Oct '20 Notable Books: Phil Klay, Rumaan Alam, Tana French & More
A monthly series on the most interesting upcoming book releases...
Leave the World Behind - Rumaan Alam (Oct. 6) - A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong.
The Searcher - Tana French (Oct. 6) - Retired detective Cal Hooper moves to a remote village in rural Ireland. His plans are to fix up the dilapidated cottage he's bought, to walk the mountains, to put his old police instincts to bed forever. Then a local boy appeals to him for help.
The Hole - Hiroko Oyamada (Oct. 6) - Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, The Hole is by turns reminiscent of Lewis Carroll, David Lynch, and My Neighbor Totoro, but is singularly unsettling.
The Devil and the Dark Water - Stuart Turton (Oct. 6) - A murder on the high seas. A detective duo. A demon who may or may not exist.
Zero Zone - Scott O'Connor (Oct. 6) - From Scott O'Connor comes a literary thriller about an infamous desert art installation, the cult it inspired, and a series of violent events.
Missionaries - Phil Klay (Oct. 6) - Missionaries is an astonishment, a novel of extraordinary suspense whose central, unsparing drama is infused by a geopolitical sophistication and a wisdom about the human heart that would be rare even in isolation.
The Silence - Don DeLillo (Oct. 20) - Don DeLillo completed this novel just weeks before the advent of COVID-19. The Silence is the story of a different catastrophic event. Its resonances offer a mysterious solace.
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art - Rebecca Wragg Sykes (Oct. 27) - In Kindred, Neanderthal expert Rebecca Wragg Sykes shoves aside the cliché of the shivering ragged figure in an icy wasteland, and reveals the Neanderthal you don't know.
(Blurbs reproduced verbatim from Goodreads.)
Leave the World Behind - Rumaan Alam (Oct. 6) - A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong.
The Searcher - Tana French (Oct. 6) - Retired detective Cal Hooper moves to a remote village in rural Ireland. His plans are to fix up the dilapidated cottage he's bought, to walk the mountains, to put his old police instincts to bed forever. Then a local boy appeals to him for help.
The Hole - Hiroko Oyamada (Oct. 6) - Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, The Hole is by turns reminiscent of Lewis Carroll, David Lynch, and My Neighbor Totoro, but is singularly unsettling.
The Devil and the Dark Water - Stuart Turton (Oct. 6) - A murder on the high seas. A detective duo. A demon who may or may not exist.
Zero Zone - Scott O'Connor (Oct. 6) - From Scott O'Connor comes a literary thriller about an infamous desert art installation, the cult it inspired, and a series of violent events.
Missionaries - Phil Klay (Oct. 6) - Missionaries is an astonishment, a novel of extraordinary suspense whose central, unsparing drama is infused by a geopolitical sophistication and a wisdom about the human heart that would be rare even in isolation.
The Silence - Don DeLillo (Oct. 20) - Don DeLillo completed this novel just weeks before the advent of COVID-19. The Silence is the story of a different catastrophic event. Its resonances offer a mysterious solace.
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art - Rebecca Wragg Sykes (Oct. 27) - In Kindred, Neanderthal expert Rebecca Wragg Sykes shoves aside the cliché of the shivering ragged figure in an icy wasteland, and reveals the Neanderthal you don't know.
(Blurbs reproduced verbatim from Goodreads.)
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