"Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love—that makes life and nature harmonize." – George Eliot

The fall publishing schedule promises heaps of new titles by many of our patrons' most beloved authors. The titles below are just some of the new books you'll find at the Library over the next few months. For a more complete account of our recent acquisitions, check out New Books, a list published at the beginning of every month and available on the website or at the Circulation Desk. If there is something you're looking forward to reading, but don't find in our catalog, simply request it from the Acquisitions Department by filling out a request slip at the Circulation Desk or log in to our website and use the Suggest a Purchase form.

September

FICTION

• Archer, Jeffrey | Traitor’s Gate
• Atkinson, Kate | Normal Rules Don’t Apply
• Beaton, M. C. | Dead on Target
• Cleeves, Ann | Raging Storm
• Coetzee, J. M. | The Pole
• Connolly, John | The Land of Lost Things
• Ellroy, James | The Enchanters
• Enright, Anne | The Wren, the Wren
• Follett, Ken | Armor of Light
• Fountain, Ben | Devil Makes Three
• Galbraith, Robert | The Running Grave
• Groff, Lauren | Vaster Wilds
• Herron, Mick | The Secret Hours
• Hill, Nathan | Wellness
• Jiles, Paulette | Chenneville
• King, Stephen | Holly
• Knausgaard, Karl Ove | Wolves of Eternity
• Li, Yiyun | Wednesday’s Child: Stories
• Mason, Daniel | North Woods
• Mathis, Ayana | The Unsettled
• Osman, Richard | The Last Devil to Die
• Perry, Anne | The Traitor Among Us
• Phillips, Jayne Anne | Night Watch
• Ragnar Jónasson | Reykjavík
• Rash, Ron | The Caretaker
• Robb, J. D. | Payback in Death
• Smith, Zadie | The Fraud
• Umrigar, Thirty | The Museum of Failures
• Washington, Bryan | Family Meal
• Wright, Lawrence | Mr. Texas

NONFICTION

• Cooper, Anderson & Katherine Howe | Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
• Daugherty, Tracy | Larry McMurtry: A Life
• Holland, Tom | Pax: War and Peace in Rome’s Golden Age
• Isaacson, Walter | Elon Musk
• Leon, Donna | Wandering Through Life: A Memoir
• Lerner, Ben | The Lights: Poems
• Raban, Jonathan | Father and Son: A Memoir
• Silverman, Stephen M. | Sondheim: His Life, His Shows, His Legacy
• Stewart, Rory | How Not to Be a Politician: A Memoir
• Talese, Gay | Bartleby and Me: Reflections of an Old Scrivener
• Ullrich, Volker | Germany 1923: Hyperinflation, Hitler’s Putsch, and Democracy in Crisis

October

FICTION

• Child, Lee | The Secret
• Cole, Teju | Tremor
• Davis, Lydia | Our Strangers
• DeMille, Nelson | Blood Lines
• Evanovich, Janet | Dirty Thirty
• Fosse, Jon | A Shining
• Grisham, John | The Exchange: After the Firm
• Hannah, Sophie | Hercule Poirot’s Silent Night
• James, Peter | Stop Them Dead
• Kinsella, Sophie | The Burnout
• Kwok, Jean | The Leftover Woman
• Labatut, Benjamin | The MANIAC
• Lahiri, Jhumpa | Roman Stories
• Lethem, Jonathan | Brooklyn Crime Novel
• McCall Smith, Alexander | From a Far and Lovely Country
• McDermott, Alice | Absolution
• Mosley, Walter | Touched
• Nesbo, Jo | The Night House
• O’Brien, Tim | America Fantastica
• Sandford, John | Judgment Prey
• Tan Twan Eng | The House of Doors
• Torres, Justin | Blackouts
• Ward, Jessmyn | Let Us Descend
• Winterson, Jeanette | Night Side of the River
• Yoon, Paul | The Hive and the Honey: Stories

NONFICTION

• Beard, Mary | Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
• Brooks, David | How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
• Dennett, Daniel C. | I’ve Been Thinking
• Eyman, Scott | Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided
• Gay, Roxane | Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business
• Hermes, Will | Lou Reed: The King of New York
• Herzog, Werner | Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
• Leamer, Laurence | Hitchcock’s Blondes: The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director’s Dark Obsession
• Lewis, Michael | Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
• Maddow, Rachel | Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
• Mantel, Hilary | A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing
• Nguyen, Viet Thanh | A Man of Two Faces
• Renkl, Margaret | The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

November

FICTION

• Auster, Paul | Baumgartner
• Baldacci, David | The Edge
• Bowen, Rhys | Proof of the Pudding
• Connelly, Michael | Resurrection Walk
• Cornwell, Patricia | Unnatural Death
• Cumming, Charles | Kennedy 35
• Cunningham, Michael | Day
• Eggers, Dave | The Honor of Your Presence
• Evison, Jonathan | Again and Again
• Estleman, Loren D. | Vamp
• Gerritsen, Tess | The Spy Coast
• McDermid, Val | Past Lying
• Macmillan, Gilly | The Manor House
• Margolin, Phillip | Betrayal
• Nunez, Sigrid | The Vulnerables
• Pitoniak, Anna | The Helsinki Affair
• Roberts, Nora | Inheritance

NONFICTION

• Biskind, Peter | Pandora’s Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV
• Brands, H. W. | Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics
• Chast, Roz | I Must Be Dreaming
• Elkin, Lauren | Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
• Gross, Michael | Flight of the WASP: The Rise, Fall, and Future of America’s Original Ruling Class
• Land, Stephanie | Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
• Lopate, Phillip | A Year and a Day: An Experiment in Essays
• Streisand, Barbra | My Name Is Barbra
• Taylor, Benjamin | Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather
• Wasson, Sam | The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story

December

FICTION

• Harvey, Samantha | Orbital
• Higashino, Keigo | The Final Curtain
• Lemaitre, Pierre | The Wide World

NONFICTION

• So, Anthony Veasna | Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes
• Wiman, Christian | Zero at the Bone