We welcome November with a wonderful crop of literary works: Louise Kennedy, Tom Drury, Elizabeth McCracken, Michelle Porter, and more, all contribute to our stunning pile of newly released fiction. On the nonfiction side, legendary historian Dan Jones, as well as journalist Stephen Pinzer, and many more, all have fresh works for us today. Read on for the full list below, and happy Tuesday!
Louise Kennedy, Stations(Riverhead)
“An astute, emotionally charged novel that examines the lasting effects of first love.”–Economist
Tom Drury, West of Loveland(Grove)
“With a wry humor, an insatiable thirst for storytelling, and a keen recognition of the beautiful strangeness in everyday life, Drury has delivered in West of Lovelanda memorable novel that will make the world a less lonely and more mysterious place.”–Yiyun Li
Elizabeth McCracken, Seven Stories About Tammy(Biblioaisis)
“One of the best things I have ever read in my life. It made me cackle out loud and filled me with joy … Elizabeth McCracken is one of our greatest writers.”–Ann Patchett
Dan Jones, Castles: A Fortified History of the World(Viking)
“A lively and engaging book that will capture the imaginations of castle enthusiasts everywhere.”–Library Journal
Ian Rankin, The Heights(Cardinal)
Alex Pappademas and Joan LeMay, Friends of the Devil: West Texas Cowboys, Brown-Eyed Women, and Other Sunshine Daydreamers from the Songs of the Grateful Dead(Random House)
“It is hard to imagine a more thrilling or visionary paean to the Grateful Dead than Friends of the Devil.”–Amanda Petrusich
Michelle Porter, A Glacier’s Guide to Dying(Algonquin)
“As layered as the ice of a glacier, this is a story that will have you coming back again and again to truly understand its depth and brilliance.”–Amanda Peters
Robert Wilson, The Space Behind the Face: Life Stories(Penguin Press)
“Charts in an engaging and wonderful way the life he made and the things that made him and shaped his aesthetic.”–Willem Dafoe
Kwan Ann Tan, The Waiter: An Interactive Story(Union Square)
“A garden of forking paths, filled with urban legends and forbidden pleasures, that’s easy to enter and hard to escape.”–Ed Park
Jo Baring, Totem: The Untold Story of Sculpture(Ecco)
“A beautifully revelatory and moving appreciation of a universal, ever-changing, and endlessly resonant art form.”–Booklist
Lucy Apps, Gloria Don’t Speak(Mariner)
“Apps insightfully wrestles with questions of language—namely when it fails—asking the reader whose perspectives we get to hear from, and what modes of communication lie beyond the spoken word.”–Alice Evelyn Yang
Simon Garfield, The Pen: A Human History(Crown)
“A paean to the pen—glorious and golden. At last, a book celebrating my most precious possession.”–Emma Thompson
Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes, Clear Water(Flatiron)
“[An] intensely atmospheric novel seamlessly blends mystery and horror, with plenty of tension.”–Booklist
Stephen Kinzer, Boiling Point: How America Brought War to Ukraine(Henry Holt)