Usually, autumn is the most exciting season for book lovers. It’s full of premieres of the most anticipated books from most famous authors.
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Last year, the selection of the hot new books was rather weak, but things are way better in 2015.
Salman Rushdie has just published Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, an intense book inspired by wonder tales of the East, that takes place in New York in the nearest future.
Soumission, Michel Houellebecq’s novel about France being ruled by the Islamist president, has been translated to English, and gets released on October 20.
October 20 will be the hottest day in publishing this year. Three more titles will go on sale. Orhan Pamuk, in A Strangeness in My Mind, will guide us through the streets of Istanbul, and let us observe how the city has changed over the past 50 years. J.K. Rowling (Robert Galbraith) will come back with a third book from Cormoran Strike series. On this day, you’ll be also able to download the latest novel from the master of the legal thriller, John Grisham, introducing the new, vivid character, Sebastian Rudd.
My personal picks? I’ve already added to my wish list the new book by Margaret Atwood, The Heart Goes Last, about the near-future social experiment with unpredictable consequences. And there is also the 100th-anniversary edition of The Best American Short Stories. It’s a selection of the 40 best stories carefully picked by Lorrie Moore and accompanied by the commentary from Heidi Pitlor.
As usual, we show the books available for pre-order, with short descriptions, release dates, and links to four major ebookstores: Kindle, Nook, Kobo, and iBooks Store.
So, which of the titles presented below are you going to download to your e-reader or book reading app?
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12 sure-fire ebook bestsellers – autumn 2015
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie, one of the great authors of our time, wrote a fascinating book that blends history, mythology, and a timeless love story – inspired by traditional wonder tales of the East.
In the near future, after a storm strikes New York City, the strangenesses begin.
A down-to-earth gardener finds that his feet no longer touch the ground. A graphic novelist awakens in his bedroom to a mysterious entity that resembles his own sub-Stan Lee creation. A seductive gold-digger is soon tapped to combat forces beyond imagining.
“A lush, richly layered novel in which our world has been plunged into an age of unreason, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is a breathtaking achievement and an enduring testament to the power of storytelling.”
⇢ Kindle ⇢ Nook ⇢ Kobo ⇢ iBooks
Trigger Mortis: A James Bond Novel
Anthony Horowitz
The new James Bond novel, written by New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz, includes an original material from 007 creator Ian Fleming.
We follow the world’s most famous spy in the 1950s during the escalation of tension between the Soviet Union and the West.
In an attempt to demonstrate Soviet strength, SMERSH plans to sabotage an international Grand Prix in the West Germany. Bond must play a high-speed game of cat and mouse to stop them.
“Horowitz delivers a smooth and seductive narrative of fast cars and beautiful women, ruthless villains and breathtaking plot that will leave readers hanging until the very end.”
⇢ Kindle ⇢ Nook ⇢ Kobo ⇢ iBooks
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
Eric H. Cline
In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the “Sea Peoples” invaded Egypt. The pharaoh managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline – together with most of the surrounding civilizations.
The thriving economy and cultures of the late second millennium B.C., which had stretched from Greece to Egypt and Mesopotamia, suddenly ceased to exist, along with writing systems, technology, and monumental architecture.
But the Sea Peoples alone could not have caused such widespread breakdown. How did it happen?
A compelling combination of narrative and the latest scholarship, 1177 B.C. sheds new light on the complex ties that gave rise to, and ultimately destroyed, the flourishing civilizations of the Late Bronze Age.
⇢ Kindle ⇢ Nook ⇢ Kobo ⇢ iBooks
The Heart Goes Last
Margaret Atwood
A wickedly funny novel from the author of The Year of the Flood. In a near-future a married couple try to stay afloat in the midst of economic and social collapse.
Stan and Charmaine are living in their car, increasingly vulnerable to roving gangs. Desperate to survive, they sign up to a “social experiment” offering stable jobs and a home of their own.
All they have to do in return is give up their freedom every second month, swapping their home for a prison cell. Soon the pressures of conformity, mistrust, guilt and sexual desire take over.
From The New York Times Book Review: “Atwood’s prose miraculously balances humor, outrage and beauty. A simple description becomes both chilling and sublime.”
⇢ Kindle ⇢ Nook ⇢ Kobo ⇢ iBooks
100 Years of The Best American Short Stories
Lorrie Moore, Heidi Pitlor
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the longest running series of short fiction, editor Lorrie Moore selected forty stories that represent the best of the best short stories published between 1915 and 2015.
The collection includes Ernest Hemingway’s My Old Man, Babylon Revisited – the 1931 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and By the River from Joyce Carol Oates.
The stories are accompanied by the commentary written by co-editor Heidi Pitlor. She recounts behind-the-scenes anecdotes and examines, decade by decade, the trends captured over a hundred years.
