{"id":1989563,"date":"2025-08-31T12:01:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T12:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1989563"},"modified":"2025-08-31T12:01:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T12:01:57","slug":"30-exciting-new-books-to-read-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/30-exciting-new-books-to-read-this-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"30 exciting new books to read this fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F08%2FNY-Post-Fall-Illustration-01-LARGE.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Goodbye, beach reads! From juicy memoirs to enthralling epics, it\u2019s time to turn the page to autumn. Have a look at some of the most anticipated titles set to be released in the coming months. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nonfiction<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"\/>\n<p><em>John Malone (Simon &amp; Schuster)<\/em><br \/>The 84-year-old billionaire and CEO of Liberty Media, who launched a number of early cable networks such as Discovery and QVC, takes readers into the media trenches. He shares stories of industry-defining deals over the decades alongside the likes of Barry Diller and Ted Turner.\u00a0<em>Sept. 2<\/em><\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"\/>\n<p><em>Elizabeth Gilbert (Riverhead Books)<\/em><br \/>The author of the phenomenally popular \u201cEat, Pray, Love\u201d has penned her first memoir in more than a decade. Gilbert, who has twice been married to men, recounts falling in love with her best friend of many years, Rayya, and only admitting it to herself after Rayya was diagnosed with cancer and given months to live. At first, both women reveled in their new relationship and the time they had left, but things took a dark turn as Rayya succumbed to drug addiction and Gilbert was forced to confront her own addiction \u2014 to sex and love. <em>Sept. 9<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"\/>\n<p><em>Seth Wickersham (Hyperion Avenue)<br \/><\/em>This cultural history looks at a host of QBs through the years \u2014 from greats like Johnny Unitas and John Elway to current players like Caleb Williams and Arch Manning \u2014 to understand how the position has become uniquely iconic both on the field and in the American psyche. <em>Sept. 9<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"\/>\n<p><em>Charlie Sheen (Gallery Books)<\/em><br \/>From growing up the son of Martin Sheen and coming up with his Brat Pack pals to being a sitcom mega-star and full-blown addict, Sheen has lived many lives. The 59-year-old dishes on his sordid past in a book set to be published the day before he releases a Netflix documentary, \u201cWinning,\u201d about it all<em>. Sept. 9<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"\/>\n<p><em>Jen Hatmaker (Avid Reader Press\/Simon &amp; Schuster)<br \/><\/em>When Hatmaker found out her husband was cheating on her, they\u2019d been married for 26 years, co-hosted the HGTV show \u201cYour Big Family Renovation\u201d and had five children together. Hatmaker had topped bestseller lists writing about their family life and Christian faith. Suddenly, she had to rewrite her story and reconsider her beliefs. <em>Sept. 23<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"\/>\n<p><em>Lionel Richie (HarperOne)<br \/><\/em>The soul musician and \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d judge opens up about growing up a shy late bloomer in Alabama amidst the height of the civil-rights movement, rising to fame with the Commodores, going solo and becoming a global sensation. <em>Sept. 30<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"\/>\n<p><em>John U. Bacon (Liveright)<br \/><\/em>In November 1975, the 729-foot SS Edmund Fitzgerald freighter sank amidst a massive storm on Lake Superior, taking all 29 crewmen with her. Bestselling author Bacon provides an engaging, thoroughly detailed account of both the tragedy and America\u2019s postwar economic boom with the Great Lakes at its center. <em>Oct. 7 <\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"\/>\n<p><em>Andrew Ross Sorkin (Viking)<br \/><\/em>In his bestseller \u201cToo Big to Fail,\u201d Sorkin dramatically portrayed the 2008 financial crisis. Now, across nearly 600 pages, he thrillingly brings the big crash to life, using newly recovered historical documents to give readers an inside account. <em>Oct. 14<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"\/>\n<p><em>Virginia Roberts Giuffre (Knopf)<br \/><\/em>This memoir from Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s most vocal victim was just announced last week. Giuffre had been at work on it for four years before she took her own life in April. In an email weeks before her death to her collaborator on the book, Amy Wallace, Giuffre wrote that it was her \u201cheartfelt wish that this work be published, regardless of my circumstances at the time. . . . It is imperative that the truth is understood.