10 books to read in October: New releases from Barbara Kingsolver, Chad Harbach and more
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Set us as preferred Reading List10 books for your October reading listIf you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.Even in sunny L.A., people crave autumnal treats; how else to explain pumpkin spice cold brew? If you’re craving comfort reads, you can’t get much more comfy than new books from favorite authors, and this month there’s new highly anticipated fiction from the likes of Barbara Kingsolver and Chad Harbach, as well as page-turning nonfiction from Nathaniel Philbrick and the late, great Wendell Berry.Happy reading!FICTION:Partita: A Novel By Barbara KingsolverHarper: 352 pp., $32(Oct.
6)A partita is a musical composition of distinct sections that come together through a musician’s skill and experience.In Kingsolver’s latest, a farm wife named Livia Cable has her quietly composed life blown open by a phone call from her days as a brilliant pianist.
Painful memories force her to confront first her own choices, then personal grief and finally, the family secrets that provide the novel’s distinctly elegiac and holistic tone.Every Story Is a Love Story: A Novel By Imbolo MbueRandom House: 352 pp., $32(Oct.6)In her stunning 2016 debut, “Behold the Dreamers,” Cameroonian-born Mbue depicted an immigrant family living in New York City.
Her new novel also centers on characters from Cameroon, and asks: What does it mean to offer forgiveness? Wolo lost his wife Yoma in a car accident.Three years later, he receives a letter from the driver, a white woman with a closely guarded secret.
What happens next will surprise everyone, including readers.The Names of the New World By Kawai Strong WashburnFSG: 448 pp., $29(Oct.6)Washburn (“Sharks in the Time of Saviors”) focuses on three characters: Naomi, a maverick environmental law...