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New & Notable Fiction September 2024 |
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Intermezzo : a novel by Sally Rooney (release date 9/24)In the wake of their father's death, two brothers—successful Dublin lawyer Peter and his younger brother Ivan, a competitive chess player—find different ways to deal with their grief, which affects not only their lives, but the lives of those they hold dear. The latest from the 33-year-old Irish author who became a worldwide sensation after the success of her first two books, Conversations with Friends and Normal People.
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Playground by Richard Powers (release date 9/24)The tiny atoll of French Polynesia has been chosen for humanity's next adventure: a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out onto the open sea. But first, the island's residents must vote to greenlight the project or turn the seasteaders away. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory.
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Tell me everything : a novel by Elizabeth Strout (release date 9/10)Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout returns to the setting (Crosby, Maine) and characters of her previous novels. While defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother, town lawyer Bob Burgess falls into a deep and abiding friendship with acclaimed writer, Lucy Barton, and together they meet the iconic Olive Kitteridge and spend afternoons in Olive's apartment, telling each other stories, which imbues their lives with meaning.
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Entitlement by Rumaan Alam (release date 9/17)A woman working as an assistant to an octogenarian billionaire in the process of giving away his huge fortune fights the seduction of money, in the new novel from the bestselling author of Leave the World Behind.
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Here one moment : a novel by Liane Moriarty (release date 9/10)An ordinary flight becomes extraordinary when passengers learn of their predicted deaths from a mysterious woman known as “The Death Lady,” leading to a race against time for some and a chance to redefine their time left for others. From the bestselling author of Big Little Lies.
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Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner (release date 9/3)From a Booker Prize finalist and two-time National Book Award finalist comes a new novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France. Named a most anticipated book of 2024 by many publications.
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The life impossible by Matt Haig (release date 9/3)When Grace Winters is left a house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, she arrives in Ibiza with no guidebook and no plan, in the latest novel by the author of the bestselling smash The Midnight Library.
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The Empusiumby Olga Tokarczuk (release date 9/24)Historical fiction set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas. From the Nobel Prize-winning Polish author of The Books of Jacob.
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Somewhere Beyond the Sea by T.J. Klune (release date 9/10)The highly anticipated sequel to The House in the Cerulean Sea, one of the most popular fantasy novels of recent years. Arthur Parnassus is the headmaster of a strange orphanage on a distant and peculiar island, and he hopes to soon be the adoptive father to the six dangerous and magical children who live there. But when Arthur is summoned to make a public statement about his dark past, he finds himself at the helm of a fight for the future that his family, and all magical people, deserve.
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Colored television by Danzy Senna (release date 9/3)A dark comedy that looks at second acts, creative appropriation, and the modern identity-industrial complex. Kirkus Reviews calls it "a brilliant, of-the-moment, just really almost perfect book."
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A reason to see you again : a novel by Jami Attenberg (release date 9/24)A mother and her two daughters find out the hard way over forty years that running from the past can't save you, in the new novel from the bestselling author of The Middlesteins.
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The Repeat Room by Jesse Ball (release date 9/24)In a speculative future, Abel, a menial worker, is called to serve in a secretive and fabled jury system. At the heart of this system is the repeat room, where a single juror, selected from hundreds of candidates, is able to inhabit the defendant’s lived experience, to see as if through their eyes. The latest Kafkaesque work by provocative novelist Jesse Ball, a Chicago local.
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