Fall 2024 Grownup Preview: Literary Fiction

High 10

The Metropolis and Its Unsure Partitions

Haruki Murakami, trans. by Philip Gabriel. Knopf, Nov. 19 ($35, ISBN 978-0-593-80197-0)

Murakami revisits the setting of 1985’s Onerous-Boiled Wonderland and the Finish of the World, the place shadows turn into disconnected from an individual’s physique and a Dream Reader opinions individuals’s goals.

Creation Lake

Rachel Kushner. Scribner, Sept. 3 ($29.99, ISBN 978-1-9821-1652-1)

What occurs when a spy is seduced by her quarry? Kushner explores this query in her story of an American agent who worms her method right into a French anarchist commune.

Entitlement

Rumaan Alam. Riverhead, Sept. 17 ($30, ISBN 978-0-593-71846-9)

A younger girl hopes to make a distinction on the planet by working for a billionaire philanthropist within the newest novel of sophistication variations from Alam.

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László Krasznahorkai, trans. by Ottilie Mulzet. New Instructions, Sept. 3 ($18.95 commerce paper, ISBN 978-0-8112-3153-4)

A German man research physics and carries on imaginary conversations with Angela Merkel whereas he’s not busy together with his job cleansing up anti-Bach graffiti for a Bach-loving neo-Nazi.

Lazarus Man

Richard Worth. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Nov. 12 ($29, ISBN 978-0-374-16815-5)

Gentrification, the housing disaster, and concrete blight determine into the most recent from Worth, a few tenement collapse in 2008 Harlem and the individuals affected by it.

The Mighty Purple

Louise Erdrich. Harper, Oct. 1 ($32, ISBN 978-0-06-327705-2)

Erdrich appears to be like again on the financial crash of 2008 on this story of a North Dakota sugar beet farm, the younger man set to inherit it, and the worker’s daughter he’s in love with.

Our Evenings

Alan Hollinghurst. Random Home, Oct. 8 ($30, ISBN 978-0-593-24306-0)

Hollinghurst once more follows his characters throughout many years, this time starting with two boys’ boarding college days and tracing their divergent lives in theater and politics.

Playground

Richard Powers. Norton, Sept. 24 ($29.99, ISBN 978-1-324-08603-1)

Powers’s recurring curiosity in AI, the pure world, and the work of scientists drive his newest, which facilities on the launch of latest floating cities within the Pacific Ocean.

Rejection

Tony Tulathimutte. Morrow, Sept. 17 ($28, ISBN 978-0-06-333787-9)

In Tulathimutte’s linked assortment, characters take care of varied types of rejection and cope with how the web has warped their sense of actuality.

We Do Not Half

Han Kang, trans. by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris. Hogarth, Jan. 21
($28, ISBN 978-0-593-59545-9)

A girl travels from Seoul to a distant island to look after her buddy’s pet chicken. As a snowstorm units in, she discovers troubling information about her buddy’s household.

Literary Fiction longlist

Algonquin

The Wildes: A Novel in 5 Acts by Louis Bayard (Sept. 17, $29, ISBN 978-1-64375-530-4) portrays how Oscar Wilde’s imprisonment for having an affair with a person threw the lives of his spouse and sons into tumult.

Amistad

The Lifetime of Herod the Nice by Zora Neale Hurston (Jan. 7, $28.99, ISBN 978-0-06-316100-9). The most recent rediscovered work from Hurston, written within the Nineteen Fifties however by no means revealed, complicates the New Testomony’s demonizing portrait of the Judean king accused of trying to kill Christ.

Archipelago

Sister Deborah by Scholastique Mukasonga, trans. by Mark Polizzotti (Oct. 8, $19 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-953861-94-8). Years after a Rwandan girl was healed from an sickness by an American missionary, she begins to query the missionary’s mysterious prophesies.

Avid Reader

Subsequent Cease by Benjamin Resnick (Sept. 10, $28, ISBN 978-1-6680-6663-8). Resnick debuts with a fantastical allegory of displacement and paranoia a few black gap that swallows the state of Israel, prompting a wave of antisemitic scapegoating.

