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Autumn books are a wide mix of literary and commercial favorites

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NEW YORK (AP) — Anticipation for one of fall’s hottest bestsellers continues to rise all year long.

For months, millions of Colleen Hoover fans on TikTok, Instagram, and elsewhere have been talking and posting early excerpts from her novel It Starts With Us. By summer, the sequel to the author’s best-selling It Ends With Us had already reached her top ten on Amazon.com. It could have gone higher, but due to competition from other Hoover novels such as “Ugly Love,” “Truth,” and of course, “It Ends With Us,” love triangles and young women’s domestic It’s a dramatic tale of perseverance through abuse. TikTok users helped make Hoover one of the country’s most popular fiction authors.

Hoover’s extraordinary streak on bestseller lists from Amazon.com to The New York Times will be Beatles-esque for much of 2022, with four or more books likely to hit the top 10 at any given moment “It Starts With Us” was so coveted by her admirers (some call themselves CoHorts) that she broke a personal rule.

“I never allowed myself to entertain myself with sequels, but because so many people emailed me every day and tagged me in online petitions to write about[those characters].” , their story began to build in my head like any other book. I want to tell this story as much as I did, so a big thank you to all my readers.”

Hoover’s new book should help extend a solid year for the industry. We’re looking forward to what Barnes & Noble CEO James Dant calls a “really strong” line-up of literary works, including a novel by Kate Atkinson.

This fall will also feature new fiction by Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk and Pulitzer Prize winners Elizabeth Strout and Andrew Sean Greer. Celeste Ng’s ‘Our Missing Hearts’ is her first novel since ‘Little Fires Everywhere’. Stories Her collection will feature novels by George Sanders, Andrea Barrett, and Limmer, as well as Percival Everett, Barbara Kingsolver, Kevin Wilson, NK Gemisin, Lydia Millett, and Yi Yun Lee.

Cormac McCarthy, 89, presents new fiction for the first time in over a decade with “Passengers” and its companion “Stella Maris.” His John Irving, who turned 80 this year, called the 900-page “The Last Chairlift” his last “full-length novel,” a description that has been true for much of his career.

Russell Banks (82) completed the elegiac novel “Magic Kingdom,” and former American Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky (81) wrote his autobiography, “Jersey Breaks,” in which he described “tribalism.” and what he called “nationalism”. We take a look back at the present moment by looking back at his childhood in Long Branch, New Jersey.

“I realized that I wasn’t a great sociologist or a political sage, but I realized that I could deal with this by going back to growing up in a segregated, biracial, low-middle-class town. I thought,” Pinsky says. “I felt that any answer was there.”

Joe Concha’s Come On, Man!: The Truth About Joe Biden’s Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Presidency has the most colorful name of the latest book to attack a sitting president. increase. But the most high-profile pieces of political reporting have been about Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump, including “The Confidence Man” and “Divisor” by Maggie Haberman of The New York Times. : Trump in the White House, 2017–2021.” By Peter Baker of The Times and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker.

Michelle Obama’s “The Light We Carry” is a completely new book since 2018’s global bestseller “Becoming.” Benjamin Netanyahu’s “Bibi” is the first memoir by a former Israeli prime minister, and American politicians with new books include Rep. Kori Bush of Missouri, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, Texas Governor candidate Beto O’Rourke is included.

Numerous posthumous releases are slated for this fall, from the letters of John Le Carré and the diaries of Alan Rickman to the fiction of Leonard Cohen and the memoirs of Michael K. Williams and Paul Newman. . The actor abandoned a few years before his death in 2008.

“Victory Is Assured” is a collection of essays by the late critic and novelist Stanley Crouch, and “Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story” explores the influence of the late last year. A certain Greg Tate is included. Black Folk Could Fly brings together the diverse work of award-winning fiction writer Randall Kennan, who passed away in 2020. His friend Tayari Jones, author of the acclaimed novel American Marriage, wrote the foreword.

“Sometimes, while reading the pages of the manuscript, I would talk to him and ask him why he didn’t say this or that,” Jones told the AP. “Sometimes I’d laugh out loud and say, ‘Randall, you’re so crazy!’ And his magnificence highlighted the breadth and depth of our loss, and I sat at the kitchen table and cried.”

Celebrity books include Bono’s “Surrender,” Matthew Perry’s “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing,” and Geena Davis’ “Dying of Politeness.” Bob Dylan looks back on the art form he helped reinvent in “The Philosophy of Modern Song,” and the title of Jan Wenner’s memoir comes from the magazine he founded, Like a Rolling Stone. It reminds me of Dylan’s masterpiece, which was the source of the name of “.

Memoirs by Steve Martin, Linda Ronstadt, Constance Wu and Brian Johnson are also planned. Patti Smith’s ‘A Book of Days’ is based on words and images from her widely followed Instagram account. This account could potentially post anything from Leonardo da Vinci’s statue of her to a cat staring at the cover of Dostoevsky’s “The Idiot.”

I love doing Instagram. It’s the only social media I’m really involved with,” says Smith. “The book was actually pretty daunting. Writing short captions takes time. You have to find a way to say a lot in a few sentences.”

One of the notable releases in poetry is the work of narrative prose. Nobel laureate Louise Gluck’s “Marigolds and Roses” is a short exploration into the minds of young twins, inspired by the author’s grandson. This is her 79-year-old Gluck’s first published fiction, and to date she has published more than ten books of poetry and two of her essays.

New poetry includes works by Pulitzer Prize winners Jolie Graham and Sharon Olds, Saeed Jones, Jenny Shih, former American Poet Laureate Billy Collins and Joy Harjo, Linda Pastan and Chinese poet Wang Ying. It is included. is his first work to appear in English.

History books cover the famous and the overlooked. Among the former are Pulitzer Prize-winning John Meacham’s “And There Was Light,” the latest entry in the Abraham Lincoln Scholarship canon, and Pulitzer Prize-winning Stacey Schiff’s Samuel Adams. There is a biography “Revolutionary”. Fred Kaplan, who focused on Lincoln’s prose in “Lincoln: A Writer’s Biography,” is now evaluating Thomas Jefferson in “His Fine Pen: A Writer’s Biography.”

Releases featuring lesser-known figures like Kevin Hazard’s “American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Becamed America’s First Paramedics” and Katie Hickman’s “Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West.” I have. Laura Kaplan’s “The Story of Jane” is a timed version of her 1995 book about an underground abortion counseling service founded in Chicago in 1969 following the overthrow of the Roe v. Wade case last summer. Lee’s reissue, and her four years before the Supreme Court’s historic Roe ruling.

Bruce Henderson’s Bridge to the Sun focuses on the recruitment of Japanese Americans who had been in internment camps to help gather intelligence for the United States during World War II.

“Many of them were working on top-secret projects, so it was really difficult to investigate. ,” Henderson says. “We had to do a lot of research, contact families, and see what the veterans left behind. Of the six men I follow in the book, who lived?” was only one.”

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