These are the books with buzz coming out this fall from top journalists and columnists, essayists and opinionmakers. Keep up-to-date with the world according to Rachel Maddow, Heather Cox Richardson, Steve Inskeep, Roxane Gay and more.

Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

American Gun: The True Story of the Ar-15

Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America

12 New Books with Buzz by Journos & Opinionmakers

Preorder the Fall New Books with Buzz by Journalists and Essayists

These are the books with buzz coming out this fall from top journalists and columnists, essayists and opinion-makers. Keep up-to-date with the world according to Rachel Maddow, Steve Inskeep, Roxane Gay and more.

Today is New Books Tuesday! This week we’ve got: the perfect dystopian novel for fans of Station Eleven, intimate short stories from a Pulitzer-nominated New Yorker writer, new cookbooks from legends of Italian and French cuisine, a tribute to Joan Didion, and a provocative examination of identity politics by an Atlantic writer.

Land of Milk and Honey

This Is Salvaged: Stories

Devil Makes Three

New Arrivals: The Best Book Releases This Week

This week we’ve got: the perfect dystopian novel for fans of Station Eleven, intimate short stories from a Pulitzer-nominated New Yorker writer, and new cookbooks from legends of Italian and French cuisine.

The editors and critics of the New York Times recommended 9 new books this week that run the gamut from the 50th anniversary celebration of Ms. magazine, Mona Awad's dark fairy tale "Rouge," and a reconstruction of one family's history during the Holocaust.

50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution

Rouge

The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage

This Week's New York Times Editors' Picks

The editors and critics of the New York Times recommended 9 new books this week that run the gamut from the 50th anniversary of Ms. magazine, Mona Awad's dark fairy tale "Rouge," and a reconstruction of one family's history during the Holocaust.

The shortlist is officially here! Start your Booker Prize Reading Challenge. You have until the prize is announced on November 26 to read your way through the shortlist and decide who YOUR winner is. Use your free Tertulia membership trial to get 50% off your first book + free shipping. Finalists include the Irish family drama The Bee Sting, Jamaican immigrant saga If I Survive You, and the coming-of-age story Western Lane.

If I Survive You

The Bee Sting

This Other Eden

The 2023 Booker Prize

The shortlist is officially here! Start your Booker Prize Reading Challenge. Finalists include the Irish family drama The Bee Sting, Jamaican immigrant saga If I Survive You, and the coming-of-age story Western Lane.

Short novels can be the perfect solution when you’re short on time or focus but crave the experience of getting lost in a book. Slip one in a small purse during your commute, or explore new genres in just one or two sittings. Our handpicked selection of 20 best short novels under 200 pages includes masterpieces from acclaimed authors like Elena Ferrante, Deborah Levy, and Olga Ravn. Whether you want to immerse yourself in lyrical coming-of-age tales, Nebula-award-winning wonders, or enduring gothic classics from literary titans, these compact gems will provide an immersive experience without sacrificing the magic and depth you love about longer novels.

Foster

Ring Shout

The Man Who Saw Everything

20 Best Short Books to Read in a Day

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Check out this selection of the 20 best short books under 200 pages from Tertulia, including mini-masterpieces from acclaimed authors like Elena Ferrante, Deborah Levy, and Olga Ravn. 

From the late-great Cormac McCarthy's final pair of novels, to fellow literary A-lister John Irving's ski-themed tale set in Aspen, to Elizabeth McCracken's acclaimed story about a writer's relationship with her remarkable mother. These are the books that critics adored upon release and are now available for purchase or pre-order.

The Last Chairlift

The Passenger

Stella Maris

Critics' Picks Now Out in Paperback

Critics Picks Now Out in Paperback

From Cormac McCarthy's final pair of novels, to A-lister John Irving's ski-themed tale, to Elizabeth McCracken's story about a writer's relationship with her mother. These are the critically adored books that are now available for purchase or pre-order.

This selection of 13 anticipated books coming out this fall includes the latest from National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward,  Zadie Smith's first historical fiction novel, a short story collection from Pulitzer winner Jhumpa Lahiri and a novel from Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee.

The Wolves of Eternity

Roman Stories

The MANIAC

The Most Anticipated Fall Fiction to Preorder Now

Most Anticipated Fall Fiction to Preorder Now

This selection of 13 anticipated books coming out this fall includes the latest from National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward,  Zadie Smith's first historical fiction novel and new story collection from Pulitzer winner Jhumpa Lahiri.

The National Book Foundation has announced the Longlist for the 2023 National Book Award for Translated
Literature. The 10 books that made the cut were originally published in 7 different languages. The finalists will be revealed on October 3.

Beyond the Door of No Return

This Is Not Miami

The Most Secret Memory of Men

2023 National Book Award for Translated Literature – The Longlist

The 2023 National Book Awards for Translated Literature

The National Book Foundation has announced the Longlist for the 2023 National Book Award for Translated
Literature. The 10 books that made the cut were originally published in 7 different languages. The finalists will be revealed on October 3. 

Who’s excited for @jenniferesmith’s The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight to hit Netflix? This adaptation has been in the works for a literal decade... so now’s a good time to get the book and read if you haven’t.

