline Woodson

(Riverhead; 9/17)

A National Book Award finalist for adult fiction and a winner for children’s fiction, Woodson returns to the brownstone setting of her last adult novel, Another

Brooklyn, for this intricate family drama.

Sontag: Her Life and Work,

by Benjamin Moser

(Ecco; 9/17)

It’s been a while since the great streaked one roamed the earth, but Moser’s biography should be definitive, uncovering scandalous new details.

The Water Dancer, by Ta-Nehisi Coates

(One World; 9/24)

The influential public intellectual’s first novel, a magic-realist antebellum slave-escape narrative.

Frankisstein, by Jeanette Winterson

(Grove; 10/1)

) The author is acclaimed for breaking taboos, and this one toggles between the origin story of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and an AI scientist’s meet-cute with a transgender muse named Ry Shelley.

) Olive, Again, by Elizabeth Strout

(Random House; 10/15)

Fans of Olive Kitteridge will devour Strout’s sequel, in which the famously ornery Olive tries to become a slightly better person.

Find Me, by André Aciman

(FSG; 10/29)

In this sequel to Call Me by Your

Name, the original romance thrums in the background, urging the lovers backward and forward in time. boris kachka