Writers WE LOVE
There’s a literary harvest of bestselling authors back with buzzy new books this fall. —Megan O’Neill Melle
1. In Sally Rooney’s latest, Beautiful World, Where Are You (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), four young adults—a Dublin novelist, her socially awkward best friend and their love interests— navigate relationships and come to grips with adulthood. $28
2. A British soldier has a chance encounter with a middle-aged art historian in 1940s Tuscany that shapes his life and the lives of friends for decades to come in Still Life (Nov. 2, G.P. Putnam’s Sons) by Sarah Winman. $27
3. Another made-for-TV hit? In Apples Never Fall (Sept. 14, Henry Holt and Co.) by Liane Moriarty (Big Little Lies), a retired couple lets a stranger into their lives. What follows is a missing wife and four grown children left wondering if Dad is to blame. $29
4. Characters in 1400s Constantinople, presentday Idaho and a future spaceship named Argos are all united by a long-lost book from ancient Greece in Cloud Cuckoo Land (Sept. 28, Scribner) by Pulitzer Prize–winning Anthony Doerr (All the Light We Cannot See). $30
5. A political thriller from longtime friends Louise Penny and Hillary Rodham Clinton, State of Terror (Oct. 12, St. Martins Press, Simon & Schuster) follows a series of terrorist attacks and a newly appointed secretary of state who must unravel a carefully designed conspiracy. $30
6. Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead marvels with this family-saga-meets-classic-heist set in 1960s New York City in Harlem Shuffle (Sept. 14, Doubleday). $29
7. Hit the open road in The Lincoln Highway (Oct. 5, Viking) by Amor Towles (A Gentleman in Moscow), in which a young man fresh out of a juvenile work farm in 1950s Nebraska gets caught up in the exploits of two work farm escapees heading to New York City. $30
8. Thriller legend James Patterson has compiled hundreds of interviews for his poignant and timely nonfiction title E.R. Nurses (Oct. 11, Little, Brown and Company), a recounting of the dramatic, dangerous and professional lives of America’s nurses. $29
9. Take a trip to the Scottish Highlands, where a troubled marriage comes to a head during a weekend away in the disturbingly twisty domestic thriller Rock Paper Scissors (Flatiron Books) by Alice Feeney. $28