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    19 new titles for your TBR pile.

    Katie Yee

    September 15, 2020, 11:57am

    While we here at Lit Hub wholeheartedly believe that every season is the right season to curl up with a good book, there’s just something about the fall! Hot coffee, cozy sweaters, decorative gourds, vanilla candles. It’s a #bookstagram dream. And here, dear reader, we have 20 new titles for you to fall into this week.

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    Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

    Susanna Clarke, Piranesi
    (Bloomsbury)

    “As a work of fiction, it’s spectacular; an irresistibly unspooling mystery set in a world of original strangeness, revealing a set of ideas that will stay lodged in your head long after you’ve finished reading.”
    –The Times

     

    Vigdis Hjorth, Long Live the Post Horn!

    Vigdis Hjorth, Long Live the Post Horn!
    (Verso)

    “The ordinary becomes vibrant and life affirming in Long Live the Post Horn!, an engrossing novel about how even hopeless battles are worth fighting.”
    –Foreword Reviews

     

    homeland elegies ayad akhtar

    Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies
    (Little, Brown)

    “The many unacknowledged failures of American policy and the coarsening of popular attitudes form the matrix in which Akhtar’s stories grow. He has an unerring sense for the sore spots, the bitter truths that have emerged from this history.”
    –The New York Times Book Review

     

    Scholastique Mukasonga, tr. Jordan Stump, Igifu
    (Archipelago)

    “Despite the undeniable terror, Mukasonga’s storytelling proves illuminating and resilient.”
    –Shelf Awareness

     

    dance on saturday_elwin cotman

    Elwin Cotman, Dance on Saturday
    (Small Beer Press)

    “I’ll speak instead of Cotman’s high dialect and lewd lyricism, of how his fashioning of character voices is superbly disciplined, lit from within, while his lyricism is the realm of bawdy jokes and opacity, a kind of literary trolling.”
    –The New York Times Book Review

     

    awkward black man, walter mosley

    Walter Mosley, The Awkward Black Man
    (Grove Press)

    “Fifty-plus books into his career, Mosley hasn’t run out of inspired plots, and his interest in social issues remains acute.”
    –Shelf Awareness

     

    Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

    Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights
    (Harper)

    “Few novelists make an impression as quickly and effectively as Micah Nemerever does in his stirring debut, an explosively erotic and erudite thriller.”
    –BookPage

     

    high as the waters rise

    Anja Kampmann, tr. Anne Posten, High as the Waters Rise
    (Catapult)

    “Kampmann captures the visceral uneasiness that arises from second guessing one’s past.”
    –Publishers Weekly

     

    the caretaker_doon arbus

    Doon Arbus, The Caretaker
    (New Directions)

    “What makes The Caretaker so immensely pleasurable to read is the artistic talent Arbus shares with her mother. They both possess an unusual species of attention.”
    –Ploughshares

     

    Like a Bird, Fariha Roisin

    Fariha Róisín, Like a Bird
    (Unnamed Press)

    “Róisín is masterly in her visceral representation of Taylia’s despair and rage, her depression and self-loathing, and her inability to be open to even small acts of kindness.”
    –Library Journal

     

    the glass house_beatrice colin

    Beatrice Colin, The Glass House
    (Flatiron)

    “Colin’s final work is a fine achievement.”
    –Publishers Weekly

     

    Ken Follett_The Evening and the Morning

    Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning
    (Viking)

    “The secret to writing a successful series is giving the reader more of the same, with variation. It’s a trick Follett has mastered with this series.”
    –The Washington Independent Review of Books

     

    Bob Woodward, Rage
    (Simon & Schuster)

    “This devastating report will leave a lasting mark.”
    –Publishers Weekly

     

    Wade Davis, Magdalena: River of Dreams
    (Knopf)

    “Davis is a powerful, penetrating and immensely knowledgeable writer.”
    –The Guardian

     

    five days_wes moore

    Wes Moore, Five Days
    (One World)

    “[A] visceral collective portrait of a community beset by poverty and injustice.”
    –Kirkus

     

    Alex Ross, Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music

    Alex Ross, Wagnerism
    (FSG)

    “[A] superb chronicle of obsession, intoxication, hyperbolic exultation, appropriation, exploitation, repudiation, transmutation, and perpetual reinvention—an aerial view of a culture’s nervous system as it responds to an unexpected stimulus.”
    –Bookforum

     

    caitlin moran_more than a woman

    Caitlin Moran, More Than a Woman
    (Harper)

    “Her honesty might make you gasp. It will certainly make you laugh out loud. But it will also make you think.”
    –The Sunday Times

     

    kenneth catania_great adaptations

    Kenneth Catania, Great Adaptations
    (Princeton University Press)

    “The irresistible enthusiasm of Great Adaptations couldn’t come at a better time.”
    –The Wall Street Journal

     

    J. W. Ocker_Cursed Objects

    J. W. Ocker, Cursed Objects
    (Quirk Books)

    “This book is so fun that I couldn’t put it down. It reminded me that life is short, death is nigh and a little humor can help us seize the day just as well as a memento mori.”
    –The New York Times

     

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