NEW YORK, Aug. 26 (US): Expectations for one of the fall’s bestsellers have been growing all year round.
For months, millions of Colin Hoover’s fans on Tik Tok, Instagram and elsewhere have been chatting and posting early excerpts from her novel It Begins With Us. By summer, the author’s sequel to her bestselling book “It Ends With Us” had reached the top 10 on Amazon.com. It might have risen to the top had it not been for the competition with Hoover’s other novels, including “Ugly Love,” “The Truth” and of course, “It Ends With Us,” the dramatic story of a love triangle and a woman’s enduring domestic violence in that young man. TikTok users have embraced and helped make Hoover the most popular novel writer in the country.
According to the Associated Press (AP), Hoover’s extraordinary run on bestseller lists, from Amazon.com to the New York Times, has been Beatle-esque for most of 2022, with four or more books likely to appear in the top ten at a given moment. . “It Starts With Us” was so passionately loved by its fans — outfits, some call themselves — that it broke a personal rule: Don’t let “external influences” define her next book.
“I’ve never allowed myself to be entertained by a sequel, but with the number of people emailing me each day and putting me in an online petition to write about (those characters), their story started piling up in my head the same way ‘begin,'” she told The Associated Press in a post. Modern electronic. “Finally I longed to tell this story as much as I did my other stories, so I owe readers a heartfelt thank you for the tip.”
Hoover’s new book should help extend what has been another strong year for the industry. Booksellers are looking forward to a mix of trade favorites like Hoover, Anthony Horowitz, Beverly Jenkins and Veronica Roth alongside what Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt calls a “really solid” lineup of literary publications, including Ian McEwan novels and Kate Atkinson.
Autumn will also see a new novel by Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk and Pulitzer Prize winners Elizabeth Strout and Andrew Sean Greer. Celeste Ng “Our Lost Hearts” is her first novel since “Little Fires Everywhere”. The collections of stories are expected from George Saunders, Andrea Barrett, and Ling Ma, as well as novels by Percival Everett, Barbara Kingsolver, Kevin Wilson, NK Jimenson, Lydia Millett, and Yun Lee.
Cormac McCarthy, 89, has a new novel coming for the first time in over a decade with “The Basinger” and companion “Stella Maris.” John Irving, who turned 80 this year, calls The Last Chairlift’s 900-page “last long novel,” a description that could apply to much of his career.
Russell Banks, 82, has completed the elegiac “The Magic Kingdom,” and former American poet Robert Pinsky, 81, wrote his autobiography “Jersey Brix,” in which he tackled what he calls “tribalism” and “nationalism” of the present moment by reflecting on His childhood in Long Branch, New Jersey.
“I realized I wasn’t a great sociologist or political sage, but I thought I could deal with this by going back to growing up in a city that was isolated, ethnic, and lower middle class,” Pinsky says. “I felt that any answers I had would be found there.”
Joe Concha’s “Come On, Man!: The Truth About Joe Biden’s Terrible, Terrible, Not-So-Good, So Bad” Presidency is the most colorful name in the latest round of books attacking the incumbent—a long and lucrative publishing tradition. But the most famous works in political reporting focus on Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump, among them “Man of Trust” by Maggie Haberman of the New York Times, and “Barricade: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021” by Peter Baker of The Times and Susan Glaser of The New Yorker .
Michelle Obama’s “The Light We Carry” is her first all-new book since her worldwide bestseller from 2018, “Becoming.” Benjamin Netanyahu’s book “Baby” is the former Israeli prime minister’s first memoir, while US politicians with new books include Representative Cory Bush of Missouri, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and Texas Governor Beto O’Rourke.
Autumn will see many posthumous releases, from the letters of John le Carrey and Alan Rickman’s memoirs to Leonard Cohen’s novel and Michael K. The actor gave up years before his death in 2008.
Victory Is Certain collects essays by late critic and novelist Stanley Crouch, and Not Only A Few Of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story features Greg Tate, who died last year. The miscellaneous works of Randall Keenan, the award-winning fantasy writer who died in 2020, have been collected in “Black Folk Can Fly.” Written in the preface by his friend Tyari Jones, author of the famous novel “American Marriage”.
“As I read through the pages of the manuscript, I occasionally spoke to him, and asked him why he hadn’t told me this or that thing,” Jones told the Associated Press. “Sometimes I laughed out loud and said, ‘Randall, you’re so crazy!” – Like we’re having a drink – the boulevard! – He just told a hilarious tale. Other times, his brilliance emphasized the breadth and depth of our loss, and I sat at my kitchen table and cried.”
Celebrity books include Bono’s Surrender, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry, and Geena Davis’s The Dying of Politeness. Bob Dylan thinks of an art form he helped reinvent his “modern song philosophy,” while the title of Jan Weiner’s memoir evokes Dylan’s classic book that helped inspire the name of the magazine he founded, “Like a Rolling Stone.”
Notes from Steve Martin, Linda Ronstadt, Constance Wu and Brian Johnson are also scheduled. Patti Smith’s “A Book of Days” is based on the words and photos of her widely followed Instagram account, on which she might post anything from a Leonardo da Vinci statue to her cat staring at the cover of Dostoevsky’s “The Idiot.”
“I love doing my Instagram; it’s the only social media I’m really involved with,” Smith says. It takes time to write a short comment. You have to find a way to convey a lot in a few sentences.”
In poetry, one of the notable versions is a work of narrative prose: “Marigold and Rose” by Nobel laureate Louise Gluck is a short exploration into the minds of infant twins, inspired by the author’s grandchildren. It is the first published novel by 79-year-old Glock, whose previous editions have included more than 10 collections of poetry and two books of essays.
The new poetry includes works by Pulitzer Prize winners Guri Graham, Sharon Olds, Said Jones, Jenny Zeh, former American poets Billy Collins, Joy Harjo, Linda Bastan, and Wang Yen, the Chinese poet whose “Summer Day in the Company of Ghosts” is the first work to come out in English.
History books will cover the famous and the fool. These Pulitzer Prize winners include John Meacham’s “And There Was Light,” the most recent entry into canon of Abraham Lincoln scholarship, and Stacey Schiff’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Samuel Adams, the “Revolutionary.” Fred Kaplan, who focused on Lincoln’s prose in “Lincoln: A Biography of a Writer,” evaluates Thomas Jefferson in “His Outstanding Pen: A Biography of Jefferson the Writer.”
Releases highlighting those less remembered include “American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America’s First Paramedics” and Katie Hickman’s “Braveheart: Women of the American West.” With Roe v. Wade canceled last summer, Laura Kaplan’s “Jane’s Story” is a timely reissue of her 1995 book on the Underground Abortion Counseling Service founded in Chicago in 1969, four years before Roe’s landmark court ruling Supreme.
Bruce Henderson’s Bridge to the Sun focuses on the recruitment of Japanese Americans, some of whom were in concentration camps, to help gather American intelligence during World War II.
“It was really hard to research because many of them were working on top-secret projects, and even after they were laid off, they were reminded that they are under national security law and that military secrets should be kept,” Henderson says. . We had to do a lot of digging and calling families and finding out what the veterans left behind. Of the six men I follow in my book, only one is alive.”
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