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Back to top9/8/2023: Moira Macdonald recommends a dozen must-read new books for fall
The Seattle Times arts critic recommends a dozen must-read new books for fall 2023. The column here.
From the scores of new books arriving this fall, here are a dozen that seem particularly intriguing.
Books:
$29.00
ISBN: 9780525558965
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Published: Penguin Press - September 5th, 2023
Moira: “Any writer who lives in England for any length of time will sooner or later find herself writing a historical novel, whether she wants to or not,” wrote Smith (“White Teeth,” “Swing Time”) in a delightful New Yorker essay about the writing of this book, set in Dickens-era London and based on a real-life imposture trial.
$30.00
ISBN: 9781668016138
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Published: Scribner - September 5th, 2023
Moira: Private detective Holly Gibney, previously featured in King’s novels “Mr. Mercedes,” “Finders Keepers” and “The Outsider,” takes center stage here to help a woman find her missing daughter.
$30.00
ISBN: 9780063252684
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Published: William Morrow - September 12th, 2023
Moira: Jiles, whose “News of the World” hit the trifecta (an award winner, a bestseller and a movie adaptation), here presents what’s described on the cover as “a novel of murder, loss, and vengeance,” set in the post-Civil War frontier in Texas.
$28.00
ISBN: 9781982104498
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Published: Scribner - October 24th, 2023
Moira: The two-time National Book Award winner (for “Sing, Unburied, Sing” and “Salvage the Bones”), known for her poetic imagery and powerful voice, centers her latest on an enslaved young woman in the pre-Civil War South.
$28.00
ISBN: 9780374610487
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - October 31st, 2023
Moira: We’ve been waiting six years for a new McDermott novel (her last was 2017’s “The Ninth Hour”), so that she can slip us effortlessly into another world; this one takes place in the 1960s, from the point of view of two Vietnam War wives.
$28.00
ISBN: 9780385549509
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Published: Doubleday - September 12th, 2023
Moira: This is an event: The great Atkinson hasn’t released a collection of short fiction in nearly 20 years. She’s known for both brilliant historical novels (most recently “Shrines of Gaiety”) and addictive crime fiction (the Jackson Brodie series); I can’t wait to read this one.
$27.00
ISBN: 9780593536322
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Published: Knopf - October 10th, 2023
Moira: Lahiri, whose first collection of short stories (“Interpreter of Maladies”) won a Pulitzer Prize in 2000, has in recent years been writing solely in Italian. This collection, in which each story takes Rome as a character, was translated into English by Lahiri and editor Todd Portnowitz.
$28.00
ISBN: 9780375422454
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Published: Knopf - September 19th, 2023
Moira: Raban, a British-born writer who made Seattle his home base for decades of adventurous travel writing, died early this year. His final book is a deeply personal one: an account of his own recovery from a massive stroke in 2011, interwoven with his own parents’ love story, taking place during his father’s time in the trenches in World War II.
$35.00
ISBN: 9780374208080
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Published: MCD - October 3rd, 2023
Moira: "Ten years after her Washington State Book Award-winning “Hild,” about a king’s niece growing up in seventh-century Britain, Seattle resident Griffith returns with a sequel. On her website, Griffith offered this description: 'If "Hild" was about a child relying on her agile mind and acute observations of nature and human behaviour to stay one step ahead of the whims of a volatile king, then "Menewood" revolves around a young woman becoming herself—learning to live life on her own terms; to build, hold, and wield power—exploring and really inhabiting who she is...”
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593184158
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Published: Dutton - November 7th, 2023
Moira: "The Bainbridge-based author of “Lawn Boy” and “The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving,” among others, returns with a story of a curmudgeonly man living out his last days in a nursing home — and insisting that he has lived multiple lives, in which he has spent a thousand years trying to find love."
$35.00
ISBN: 9781524761042
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Published: Crown - October 24th, 2023
Moira: "Robinson, an author and screenwriter who knew Shakur from high school, was approved by the late musician’s estate to write the only authorized biography of his short life, a meteoric rise in the music world which ended with his 1996 killing at the age of 25."
$47.00
ISBN: 9780525429524
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Published: Viking - November 7th, 2023
Moira: "This one’s a doorstopper — nearly a thousand pages long — but Streisand’s never written a memoir before, so she’s got a lot of stories to tell. And who am I to rain on that parade?"