29 new books to keep on your radar this fall

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Set us as preferred As the lazy days of summer fade and little ones return to school, autumn invites an air of academia.Consider our book reviewers’ recommendations your call for learning, and discovery, this season.

The only guide you need for fall entertainment.We asked the don of a beloved West Coast lit journal, a prolific book editor, a well-read memoirist, a former National Book Critics Circle president, a longstanding critic and a local literary flâneuse to pick this season’s most anticipated reads.They came back with a list that throws readers into intellectual depths and riveting tales.

Our selection includes a work by a Booker Prize longlist nominee and heady ruminations on women and society, along with entrancing translated texts, morally ambitious characters aplenty and a foray into flash fiction (truly, the micro-medium made for our attention-refracted era).Fall reading listIf you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.Personally, I inhaled California writer Laleh Khadivi’s forthcoming novel — written with deft, dazzling prose and packed with surprises — in one weekend.May I suggest you do the same? There’s also elegant historical fiction, a voyage through ancient literature by none other than Emily Wilson (yes, that “Odyssey” translator Wilson), brilliant biographies and stirring meditations on art.

While the sun sets earlier and earlier, there’s no better excuse to unplug, curl up and turn the page.— Sophia Kercher Under Story By Chloe Benjamin G.P.

Putnam’s Sons(Sept.1) The first half of this riveting book follows a woman’s slightly unhinged decision to become a kitchen worker in the Antarctic.

Laurel Salter has left behind her life as a post-graduate in mycology and soon finds her way into the exce...