\u201d<em> Oct. 21<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"\/>\n<p><em>Cameron Crowe (Avid Reader Press\/Simon &amp; Schuster)<br \/><\/em>The movie \u201cAlmost Famous\u201d portrayed Crowe\u2019s formative years as a teen journalist who went on the road with Led Zeppelin (fictionalized in the film) and ended up on the cover of Rolling Stone. With this highly anticipated release, Crowe reveals more about his unconventional adolescence, including embedding with David Bowie as he transformed into the thin white duke, hanging out with the Eagles and getting Joni Mitchell to open up.<em> Oct. 28<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"\/>\n<p><em>Anthony Bourdain, edited by Kimberly Witherspoon (Ecco)<br \/><\/em>The hunger for more Bourdain and his writing remains insatiable. Witherspoon, his agent and friend of many years, has assembled a wealth of new material by the late great, including teenage diary entries, unpublished short stories and chapters from an unfinished novel. <em>Oct. 28 <\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"\/>\n<p><em>Margaret Atwood (Doubleday)<br \/><\/em>The 85-year-old author shares the story of her own life. She grew up in the wilds of northern Quebec, isolated and independent; wrote \u201cThe Handmaid\u2019s Tale\u201d in bohemian Berlin in the 1980s; frolicked with Hollywood stars and famous artists and built a life with fellow novelist Graeme Gibson, her partner of more than four decades, who passed away in 2019. <em>Nov. 4<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"\/>\n<p><em>Anthony Hopkins (Simon &amp; Schuster\/Summit Books)<br \/><\/em>With his memoir, the 87-year-old Oscar winner for \u201cSilence of the Lambs\u201d promises to delve not just into his difficult childhood in Wales but his drinking problem and the toll it took on his marriage and only child. The book will also likely touch on Hopkins\u2019 late-in-life autism diagnosis; in 2017, he announced he has Asperger\u2019s syndrome. <em>Nov. 4<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"\/>\n<p><em>Vanessa Bryant (MCD)<br \/><\/em>The death of Kobe Bryant and daughter Gianna in a 2020 helicopter crash shocked the country. Now, his wife shares personal stories about both and cements the basketball star\u2019s legacy. <em>Nov. 18<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"\/>\n<p><em>Christine Kuehn (Celadon Books)<\/em><br \/>Kuehn was living a quiet suburban existence when she got a life-changing letter from a screenwriter asking about her father. She would come to learn that her aunt Ruth had an affair with Joseph Goebbels. When he discovered she was half Jewish, Goebbels sent Ruth and her parents to be spies in Hawaii, where they would end up helping the Japanese to orchestrate the attack on Pearl Harbor. Kuehn\u2019s father, Eberhard, didn\u2019t know what the rest of his family had been doing until his own father was arrested. <em>Nov. 25<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fiction<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"\/>\n<p><em>Nathan Harris (Little, Brown and Company)<br \/><\/em>At the end of the Civil War, formerly enslaved siblings June and Coleman were separated when their master fled with June to Mexico. After two years of waiting in New Orleans for her to return, Coleman travels south to find his sister \u2014 and the freedom that still eludes them both. <em>Sept. 2<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"\/>\n<p><em>Karin Smirnoff (Knopf)<br \/><\/em>Lisbeth Salander, a k a \u201cThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,\u201d is back in the Millennium series\u2019 eighth installment. Lisbeth leaves her home in Stockholm for Gasskas, a chilly town in the north of Sweden, to look for a hacker friend who\u2019s been kidnapped. All is not well in Gasskas: Locals are battling a huge corporation stripping the area of its natural resources, and a journalist has turned up dead. <em>Sept. 2<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"\/>\n<p><em>Zoe Dubno (Scribner)<br \/><\/em>This sharp debut is narrated by a young woman returning to New York from London for a funeral and unwittingly falling back in with the unbearable downtown art friends she was happy to leave behind. She suffers through a dinner party rife with her old buds, who are just as pretentious and self-absorbed as she remembers. They all await the arrival of a Hollywood starlet, who promises to take the evening further south. <em>Sept. 2<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"\/>\n<p><em>Nino Haratischwili (HarperVia)<\/em><br \/>This story of four women \u2014\u00a0friends since childhood in Tbilisi \u2014 is drawing comparisons to Elena Ferrante. Like the Italian writer\u2019s \u201cNeapolitan Novels,\u201d it spans decades, portraying key moments in the characters\u2019 personal lives against major historical shifts \u2014 here the fall of the Soviet Union and Georgia\u2019s rise as an independent country. <em>Sept. 9<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"\/>\n<p><em>Dan Brown (Doubleday) <br \/><\/em>At nearly 700 pages, the latest from \u201cThe Da Vinci Code\u201d author promises to be huge in myriad ways. Professor Robert Langdon is back and heading to Prague to see his new girlfriend, a scientist about to publish a provocative book about the nature of the human mind, give a lecture. But his plans are thrown into disarray by a horrific murder and his girlfriend\u2019s sudden disappearance. <em>Sept. 