Beacon

The Unicorn Girl by Gayl Jones (Aug. 20, $26.95, ISBN 978-0-8070-3003-5) depicts disenchantment with the Jim Crow South by means of the story of a Black WWII veteran who travels from Kentucky to Tennessee looking for which means.

Berkley

Masks of the Deer Girl by Laurie L. Dove (Jan. 21, $29, ISBN 978-0-593-81610-3). A Chicago detective takes a lacking individual case on the reservation the place her father was raised and is haunted by a legendary determine from her father’s tales.

Bloomsbury

Time of the Youngster by Niall Williams (Nov. 19, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-63973-420-7) revisits the Irish village depicted in This Is Happiness for a Christmas story about a health care provider and his grown daughter who’re left with a child to care for.

Catapult

The Repeat Room by Jesse Ball (Sept. 24, $27, ISBN 978-1-64622-140-0) is a speculative novel a few felony
justice system through which one juror is chosen to move judgment on the accused after tapping into the accused’s consciousness by means of a sophisticated expertise.

Celadon

What Occurred to the McCrays? by Tracey Lange (Jan. 14, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-250-32843-4). The creator of We Are the Brennans once more chronicles a wayward Irish American member of the family’s uneasy homecoming, this time with the story of a damaged marriage and a person provided a second probability as a center college hockey coach.

Espresso Home

Lesser Ruins by Mark Haber (Oct. 8, $18 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-56689-719-8) depicts a retired literature professor’s obsessive and distraction-prone effort to complete a e book in regards to the thinker Montaigne.

Del Rey

The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Aug. 6, $28.99, ISBN 978-0-593-60026-9) considerations a rivalry between two girls costarring in a Nineteen Fifties Hollywood epic and features a parallel narrative based mostly on the film’s supply materials, the biblical story of Salome and the dance of the seven veils.

Dial

Like Mom, Like Mom by Susan Rieger (Oct. 29, $29, ISBN 978-0-525-51249-3) tells the tales of Lila Pereira, whose mom was dedicated to an asylum when Lila was two and by no means seen once more, and of Lila’s daughter’s want to know the reality about her grandmother.

Doubleday

Canines and Monsters: Tales by Mark Haddon (Oct. 15, $28, ISBN 978-0-385-55086-4). The creator of The Curious Incident of the Canine within the Night time-Time blends retellings of Greek myths with up to date tales of cruelty and hubris in his newest assortment.

Dutton

And So I Roar by Abi Daré (Aug. 6, $28, ISBN 978-0-593-18655-8). A Nigerian girl involves phrases along with her household’s secrets and techniques whereas attempting to assist a teen runaway and different troubled women in Lagos.

Ecco

A Motive to See You Once more by Jami Attenberg (Sept. 24, $28, ISBN 978-0-06-303984-1) unfolds throughout many years as two 20-something sisters and their mom search to reinvent themselves in numerous components of the U.S. following the sudden dying of the household patriarch.

Europa

Fathers and Fugitives by S.J. Naudé, trans. by Michiel Heyns (Sept. 10, $27, ISBN 979-8-88966-039-2). Questions of filial piety and inheritance come into play in Naudé’s story of a London journalist who returns to South Africa to look after his ailing father.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney (Sept. 24, $29, ISBN 978-0-374-60263-5) follows two brothers—a suave lawyer and a clumsy aggressive chess participant—as their lives are altered by information of their father’s dying.

Flatiron

Personal Rites by Julia Armfield
(Dec. 3, $27.99, ISBN 978-1-250-34431-1). This up to date riff on King Lear revolves across the reunion of a late architect’s three estranged daughters.

Gallery

The Champagne Letters by Kate Macintosh (Dec. 10, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-6680-6188-6) encompasses a not too long ago divorced Chicago girl intrigued by the lifetime of a Nineteenth-century champagne maker.

Graydon Home

The Guide Swap by Tessa Bickers (Sept. 3, $27.99, ISBN 978-1-5258-3670-1) follows two lonely hearts who correspond by way of notes within the margins of their favourite books, which they depart for one another in a Little Free Library field.

