This fall is filled with the kinds of books that help you see the world more clearly. Here are 19 we're excited for
Photo-Illustration: Vulture and Publishers Apocalyptic thrillers, ghost stories, a journey through a mysterious labyrinth — this fall is filled with the kinds of books that help you see the world more clearly.
$16 at Amazon Buy $16 at Amazon Buy The Appointment, by Katharina Volckmer $17 Hidden away on the title page, this novel from German-born, London-living Volckmer has a subtitle, “The Story of a Jewish Cock.” That should tell you something about its author’s peekaboo relationship with cheeky, and at times downright sacrosanct, wordplay.
$30 at Amazon Buy $27 at Bookshop Buy Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke $27 now 15% off $23 More than 15 years since the publication of her last novel, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, a blockbuster about a pair of dueling magicians in Regency England, Susanna Clarke returns with another masterpiece. The new book isn’t exactly a fantasy, though it mostly takes place in an infinite stone labyrinth in which an ocean is imprisoned.
$16 at Amazon Buy $16 at Amazon Buy October Leave the World Behind, by Rumaan Alam $20 For his third novel, Rumaan Alam delivers a propulsive thriller about a wealthy white family whose luxurious Hamptons vacation is interrupted when an older Black couple who owns their Airbnb shows up in the middle of the night bearing news of an apocalyptic event. Trapped together as the world falls apart, the book is both prescient and terrifying.
$27 at Amazon Buy $27 at Amazon Buy Plain Bad Heroines, by Emily M. Danforth $28 Stuffed with footnotes, and stories inside stories inside stories, Emily M. Danforth’s follow-up to The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a queer gothic coming-of-age story set at a cursed New England boarding school for girls.
$26 at Amazon Buy $26 at Amazon Buy Divorcing, by Susan Taubes $17 I’m guessing you haven’t heard of Susan Taubes. I hadn’t heard a peep about her either, until a fellow writer and voracious reader told me that this reissue of Taubes’s 1969 novel was in the running for her favorite book of the year. Taubes, a friend of Susan Sontag’s, published Divorcing just before she died by suicide, and her name has never carried the weight it might have had she left behind a larger body of work.
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