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a14 people & arts
Wednesday 31 august 2022
Fall books a broad mix of literary and commercial favorites

By HILLEL ITALIE liteness." Bob Dylan reflects
AP National Writer upon an art form he helped
NEW YORK (AP) — Antici- reinvent in "The Philosophy
pation for one of the fall's of Modern Song," while the
likeliest bestsellers has been title of Jan Wenner's mem-
growing all year. oir invokes the Dylan clas-
For months, Colleen sic that helped inspire the
Hoover's millions of fans name of the magazine he
on TikTok, Instagram and founded, "Like a Rolling
elsewhere have been talk- Stone."
ing up and posting early History books will cover
excerpts from her novel "It the famous and the over-
Starts With Us." By summer, looked. Among the for-
the author's sequel to her mer are Pulitzer-winner Jon
bestselling "It Ends With Us" Meacham's "And There
had already reached the Was Light," the latest entry
top 10 Amazon.com. It into the canon of Abraham
might have climbed higher Lincoln scholarship, and
but for competition from Pulitzer-winner Stacy Schiff's
other Hoover novels, in- biography of Samuel Ad-
cluding "Ugly Love," "Verity" ams, "The Revolutionary."
and, of course, "It Ends With Fred Kaplan, who focused
Us," the dramatic tale of a on Lincoln's prose in "Lin-
love triangle and a wom- coln: The Biography of a
an's endurance of domes- Writer," now assesses Thom-
tic abuse that young TikTok as Jefferson in "His Masterly
users have embraced and Pen: A Biography of Jeffer-
helped make Hoover the son the Writer."
country's most popular fic- Releases highlighting those
tion writer. less remembered include
Hoover's extraordinary run Kevin Hazzard's "American
on bestseller lists, from Am- Sirens: The Incredible Story
azon.com to The New York This combination of cover images show various novels releasing this fall, top row from left, "Bliss of the Black Men Who Be-
Times, has been Beatle- Montage" by Ling Ma, "The Book of Goose" by Yiyun Li, "Dinosaurs" by Lydia Millet, "It Starts with Us" came America's First Para-
esque for much of 2022, by Colleen Hoover and "The Last Chairlift" by John Irving, second row from left, "Less is Lost" by An- medics," and Katie Hick-
with four or more books drew Sean Greer, "Liberation Day" by George Saunders, "Lucy by the Sea" by Elizabeth Strout, "The man's "Brave Hearted: The
Magic Kingdom by Russell Banks, "Natural History" by Andrea Barrett, bottom row from left, "Now
likely to appear in the top is Not the Time to Panic" by Kevin Wilson, "Our Missing Hearts" by Celeste Ng, "The Passenger" by Women of the American
10 at a given moment. "It Cormac McCarthy, "Shrines of Gaiety" by Kate Atkinson and "Stella Maris" by Cormac McCarthy. West." With the overturn-
Starts With Us" had been Associated Press ing last summer of Roe v.
so eagerly desired by her Wade, Laura Kaplan's "The
admirers — CoHorts, some ing." Greer. Celeste Ng's "Our publishing tradition. But the Story of Jane" is a timely reis-
call themselves — that she Hoover's new book should Missing Hearts" is her first most high-profile works of sue of her 1995 book about
broke a personal rule: Don't help extend what has novel since "Little Fires Ev- political reporting dwell on the underground abortion
let "outside influences" de- been another solid year for erywhere." Biden's predecessor, Don- counseling service found-
termine her next book. the industry. Booksellers are Story collections are ex- ald Trump, among them ed in Chicago in 1969, four
"I never allowed myself looking forward to a mix of pected from George Saun- "Confidence Man," by The years before the Supreme
to entertain a sequel, but commercial favorites such ders, Andrea Barrett and New York Times' Maggie Court's historic Roe ruling.
with the amount of people as Hoover, Anthony Horow- Ling Ma, along with novels Haberman, and "The Di- Bruce Henderson's "Bridge
emailing me every day itz, Beverly Jenkins and by Percival Everett, Barba- vider: Trump in the White to the Sun" centers on the
and tagging me in an on- Veronica Roth alongside ra Kingsolver, Kevin Wilson, House, 2017–2021," by Pe- recruitment of Japanese-
line petition to write about what Barnes & Noble CEO N.K. Jemisin, Lydia Millet ter Baker of the Times and Americans, some of whom
(those characters), their James Daunt calls a "really and Yiyun Li. Susan Glasser of The New had been in internment
story began to build in my strong" lineup of literary re- Joe Concha's "Come On, Yorker. camps, to assist in U.S. intel-
head in the same way my leases, including novels by Man!: The Truth About Joe Michelle Obama's "The ligence gathering during
other books begin," she Ian McEwan and Kate At- Biden's Terrible, Horrible, Light We Carry" is her first World War II.
told The Associated Press in kinson. No-Good, Very Bad Presi- entirely new book since her "It was really hard to re-
a recent email. "Eventually The fall also will feature new dency" is the most color- worldwide bestseller from search because many of
I craved telling this story as fiction from Nobel laureate fully named of the latest 2018, "Becoming." Benja- them had been working on
much as I did my other sto- Orhan Pamuk and Pulit- round of books attacking min Netanyahu's "Bibi" is top secret projects, and,
ries, so I owe the readers a zer Prize-winners Elizabeth an incumbent president the first memoir by the for- even after they had been
big thank you for the nudg- Strout and Andrew Sean — a long and profitable mer Israeli Prime Minister, discharged, were remind-
while American politicians ed that they were under
LIKE US ON with new books include the National Security Act
Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri, and that military secrets
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and had to be kept," Hender-
Texas gubernatorial candi- son says. "We had to do a
date Beto O'Rourke. lot of digging and contact
Celebrity books include Bo- families and see what the
no's "Surrender," Matthew veterans had left behind.
Perry's "Friends, Lovers, and Of the six guys that I follow
Facebook.com/arubatoday/ the Big Terrible Thing" and in my book, only one was
Geena Davis' "Dying of Po-
still alive."q