Wednesday, September 06, 2006
More Fall Books
Books that are recommended or predicted to be popular this fall:- Added 9/6: San Francisco Chronicle preview of Fall 2006 books.
- Kirkus Reviews' Fall and Winter 2006 Preview, a 16-page PDF file profiling 30 "highly anticipated" books.
- David Mehegan and Boston Globe staff: Cool reads for cooler nights, which includes Isabel Allende's South American colonial history Inés of My Soul; Paint It Black, Janet Fitch's follow-up to Oprah book White Oleander; Alice McDermott's After This; short story collections by Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, Edward P. Jones, and Dennis Lehane; nonfiction by Harry G. Frankfurt (On Truth), Mark Halperin and John F. Harris (The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008), John Yoo (War by Other Means); and biographies of Andrew Carnegie, William James, Mae West, Walt Disney, and Thomas Eakins.
- Marie Arana at the Washington Post suggests books by fiction (mysteries and thrillers, world fiction, etc.) and nonfiction (views of America, memoirs and biography, etc.) categories, including children's books.
- New York Magazine's Fall 2006 Books Preview highlights The Dissident by Nell Freudenberger; The Illustrated 9/11 Report, The Uses of Enchantment by Heidi Julavits; Thomas Pynchon's novel Against the Day, and books by Jonathan Franzen, Ward Just, Mark Haddon, Margaret Atwood, Marisa Acocella Marchetto, Michael Patrick MacDonald, Dave Eggers, Charles Frazier, Adam Gopnik, John Grisham (non-fiction), Kate Atkinson, Gore Vidal, and Will Self, among others. Lists publication dates.
- Fall business books for CEOs, recommended by 800-CEO-READ. Includes the interesting sounding The Starfish and The Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations by Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom: "What do Alcoholics Anonymous, Napster, and al Queda all have in common? No one runs them."
