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This week’s best new books
Michel Houellebecq (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
The latest from the famous French writer takes place in a chaotic and turbulent France in 2027. Paul Raison, an adviser to the country’s finance minister, navigates both personal and professional turbulence. After his father has a stroke, Raison leaves Paris and returns to his hometown in the country, where he and his siblings try to heal their relationship with their ailing patriarch.
Michael Silver (WW Norton & Company)
Veteran sportswriter Silver looks at how Kyle Shanahan shocked the football world when, in 2008, he became the NFL’s newest offensive coordinator and developed a bold new approach to coaching.
Dava Sobel (Atlantic Monthly Press)
Sobel was a Pulitzer finalist with Galileo’s Daughter. Here she gets close to Curie, seeing not only her famous scientific achievements, but also how she paved the way for women in science by training young women in her laboratory.
Edited by Zibby Owens (Zibby Books)
Seventy-five writers, including The Post’s Daphne Merkin, Annabelle Gurwitch and David Christopher Kaufman share thoughts on Jewish faith and culture — and how both have been tested and reimagined in the year since Hamas attacked Israel.
Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough (Random House)
The late Lisa Marie teamed up with her daughter to write the stories of her remarkable life. Presley recalls her youth at Graceland, the horror of finding Elvis’ dead body, her marriage to Michael Jackson and much, much more.
Oliver Burkeman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Burkeman’s “Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals” was a bestseller thanks to its simple, smart and practical advice. Here he applies the same approach to self-reflection, offering 28 short chapters to reflect on.
The best new book releases from the past week
Louise Erdrich (Harper)
The latest from Erdrich, who won a Pulitzer Prize for The Night’s Watch, is set in the midst of the 2008-2009 recession and touches on climate change, fracking and toxic pesticides. In a small town in North Dakota, two men are both in love with a goth girl named Kismet Poe. Her mother has strange visions and worries about the future.
Karl Ove Knausgaard (Penguin Press)
The great Scandinavian author returns to the world of “Morning Star” and “Wolves of Eternity”. Various Norwegians struggle with the appearance of an ominous star. People start behaving strangely, but, stranger still, no one seems to be dying.
Betsy Lerner (Grove Press)
This acclaimed debut follows two sisters over twenty years as they weave in and out of each other’s lives. The eldest, Olivia, is beautiful but troubled, impulsive and mentally ill. Younger sister Amy is serious and hardworking, struggling to keep it together amid her sister’s chaos.
Ina Garten (The Crown)
The beloved cookbook author delves into her trip to the Hamptons, including her horrific childhood and the time she and Jeffrey, gasp, broke up.
David M. Rubenstein (Simon & Schuster)
Rubenstein, a businessman and host of his own PBS show, sat down with presidents and living historians for this comprehensive look at the high office.
Alan Moore (Bloomsbury)
This is the first book in a new fantasy series from the author of the wildly popular graphic novels Watchmen and V for Vendetta. In 1949, an 18-year-old student discovers a book from “The Great When” – a magical version of London where there is no clear line between fiction.
The best new book releases from week of September 22
Sally Rooney (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
The fourth novel from the literary “it” girl is being hailed as her best yet. Two very different brothers grieve the death of their father. Peter is a successful, thirty-something lawyer from Dublin, juggling two different women. Ivan is a chess-playing loner in his early twenties who becomes involved with an older lady.
Richard Powers (WW Norton & Company)
Powers, who won a Pulitzer Prize for 2018’s The Overstory, is back with an ambitious book that explores the ocean, the future of AI, climate change and more. Four lives come together on a small Polynesian island amid plans to colonize the sea with massive floating cities.
Emily Witt (Pantheon)
In this raucous memoir, a New Yorker writer tells of coming off antidepressants and falling into Brooklyn’s underground club scene in the pre-pandemic years.
Nicholas Sparks (Random House)
In the latest from the master of romance, an Army Ranger tries to find the father he never knew after his beloved grandmother dies. But first he meets a complicated single mother, to whom he is immediately attracted.
