{"id":82497,"date":"2025-08-20T13:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/82497\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T13:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:15:10","slug":"5-exciting-books-to-look-for-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/82497\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Exciting Books to Look For This Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may recognize Mark Ronson as the producer of Amy Winehouse\u2019s Back to Black album and a co-writer of Lady Gaga\u2019s Oscar-winning A Star Is Born track \u201cShallow.\u201d He\u2019s also the executive producer of the soundtrack that accompanied Greta Gerwig\u2019s 2024 blockbuster Barbie. In his new memoir, Ronson writes about his teenage and early adult years in the booming New York City nightlife, when he found his community and carved his own path to stardom. Night People will transport you back in time to the venues that defined the \u201990s party scene, courtesy of Ronson\u2019s eyes and ears. <\/p>\n

\"bookMichelle Chouinard\u2019s \u2018A Tour to Die For: A Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco Mystery\u2019 is out Sept. 23, 2025. (Minotaur Books)
\n\u2018A Tour to Die For: A Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco Mystery\u2019<\/p>\n

By Michelle Chouinard
Release date: Sept. 23, 2025<\/p>\n

Local author Michelle Chouinard returns with the highly-anticipated second novel in her mystery series, which revolves around Capri Sanzio, a (fictional) tour guide giving serial killer walking tours in the city. When one of Capri\u2019s guests reports seeing something eerie on her tour, it unfolds into a whole new whodunit mystery \u2014 perfect for this tour guide (and her obsessive fans) to solve. Chouinard\u2019s book tour will cover a lot of ground in Northern California, including appearances in San Francisco (Book Passage, Sept. 28), Sacramento (Wild Sisters Bookstore, Sept. 29), El Dorado Hills (Face in a Book, Sept. 30), Capitola Library (Oct. 4), Hollister (Hill\u2019s Books, Oct. 5), Sunnyvale (Leigh\u2019s Favorite Bookstore, Oct. 11), and Walnut Creek (Barnes & Noble, Oct. 12).<\/p>\n

\"bookHarlan Corben and Reese Witherspoon\u2019s \u2018Gone Before Goodbye\u2019 is out Oct. 14, 2025. (Grand Central Publishing)
\n\u2018Gone Before Goodbye\u2019<\/p>\n

By Harlan Coben & Reese Witherspoon
Release date: Oct. 14, 2025<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not news to anyone that one-time Stanford student Reese Witherspoon\u2019s book club and film production studio have earned her the title of the ultimate girlboss. Now, the Oscar-winning actress is expanding her literary empire with the help of mystery author Harlan Coben. A collaborative work of fiction, Gone Before Goodbye is marketed as \u201cthe story of a woman trapped in a deadly conspiracy \u2014 where uncovering the truth could cost her everything.\u201d That description of a woman in search of answers is so reminiscent of the character Witherspoon portrays on The Morning Show that it\u2019s hard to picture anyone else playing the lead role whenever the novel is inevitably turned into a limited series.<\/p>\n

\"bookHarper Lee\u2019s \u2018The Land of Sweet Forever: Stories and Essays\u2019 is out Oct. 21, 2025. (Harper)
\n\u2018The Land of Sweet Forever: Stories and Essays\u2019<\/p>\n

By Harper Lee
Release date: Oct. 21, 2025<\/p>\n

Could you never get enough of To Kill a Mockingbird? You\u2019re in luck, the estate of Harper Lee decided to release eight short stories and essays found in the author\u2019s New York City apartment when she passed away in 2016. These stories predate Lee\u2019s 1960 novel, now one of the most celebrated works of 20th-century literature; they were written at a time when she was submitting her fiction work to journals and periodicals in an effort to get published. The pieces cover the Alabama schoolyards of Lee\u2019s youth, along with the luncheonettes and movie houses of mid-century Manhattan, covering ever-resonant discussions of politics, class, creativity and love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You may recognize Mark Ronson as the producer of Amy Winehouse\u2019s Back to Black album and a co-writer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[64,63,457,134],"class_list":["post-82497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-books","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}