Amazon.com Unveils the 2015 Big Fall Books
August 19 2015 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Discover fall’s best page-turners as
recommended by the Amazon Books Editorial Team
(NASDAQ:AMZN)—Amazon.com today announced its annual Big Fall
Books Preview that features the best new books readers will want to
curl up with as the weather cools and the leaves change color. The
Amazon Books Editors read hundreds of titles to handpick their
annual list of the hottest blockbusters of the season. The Amazon
Big Fall Books Preview also highlights the season’s most
anticipated releases in genres including: biographies &
memoirs, sports & outdoors, science fiction & fantasy,
mysteries & thrillers, literature & fiction, humor &
entertainment, hobbies & home, food & wine, comics &
graphic novels, business & leadership, cookbooks, romance,
nonfiction, history, and crafts—along with upcoming releases for
kids and young adults.
“As editors, we look forward to fall every year because it’s the
biggest season for new books,” said Sara Nelson, Editorial
Director of Books and Kindle, Amazon.com. “My team and I read
oceans of books to curate a list that includes titles from
perennial favorites like Nicholas Sparks, John Irving, and Stephen
King as well as authors we’re excited to celebrate like Mary
Karr, William Boyd, and Lauren Groff.”
Below are the Big Fall Books, in order of release date:
- Pretty Girls by Karin
Slaughter: More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia’s
teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have
not spoken since, and now their lives could not be more
different.
- The Survivor: A Mitch Rapp Novel
by Kyle Mills: A blistering novel that picks up
where The Last Man left off, The Survivor is a
no-holds-barred race to save America...and Mitch Rapp’s finest
battle.
- M Train by Patti Smith:
From the National Book Award–winning author of Just Kids: an
unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist.
- Humans of New York: Stories
by Brandon Stanton: Based on the blog with more than four
million loyal fans, a beautiful, heartfelt, funny, and inspiring
collection of photographs and stories capturing the spirit of a
city.
- Foreign Affairs by Stuart
Woods: When he’s apprised at the last minute of a mandatory
meeting abroad, Stone Barrington rushes off to Europe for a
whirlwind tour of business and, of course, pleasure.
- Hell’s Foundations Quiver by
David Weber: The latest novel in Weber’s New York Times
best-selling Safehold series.
- See Me by Nicholas
Sparks: Colin Hancock is giving his second chance his best
shot. At 28, he’s focused on avoiding all the places and people
that proved so destructive in his earlier life.
- Career of Evil by Robert
Galbraith: A fiendishly clever mystery with unexpected twists
around every corner, it is also a gripping story of a man and a
woman at a crossroads in their personal and professional
lives.
- Corrupted: A Rosato & DiNunzio
Novel by Lisa Scottoline: Bennie Rosato is faced with a
case from her past that shows her how differently things might have
turned out.
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School
by Jeff Kinney: With tension building inside and outside the
Heffley home, will Greg find a way to survive? Or is going “old
school” just too hard for a kid like Greg?
- The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by
Stephen King: A master storyteller at his best—the O. Henry
Prize winner delivers a generous collection of stories, several of
them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical
comments.
- The Crossing by Michael
Connelly: Detective Harry Bosch has retired from the LAPD, but
his half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, needs his
help.
- Avenue of Mysteries by John
Irving: Irving returns to the themes that established him as
one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel
of fate and memory.
- Crimson Shore by Douglas
Preston: Agent Pendergast Series: A seemingly straightforward
private case turns out to be much more complicated and sinister
than Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast ever could have
anticipated.
- The Promise: An Elvis Cole and Joe
Pike Novel by Robert Crais: Elvis Cole and Joe Pike are
joined by Suspect heroes Scott James and his K-9 partner,
Maggie, in the new masterpiece of suspense from the #1 New
York Times best-selling author.
- Tricky Twenty-Two: A Stephanie Plum
Novel by Janet Evanovich: Stephanie Plum faces her
toughest case yet in the newest release from the #1 New York
Times best-selling author’s blockbuster series.
- The Guilty by David
Baldacci: Will Robbie infiltrates the most hostile countries in
the world, defeats our enemies’ advanced security measures, and
eliminates threats before they ever reach our shores.
- Cross Justice by James
Patterson: When his cousin is accused of a heinous crime, Alex
Cross returns to his North Carolina hometown for the first time in
over three decades.
- Precious Gifts by Danielle
Steel: Paul Parker ultimately shrugs off the demands of
marriage and parenting to pursue life as an international bon
vivant.
- Ashley Bell by Dean
Koontz: Bibi Blair is a fierce, funny, dauntless young
woman—whose doctor says she has one year to live.
And the Amazon Books Editors’ personal under-the-radar picks, in
their own words:
- The Story of the Lost Child
by Elena Ferrante: The fourth and final of the “Neapolitan
novels” by a pseudonymous Italian author, The Story of the Lost
Child is the finale to a fascinating bunch of books about life,
love, friendship, motherhood and, oh yes, politics. Is it
exaggeration to say that Elena Ferrante is our Tolstoy? Maybe
she’s more like Trollope, with a bit of Knausgaard and Peyton Place
thrown in. – Sara Nelson
- The Heart Goes Last by
Margaret Atwood: This dystopian fantasy is about a social
experiment gone horribly awry. In order to keep the unemployment
rate in check, participants volunteer to go to prison. And no one
need fret if penitentiary orange is not their color—it’ll be for
six alternating months of the year, and the rest of the time they
will resume their civilian lives. What could possibly go wrong?
With echoes of The Handmaid’s Tale, this is Atwood at her chilling
best. – Erin Kodicek
- Submission by Michel
Houllebecq: This is a very personal pick, as I’ve been reading
Michel Houellebecq since The Elemental Practices was published in
2000. Houellebecq is not for everyone—unless you live in France,
where he is a big best seller. I don’t consider myself to be a
card-carrying Francophile, but he’s so atypical to the authors I
normally read that I find myself looking forward to his
books. – Chris Schluep
- Star Wars: Aftermath by Chuck
Wendig: Given Wendig’s electrifying writing and the setting of
this book between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens, I’m
eager to see if there are any hints revealed about the upcoming
film. – Adrian Liang
- Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff
in Simple Words by Randall Munroe: On the heels of his
best-selling What If?, Randall Munroe’s Thing Explainer describes
how complex things work—using only the 1,000 most common words in
the English language. The book will be fun. – Jon Foro
- The Thing About Jellyfish by
Ali Benjamin: Ali Benjamin’s debut is one of the best books
(for readers age 9 and up) that I’ve read all year. Benjamin’s
character, Suzy, is trying to make sense of a loss by researching
an obscure but not impossible explanation. Suzy is endearing in her
awkward innocence and her steadfast convictions. It’s a rich,
multilayered novel beautifully told. – Seira Wilson
To see the complete Big Fall Books Preview, and to purchase in
Kindle or print, visit: www.amazon.com/fallreadingpreview.
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