130. Backlist book pairings for an abundant Autumn reading season

Novel Pairings

Get ready for your TBR pile to actually topple over as we discuss a truly abundant season of publishing and books. The fall publishing calendar has a lot of hype-worthy titles, and in today’s episode you’ll hear our pared down lists (it was a struggle!) of excellent fall fiction due to hit shelves soon. This includes big books from BIG authors, intriguing titles from small indie presses, and a smattering of assorted fiction and non-fiction we think you’ll love. Plus, each title we preview in today’s episode is perfectly paired with a backlist book for your consideration, giving us the option to explore additional titles while we wait for our library holds and pre-orders to come in.

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Books Mentioned:

• The Fraud by Zadie Smith

• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

• The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff

• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, American captivity narratives

• Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward

• Jubilee by Margaret Walker

• America Fantastica by Tim O’Brien

• In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien

• Absolution by Alice McDermott

• The Mountains Sing by Ngyuen Phan Que Mai

• Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women, edited by Molly Llewellyn & Kristel Buckely, ft. Deesha Philyaw, Lauren Groff, & more (Dzanc Books)

• The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw

• My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

• Company by Shannon Sanders

• The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw

• Bluebeard’s Castle by Anna Biller (Verso)

• Rebecca and Jane Eyre

• North Woods by Daniel Mason

• Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

• Every Duke Has His Day by Suzanne Enoch

• Bringing Up Baby (1938)

• When a Scot Ties the Knot by Tessa Dare

• A Lady’s Guide to Fortune Hunting by Sophie Irwin

• People Collide by Isle McElroy

• Orlando by Virginia Woolf

• Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

• One Woman Show by Christine Coulson

• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

• The New Naturals by Gabriel Bump

• This Other Eden by Paul Harding

• Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation by Tiya Miles

• End of the Rope: Mountains, Marriage, and Motherhood by Jan Redford

• The Loneliness Files by Athena Dixon

• Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino