Each week, The Post compiles the hottest new books. Take a look at our favorite titles from the past few weeks.
This week’s best new books
Jeff VanderMeer (MCD)
Released a decade ago, the Southern Reach trilogy became a cult classic, selling millions of copies and earning Stephen King’s seal of approval. Now, VanderMeer takes readers back to the mysterious wasteland of Area X, where an unknown event has rewritten the laws of nature.
Lee Child and Andrew Child (Delacorte Press)
The latest Jack Reacher thriller finds the ex-military investigator waking up handcuffed to a bed after a car accident. His unwitting captors have plans to make him talk.
Alex Van Halen (Harper)
The rocker worked with New Yorker writer Ariel Levy to write this memoir and tribute to his late brother and bandmate Edward. It recounts their childhood in the Netherlands and Southern California, their formal Indonesian-born mother, and Van Halen’s rise to fame.
Diana R. Chambers (Landmark Sourcebooks)
This work of historical fiction portrays the little-known life of the famous chef before she taught Americans how to make beef bourguignon. Child worked for the Office of Strategic Services, America’s first spy agency, during World War II.
Shirley MacLaine (The Crown)
Featuring over 150 photos from MacLaine’s personal archive, this is a vivid account of the life of the 90-year-old Oscar winner. She writes about growing up with her brother Warren Beatty, moving to New York City at 16, her acting career, and her work as an activist. Along the way, she recalls meeting everyone from Elvis Presley and Jack Nicholson to the Dalai Lama and Fidel Castro.
New York Nice (Dey Street Books)
The social media personality shares his top 100 spots — from hobby shops to cut joints — across the five boroughs.
The best new book releases from the past week
John Grisham and Jim McCloskey (Doubleday)
For his first nonfiction book in nearly two decades, the bestselling author teams up with the founder of Centurion Ministries, a 40-year-old organization that works to exonerate the innocent convicted of crimes they didn’t commit. The book highlights 10 wildly wrong convictions and cases within the American legal system.
Michael Connelly (Little, Brown and Company)
In the sixth book in the series, LAPD detective Renée Ballard reopens a 20-year-old cold case when a DNA link is found between the rapist/serial killer who was never caught and a recently arrested 24-year-old man.
Patricia Cornwell (Grand Central Publishing)
In the 28th book featuring medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, the good doctor is called to a strange murder scene in an abandoned park, only to discover that the victim is a man he once knew and loved. As she investigates, Scarpetta suspects that her old friend left her a clue on purpose.
Stanley Tucci (Gallery Books)
The actor and TV presenter reflects on 12 months of eating and living, eating about what he ate in restaurants, at home and at work.
Susan Minot (Knopf)
A 52-year-old divorced mother begins a passionate affair with a handsome, intense musician 20 years her junior, the latter from the well-known author of “Evening”. It’s drawing comparisons to Miranda July’s “Fourth.”
Mark Haddon (Doubleday)
Modern situations—genetic engineering, teenage bullying—are seen through the prism of Greek mythology in this new collection of short stories from the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
The best new book releases from week of October 6
Michel Houellebecq (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
The latest from the famous French writer takes place in a chaotic and turbulent France in 2027. Paul Raison, an adviser to the country’s finance minister, navigates both personal and professional turbulence. After his father has a stroke, Raison leaves Paris and returns to his hometown in the country, where he and his siblings try to heal their relationship with their ailing patriarch.
Michael Silver (WW Norton & Company)
Veteran sportswriter Silver looks at how Kyle Shanahan shocked the football world when, in 2008, he became the NFL’s newest offensive coordinator and developed a bold new approach to coaching.
Dava Sobel (Atlantic Monthly Press)
Sobel was a Pulitzer finalist with Galileo’s Daughter. Here she gets close to Curie, seeing not only her famous scientific achievements, but also how she paved the way for women in science by training young women in her laboratory.
