Forthcoming Books - Fall 2021
This fall arrives at the library with the promise of new books by many of our patrons' most beloved authors. The list below comprises many of the titles we expect to be among the most popular through the end of the year. We expect you’ll find several things you’d like to read, no matter your preferences. Place your reserves now. For a more complete account of our recent acquisitions, take a look at New Books, a list we publish at the beginning of every month, available online and at the Reference Desk. If there is a book you're looking forward to but don't find on this list, 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
- Alameddine, Rabih | Wrong End of the Telescope
- Bannister, Jo | China Roses
- Barbery, Muriel | A Single Rose
- Benn, James R. | Road of Bones
- Binet, Laurent | Civilizations
- Boyle, T. C. | Talk to Me
- Bruen, Ken | Callous
- Casey, Janet | The Killing Kind
- Cisneros, Sandra | Martita, I Remember You/Martita, Te Requerdo
- De Beauvoir, Simone | Inseparable (ebook available)
- Doerr, Anthony | Cloud Cuckoo Land
- Feldman, Ellen | The Living and the Lost
- Ferris, Joshua | A Calling for Charlie Barnes
- Flynn, Vince | Enemy at the Gates
- French, Nicci | The Unheard
- Groff, Lauren | Matrix (ebook available)
- Hambly, Barbara | Scandal in Babylon
- Jewell, Lisa | The Night She Disappeared
- Kellerman, Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman | The Burning
- Knausgaard, Karl Ove | The Morning Star
- Lish, Atticus | The War for Gloria (ebook available)
- Mayor, Archer | Marked Man
- McCreight, Kimberly | Friends Like These
- McIlvaney, William and Ian Rankin | The Dark Remains (ebook available)
- Mina, Denise | Rizzio
- Moriarty, Liane | Apples Never Fall (ebook available)
- Osman, Richard | The Man Who Died Twice
- Ozeki, Ruth | The Book of Form and Emptiness
- Perry, Anne | A Darker Reality
- Powers, Richard | Bewilderment
- Rooney, Sally | Beautiful World, Where Are You (ebook and audiobook available)
- Schlink, Bernhard | Olga
- Soyinka, Wole | Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
- Toibin, Colm | The Magician (ebook available)
- Whitehead, Colson | Harlem Shuffle (ebook and audiobook available)
- Wideman, John Edgar | Look for Me and I’ll Be Gone
- Williams, Joy | Harrow
NONFICTION
- Ackroyd, Peter | Innovation: The History of England, vol. 4
- Coel, Michaela | Misfits: A Personal Manifesto
- Cooper, Anderson | Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
- Egremont, Max | The Glass Wall: Lives on the Baltic Frontier
- Ellis, Joseph J. | The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783
- Guelzo, Allen C. | Robert E. Lee: A Life
- Harjo, Joy | Poet Warrior: A Memoir
- Hill, Anita | Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence
- Horn, Dara | People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
- Lubow, Arthur | Man Ray: The Artist and His Shadows
- Nelson, Maggie | On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint (ebook available)
- Osnos, Evan | Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury
- Philbrick, Nathaniel | Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy (ebook available)
- Pinker, Steven | Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
- Renkl, Margaret | Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American South
- Roach, Mary | Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
- Will, George F. | American Happiness and Discontents: The Unruly Torrent, 2008-2020
- Woodward, Bob and Robert Costa| Peril
October
FICTION
- Archer, Jeffrey | Over My Dead Body
- Banville, John | April in Spain
- Beaton, M. C. | Down the Hatch
- Bowen, Rhys | God Rest Ye, Royal Gentlemen
- Child, Lee | Better Off Dead
- Clinton, Hilary and Louise Penny | State of Terror
- Connolly, John | The Nameless Ones
- Everett, Percival | The Trees
- Franzen, Jonathan | Crossroads
- Grisham, John | The Judge’s List
- Hoffman, Alice | The Book of Magic
- Horowitz, Anthony | A Line to Kill
- Kinsella, Sophie | The Party Crasher
- Le Carré, John | Silverview
- Lovesey, Peter | Diamond and the Eye
- McCall Smith, Alexander | The Joy and Light Bus Company
- McDermid, Val | 1979
- Nesbo, Jo | The Jealousy Man and Other Stories
- Strout, Elizabeth | Oh William!
- Toews, Miriam | Fight Night
- Towles, Amor | The Lincoln Highway
- Tursten, Helene | An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed
- Unger, Lisa | Last Girl Ghosted
- Woods, Stuart | Foul Play
NONFICTION
- Auster, Paul | Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
- Beard, Mary | Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern
- Bidart, Frank | Against Silence: Poems
- Carson, Anne | H of H Playbook
- Cole, Teju | Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time
- Glück, Louise | Winter Recipes from the Collective: Poems
- Hedges, Chris | Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison
- Leamer, Laurence | Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era
- Levy, Bernard-Henri | The Will to See: Dispatches from a World of Misery and Hope
- Marton, Kati | The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
- Nagel, Susan | Patriotism and Profit: Washington, Hamilton, Schuyler & the Rivalry for America's Capital City
- Orlean, Susan | On Animals
- Piketty, Thomas | Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016 - 2021
- Rhodes, Richard | Scientist: E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature
- Ruhl, Sarah | Smile: The Story of a Face
- Sedaris, David | A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020)
- Smith, Patti | Woolgathering
- Solnit, Rebecca | Orwell’s Roses
- Winterson, Jeanette | 12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next
- Wolff, Michael | Too Famous: The Rich, the Powerful, the Wishful, the Notorious, the Damned
November
FICTION
- Baldacci, David | Mercy
- Bradford, Barbara Taylor | A Man of Honor
- Byatt, A. S. | Medusa’s Ankles: Selected Stories
- Connelly, Michael | The Dark Hours
- Cornwell, Patricia | Autopsy
- Deaver, Jeffrey | The Midnight Lock
- Eggers, Dave | The Every
- Erdrich, Louise | The Sentence
- Evanovich, Janet | Game On
- Follett, Ken | Never
- Gabaldon, Diana | Go Tell the Bees That I am Gone
- King, Lily | Five Tuesdays in Winter
- Krasznahorkai, László | Chasing Homer
- Lescroart, John T. | The Missing Piece
- Limón, Martin | War Women
- McCarthy, Tom | The Making of Incarnation
- Perry, Thomas | The Left-Handed Twin
- Roberts, Nora | The Becoming
- Shafak, Elif | The Island of Missing Trees
- Shteyngart, Gary | Our Country Friends
- Vargas Llosa, Mario | Harsh Times
- Winman, Sarah | Still Life
NONFICTION
- Ai Weiwei | 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir
- Brands, H. W. | Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution
- Damrosch, David | Around the World in 80 Books
- Danchev, Alex | Magritte: A Life
- Davis, Lydia | Essays Two: On Proust, Translation, Foreign Languages, and the City of Arles
- Highsmith, Patricia | Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks
- Patchett, Ann | These Precious Days: Essays
- Richardson, John | A Life of Picasso IV: The Minotaur Years 1933-1943
- Roberts, Andrew | The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III
- Tomalin, Claire | The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the World
December
FICTION
- Fowler, Christopher | Bryant and May: London Bridge is Falling Down
- Griffiths, Elly | The Midnight Hour
- HIgashino, Keigo | Silent Parade
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