Grab a book, curl up with new fall releases

Book cover for Jeffrey Eugenides' "Fresh Complaint"
Book cover for Jeffrey Eugenides' "Fresh Complaint"

Perhaps you are looking for a newly published book to read this fall? If so, here are a collection of don't-miss fall books arriving in the next month:

Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng (Penguin, $27) Out now

In her first novel, the devastating but beautiful Everything I Never Told You, Ng recounted the events leading up to the death of a teenage girl in 1970s Ohio. Ng returns to the Cleveland suburbs in Little Fires Everywhere, about the Richardson family and their attraction to a mysterious mother and daughter who become tenants.

Forest Dark, Nicole Krauss (Harper, $27.99) Out now

Author of the haunting novel The History of Love, Krauss lays out the story of an elderly lawyer and a young novelist whose paths cross in the Israeli desert.

The Living Infinite, Chantel Acevedo (Europa Editions, $17) Out now

Acevedo, author of The Distant Marvels, revisits Spain's Bourbon Court in this historical novel about the rebellious Spanish Princess Eulalia, who traveled to revolutionary Cuba and the Chicago World's Fair.

Five-Carat Soul, James McBride (Riverhead, $27) Out Sept. 26

The stories in Five-Carat Soul haven't been published before, but McBride is known for employing satiric humor and for a prodigious ability to flesh out unforgettable characters in every story.

Fresh Complaint, Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27) Out Oct. 3

One word -- Middlesex, for which Eugenides won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize -- makes this collection of short stories one of the most anticipated releases of the fall. Fresh Complaint is his first story collection.

Manhattan Beach, Jennifer Egan (Scribner, $28) Out Oct. 3

Egan, who won the Pulitzer in 2011 for her terrific novel-in-stories A Visit From the Goon Squad, returns with a complete turnaround from that post-modern masterpiece. It's a historical novel that opens during the Great Depression.

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy, Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World, $28) Out Oct. 3

The follow-up to Coates' National Book Award-winning Between the World and Me is made up of essays about the Obama era and how racial and cultural politics played out against it.

Ali, Jonathan Eig (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30) Out Oct. 3

Until now there has not been a definitive biography of Muhammad Ali, who died in 2016. Eig, author of Get Capone and The Birth of the Pill, aims to remedy that oversight with his latest book.

Here in Berlin, Cristina Garcia (Counterpoint, $26) Out Oct. 10

Garcia uses an unnamed narrator to reveal the stories of Berlin through its history and its people, examining how war, politics and their aftermath shape a place.

Grant, Ron Chernow (Penguin, $40) Out Oct. 10

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Book cover for Ron Chernow's "Grant"

Chernow follows up his monster best-seller about Alexander Hamilton with the aim of changing the bad reputation of our 18th president, Ulysses S. Grant. Will he succeed? Well, he did help keep Hamilton on the $10 bill.

Style on 09/19/2017

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