Edited by Zibby Owens (Zibby Books)
Seventy-five writers, including The Post’s Daphne Merkin, Annabelle Gurwitch and David Christopher Kaufman share thoughts on Jewish faith and culture — and how both have been tested and reimagined in the year since Hamas attacked Israel.
Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough (Random House)
The late Lisa Marie teamed up with her daughter to write the stories of her extraordinary life. Presley recalls her youth at Graceland, the horror of finding Elvis’ dead body, her marriage to Michael Jackson and much, much more.
Oliver Burkeman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Burkeman’s “Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals” was a bestseller thanks to its simple, smart and practical advice. Here he applies the same approach to self-reflection, offering 28 short chapters to reflect on.
The best new book releases from week of September 29
Louise Erdrich (Harper)
The latest from Erdrich, who won a Pulitzer Prize for “The Night Watchman,” is set in the midst of the 2008-2009 recession and touches on climate change, fracking and toxic pesticides. In a small town in North Dakota, two men are both in love with a goth girl named Kismet Poe. Her mother has strange visions and worries about the future.
Karl Ove Knausgaard (Penguin Press)
The great Scandinavian author returns to the world of “Morning Star” and “Wolves of Eternity”. Various Norwegians struggle with the appearance of an ominous star. People start behaving strangely, but, stranger still, no one seems to be dying.
Betsy Lerner (Grove Press)
This acclaimed debut follows two sisters over twenty years as they weave in and out of each other’s lives. The eldest, Olivia, is beautiful but troubled, impulsive and mentally ill. Younger sister Amy is serious and hardworking, struggling to keep it together amid her sister’s chaos.
Ina Garten (The Crown)
The beloved cookbook author delves into her trip to the Hamptons, including her horrific childhood and the time she and Jeffrey, gasp, broke up.
David M. Rubenstein (Simon & Schuster)
Rubenstein, a businessman and host of his own PBS show, sat down with presidents and living historians for this comprehensive look at the high office.
Alan Moore (Bloomsbury)
This is the first book in a new fantasy series from the author of the wildly popular graphic novels Watchmen and V for Vendetta. In 1949, an 18-year-old student discovers a book from “The Great When” – a magical version of London where there is no clear line between fiction.
The best new book releases from week of September 22
Sally Rooney (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
The fourth novel from the literary “it” girl is being hailed as her best yet. Two very different brothers grieve the death of their father. Peter is a successful, thirty-something lawyer from Dublin, juggling two different women. Ivan is a chess-playing loner in his early twenties who becomes involved with an older lady.
Richard Powers (WW Norton & Company)
Powers, who won a Pulitzer Prize for 2018’s The Overstory, is back with an ambitious book that explores the ocean, the future of AI, climate change and more. Four lives come together on a small Polynesian island amid plans to colonize the sea with massive floating cities.
Emily Witt (Pantheon)
In this raucous memoir, a New Yorker writer tells of coming off antidepressants and falling into Brooklyn’s underground club scene in the pre-pandemic years.
Nicholas Sparks (Random House)
In the latest from the master of romance, an Army Ranger tries to find the father he never knew after his beloved grandmother dies. But first he meets a complicated single mother, to whom he is immediately attracted.
Sharon McMahon (aunt)
McMahon — a high school law and government teacher who has a wildly popular Instagram account, @SharonSaysSo — looks at a dozen influential but little-known figures in our nation’s history. Among them are Gouverneur Morris, a friend of Alexander Hamilton who wrote the preamble to the Constitution, and Clara Brown, a former slave who boarded a wagon train to Colorado, where she amassed a small fortune and helped other free slaves move to the west.
Leanne Morgan (Converging Books)
The Tennessee comedian is having a breakout moment — in her late 50s. Her Netflix special was one of the platform’s most-streamed comedies of 2023. With her new book, she continues to find humor in being a woman in late middle age, navigating diet trends, menopause, rock concerts and much more.
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