Back Top Choices | September Newsletter

SelectReads News
Simple News Pro
  New Titles - Top Choices
New title highlights is brought to you by New Book Alerts. If you would like to see all new titles for this category, click here
 
The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood · Nan A. Talese
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEMargaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, has become a modern classic - and now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel.More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Water Dancer

Ta-Nehisi Coates · One World
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * From the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom."This potent book about America's most disgraceful sin establishes [Ta-Nehisi...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know

MalcolmGladwell · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers--and why they often go wrong.How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Nickel Boys: A Novel

Whitehead, Colson · Doubleday
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead

Jim Mattis · Random House
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A clear-eyed account of learning how to lead in a chaotic world, by General Jim Mattis - the former Secretary of Defense and one of the most formidable strategic thinkers of our time - and Bing West, a former assistant secretary of defense and combat Marine....
Read More check catalog
 
 
Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal

Renia Spiegel · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman's life during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into EnglishRenia Spiegel was born in 1924 to an upper-middle class Jewish family living in southeastern Poland, near what was at that time the border with Romania. At the start...
Read More check catalog
 
 
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems

Randall Munroe · Riverhead Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "How To will make you laugh as you learn ... With How To, you can't help but appreciate the glorious complexity of our universe and the amazing breadth of humanity's effort to comprehend it. If you want some lightweight edification,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Secrets We Kept: A novel

Lara Prescott · Knopf
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A HELLO SUNSHINE x REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICKA thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice--inspired by the true story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with...
Read More check catalog
 
 
How to Be an Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi · One World
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a "groundbreaking" (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society - and in ourselves."The most courageous...
Read More check catalog
 
 
A Better Man: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

Louise Penny · Minotaur Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Catastrophic spring flooding, blistering attacks in the media, and a mysterious disappearance greet Chief Inspector Armand Gamache as he returns to the Sûreté du Québec in the latest novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny. It's Gamache's first day back as head...
Read More check catalog