150 Most Anticipated Books of the Fall

by Rumaan Alam

Cements Alam’s status as a talented truth-teller willing to tackle tough issues with grace, generosity, and sensitivity. Full review >

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by Pedro Almodóvar ; translated by Frank Wynne

Sometimes surreal, sometimes prurient, sometimes discomfiting—and every page worth reading. Full review >

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by Louis Bayard

Bayard turns the Wilde family’s tragedy into an engrossing, eternally relevant fable of fame, scandal, and love. Full review >

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by Louise Erdrich

In this tender and capacious story, love and tragedy mingle along the river and into the world. Full review >

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by Garth Greenwell

Greenwell—such a finely tuned, generous writer—transforms a savage illness into a meditation on a vital life. Full review >

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by Luis Jaramillo

Gripping and cinematic, the novel’s worlds of El Paso past and present will bewitch and enrapture. Full review >

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by Juhea Kim

Written in sumptuous prose, Kim’s novel is a feast for the senses. Full review >

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by Ariane Koch ; translated by Damion Searls

Layered, experimental, and fragmented, this novel embraces the strangeness both in and around us. Full review >

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by László Krasznahorkai ; translated by Ottilie Mulzet

Brilliant, like all of Krasznahorkai’s books—and just as challenging, though well worth the effort required. Full review >

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by Rachel Kushner

A deft, brainy take on the espionage novel. Full review >

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by Nora Lange

A wonderfully shrewd, surreal, and comical odyssey through a crumbling American landscape. Full review >

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by Daniel M. Lavery

For those unafraid to meander, a stay at the Biedermeier is pure pleasure. Full review >

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by Betsy Lerner

A seamlessly constructed and absorbing fictional world, full of insight about how families work. Full review >

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by Muriel Leung

At once absurd and profound. Full review >

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by Attica Locke

We’ve missed Attica Locke’s deft and wise way with the crime novel. We want more. Full review >

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