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QUALIFICATION by David Heatley

Shelf Awareness gave David Heatley’s graphic memoir QUALIFICATION a strong review, writing, “This memoir is a masterful inventory of a life lived in search of intangible purpose. It's difficult material, but the message is striking: whomever we may choose to put our power in, we must start with faith in ourselves . . . Acclaimed artist David Heatley delivers a heavy but self-revelatory examination of 12-step programs and the nature of addiction.” Pantheon published the book on October 1, 2019.

CATCH AND KILL by Ronan Farrow

Ronan Farrow appeared on Pod Save America last week and was interviewed by The Guardian about his new book CATCH AND KILL. According to Little, Brown and Company, the book, released last week, is already in its third printing. Little, Brown and Company published the book on October 15, 2019.

THE SHADOW KING by Maaza Mengiste

Namwali Serpell, author of THE OLD DRIFT, gave a rave review of THE SHADOW KING in the New York Times. She says the novel “somehow manages to solve the riddle of how to sing war now. She doesn’t seek a narrow path between the straits of these artistic and ethical questions. Instead, she encompasses them in all their contradiction, laying them out in breathtakingly skillful juxtaposition.” W.W. Norton & Company published the book on September 24, 2019.

COME WEST AND SEE by Maxim Loskutoff

Maxim Loskutoff recently won the High Plains Book Award in the short stories category for his debut collection COME WEST AND SEE. The twelve stories expose the simmering rage and resentments of small-town America and shatter the myths of the West: a lonesome trapper falls in love with a bear; a newly married woman hatches a plot to murder a tree; and an unemployed millworker joins a militia after returning home. W.W. Norton published the book on May 8, 2018, and it was released in paperback on August 6, 2019.

RECKONINGS by Mary Fulbrook

Prof. Mary Fulbrook’s groundbreaking RECKONINGS has been named a finalist for the 2019 Cundill History Prize, alongside works by Jill Lepore and Julia Lovell. One of the jurors called the book “harrowing, absorbing, and extremely well-written.” The winner will be announced on November 14. Oxford University Press published the book on October 2, 2018.

THE FIRST by Stanley Fish

Stanley Fish published an Op-Ed in the New York Daily News entitled “In defense of the NBA: The league has every right to come down hard on critics of China who work for it. Atria/One Signal Publishers will publish his latest book, THE FIRST, on November 5, 2019.

DEMOCRACY MAY NOT EXIST BUT WE’LL MISS IT WHEN ITS GONE by Astra Taylor

Astra Taylor published an essay in the Sunday New York Times called “Out with the Old, In with the Young” about the excess of power that older people have in American democracy. Metropolitan Books published her first book on May 7, 2019.

INSIDE OUT by Demi Moore

Demi Moore’s memoir will make its debut on the New York Times Bestseller list for the week of October 13th. It will debut at number 1 on both the Combined Print & E-book Nonfiction & Hardcover Nonfiction lists. HarperCollins publishers published the book on September 24, 2019.

FIND ME by Andre Aciman

An excerpt from FIND ME, Andre Aciman’s sequel to CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, will be published in the December 2019 issue of VANITY FAIR. The book is also one of InStyle’s Best Books to read this October. Farrar, Straus & Giroux will publish the book on October 29, 2019.

 ASTRO POETS by Alex Dimitrov and Dorothea Lasky

Alex Dimitrov and Dorothea Lasky’s ASTRO POETS is one of InStyle’s Best Books to read this October. InStyle says the book offers “all the basics of astrology, translated for a modern world.” Flatiron Books will publish the book on October 29, 2019.