Sept '19 Notable Books: Anne Boyer, Kevin Barry, Randall Munroe & More

A monthly series on the most interesting upcoming book releases...

Quichotte - Salman Rushdie (Sept. 3) - In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age.

How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems - Randall Munroe (Sept. 5) - How To is an instruction manual for taking everyday problems and using science and creative thinking to turn them into much bigger and more exciting problems.

Akin - Emma Donoghue (Sept. 10) - Written with all the tenderness and psychological intensity that made Room an international bestseller, Akin is a funny, heart-wrenching tale of an old man and a boy, born two generations apart, who unpick their painful story and start to write a new one together.

Night Boat to Tangier - Kevin Barry (Sept. 17) - From the acclaimed author of the international sensations City of Bohane and Beatlebone, a striking and gorgeous new novel of two aging criminals at the butt ends of their damage-filled careers.

The Undying - Anne Boyer (Sept. 17) - Award-winning poet and essayist Anne Boyer delivers a one-of-a-kind meditation on illness in the age of data—sharing her true story of coping with cancer, both the illness and the industry, in The Undying.

Permanent Record - Edward Snowden (Sept. 17) - Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, Permanent Record is the extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up online — a man who became a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the Internet's conscience.

The Water Dancer - Ta-Nehisi Coates (Sept. 24) - The unmissable debut novel by the critically acclaimed author of Between the World and Me and We Were Eight Years in Power — a richly imagined and compulsively page-turning journey to freedom.

(Blurbs reproduced verbatim from Goodreads.)

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