Sharon McMahon (aunt)
McMahon — a high school law and government teacher who has a wildly popular Instagram account, @SharonSaysSo — looks at a dozen influential but little-known figures in our nation’s history. Among them are Gouverneur Morris, a friend of Alexander Hamilton who wrote the preamble to the Constitution, and Clara Brown, a former slave who boarded a wagon train to Colorado, where she amassed a small fortune and helped other free slaves move to the west.
Leanne Morgan (Convergent Books)
The Tennessee comedian is having a breakout moment — in her late 50s. Her Netflix special was one of the platform’s most-streamed comedies of 2023. With her new book, she continues to find humor in being a woman in late middle age, navigating diet trends, menopause, rock concerts and much more.
The best new book releases from week of September 15
Rumaan Alam (Riverhead Books)
The author of “Leave the World Behind” — a National Book Award finalist that was made into a movie starring Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke and Mahershala Ali — returns with another tension-filled social critique. Brooke wants to do something meaningful with her life and thinks her job working as an assistant to an 80-year-old billionaire and helping him donate his money is just the ticket. But working so close to so much money changes that.
Cara Giaimo and Joshua Foer (Workman Publishing Company)
The renowned team “Atlas Obscura” applies its ability to find the strange and unknown things about the natural world. Readers will be delighted to learn about a 44,000-year-old shrub and a tiny grasshopper that is actually one of the strongest animals in the world.
Kelly Bishop (Gallery Books)
Octogenarian Bishop, who played the older “Gilmore Girl” Emily, is enjoying her six seasons on the beloved show, as well as starring in “Dirty Dancing” and being part of the original Broadway cast of “A Chorus Line.”
Laura Dave (Simon & Schuster/Marysue Rucci Books)
After their father dies, two estranged siblings are reunited to investigate if it really was an accident. Along the way, they discover a family secret in the latest from the bestselling author of The Last Thing He Said To Me.
Marty Makary MD (Bloomsbury Publishing)
From worsening peanut allergies and opioid addiction to the demonization of healthy fats and hormone replacement therapy, Professor John Hopskins looks at cases where the medical establishment has ignored problems or made them worse.
Ben Macintyre (The Crown)
This exciting non-fiction book looks at the next Iranian hostage crisis. In the spring of 1980, gunmen entered the Iranian embassy in London and took 26 hostages. Margaret Thatcher had been prime minister for less than a year, but she steadfastly refused to negotiate with the militants, establishing the iron will that would be her legacy.
The best new book releases from week of September 8
Liane Moriarty (The Crown)
The long-awaited release from the author of “Big Little Lies” has an intriguing structure. Passengers on a short flight encounter no turbulence, but meet a woman who tells them when and how they will die. At first, they laugh at what “Lady Death” tells them, but as the months pass, the passengers perish just as she predicted.
Katherine Rundell, illustrated by Ashley Mackenzie (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
This children’s fantasy book was hugely popular and caused a stir – it was named Waterstones’ Book of the Year and drew comparisons with CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien – when it was published in the UK last year. Two children embark on an adventure, hopping between uncharted islands where magical creatures have lived for centuries but are suddenly dying. Dragons, sphinxes and krakens come into play.
Tony Blair
The former British Prime Minister mines his experiences to offer advice and insights on effective political leadership.
Don Lemon (Little, Brown & Company)
The fired CNN anchor reflects on religion, the state of America and his life after his ouster.
Rachel Kushner (Simon & Schuster)
The latest book from the acclaimed author is longlisted for the Booker Prize. It’s a noir that centers on a beautiful, brave young American woman in rural France who is actually a secret agent on a mission.
Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
Pulitzer Prize winner Strout brings us another story with fictional writer Lucy Barton. This time, Barton and other quirky characters in their small town in Maine encounter a local murder, the lives they’ve lived, and the search for meaning.
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