Highly Anticipated Fall Releases

Maddaddam by Margaret Atwood
In the conclusion to the trilogy that started with Oryx and Crake (2003), Toby and Ren return to the MaddAddamite cob house after rescuing Amanda and assuming the duties of the Craker's religious overseers while Zeb searches for the founder of the pacifist green religion he left years earlier.

The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
In her first novel since the critically acclaimed The Namesake (2003), Brothers Subhash and Udayan Mitra pursue vastly different lives--Udayan in rebellion-torn Calcutta, Subhash in a quiet corner of America--until a shattering tragedy compels Subhash to return to India, where he endeavors to heal family wounds. Due out on September 24.

David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
In Gladwell's follow-up to What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures (2009), he uncovers the hidden rules that shape the balance between the weak and the mighty and the powerful and the dispossessed. Coming out October 1.

The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
In her first fiction novel, the author of Eat, Pray, Love (2006) traces the multi-generational saga of the Whittaker family, whose progenitor makes a fortune in the quinine trade before his daughter, a gifted botanist, researches the mysteries of evolution while falling in love with an utopian artist against a backdrop of the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. Due out on October 1.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy by Helen Fielding
A new phase of life for Bridget set once again in present day London but with new dating challenges that come with texting and social media. Due out on October 15.

We Are Water by Wally Lamb
The two-time Oprah Book Club author's latest novel (She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True) is told in alternating voices and follows Anna Oh, a middle-age wife, mother, and artist, as she, after twenty-seven years of marriage, divorces her husband to marry Vivica, the Manhattan art dealer who orchestrated her professional success. Release date set for October 22.

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Coming October 22, it's been 11 years since Tartt's last release The Little Friend. Set in New York City a young boy named Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds him of his mother: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the art underworld.

The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan
With a release date of November 5, this will be Tan's first novel since Saving Fish from Drowning in 2005. Violet Minturn, a half-Chinese/half-American courtesan who deals in seduction and illusion in Shanghai, struggles to find her place in the world, while her mother, Lucia, tries to make sense of the choices she has made and the men who have shaped her.