Grove

Elaine by Will Self (Sept. 17, $27, ISBN 978-0-8021-6353-0) attracts on many years of diary entries written by the creator’s mom for a novel about her tumultuous marriage and affair within the Nineteen Fifties and fears of repercussions for her earlier membership within the Communist Get together.

Harper By way of

Ladies’s Resort by Daniel M. Lavery (Oct. 15, $28.99, ISBN 978-0-06-334353-5). Recommendation columnist Lavery’s first novel depicts the employees and residents of a girls’s lodge in Nineteen Sixties New York Metropolis.

Hogarth

A Sunny Place for Shady Folks: Tales by Mariana Enriquez, trans. by Megan McDowell (Sept. 17, $28, ISBN 978-0-593-73325-7). Enriquez’s assortment of horror tales illuminates the darkish aspect of latest Buenos Aires.

Holt

The Guide of George by Kate Greathead (Oct. 8, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-250-35102-9) satirizes millennial masculinity with the story of a person­ who’s unable to observe by means of on his potential, can’t decide to his girlfriend, and is aware of full nicely simply how massive of a disappointment he’s.

Kensington

Turistas by Lauren E. Rico (Dec. 24, $17.95 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-4967-4466-1). A Puerto Rican girl tries to trace down her long-lost first husband after studying he’s nonetheless alive.

Knopf

There Are Rivers within the Sky by Elif Shafak (Aug. 20, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-80171-0) interweaves the tales of a Yazidi lady in 2014 Iraq, a hydrologist in 2018 London, and an autodidact in Nineteenth-century London who turns into obsessive about the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Little, Brown

Madwoman by Chelsea Bieker (Sept. 3, $29, ISBN 978-0-316-57329-0). A younger mom who escaped her poverty-stricken upbringing in Waikiki offers consolation and stability to her two youngsters in Portland, Ore., till secrets and techniques about her previous disrupt her new life.

Liveright

Villa E by Jane Alison (Aug. 6, $23.99, ISBN 978-1-324-09505-7) takes inspiration from the famed modernist home constructed by furnishings designer Eileen Grey in southern France, whose partitions have been defaced by the architect Le Corbusier after he got here to consider Grey ripped off his model.

Mariner

Shy Creatures by Clare Chambers (Nov. 12, $30, ISBN 978-0-06-325822-8). An artwork therapist in Nineteen Sixties London grows keen on a brand new affected person at her psychiatric hospital, a 30-something artist who’s been a disappointment to his rich household.

Melville Home

The Italy Letters by Vi Khi Nao (Aug. 13, $18.99 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-68589-130-5) is an experimental love story within the type of lyrical and digressive letters from the Las Vegas–based mostly narrator to her lover in Italy.

New York Evaluate Books

The Uncollected Tales of Mavis Gallant by Mavis Gallant, edited by Garth Danger Hallberg (Nov. 12, $22.95 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-68137-874-9), brings collectively greater than 30 tales by the post-WWII Canadian grasp, together with “The Accident” (1967), about People overseas who face dying and reinvent themselves.

Overlook

The Heartbeat Library by Laura Imai Messina (Oct. 22, $27, ISBN 978-1-4197-7249-8). A middle-aged man and an eight-year-old boy forge a connection on the Japanese island of Teshima, the place they’re each drawn to a library of recordings of human heartbeats.

Pantheon

Blood Check: A Comedy by Charles Baxter (Oct. 22, $28, ISBN 978-0-593-70085-3) follows a Sunday college trainer by means of darkish days after he checks constructive on a take a look at meant to point whether or not one is able to homicide.

Park Row

The Stone Witch of Florence by Anna Rasche (Oct. 8, $28.99, ISBN 978-0-7783-1045-7) gives a twist on the current spate of witch novels with the story of a lady accused of witchcraft in 14th-century Italy who’s tapped by authorities to heal individuals with the Black Loss of life.

Penguin Press

The Third Realm by Karl Ove Knausgaard (Oct. 1, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-65521-4) marks the third entry in Knausgaard’s cycle of novels a few vivid new star within the sky and the individuals affected by it.

