Today’s guest post is from the Richmond bookwork who blogs over at River City Reading! She’s picked out a few fall book selections, so check these out!
I did a ton of reading in August to gear up for all the great September books being released as we speak, but the fall book frenzy is never ending. October and November are loaded with great releases, so my to be read pile is actually much higher than ten…but these are a few you’ll definitely want to keep an eye out for.
1. The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure – October 1st
A gifted architect reluctantly begins a secret life devising ingenious hiding places for Jews in Nazi-occupied Paris.
2. The Tilted World by Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly – October 1st
Set against the backdrop of the historic 1927 Mississippi Flood, a story of murder and moonshine, sandbagging and saboteurs, dynamite and deluge – and a man and a woman who find unexpected love.
3. The Lion Seeker
In the tradition of the great immigrant sagas, The Lion Seeker brings us Isaac Helger, son of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants, surviving the streets of Johannesburg in the shadow of World War II.
4. The Luminaries
From the acclaimed author of The Rehearsal comes a novel about a young woman on trial for murder in nineteenth-century New Zealand.
5. Quiet Dell
From one of America’s most accomplished and acclaimed fiction writers, a chilling, spectacularly riveting novel based on a real life multiple murder by a con man who preyed on widows—a story that has haunted Jayne Anne Phillips for more than four decades.
6. The Cartographer of No Man’s Land
From a hardscrabble village in Nova Scotia to the collapsing trenches of France, a debut novel about a family divided by World War I.
7. Havisham
In the tradition of Wide Sargasso Sea, Havisham is the astonishing prelude to Charles Dickens’s classic Great Expectations.
8. Red Sky in Morning
A tense, thrilling debut novel that spans two continents, from “a writer to watch out for.” (Colum McCann)
9. Want Not
From the critically acclaimed author of Dear American Airlines, a compulsively readable, deeply human novel that charts the course of three intersecting lives in a thoroughly contemporary examination of that most basic and unquenchable emotion: want.
10. Country Hardball
A novel-in-stories in the tradition of Bonnie Jo Campbell, Donald Ray Pollock, Denis Johnson, and Alan Heathcock, Country Hardball is a powerfully observed and devastatingly understated portrait of the American working class.
Do you have a recommendation to add to the list?
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great list! I need some new reads! Hope they come in audiobook version!
Most of them are titles from big publishers, so I would expect to see audio versions. I just took a quick peek at the first two (both of which I actually already finished and loved!) and they’ll be available as audiobooks. Happy reading!