Brooklyn Mag

Just as it is in the film industry, fall is the book world’s prestige season, and the next six months are crowded with luminous names, promising debuts, and actual Oscar winners. I limited myself to one hundred titles here because it’s an attractive round number and you have to draw the line somewhere, am I right? Celebrity memoirs from Bruce Springsteen, Trevor Noah, Lil Wayne, and Carrie Fisher are coming out, plus a Joan Rivers biography and a feminist manifesto co-authored by Gillian Andersen (originally scheduled for last spring). Heavy hitters like Fannie Flagg, Carl Hiaasen, Tana French, and John le Carré return for another round of royalty collections. Literary bigwigs (I wish they actually wore large wigs) Tom Wolfe, Joyce Carol Oates (of course), Michael Chabon, Emma Donoghue, Alan Moore, Jonathan Lethem, Francine Prose, T.C. Boyle, Ann Patchett, A.S. Byatt, Nobel Laureate Patrick Modiano, and celebrity-adjacent Jonathan Safran Foer (with his first novel in over ten years) all have new work coming out.