Yahoo Lifestyle The 30 Best New Book Releases This Month: September 2024
Here are the 30 best new book releases out this month, September 2024. It’s September and the books are coming fast and furious. (Not that the characters in the Fast & Furious movie franchise did a lot of reading. But you never know!) School is back in session, so you need great lunch ideas. The weather is supposed to be getting cooler, so you’ll want some hot drinks to warm up on. And books! You’ll want some new books to enjoy. I’ve got you covered with some of the best titles of the month. So let’s get reading! At the head of the Parade are…
The 30 Best New Book Releases This Month: September 2024
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1. Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
2. Playground by Richard Powers
3. Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
It’s fall, so three major talents with new novels out in September? Par for the course. All three enjoy critical acclaim and major sales. All three are awards magnets. All three are worth your time. With Intermezzo, Sally Rooney tackles grief as two very different brothers struggle with life in the wake of their father’s death. Richard Powers continues his focus on nature with Playground, a near-future story where the ocean may be our last best hope for a habitable home. Those two range far and wide, while Elizabeth Strout returns to the familiar town of Crosby and beloved characters like Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton to examine the impact of a crime on their lives.
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney ($29; Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org
Playground by Richard Powers ($29.99; W.W. Norton and Company) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org
Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout ($30; Random House) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org
Courtesy of Ten Speed Press, America’s Test Kitchen, Celadon Books
4. Good Lookin’ Cookin’ by Dolly Parton & Rachel Parton George
5. America’s Test Kitchen 25th Anniversary Cookbook
6. Does This Taste Funny? by Stephen Colbert & Evie McGee Colbert
Family gatherings and gift giving mean this is the season for cookbooks. Dolly Parton and her sister Rachel share favorite recipes and the stories behind them. America’s Test Kitchen celebrates 25 years by gathering its greatest hits. And Stephen Colbert and his wife Evie share the family dinners they embrace when everyone is together. Expect a dash of humor.
Good Lookin’ Cookin’ by Dolly Parton & Rachel Parton George ($35; Ten Speed Press) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org
America’s Test Kitchen 25th Anniversary Cookbook ($45; America’s Test Kitchen) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org
Does This Taste Funny? by Stephen Colbert & Evie McGee Colbert ($35; Celadon Books) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org
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Courtesy of Thomas & Mercer, Pamela Dorman Books, Harper
7. Fatal Intrusion by Jeffery Deaver & Isabella Maldonado
8. We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
9. Precipice by Robert Harris
Three thrilling mysteries.
Jeffery Deaver and Isabella Maldonado collaborate on the launch of a new series pairing a Homeland Security Investigations agent (no, I’d never heard of it either) with an expert in cyber security. The clock is ticking to solve a string of horrific murders seemingly sparked by the dark web. Pages will turn.
Author Richard Osman pauses his delightful Thursday Murder Club books by launching his own new series, this one pairing a father and daughter team to solve the mystery of a dead body and a pile of cash on a remote island paradise.
Robert Harris is riding high. His novel Conclave–about the election of a new Pope–is an acclaimed new film starring Ralph Fiennes. And his new stand-alone historical thriller Precipice takes place in 1914 England. A Scotland Yard intelligence officer finds danger and excitement amidst a sex scandal and leaked documents that might bring down the government just as World War I looms ahead.
Fatal Intrusion by Jeffery Deaver & Isabella Maldonado ($28.99; Thomas & Mercer) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org
We Solve Murders by Richard Osman ($30; Pamela Dorman Books) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org
Precipice by Robert Harris ($30; Harper) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org
Courtesy of Abrams Press, Random House, Berkley
10. Want by Gillian Anderson
11. Counting Miracles by Nicholas Sparks
12. The Seemingly Impossible Love Life of Amanda Dean by Ann Rose
Romance takes many forms; here are three.
The talented actor Gillian Anderson made a simple request of women: tell me your fantasies. She collected them, chose the most telling and surprising and sexy and offers them up–along with her own, not that you’ll know which is which–in the intriguing book Want.
Best-selling author Nicholas Sparks writes love stories, not romances. As he says, some of the best love stories end sadly (Romeo & Juliet, anyone?), so don’t assume a happy ending. Military man Tanner Hughes is between postings when he tracks down the father he never knew. In that same town? Dr. Kaitlyn Cooper, a single mom that every fiber of his being says he should get to know, even if duty and his wanderlust will call him away soon. Can we count on miracles?
