{"id":868313,"date":"2026-10-02T14:10:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T14:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/868313\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T14:10:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T14:10:26","slug":"here-are-10-books-to-put-on-your-fall-reading-list-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/868313\/","title":{"rendered":"Here are 10 books to put on your fall reading list : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Goodbye and good riddance to the beach read. At least for this year, we can stop pretending that baking on the sand in the hot sun or tilted awkwardly on a damp plastic lounge chair by the pool is the ideal setting for reading. Now, with the fall equinox behind us, we can look forward and embrace the one true ideal season for reading: autumn.<\/p>\n

Or we can not be so dramatic about it and just say that there are a lot of books coming out between now and the holidays. A few we’ve included in our round up are long-awaited follow ups to stunning entrances onto the literary scene. Others are big, ambitious projects. Others yet are versions of older works only now being translated into English. There are obviously some high-profile titles that we missed in the name of brevity but, hopefully, there are a few titles here that weren’t on your radar before.<\/p>\n

FICTION <\/p>\n

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The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman by Deesha Philyaw (Sept. 29)<\/p>\n

Philyaw’s 2020 short story collection The Secret Lives of Church Ladies felt like a discovery. Published by a small university press, the book was brave and honest in its handling of sexuality and religion. It became such a sensation in certain corners of the literary world that you really had to wonder \u2014 what the heck has Philyaw been up to? Well, we find out soon in her first full-length novel about, well, sex, religion, gossip and marriage.<\/p>\n

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Partita by Barbara Kingsolver (Oct. 6)<\/p>\n

It’s Kingsolver’s 19th novel. Fresh off her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Demon Copperhead<\/a>, one of the most prominent voices in Appalachian writing comes out with a book about a pianist on her way to classical music stardom, until that path gets knocked off kilter. Kingsolver herself originally went to college to study classical music but never truly showed her love for it in her fiction \u2014 until now.<\/p>\n

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It’s Only Dancing by Jasmine Guillory (Oc.t 6)<\/p>\n

Every now and then I come across a video of a cute couple doing (or attempting to do) the Dirty Dancing lift. It’s a bold move with a high-risk factor for completely eating it. Well, now Jasmine Guillory’s showing similar boldness. Her upcoming book \u2014 her first YA novel \u2014 is a take on Dirty Dancing. It follows a young girl and her charming dance instructor, as they try to figure out their dance steps \u2014 and each other.<\/p>\n

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Little, Brown and Company<\/p>\n

The Brightness by Chad Harbach (Oct. 27)<\/p>\n

This is the long-awaited sequel to Harbach’s acclaimed 2011 baseball\/campus novel The Art of Fielding. We return to Westish College \u2014 but we put down the bats and balls and, instead, focus on sexual assault, feminism, campus politics and the high costs of speaking out.<\/p>\n

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Behind the Gate & Other Stories by Amparo D\u00e1vila, translated by Audrey Harris and Matthew Gleeson (Nov. 3)<\/p>\n

With her 2018 short story collection The Houseguest<\/a>, Mexican author Amparo D\u00e1vila became a fixture in the English-speaking cult canon of weird-girl literature. D\u00e1vila died at age 92 in 2020 but a new collection of her creepy, unsettling and odd stories are coming in English this fall.<\/p>\n

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I Can’t Stop Thinking About Horses and Sex by Lisa Hanawalt (Oct. 20)<\/p>\n

A graphic memoir from Tuca & Bertie creator Lisa Hanawalt that tells you exactly what it’s about in the title. And the horses bit isn’t a metaphor for life or whatever, there’s actually a lot in here about riding horses, taking care of horses, and how loving horses is both silly\/ridiculous\/expensive and, also, one of the best things in the world. OK, maybe it is a bit of a metaphor.<\/p>\n

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\"Celeste,<\/p>\n

Celeste, Daughter of the Earth and Other Early Poems by Enrique Lihn, translated by Jonathan Cohen and David Unger (Oct. 20)<\/p>\n

This book collects translated early works of the celebrated Chilean poet Enrique Lihn. And they have the full-hearted verve and drive of a younger poet. In the poem “Steadfast,” the narrator speaks to the subject angrily and bitterly but ends with the lines, “I will live secretly by your side \/ like the corpse I’ve been since loving you.”<\/p>\n

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\"Look<\/p>\n

Look at Me by Dustin Hoffman with Ariel Levy (Nov. 10)<\/p>\n

Dustin Hoffman is 89 years old now. In his lifetime, he’s been at the center of some of the most enduring images seared into the minds of American culture. You can picture it, can’t you? Him on the bus in The Graduate. Him at the office in All The President’s Men. Him and the big crocodile thing in Hook. It’s a sure bet his memoir will cover at least two of those movies in depth.<\/p>\n

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\"Weird<\/p>\n

Farrar, Straus and Giroux<\/p>\n

Weird Era: How Pitchfork Changed Music Forever: A Memoir by Ryan Schreiber (Dec. 1)<\/p>\n

As the founder of the music website Pitchfork, Schreiber had a front-row seat to the changing tides of music, music distribution, music criticism, the Internet, snobbery, taste, stardom, obscurity and rating art on a scale of 1-10. The book goes into the origins of Pitchfork and offers insight into its eventual sale to Cond\u00e9 Nast, reminding readers that there is a real person behind that review you hated.<\/p>\n

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The Co-Creation: How Earth Made Life and Life Made Earth by Olivia Judson (Dec. 13)<\/p>\n

You have to give props to the big swings, and explaining the origins of life on Earth is maybe one of the biggest swings you could take. Judson is an evolutionary biologist but has spent most of her career as a science writer, explaining the world and all its inhabitants to the rest of us.<\/p>\n

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