Posted on July 29, 2013
Amazon's book editors have made their selections for Fall's top 20 big books. The Amazon Big Fall Books Preview also features the season's most anticipated releases in select categories. You can find the preview here on Amazon.com.
Sara Nelson, editorial director of books and Kindle, Amazon.com, said in a statement, "The year's biggest book release season is just around the corner, so we're excited to help readers discover more great titles and start building their fall reading lists. Each editor has also chosen one exciting under-the-radar book-from surefire blockbusters to brilliant debut novels, there's something for everyone."
Below is the list of Amazon's top 20 Big Fall Books. You can also find the list on Amazon.com.
- Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson: War correspondent for the New York Times Magazine and Vanity Fair, Anderson has written a thorough portrait that upends our understanding of how the modern Middle East was formed.
- Never Go Back by Lee Child: The latest entry in Child's hugely successful Jack Reacher series.
- MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood: Following Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, modern sci-fi legend Margaret Atwood concludes her beloved speculative fiction trilogy.
- Salinger by David Shields and Shane Salerno: Shields and Salerno take on an ambitious task: penning the definitive biography of notorious literary recluse J.D. Salinger.
- W is for Wasted by Sue Grafton: Another letter brings another murder in Grafton's acclaimed Kinsey Millhone series.
- Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem: Best known for his Brooklyn heritage, Lethem sets his latest novel in a different New York borough: Queens in the '60s, to follow three generations of radicals.
- Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon: Pynchon goes back to New York City in 2001, just after the dot-com bubble burst and just before the events of September 11th.
- Doctor Sleep by Stephen King: Finally, horror master King gives us a sequel to The Shining.
- The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri: Pulitzer Prize winner Lahiri's first novel since The Namesake is a family saga that spans India and America.
- David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell: A typically Gladwellian look at the myths we all seem to carry around about underdogs and big cheeses.
- The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert: This new novel from the author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed travels from London to Peru to Philadelphia to Tahiti to Amsterdam.
- One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson: Bryson (A Walk in the Woods, A Short History of Nearly Everything) details perhaps the most brilliant summer in America's history, featuring national icons such as Charles Lindbergh, Babe Ruth and Al Capone.
- The House of Hades by Rick Riordan: The fourth book in Riordan's Heroes of Olympus series.
- Camelot's Court: Inside the Kennedy White House by Robert Dallek: Fifty years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy comes Dallek's comprehensive biography of the Kennedy administration.
- Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy by Helen Fielding: Fielding returns with a third Bridget Jones book, her first in over ten years.
- Sycamore Row by John Grisham: Grisham's latest, a sequel to A Time to Kill, finds its protagonist Jake Brigance defending justice in the courtroom of a quiet Southern town.
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt: This long awaited novel from the author of The Secret History is about an orphan navigating the worlds of art and power.
- Double Down: Game Change 2012 by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann: Halperin and Heilemann made waves with Game Change, a gripping look behind the curtain of the 2008 presidential election. The two follow up with similarly ambitious coverage of the 2012 race.
- The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin: Goodwin, who won the Pulitzer Prize for No Ordinary Time about Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt's relationship, returns with this book about Theodore Roosevelt and his presidential successor William Howard Taft.
- The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan: Following three generations of women from Shanghai, a remote Chinese village and San Francisco, Tan's new novel tackles themes of motherhood and Chinese history over half a century.