Lighter fare will be found in The Seemingly Impossible Love Life of Amanda Dean. Our bisexual heroine Amanda Dean is facing her wedding day with…indecision (cliche alert!). No, with a desire to make absolutely certain she’s making the right choice, because this time it’s for keeps. Expect past loves of every variety to pop in on a day when everything is going wrong right up until it goes right for the only moment that matters. I hope.
Want by Gillian Anderson ($28; Abrams Press) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org
Counting Miracles by Nicholas Sparks ($30; Random House) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org
The Seemingly Impossible Love Life of Amanda Dean by Ann Rose ($18.99; Berkley) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org
Courtesy of Grand Central Publishing; Little, Brown and Company; Simon & Schuster
13. Connie by Connie Chung
14. I Once Was Lost by Don Lemon
15. Something Lost, Something Gained by Hillary Rodham Clinton
Three public figures dig deep.
Connie Chung details her path-breaking career from being a 23 year old kid taking a job at a local tv station in her hometown of Washington DC to the pinnacle of TV journalism. It wasn’t easy, even if she made it look that way.
Don Lemon had a fall from grace, first with his abrupt departure from CNN to a blink-and-you-missed-it almost gig with Elon Musk’s X. He found solace in a journey of faith, exploring what it means to be religious in America today (or spiritual!) and how faith impacted his life during Lemon’s darkest professional hour.
Hillary Clinton has some thoughts–about her life and marriage, about the strength of everyday Americans, about the women making a difference both in the US and around the world and how Clinton’s own endeavors strive to do the same.
Connie by Connie Chung ($32.50; Grand Central Publishing) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org
I Once Was Lost by Don Lemon ($30; Little, Brown and Company) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org
Something Lost, Something Gained by Hillary Rodham Clinton ($29.99; Simon & Schuster) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org
Courtesy of Crown, Harper, Doubleday
16. The Siege by Ben Macintyre
17. By The Fire We Carry by Rebecca Nagle
18. America First by H.W. Brands
Three works of history that, inevitably, illuminate the world today.
Author Ben Macintyre offers a real life thriller with The Siege, which recounts an Iranian hostage crisis. Not that one, but one entirely new to me: while Americans were held hostage in Iran, Saddam Hussein bankrolled six Arabs who stormed the Iranian embassy in London, hoping to force the UK to back their rebellion against the Ayatollah. Crazy, right? And it’s all true.
Rebecca Nagle delivers a true life legal thriller with rare ambition and scope. By The Fire We Carry is being acclaimed as one of the best books of the year for weaving together so many storylines into a compelling whole. A murder in a small town in the 1990s sparks a remarkable court fight all the way to the Supreme Court, with Nagle bringing together the Trail of Tears, the history of the Muscogee peoples and other Indigenous folk, the ins and outs of tribal law and the Supreme Court ruling that would begin to offer some justice to those mistreated for so long.
H.W. Brands is the author of numerous acclaimed works of history. With America First, he focuses on the ideological battle between FDR (striving to prepare the US to take the fight to Hitler, when the US was still neutral) and the Nazi-loving Charles Lindbergh (who was adamantly anti-Semitic and an isolationist). The fate of the world hung in the balance, literally, and it was a close, close call.
The Siege by Ben Macintyre ($32; Crown) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org
By The Fire We Carry by Rebecca Nagle ($32; Harper) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org
America First by H.W. Brands ($35; Doubleday) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org
Courtesy of Abrams Press, Rizzoli, Guinness World Records
19. Lost: Back To The Island by Emily St. James & Noel Murray
20. Fashion First by Diane Keaton
21. Guinness World Records 2025 by Guinness World Records
Three varied books perfect for anyone looking for just the right gift. Any fan of the landmark TV series Lost will be happy to head back to the island and dive into the intricacies of the show and its remarkable impact on TV. If you know a fan of Diane Keaton or a clothes horse but especially if you know a fan of Diane Keaton’s who is also a clothes horse, then her memoir/history of Keaton’s quirky style is the ideal pick. And the internet can’t offer up stuff you didn’t know you wanted to know. Which is why browsing through Guinness World Records 2025 is such a treat for fans of trivia or anyone looking for a diversion.
