While many of us think of the summer months as prime reading season, publishers tend to save plenty of their sure-to-be fiction hits for fall. And this year’s crop of late 2010 novels is certainly no different.
Our September issue has already gone to press, and we are particularly excited about our interviews with Jonathan Franzen and Emma Donoghue. Franzen’s Freedom and Donoghue’s Room are two of the most talked-about upcoming releases, and we can’t wait to see what readers make of them once they go on sale in the coming weeks (for Freedom, that’s August 31 and Room, September 13).
September also marks the release of Sara Gruen’s follow-up to the smash hit Water for Elephants, Ape House, (Sept. 7), Ken Follett’s first part in a new trilogy, Fall of Giants (Sept. 28), another love story from Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven (Sept. 14) and Michael Cunningham’s first novel since Specimen Days, By Nightfall (Sept. 28).
But things don’t slow down in October. Nicole Krauss is back (after The History of Love) with Great House on Oct. 12 (be sure to check out our interview with Krauss in the October issue of BookPage) and John le Carré returns with Our Kind of Traitor (also on sale Oct. 12).
In November, we’re excited about a new—and very dark—story collection from Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars (on sale Nov. 9) and Dennis Lehane’s follow up to Gone, Baby, Gone, Moonlight Mile (on sale Nov. 2).
If courtroom dramas and thrillers are your cup of tea, you are certainly in luck this fall. Vince Flynn, John Grisham, Lee Child, David Baldacci, Patricia Cornwell, James Patterson, Tom Clancy and Steve Berry all have new releases in the coming months.
So as the kids go back to school and the leaves change from green to red, be sure to pick up one of these new novels. You won’t be disappointed!
My LIST OF HOTTEST NEW BOOKS is a bit different from yours. I’m looking forward to: TO FETCH A THIEF by Spencer Quinn, BRYANT AND MAY OFF THE RAILS by Christopher Fowler, HOWARD’S END IS ON THE LANDING by Susan Hill (not sure if this is strictly ‘new’ but it’s new to me) ON THE LINE by S.J. Rozan, ONE WAS A SOLDIER by Julia Spencer Fleming, RED HERRING by Archer Mayor, WORTH DYING FOR by Lee Child, THE REVERSAL by Michael Connelly, STARTED EARLY, TOOK MY DOG by Kate Atkinson, THE BOOK OF WILLIAM: How Shakespeare’s First Folio Conquered the World by Paul Collins.