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| | | April 24, 2017 | Alarcón, Boyle, Eugenides, Hill | Barbara’s Fiction Picks
Barbara Hoffert - @barbarahoffert
New work from Daniel Alarcón, T.C. Boyle, Jeffrey Eugenides, and Joe HIll is always welcome, but what's striking about these October titles is that they are all short fiction. Hill offers short novels, while his colleagues are publishing story collections; Boyle is a past master of the form, Alarcón offers a second collection, and Eugenides has a debut collection on tap. Not just for short story fans. |
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| Biography/History/Memoir | Barbara’s Nonfiction Picks
Fall 2017 is especially rich in good nonfiction, with biographies of James Wright, Leonardo da Vinci, Al Hirschfeld, and more (plus see the separate presidential picks listing). There's also history ranging from Anne Applebaum on Soviet famine to Linda Gordon on the 1920s Ku Klux Klan to Simon Schama on Jewish history and four memoirs from leading authors like Rox Chast and Amy Tan. |
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| | Presidential Portraits | Barbara’s Nonfiction Picks
James Madison, Ulysses S. Grant, Herbert Hoover, and Harry S. Truman are the four U.S. Presidents treated here, but a second memoir from South African president Nelson Mandela, completed after his death by award-winning novelist/journalist Mandla Langa, is a huge draw. |
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| | 12 Top Thrillers | Fiction Previews
Big names from John Grisham to John Sandford surface here, but don't miss Anna Snoekstra's Little Secrets, the successor to her attention-getting start-up, Only Daughter, and big debuts from Australian author Sarah Bailey (The Dark Lake, investigating a former high school golden girl's death) and Liv Constantine (The Last Mrs. Parrish, with an envious woman targeting the town's class-act couple). |
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| Top Spring Fiction in Translation
Ahmet Altan, Endgame René Depestre, Hadriana in All My Dreams Mathias Énard, Compass Mustafa Khalifa, The Shell Igiaba Scego, Adua VIEW THE FULL LIST |
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| Caroline Hart, Darynda Jones, & More | Mystery Previews
Chills as always, but two holiday mysteries deck the halls in October: Donna Andrews's How the Finch Stole Christmas!: A Meg Langslow Mystery, which features a staging of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol that makes mincemeat of Scrooge, and Mick Herron & others' The Usual Santas: A Collection of Soho Crime Christmas Capers, with top authors like Cara Black and Peter Lovesey offering unexpected mystery treats. |
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