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Back to top8/30/2023: From The New York Times 16 Books to Read in September
New novels from Zadie Smith, Stephen King and Lauren Groff; Walter Isaacson’s hotly anticipated Elon Musk biography; a history of the AR-15 assault rifle; and much more. The article with mini-reviews is here.
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$27.00
ISBN: 9781662602320
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Published: Astra House - September 5th, 2023
What are the dangers — and opportunities — of artificial intelligence? This new novel confronts these questions through the story of a renowned but financially struggling poet in her 70s, who accepts a tech company’s offer to co-write a poem with an A.I. program in exchange for a lucrative paycheck.
$29.00
ISBN: 9780525558965
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Published: Penguin Press - September 5th, 2023
Set in 19th-century London, Smith’s first historical novel centers on the real-life figure of a man who stood trial for impersonating a nobleman who had been lost at sea. Although the defendant was clearly a fraud, he amassed an unlikely legion of supporters who viewed him as a populist folk hero. The novel focuses on the developing friendship between one of his fans (a Jamaican who escaped slavery) and a skeptical Scottish housekeeper who is fascinated by the trial.
$30.00
ISBN: 9781668016138
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Published: Scribner - September 5th, 2023
Stephen King's "Holly" marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly's gradual transformation from a shy (but also brave and ethical) recluse in "Mr. Mercedes" to Bill Hodges's partner in "Finders Keepers" to a full-fledged, smart, and occasionally tough private detective in "The Outsider." In King's new novel, Holly is on her own, and up against a pair of unimaginably depraved and brilliantly disguised adversaries.
$21.99
ISBN: 9781335005625
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Published: Hanover Square Press - September 5th, 2023
Book recommendations from a gnomic Tokyo librarian set five loosely connected people on new paths toward fulfillment, in a tender novel that became a best seller in Japan.
$30.00
ISBN: 9781324005896
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - September 12th, 2023
As much as humans depend on roads and highways, our animal friends see them as baffling, dangerous incursions. (As Goldfarb points out, a million animals are killed by vehicles per day in the United States alone.) This book examines the environmental costs of roads, which interrupt migration patterns, contribute to water pollution and much more, but also the innovative solutions underway.
$35.00
ISBN: 9781982181284
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Published: Simon & Schuster - September 12th, 2023
Isaacson, the author of best-selling biographies of Steve Jobs and Albert Einstein, turns his attention to Musk, the contrarian billionaire whose businesses include Tesla, SpaceX and now X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. The book promises an intimate look at someone who feels compelled to break the rules — even when such disruptions don’t necessarily fall in his favor.
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593701089
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Published: Pantheon - September 12th, 2023
Evans, the author of the 2018 novel “Ordinary People,” returns with an epic family saga about grief, identity and healing.
After the death of her husband, Alice — the matriarch of the Pitt family — must decide whether she wants to return to her native Nigeria after living in London for half a century, a decision with serious implications for her daughters.
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593418390
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Published: Riverhead Books - September 12th, 2023
Tighter in focus than the author’s four previous novels, “The Vaster Wilds” traces the inner world of a servant girl who has fled a 17th-century colonial settlement and its prospect of “a certain wretched death” for the wilderness, where she survives off the land and her own spirit.
$30.00
ISBN: 9780593536117
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Published: Knopf - September 19th, 2023
When Jack and Elizabeth met, as college students in 1990s Chicago, they bonded over their love of underground art and music. Now, their youthful idealism has all but vanished, leaving them to field all manner of domestic indignities (mindfulness, polyamory), raise a young son and negotiate their commitment to each other.
$32.00
ISBN: 9780374103859
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - September 26th, 2023
An important book on a sadly topical subject, “American Gun,” by two reporters for The Wall Street Journal, enlists formidable research and reporting in the service of explaining how an assault rifle developed for military use by a Marine veteran and self-taught engineer in the 1950s was marketed to civilians, eventually becoming the weapon of choice for perpetrators of mass shootings.
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593448410
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Published: Random House - September 26th, 2023
This ambitious work of investigative journalism, by a former Mexico City bureau chief for The New York Times, is a parable of violence and impunity that reads like a noir thriller. Set in a Mexican town overrun by warring drug cartels, it features a grieving mother determined to avenge her daughter’s senseless killing. Through her story, the book shows us a nation grappling with an epidemic of fear and lawlessness.
$30.00
ISBN: 9780316415897
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Published: Little, Brown and Company - September 26th, 2023
This intimate work of narrative nonfiction begins in 1975 Laos, with a message spoken softly between villagers: “The Americans have deserted us.” Just 11 years old, Ia Moua, the youngest daughter of Hmong rice farmers, will go on to elude the fate of so many in her circumstances — arranged marriage, Communist rule, starvation — by escaping her country. Hamilton, a writer and photographer, follows the girl’s path as she spends 15 years in refugee camps and builds a new, yet intensely familiar, life as a rice farmer in California.
$39.95
ISBN: 9781324001805
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - September 26th, 2023
Wilson’s translation of the “Odyssey,” in 2017, was celebrated for its idiomatic language and technical mastery. Here, she brings those same strengths to a translation of the “Iliad” recounting the story of the Trojan War in a way that revitalizes its epic violence and human tragedy.
The greatest literary landmark of antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time.
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593538241
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Published: Riverhead Books - September 26th, 2023
Forbidden from returning to her California home in a dystopian landscape of crop-killing smog and closed international borders, a chef finds herself on a mountaintop in Italy, concocting elaborate courses for a small group of wealthy and powerful “researchers” who savor the last tastes of luxury in the only spot on the planet the sun still touches.
$35.00
ISBN: 9780451499363
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Published: Crown - September 26th, 2023
Nagourney, a veteran Times reporter, picks up more or less where Gay Talese’s landmark 1969 book, “The Kingdom and the Power,” left off. His account delivers a carefully reported, evenhanded account of this newspaper across four decades, encompassing its missteps as well as successes, and revealing the myriad internal tensions the company confronted as it made the transition to the digital age.
$29.00
ISBN: 9780525519935
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Published: Knopf - September 26th, 2023
Mathis tests the tethers of family, inheritance and hope through the story of Ava Carson and her 10-year-old son, Toussaint, who begin the novel at a homeless shelter in 1985 Philadelphia. From there the novel takes the reader to Ava’s Alabama roots, to her estranged mother and gentrifying hometown of Bonaparte; and back north to the return of Toussaint’s father, a former Black Panther.