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• The Testaments

  Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

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  Thirty-four years after the publication of her startlingly prescient novel The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood delivers its potent sequel. The Testaments enters the world stage amidst a political environment that could be described as Atwoodian…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Institute

  a Novel

  King, Stephen, 1947-

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  Think of this novel as Stephen King’s take on X-Men‘s Xavier Institute for Higher Learning, but the kids get there because the school murdered their parents.

• The Beautiful Ones

  Prince

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  The memoir that the musician began writing before his untimely death in April 2016 is finally hitting shelves, packaged and framed by editor Dan Piepenbring (who also co-wrote this summer’s Manson murders exposé Chaos). It will also include photos,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Water Dancer

  a Novel

  Coates, Ta-Nehisi

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  The National Book Award winner has published a memoir, two books of essays, and the latest Black Panther graphic novels, and now he turns his sights onto literary fiction for the first time. The Water Dancer‘s hero, Hiram Walker, is born a slave but…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The World That We Knew

  Hoffman, Alice

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  Most casual Hoffman fans came to her via 1995’s Practical Magic (the source material for the hit film of the same name) and the recent prequel, The Rules of Magic, but her next title is a major departure in subject and tone. In short, it’s a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Dutch House

  a Novel

  Patchett, Ann

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  The prolific author returns to a familiar — and familial — motif in her 19th novel. Like much of Patchett’s work, the story of The Dutch House covers decades, beginning after World War II (when the Conroy family patriarch purchases the home in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Year of the Monkey

  Smith, Patti

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  Does anything conjure an era more than Just Kids does the early 2010s? You could hardly move a muscle in New York City without knocking into a hipster gripping their well-worn copy of Patti Smith’s memoir, which recounts her relationship with Robert…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Grand Union

  Stories

  Smith, Zadie

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  Zadie Smith fans have been chomping at the proverbial bit for a narrative follow-up to 2016’s Swing Time (EW editors included) and her upcoming short-story collection is as close as we’re going to get — for now. But novel purists need not worry, as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Catch and Kill

  Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

  Farrow, Ronan, 1987-

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  While the title is pretty self-explanatory, we’ll offer more context and say that this is Ronan Farrow’s large exposé bookending his Harvey Weinstein reporting. It’s highly top-secret but is being touted as part spy novel, part investigative…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Find Me

  Aciman, André

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  For everyone who saw 2017’s Call Me By Your Name and wished for nothing more than to spend more time with Elio, Oliver, and the rest of the captivating characters, André Aciman has heeded the call. The sequel opens as Elio’s father travels to Rome…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cantoras

  De Robertis, Carolina

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  The perspectives of five women living through a Uruguayan dictatorship propel this searing novel by The Invisible Mountain author De Robertis. The author sensitively and singularly touches on themes of queerness, community, and perseverance.

• Red at the Bone

  Woodson, Jacqueline

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  Woodson moves seamlessly between children’s and adult literature; indeed, she’s received the most prestigious of prizes for both. She returns to the latter field with this slim but potent book, which explores experiences of sexuality, race, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Make It Scream, Make It Burn

  Essays

  Jamison, Leslie, 1983-

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  Two books, two hit (and EW-endorsed) New York Times best-sellers — Jamison has emerged as a giant in the world of creative nonfiction. She returns with a beautifully compiled collection of previously published essays (including one for which she was…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Topeka School

  Lerner, Ben, 1979-

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  Autofiction master Lerner (10:04) returns with his most expansive novel to date, tracking the lives of a high school debate champion and his two “lefty” psychologist parents in Kansas’ capital city, circa 1996. Narration from the present-day and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Frankissstein

  a Love Story

  Winterson, Jeanette, 1959-

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  Don’t just take our word for it: Months before this radical retelling was scheduled to hit shelves stateside, it nabbed a spot on the Man Booker Prize longlist. And for good reason: Frankissstein ingeniously reimagines the Mary Shelley legend as a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Olive, Again

  Strout, Elizabeth

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  Olive Kitteridge returns! Strout begins this lyrical follow-up where the original (Pulitzer Prize-winning) novel left off — tracing the protagonist’s life through her second marriage and continued relationship with her son, and delving back into her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All This Could Be Yours

  Attenberg, Jami

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  It wouldn’t be a Jami Attenberg novel without a difficult family at its center. The New Orleans-set All This Could Be Yours spins secrets and resentments in its portrait of a strong-willed lawyer who returns home to contend with the legacy of her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nothing to See Here

  Wilson, Kevin, 1978-

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  The reliably idiosyncratic author, best known for The Family Fang, dreams up his most outlandish — and curiously affecting — premise yet in this, erm, fiery family portrait, about a single woman who becomes the caretaker for young twins with a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• In the Dream House

  a Memoir

  Machado, Carmen Maria

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  Machado’s fantastical first book, the genre-bending collection Her Body and Other Parties, scored major plaudits and is being developed into a high-profile series for FX; in her next book, equally galvanizing in form and execution, the author turns…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Revisioners

  a Novel

  Sexton, Margaret Wilkerson

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  Few capture the literary world’s attention with their debut like this author did; her first novel, A Kind of Freedom, was nominated for the National Book Award and earned several other top accolades. Her anticipated follow-up offers a bracing window…Read moreRead more of this annotation