Random Home

Peggy by Rebecca Godfrey (Aug. 13, $29, ISBN 978-0-385-53828-2). Godfrey’s novel, which was accomplished by essayist Leslie Jamison after Godfrey’s dying in 2022, portrays the difficult and noteworthy lifetime of artwork collector Peggy Guggenheim.

Inform Me Every thing by Elizabeth Strout (Sept. 10, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-44609-6) brings collectively characters from Strout’s earlier novels set in Crosby, Maine—together with Lucy Barton, lawyer Bob Burgess, and the irascible Olive Kitteridge—for a narrative of a suspicious dying and second probabilities.

Riverhead

Coloured Tv by Danzy Senna (Sept. 3, $29, ISBN 978-0-593-54437-2). Novelists and Hollywood have lengthy made unusual bedfellows, a dynamic that Senna mines for comedy in her satire a few biracial girl who companions with a TV producer looking out for “numerous content material.”

The Empusium: A Well being Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk (Sept. 24, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-71294-8) echoes Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain and is about in a Polish sanitarium in 1913, the place a younger man is overcome by a way of foreboding.

Scribner

Slaveroad by John Edgar Wideman (Oct. 8, $26.99, ISBN 978-1-6680-5721-6). The most recent linked assortment from Wideman reckons with the “slaveroad” operating by means of U.S. historical past from the Atlantic slave commerce, to American Christian missionaries in Africa, and right now’s felony justice system.

Seven Tales

Camp Jeff by Tova Reich (Oct. 29, $26.95, ISBN 978-1-64421-421-3). In Reich’s satire, a person named Jeffrey Epstein (not that one) sponsors a Catskills reeducation camp for celebrities going through allegations of sexual assault and harassment.

Simon & Schuster

Each Arc Bends Its Radian by Sergio de la Pava (Nov. 12, $27.99, ISBN 978-1-6680-5670-7) recounts the story of a New York Metropolis personal investigator who takes a lacking individual case in Colombia.

S&S/Rucci

Hum by Helen Phillips (Aug. 6, $27.99, ISBN 978-1-6680-0883-6). Phillips’s speculative novel facilities on a determined mom who, after dropping her job to AI, takes half in a analysis program through which her face is altered to be unrecognizable by surveillance expertise.

Soho Press

Darkmotherland by Samrat Upadhyay (Jan. 7, $32, ISBN 978-1-64129-472-0) takes place in a dystopian model of the Whiting Award winner’s native Nepal and follows two girls who’re certain to highly effective males.

Sourcebooks Landmark

Libby Misplaced and Discovered by Stephanie Sales space (Oct. 15, $27.99, ISBN 978-1-7282-7850-6). After being identified with Alzheimer’s, a bestselling fantasy creator receives assist along with her work from an 11-year-old fan.

Spiegel & Grau

The Method by Cary Groner (Dec. 3, $28, ISBN 978-1-954118-42-3). In Groner’s postapocalyptic highway novel, a person travels to California to ship a possible treatment to the deadly pandemic that’s ravaged the world.

St. Martin’s

The Shutouts by Gabrielle Korn (Dec. 3, $29, ISBN 978-1-250-32348-4) unfolds throughout twin timelines. In 2041, a lady desperately tries to reunite along with her daughter as wildfires burn uncontrolled throughout America. Forty years later, one other mom and her daughter flee a dehumanizing local weather reduction program for components unknown.

Tin Home

The World with Its Mouth Open by Zahid Rafiq (Dec. 3, $17.95 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-959030-85-0) includes gritty and surreal tales set in war-scarred Kashmir.

Two Greenback Radio

Us Fools by Nora Lange (Sept. 17, $18.95 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-953387-51-6). This debut novel explores the ravages of the Eighties farm disaster by means of the story of a household of farmers displaced from rural Illinois to Chicago.

Verso Fiction

If Solely by Vigdis Hjorth, trans. by Charlotte Barslund (Sept. 3, $19.95 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-83976-888-0), examines the attract of illicit ardour with the story of a author and a professor who depart their spouses for one another solely to search out distress.

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