Lost: Back To The Island by Emily St. James & Noel Murray ($30; Abrams Press) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org
Fashion First by Diane Keaton ($55; Rizzoli) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org
Guinness World Records 2025 by Guinness World Records ($29.95; Guinness World Records) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org
Courtesy of Tor Books, Del Rey, Random House Worlds
22. Somewhere Beyond The Sea by TJ Klune
23. Buried Deep by Naomi Novik
24. Exodus: The Archimedes Engine by Peter F. Hamilton
Three works of fantasy and science fiction for all tastes.
Author TJ Klune follows his acclaimed bestseller The House in the Cerulean Sea with a follow-up that continues the heart-warming but fantastical struggles of Arthur Parnassus as headmaster of a very unusual orphanage.
Writer Naomi Novik can do it all, apparently: a thrilling series of historical fantasies that take the Napoleonic era and add dragons (thank you!), dark academia, brilliant new stand-alones steeped in the folk tales of Eastern Europe and now short stories of every flavor with Buried Deep.
Peter F. Hamilton launches an ambitious new series with Exodus: The Archimedes Engine, a space opera of the classic sort. Humanity heads to a distant star in space arks, only to arrive thousands of years later to find the first arrivals are ruling with an iron fist. Accept it? Fight back? Or head back out into deep, deep space?
Somewhere Beyond The Sea by TJ Klune ($28.99; Tor Books) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org
Buried Deep by Naomi Novik (30; Del Rey) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org
Exodus: The Archimedes Engine by Peter F. Hamilton ($36; Random House Worlds) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org
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Courtesy of Disney Hyperion, Knopf Book For Young Readers, Roaring Book Press
25. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Wrath of the Triple Goddess by Rick Riordan
26. Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
27. Kwame Crashes The Underworld by Craig Kofi Farmer
Season two of the Percy Jackson tv series will arrive in 2025. If they stick to one season per book, it will be the seventh season before they get to Wrath of the Triple Goddess, so why wait?
UK author Katherine Rundell is already the author of several delightful books, like 2015’s Rooftoppers. But her newest book Impossible Creatures arrives in the US on a wave of acclaim akin to that for Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series. (He loves her writing too.) It’s a stand-alone fantasy about a mythical realm called the Archipelago where all the impossible creatures we assume are imaginary actually go to thrive. But the griffins and unicorns and dragons and so many others face extinction unless two young people can work together to save both their world…and ours. Classic storytelling.
Craig Kofi Farmer makes his debut with Kwame Crashes the Underworld, an adventure story with all sorts of Percy Jackson vibes. But instead of Greek gods, 12 year old Kwame faces the not-so-mythical forces found in the Ghanian underworld known as Asamando. Kwame must tussle with angry gods, save the world above…and learn how to say goodbye to the grandmother he loves so dearly. So once you’re done with Percy Jackson’s latest, Kwame Powell is waiting.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Wrath of the Triple Goddess by Rick Riordan ($19.99; Disney Hyperion) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org
Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell ($19.99; Knopf Book For Young Readers) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org
Kwame Crashes The Underworld by Craig Kofi Farmer ($17.99; Roaring Book Press) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org
Courtesy of Roaring Book Press, Minerva, Pushkin Children’s Books
28. The Most Boring Book Ever by Brandon Sanderson; pictures by Kazu Kibuishi
29. Mamá’s Magnificent Dancing Plantitas by Jesús Trejo; pictures by Eliza Kinkz
30. Within My Branches by Nicholas Michel; translated by Sarah Ardizzone
Three picture books demonstrate again how vital and varied they can be. Acclaimed best-seller Brandon Sanderson has great fun with The Most Boring Book Ever, which–spoiler alert–is a lot more dangerous and exciting than it pretends to be. (The dragon peeking out of the cover is kind of a tell.) Mama’s Magnificent Dancing Plantitas captures the exuberant desire of a little boy to help with delightful charm (and great artwork by Eliza Kinkz to go with the breathless text). And then for a gentle change of pace, Within My Branches quietly shows how one tree can be visited by so many creatures during its lifetime.
The Most Boring Book Ever by Brandon Sanderson; pictures by Kazu Kibuishi ($19.99; Roaring Book Press) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org
Mamá’s Magnificent Dancing Plantitas by Jesús Trejo; pictures by Eliza Kinkz ($18.99; Minerva) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org
Within My Branches by Nicholas Michel; translated by Sarah Ardizzone ($22; Pushkin Children’s Books) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org