As we read in the book blurb: “These forty stories represent their eras but also stand the test of time.”
⇢ Kindle ⇢ Nook ⇢ Kobo ⇢ iBooks
Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike #3)
Robert Galbraith
A third book from a thriller series written by J.K. Rowling under the pen name of Robert Galbraith.
Robin Ellacott, a co-worker of the private detective Cormoran Strike, receives a mysterious package containing a woman’s severed leg.
There are four people from Strike’s past who he thinks could be responsible for that. While police focus on one of them, the detective and his associate delve into the twisted worlds of the other three.
“A fiendishly clever mystery with unexpected twists around every corner, Career of Evil is also a gripping story of a man and a woman at a crossroads in their personal and professional lives.
⇢ Kindle ⇢ Nook ⇢ Kobo ⇢ iBooks
Submission
Michel Houellebecq
A new novel by Michel Houellebecq, a controversial French writer famous for Atomized and The Possibility of an Island.
Set in France, during the 2022 presidential election won by the Islamic candidate, the book follows François, a bored middle-aged lecturer at the New Sorbonne University.
François sleeps with his students, eats microwave dinners, rereads Huysmans, and queues up YouPorn. He is spiritually barren, but still seeks to fill the vacuum of his existence.
“Submission is both a devastating satire and a profound meditation on isolation, faith, and love. It is a startling new work by one of the most provocative and prescient novelists of today.”
⇢ Kindle ⇢ Nook ⇢ Kobo ⇢ iBooks
A Strangeness in My Mind
Orhan Pamuk
From the Nobel Prize winner and the best-selling author of My Name Is Red comes a soaring new novel telling the unforgettable tale of an Istanbul street vendor Mevlut and the love of his life.
Between 1969 and 2012, Mevlut works on the streets of Istanbul, trying different jobs, from selling boza and cooked rice, to guarding a car park.
During all these years, he observes how the city get demolished and re-built; he sees migrants from Anatolia making a fortune; he witnesses military coups that shape the country.
Told from different perspectives, the book is a modern epic of coming of age in a great city, and life among the newcomers who have changed the face of Istanbul over the past fifty years.
⇢ Kindle ⇢ Nook ⇢ Kobo ⇢ iBooks
Rogue Lawyer
John Grisham
Gritty, fast-paced novel from the master of the legal thriller.
The main character, Sebastian Rudd, is one of John Grisham’s most colorful, outrageous, and vividly drawn characters yet.
Rudd is not your typical street lawyer. He works out of a customized bulletproof van. He has no firm, no partners, no associates, and only one employee, his driver.
Things get complicated when Sebastian agrees to represent Arch Swanger, a prime suspect in the abduction and presumed murder of Jiliana Kemp, the daughter of the assistant chief of police.
⇢ Kindle ⇢ Nook ⇢ Kobo ⇢ iBooks
Slade House
David Mitchell
David Mitchell, the award-winning author of Cloud Atlas, comes back with a new novel, which to many reviewers is a new vision of the haunted house story.
Every nine years, the residents of Slade House, an odd brother and sister, extend a unique invitation to someone who’s different or lonely: a precocious teenager, a recently divorced policeman, or a shy college student.
But what really goes on inside Slade House? For those who find out, it’s already too late…
Gillian Flynn wrote about Slade House: ” It’s a wildly inventive, chilling, and—for all its otherworldliness—wonderfully human haunted house story. I plan to return to its clutches quite often.”
⇢ Kindle ⇢ Nook ⇢ Kobo ⇢ iBooks
Avenue of Mysteries
John Irving
John Irving, the author of The World According to Garp, returns to the themes that established him as one of the most beloved authors of our time.
As an older man, Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines. What travels with him are the dreams and memories of his childhood in Mexico.
“‘The chain of events, the links in our lives – what leads us where we’re going, the courses we follow to our ends, what we don’t see coming, and what we do – all this can be mysterious, or simply unseen, or even obvious.”
⇢ Kindle ⇢ Nook ⇢ Kobo ⇢ iBooks
Stars of Fortune (Guardians Trilogy #1)
Nora Roberts
Although the storyline sounds familiar this is the first book from a new trilogy written by a bestselling romance author Nora Roberts.
Sasha Riggs is a reclusive artist, haunted by dreams and nightmares that she turns into extraordinary paintings.
On the Greek island of Corfu, she meets Bran, a magician, and a man of immense power and compassion.
But Sasha and Bran are just two of the six people lured to Corfu to seek the fire star in a cradle of land beneath the sea.
“Over their every attempt at trust, unity, and love, a dark threat looms. And it seeks to corrupt everything that stands in its way of possessing the stars…”
⇢ Kindle ⇢ Nook ⇢ Kobo ⇢ iBooks
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