There’s a rule in September that every week must include one epically splashy book: this week, Emma Cline’s Switzy is here to fulfill that quota. It’s time for us all to get our hands on the novelist’s buzzy new release, as well as many others, including R. F. Kuang’s Taipei Story, a brand new Alice Hoffman book, as well as many nonfiction titles for those in need. Read on for the full list, and happy Tuesday.
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Emma Cline, Switzy
(Random House)
“This truly profound journey will stay with readers long after the last page is turned.”
–Booklist
R.F. Kuang, Taipei Story
(William Morrow)
“A visceral exploration of language as a bridge and a barrier.”
–Kirkus
Alice Hoffman, The Witches of Cambridge
(Scribner)
“Rich with history, heartbreak, and magic, Hoffman’s tale of privilege and persecution expertly navigates past and present, reality and fantasy, all of it rendered in brilliant detail.”
–Leigh Bardugo
Brian Dillon, Ambivalence
(NYRB)
“Brian Dillon is always invigoratingly brilliant. His sentences, his stylistic innovations, the range and potency of his intellectual adventures; he is a true master of the literary arts and a writer I would never hesitate to read.”
–Max Porter
Megan Giddings, Black Arts: Stories
(Amistad)
“The author deserves high marks for this ebullient, ideas-driven collection.”
–Publishers Weekly
Francis Fukuyama, In the Realm of the Last Man
(FSG)
“Fukuyama offers shrewd, provocative analysis of politics, society, and intellectual currents in tart and lively prose.”
–Publishers Weekly
Ariel Lawhon, The Pirate Queen
(Doubleday)
“A heroic, exciting, and stormy voyage.”
–Kirkus
Suzanne Garfinkle-Crowell, Girlhood, Translated: Understanding Young Women in the Age of Therapy Speak and Self-Diagnosis
(Crown)
“Both a brilliant decoding of therapy speak and a compassionate reckoning with what gets lost when the language of mental illness becomes the only language young people have for their inner lives.”
–Rachel Aviv
Jill Bialosky, Mock Heart: New and Selected Poems
(Knopf)
“To read Jill Bialosky’s Mock Heart: New & Selected Poems is to explore the lyric opulence of a life lived at the nexus of beauty and its blood sister, loss.”
–Diane Seuss
William D. Cohan, Money to Burn: The Unvarnished Truth About Leon Black, Apollo, and the Rise of a New Wall Street
(Portfolio)
“A master class in reporting from the hidden power centers of America’s billionaire class.”
–Susan Glasser
Jordan Tannahill, The Living Realm
(FSG)
“A perfectly rendered story of friendship, love, and the porous border between the living and the dead.”
–Publishers Weekly
Jon Else, Frenchman Flat: The Rise and Fall of Atomic Bombs
(Harvard University Press)
“An important account of nuclear hubris and its incompletely tallied costs.”
–Kirkus
Priya Parker, The Art of Fighting: The Transformative Power of Conflict
(Riverhead)
“This is a life-giving book, and Priya is the luminous and ingenious teacher we need.”
–Krista Tippett
Ken Liu, The Passing of the Dragon and Other Stories
(Saga Press)
“Thought-provoking, heartbreaking, and wonderous are some of the many ways the tales in this collection will engage readers.”
–From the publisher
James Muldoon, Love Machines: How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Our Relationships
(Faber & Faber)
“In his urgent, humane book, sociologist James Muldoon urges us to pay more attention to our deepening emotional entanglements with AI, and how profit-hungry tech companies might exploit them.”
–The Guardian
Ashley Woo, Wildwood
(Harper Perennial)
“An atmospheric fall debut.”
–Booklist
Saul Williams, Songs My Mother Taught Me: Why the Artist Must Take Sides
(Haymarket Books)
“Exquisite and essential reading for the revolution from one of our greatest minds.”
–Warsan Shire
Carolyn Forché, Otherwhere: New and Selected Poems
(Scribner)
“This is an essential and mighty book of courageous attention, exacting artistry, and redeeming radiance.”
–Booklist
Yukiko Motoya, trans. by Kamil Spychalski, Love at Least
(Soft Skull)
“Motoya balances a raw, unfiltered examination of a woman pixilated by mental illness with an anti-love story that unsettles and lingers.”
–Booklist
Julia Hass
Julia Hass is the Book Marks Associate Editor at Literary Hub.