Here is a sample of some of the books prominently featured in the media this week.
October 29:
Entertainment Weekly:
The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando by William J. Mann
NPR:
The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
The Beautiful Ones by Prince with Dan Piepenbring
NYT:
The Accomplice by Joseph Kanon
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz by Eve Babitz
Vanity Fair’s Women on Women edited by Radhika Jones
The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture by Orlando Figes
People:
All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg
The Beautiful Ones by Prince with Dan Piepenbring
Mrs. Fletcher : a novel by Tom Perrotta
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
USA Today:
The Beautiful Ones by Prince with Dan Piepenbring
The Washington Post:
Author on Air:
CBS Sunday Morning:
Fresh Air:
by Prince with Dan Piepenbring
NPR:
PBS News Hour:
by Julie Andrews with Emma Walton Hamilton
October 22:
Entertainment Weekly:
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
The Secret Commonwealth (Book of Dust, Volume 2) by Philip Pullman
Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi
All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me by Adrienne Brodeur
LA Times:
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow
NPR:
No Stopping Us Now: The Adventures of Older Women in American History by Gail Collins
NYT:
Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Mose
People:
Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me by Adrienne Brodeur
Running with Sherman: The Donkey with the Heart of a Hero by Christopher McDougall
Beautiful on the Outside A Memoir by Adam Rippon
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow
The Washington Post:
Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another
No Stopping Us Now: The Adventures of Older Women in American History by Gail Collins
Barnum: An American Life by Robert Wilson
On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein
Authors on Air:
Fresh Air:
NPR:
PBS News Hour:
Today:
The View:
October 15:
NPR:
A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror by John Hornor
The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy
People:
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick
Touched by the Sun: My Friendship with Jackie by Carly Simon
USA Today:
Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong
The Washington Post:
Border Wars: Inside Trump’s Assault on Immigration by Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael D. Shear
Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me by Adrienne Brodeur
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff
Deep State: Trump, the FBI, and the Rule of Law by James B. Stewart
Author on Air:
NPR:
October 8:
NPR:
The Book of Dust: The Secret Commonwealth (Book of Dust, Volume 2) by Philip Pullman
Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby
Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory
Grand Union: Stories by Zadie Smith
NYT:
Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson
Brooklyn: The Once and Future City by Thomas Campanella
The Immoral Majority Why Evangelicals Chose Political Power Over Christian Values by Ben Howe
People:
Right after the Weather by Carol Anshaw
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks by Jason Reynolds
Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church by Megan Phelps-Roper
USA Today:
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones
Grand Union: Stories by Zadie Smith
The Washington Post:
Barack and Joe: The Making of an Extraordinary Partnership by Steven Levingston
Authors on Air:
BBC:
Fresh Air:
NPR:
Fall book preview:
PBS News Hour
October 1:
The Atlantic:
HuffPost:
Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller
NPR:
NYT:
Syria’s Secret Library: Reading and Redemption in a Town Under Siege by Mike Thomson
People:
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Washington Post:
The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace by Patricia Wiltshire
Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power by Sady Doyle
Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan by J. Hoberman
Author on Air:
Good Morning America:
Hillary Rodham Clinton & Chelsea Clinton
Late Show with Stephen Colbert:
NPR:
PBS News hour:
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