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Jonathan Franzen’s ‘Crossroads,’ the Diaries of Patricia Highsmith, Joy Harjo’s Memoir ‘Poet Warrior,’ and 55 Other Exceptional Titles | Starred Reviews, September 2021
Essential titles reviewed in our September 2021 print issue, spanning mystery and suspense, SF/fantasy, arts and humanities, social sciences, reference, audiobooks, and more.
AUDIO
Butler, Marcia. Oslo, Maine. Highbridge Audio.
Ellis, Helen. Bring Your Baggage and Don’t Pack Light. Books on Tape.
Moore, Kate. The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried To Make Her Disappear. Blackstone.
Williams, Tia. Seven Days in June. Hachette Audio.
MYSTERY & SUSPENSE
Eldridge, Tori. The Ninja Betrayed. Agora: Polis.
McIlvanney, William & Ian Rankin. The Dark Remains. World Noir.
Mizushima, Margaret. Striking Range. Crooked Lane.
SF/FANTASY
Hackwith, A. J. The God of Lost Words. Ace: Berkley.
Marske, Freya. A Marvellous Light. Tor.com.
ROMANCE
Dunmore, Evie. Portrait of a Scotsman. Berkley.
Williams, Denise. The Fastest Way To Fall. Berkley.
FICTION
Abbs, Annabel. Miss Eliza’s English Kitchen: A Novel of Victorian Cookery and Friendship. Morrow.
Alameddine, Rabih. The Wrong End of the Telescope. Grove.
Franzen, Jonathan. Crossroads. Farrar.
Harding, Lisa. Bright Burning Things. HarperVia.
Huisman, Violaine. The Book of Mother. Scribner.
Jestin, Victor. Heatwave. Scribner.
King, Lily. Five Tuesdays in Winter. Grove.
Loudin Thomas, Sarah. The Finder of Forgotten Things. Bethany House.
Mabkhout, Shukri. The Italian. Europa.
Pellegrino, Amanda. Smile and Look Pretty. Park Row: Harlequin.
Powers, Richard. Bewilderment. Norton.
Powner, Katie. A Flicker of Light. Bethany House.
Rooney, Sally. Beautiful World, Where Are You. Farrar.
ARTS & HUMANITIES
Bailey, Jennifer. To My Beloveds: Letters on Faith, Race, and Radical Hope. Chalice.
Harrison, Jim. Jim Harrison: Complete Poems. Copper Canyon.
Herbert, W. J. Dear Specimen: Poems. Beacon.
Miller, Kei. Things I Have Withheld. Grove.
Mohabir, Rajiv. Cutlish. Four Way.
Questlove. Music Is History. Abrams.
Robinson, Phoebe. Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays. Tiny Reparations.
Sanneh, Kelefa. Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres. Penguin Pr.
Seal, Mark. Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli: The Epic Story of the Making of The Godfather. Gallery.
Starr, Larry. Listening to Bob Dylan. Univ. of Illinois.
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Boykin, Keith. Race Against Time. Bold Type.
Boyle, Kevin. The Shattering: America in the 1960s. Norton.
Busby, Jill Louise. Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity. Bloomsbury.
Ellis, Joseph J. The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773–1783. Liveright.
Fagan, Brian & Nadia Durrani. Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors. PublicAffairs.
Frankel, Rebecca. Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love. St. Martin’s.
Gross, Robert A. The Transcendentalists and Their World. Farrar.
Guelzo, Allen C. Robert E. Lee: A Life. Knopf.
Harjo, Joy. Poet Warrior. Norton.
Indyk, Martin. Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy. Knopf.
Larson, Kate Clifford. Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer. Oxford Univ.
Marçal, Katrine. Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men. Abrams.
Peterson, Jillian & James Densley. The Violence Project: How To Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic. Abrams.
Tuerkheimer, Deborah. Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers. Harper Wave.
SELF-HELP
Gerson, Merissa Nathan. Forget Prayers, Bring Cake: A Single Woman’s Guide to Grieving. Mandala.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Bragg, Rick. The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People. Knopf.
Hanson, Thor. Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change. Basic.
Markel, Howard. The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA’s Double Helix. Norton.
Quave, Cassandra Leah. The Plant Hunter: A Scientist’s Quest for Nature’s Next Medicines. Viking.
Vitale, Tom. In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain. Hachette.
REFERENCE
Goode, Keisha L. & Barbara Katz Rothman. Pregnancy and Birth. ABC-CLIO.
Leahy, Christopher W. Birdpedia: A Brief Compendium of Avian Lore. Princeton Univ.
Malecha, Gary Lee & Daniel J. Reagan. The Congress. Greenwood.
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