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

Only this, Anne Enright’s new novel, for the rest of the day... She is very good on Ireland and how much it has changed in the last 20 years and on messy families. Messy families and bad marriages are two of my favourite things. Enright is ruthless on both.

Lover of words. Author & columnist. Irish, European. Fiction, food & the state of things. Latest book: FROM THE OVEN TO THE TABLE. Views my own

The Wren, the Wren

The novel is wildly enjoyable (as well as, finally, full of lament), in part because Bolaño, despite all the game-playing, has a worldly, literal sensibility. His atmospheres are solidly imagined, but the tone is breezy and colloquial and amazingly unliterary.

The Savage Detectives

The most breathtakingly beautiful dystopian novel since Station Eleven.

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Merchant... argues that Luddism stood not against technology per se but for the rights of workers above the inequitable profitability of machines. The book is a historical reconsideration of the movement and a gripping narrative of political resistance told in short vignettes.

staff writer @newyorker; second book, FILTERWORLD: How Algorithms Flattened Culture, coming @doubleday January 2024; newsletter: https://t.co/iELTxgVFJV

Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

McDonnell has written a wonderfully fitting tribute to Joan Didion: one that avoids simple platitudes, approaching the great writer with a fierce, probing intelligence, flawless language, and the impulse, which drove Didion’s finest work, to understand the dreams of another.

@newyorker @aaww / author of 'stay true’ (sept 2022 on @doubledaybooks) and hopefully another book (202?) and ‘a floating chinaman (2016)

The World According to Joan Didion

The mark of a good book is that it changes you. Sometimes a little, sometimes a lot... I’ve rarely been so aware of an internal change being wrought, word by word, as I have these past days immersed in Kapka Kassabova’s alchemical prose.

Naturalist & writer; @gdnCountryDiary; @networks4nature; @Right_2Roam; @YDS35; latest book #TheFlow

Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time

Clark weaves a gripping tale that leads readers through podcast transcripts, text messages, interviews and Tumblr posts to show how stories become truth and explore the fraught space of teenage friendships and fandom as they collide with true crime.

Penance

Sensuous and sharp in its critique, Land of Milk and Honey delivers a powerful rebuke of how far the privileged will go to retain a level of comfort amid climate catastrophe... A knotty read from start to finish, C Pam Zhang's latest is sure to stay with you for a long time

EIC at @ChicagoRevBooks. Words published or forthcoming in @IHLR, @TheSchooner, @kenyonreview, and elsewhere. He/him

A body swapping tale unlike any I’ve ever seen... this novel is a biting look at gender and performance, with their trademark humor and grace on the line level.

People Collide

Demon Copperhead: A Pulitzer Prize Winner

The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club)

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

American Prometheus: The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture Oppenheimer

Small Things Like These

Hello Beautiful (Oprah's Book Club)

Piranesi

Decided to go through my #bookshelves & pull out all the #queerlatinebooks I own….then got all emotional 🥹 So many brilliant storytellers & this is just a very small portion. There’s many more out there published and unpublished and we get to read them.

Book Influencer (according to the internet). Sometimes I write (about books & other things). 🏳️‍🌈Lesbiana. 🇲🇽Inmigrante. 💌 links to stuff here ⬇️

Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - Hispanic & Latino

Creep: Accusations and Confessions

This book is something else. It was recommended to me by Dani Shapiro who only recommends the very best and so I got it immediately... floored by the deep emotions, the haunt of a certain kind of mother, or really any mother at all, rendered so quietly and yet vividly.

NYTimes bestselling author of #ThreeWomen, #Animal and #GhostLover from @avidreaderpress

Everything/Nothing/Someone: A Memoir

So many twists and turns, but also lovely writing and SUCH. GOOD. CHARACTERS.

World Literature - England - 21st Century

Just Another Missing Person

I cannot recommend Touched Out any more (to everyone, not just moms but especially moms, I’m buying copies to hand out), it’s one of the best books, and best feminist books, I’ve read in a long time — its given shape to a lot of my current thinking.

Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control

If you’re a mother, or you’ve got one in your life, this is essential reading.

Find me on Facebook @jenniferweiner; IG @jenniferweinerwrites.

Mom Rage: The Everyday Crisis of Modern Motherhood

This page turning, absorbing, hilarious memoir by Leslie Jones is out today! I tore through this book (irritating Rosie, who wanted me to play with her), and can’t wait to talk to @lesdoggggherself about it...

NYT bestselling author. WHILE WE WERE DATING out now! Next: BY THE BOOK. She/her. https://t.co/w4BxJdEPJK

Leslie F*cking Jones

A memoir with no trauma plot. Just indelible characters, a lush & dangerous landscape, and a voice. It was especially fun to read it as I was listening to @empirepoduk about the British empire in India... Different topics to be sure, but one is so gory (the pod) and the other remarkably light...

Novelist, Memoirist, & Screenwriter. Author of STRAY & SWEETBITTER, creator of @sweetbitterstarz. Author of SMOG, forthcoming from Scribner Books.

Running in the Family

The Weeds

Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - Asian & Asian American

Ethnic Studies - American - Asian American Studies & Pacific

Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America

The Book of Lamps and Banners

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Biography of X

Food, Lodging & Transportation - Restaurants

Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'

Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - African American & Black

Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People

Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General

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