Summer is the season for blockbuster movies, but fall is when the publishing world releases one title after one other from a few of the biggest, highest-grossing authors.
We'll see latest books from Richard Powers, writer of The Overstory, and Rumaan Alam, writer of Leave the World Behind. Here are five more we're dying to dive into, all due out in September:
Creation Lake, Rachel Kushner
Finalist for the Booker Prize and the National Book Award KushnerThe latest film from is a few woman who lies to everyone about every part. Sadie (not her real name, in fact) is a undercover agent sent to France to infiltrate a gaggle of anarchists. She has a lover she keeps tabs on and friends she uses, and every part goes well until she becomes intrigued by a person who could also be much more deceitful than she is.
Devils Kill Devils, Johnny Compton
Guardian angels are alleged to be a very good thing, but Sarita isn't so sure when her angel, Angelo, who has repeatedly saved her from disaster, kills her husband on their wedding night. Compton's follow-up to last 12 months's “The Spite House” is ready to be a particularly brutal horror story that puts vampires in a complete latest light.
Final Cut, Charles Burns
This graphic novel (very graphic – definitely not for youths) is a story of romantic obsession that also deals with identity and nostalgia. Brian and Jimmy, who made silly sci-fi shorts in middle school, reunite as adults to make a more ambitious feature film. Inspired by their beloved “The Body Snatchers,” it takes them and their collaborators, including muse and lead actress Laura, to a distant forest where things take a dark turn.
The Siege, Ben Macintyre
The prolific British authorThe nonfiction books about espionage – including Agent Zigzag, Colditz and Operation Mincemeat – generally take him to the Second World War and the heroes who worked in secret to finish it. But the events of The Siege unfolded in 1980, during America's hostage crisis in Iran. It is a minute-by-minute account of the six days after gunmen stormed the Iranian embassy in London and took 26 hostages.
The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon
Duluth-based social media influencer, podcaster, and “America’s Government Teacher” McMahon— whose popularity soared at a time when the country was becoming increasingly divided and confusing — reveals 12 humorous portraits of average Americans who made enormous contributions but missed out on the history books, just like the man who lay at Alexander Hamilton's deathbed and wrote the preamble to the Constitution.
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