9<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"\/>\n<p><em>Elin Hilderbrand and Shelby Cunningham (Little, Brown and Company)<\/em><br \/>Hilderbrand, the author of the bestseller \u201cThe Perfect Couple\u201d and many others, has teamed up with her young daughter, Shelby, a college student and alum of St. George\u2019s prep in Rhode Island, on this novel set at a fictional boarding school. Gossip circulates, a queen bee\/famous influencer buzzes about, a new kid stands out, and faculty conceal secrets. <em>Sept. 16<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"\/>\n<p><em>Ian McEwan (Knopf)<\/em><br \/>This love story from the award-winning author of \u201cAtonement\u201d is set in two time periods. In 2014, at a lively dinner party, a famous writer reads a poem he\u2019s composed for his beloved wife Vivien\u2019s birthday. A copy of the poem is never found, and it\u2019s seemingly lost to time. In 2119, with the world reeling from a nuclear disaster, a British scholar goes on a quest to find the poem \u2014 and discovers much more than he imagined. <em>Sept. 23<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"\/>\n<p><em>Patricia Lockwood (Riverhead Books)<br \/><\/em>Lockwood was a finalist for the Booker Prize in 2021 with \u201cNo One Is Talking About This,\u201d her witty examination of Internet culture and human connection. Her newest centers on a woman trying not to lose her mind in the middle of a worldwide pandemic. <em>Sept. 23<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"\/>\n<p><em>Thomas Pynchon (Penguin Press)<br \/><\/em>At age 88, the famed, reclusive surrealist \u2014 known for \u201cGravity\u2019s Rainbow\u201d and \u201cThe Crying of Lot 49\u201d \u2014 is releasing his first novel in a dozen years. It centers on a private detective during the Great Depression who is hired to find a heiress to a Wisconsin cheese fortune who has run away. The search takes him to Europe, and escapades with spies, Nazis, swing dancers and other over-the-top characters follow. <em>Oct. 7<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"\/>\n<p><em>Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben (Grand Central)<br \/><\/em>What, like it\u2019s hard? The actress-mogul has teamed up with blockbuster-producer Coben to write her first thriller. Army combat surgeon Maggie McCabe loses her medical license after a string of procedures go wrong. A mysterious former colleague helps her land a job at an ultra-high-end plastic-surgery practice, but when one of Maggie\u2019s wealthy patients goes missing, she finds herself in sudden danger. <em>Oct. 14<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"\/>\n<p><em>Harper Lee (Harper)<br \/><\/em>Eight previously unpublished short stories, along with some essays, are featured in this new collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u201cTo Kill a Mockingbird.\u201d The writings were discovered in Lee\u2019s New York City apartment after her death in 2016 and touch on both her native Alabama and life in Gotham. <em>Oct. 21<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"\/>\n<p><em>John Grisham (Doubleday)<br \/><\/em>The legal-thriller maestro shifts to murder mystery with his latest. A Virginia lawyer is just getting by when a wealthy widow hires him to a write a new will. Then she gets into a bad car accident, and he finds himself framed for a murder he didn\u2019t commit. <em>Oct. 21<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"\/>\n<p><em>Catherine Newman (Harper)<\/em><br \/>With 2024\u2019s bestselling \u201cSandwich,\u201d Newman introduced readers to Rocky, a witty, middle-aged woman sandwiched between her growing children and elderly parents while holidaying in Cape Cod. \u201cWreck\u201d continues Rocky\u2019s story. It\u2019s two years later, everyone is home in western Massachusetts, family dynamics remain complex, and Rocky faces a potential health crisis of her own. <em>Oct. 28<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"\/>\n<p><em>Salman Rushdie (Random House)<br \/><\/em>The distinguished writer\u2019s first work of fiction since the 2022 stabbing that left him blind in one eye \u2014 and last year\u2019s excellent book, \u201cKnife,\u201d about the brutal attack \u2014 is a collection of five short works. They span three countries \u2014 India, England and America \u2014 but all have in common elements of life and death. <em>Nov. 4<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Nash Falls<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"\/>\n<p><em>David Baldacci\u00a0(Grand Central)<br \/><\/em>This release originates a new Baldacci character and potentially kicks off a series. Walter Nash is a high-powered businessman happily enjoying his wealth and beautiful family. Then, the FBI approaches him in the middle of the night: The feds need him to help find the insider laundering massive amounts of money at the investment bank where he works. <em>Nov. 11<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goodbye, beach reads! From juicy memoirs to enthralling epics, it\u2019s time to turn the page to autumn. Have a look at some of the most anticipated titles set to be released in the coming months. 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