Each week, The Post compiles the hottest new books. Take a look at our favorite titles from recent weeks.
This week’s best new books
Michel Houellebecq (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
The renowned French writer’s latest film is set in a chaotic, troubled France in the year 2027. Paul Ryerson, advisor to the country’s financial minister, deals with both personal and professional turmoil. After his father suffers a stroke, Raison leaves Paris and returns to his hometown in the country, where he and his siblings try to repair their relationship with their ailing father.
Michael Silver (WW Norton & Company)
Silver, a longtime sports journalist, saw how Kyle Shanahan shook up the football world when, in 2008, he became the NFL’s youngest offensive coordinator and developed a bold new approach to coaching.
Dava Sobel (Atlantic Monthly Press)
Sobel was a Pulitzer finalist with “Galileo’s Daughter.” Here he looked at Curie not only for her famous scientific achievements, but also how she paved a path for women in science by training young women in her laboratory.
Edited by Zibby Owens (Zibby Books)
Seventy-five writers, including Daphne Merkin, Annabelle Gurwitch and The Post’s David Christopher Kaufman, share views on Jewish faith and culture — and how both have been tested and reimagined in the year since the Hamas attack on Israel.
Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough (Random House)
The late Lisa Marie, along with her daughter, wrote the stories of her extraordinary life. Presley recalled her youth at Graceland, the horror of discovering Elvis’ body, her marriage to Michael Jackson, and much more.
Oliver Berkman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Berkman’s “Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals” was a bestseller because of its well-organized, witty and practical advice. Here he applies the same approach to self-reflection, offering 28 short chapters to ponder.
Last week’s best new book releases
Louise Erdrich (Harper)
The latest film from Erdrich, who won a Pulitzer Prize for “The Night Watchman,” is set amid the 2008-2009 recession and takes on climate change, fracking and toxic pesticides. In a small town in North Dakota, two men fall in love with a goth girl named Kismet Poe. His mother has strange dreams and worries about the future.
Karl Ove Knausgaard (Penguin Press)
The great Scandinavian writer returned to the world of “Morning Star” and “The Wolves of Eternity”. Various Norwegians struggle with the emergence of an unlucky star. People start doing strange things, but the strange thing is that still no one is seen dying.
Betsy Lerner (Grove Press)
This acclaimed debut film tells the story of two twenty-something sisters who move in and out of each other’s lives. The eldest, Olivia, is beautiful but troubled, impulsive and mentally ill. Younger sister Amy is serious and hard-working, struggling to keep her sister together amid all the turmoil.
Ina Garten (The Crown)
The beloved cookbook author dished out recipes from her trip to the Hamptons, including her terrible childhood, and the time she and Jeffrey gasped.
David M. Rubenstein (Simon & Schuster)
Rubenstein, a businessman and host of his own PBS show, sat down with living presidents and historians for this comprehensive look at the top office.
Alan Moore (Bloomsbury)
It is the first book in a new fantasy series from the author of the wildly popular “Watchmen” and “V for Vendetta” graphic novels. In 1949, an 18-year-old student comes across a book set in “The Great When” – a magical version of London where there is no clear line between fiction and fantasy.
Best New Book Release week of september 22
Sally Rooney (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
The literary “It” girl’s fourth novel is being considered her best novel to date. Two very different brothers mourn the death of their father. Peter is a successful, thirty-year-old Dublin lawyer who is dealing with two different women. Ivan is a chess-playing loner who is about 20 years old and falls for an older woman.
Richard Powers (WW Norton & Company)
Powers, who won the Pulitzer Prize for 2018’s “The Overstory,” is back with an ambitious book that explores the ocean, the future of AI, climate change and more. Four lives come together on a small Polynesian island amid a plan to populate the ocean with giant floating cities.
Emily Witt (Pantheon)
In this riveting memoir, a New York writer tells about coming off antidepressants and falling into Brooklyn’s underground club scene in the years before the pandemic.
Nicholas Sparks (Random House)
In the latest edition of Romance Master, an Army Ranger tries to locate the father he never knew after the death of his beloved grandmother. But first, he meets a complicated single mother to whom he is immediately attracted.
Sharon McMahon (thesis)
McMahon — a high school law and government teacher with a wildly popular Instagram account @SharonSaysSo — takes a look at a dozen influential but lesser-known characters in our country’s history. They include Gouverneur Morris, a friend of Alexander Hamilton, who wrote the Preamble to the Constitution, and Clara Brown, a former slave who traveled by wagon train to Colorado, where she acquired a small fortune and helped other freed slaves move west.
Leanne Morgan (Convergence Books)
The Tennessee comedian is having a breakout moment in her late 50s. His Netflix special was one of the platform’s most streamed comedy specials in 2023. With her new book, she continues to find humor in diet trends, menopause, rock concerts, and more, being a woman in late middle age.
Best New Book Release week of september 15
Rumaan Alam (Riverhead Books)
The author of “Leave the World Behind” — a National Book Award finalist that was made into a film starring Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke and Mahershala Ali — has returned with another tension-filled social critique. Brooke wants to do something meaningful with her life and thinks it’s her job to work as an assistant to an 80-year-old billionaire and help him donate his money. But working close to so much money changes that.
Cara Giaomo and Joshua Foer (Workman Publishing Company)
The popular “Atlas Obscura” team uses their ability to discover the strange and unknown in the natural world. Readers will be delighted to learn about the 44,000-year-old bushhog and the tiny shrimp that is actually one of the strongest animals in the world.
Kelly Bishop (Gallery Books)
Octogenarian Bishop, who played the eldest “Gilmore Girl” Emily, spent six seasons on the beloved show as well as starring in “Dirty Dancing” and being part of the original Broadway cast of “A Chorus Line.”
Laura Dave (Simon & Schuster/MarySue Rookie Books)
Following the death of their father, two estranged siblings reunite to investigate whether it was really an accident. Along the way, they discover a family secret in the best-selling author’s latest edition of “The Last Thing He Told Me.”
Marty Macari MD (Bloomsbury Publishing)
From peanut allergies and opioid addiction to the rise of healthy fats and hormone replacement therapy, a Johns Hopkins professor looks at examples where the medical establishment has ignored problems or made them worse. .
Ben McIntyre (Crown)
This thrilling non-fiction book takes a look at another Iranian hostage crisis. In the spring of 1980, armed gunmen entered the Iranian Embassy in London and took 26 hostages. Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister for less than a year, but she steadfastly refused to negotiate with extremists, establishing the strong will that would be her legacy.
Best New Book Release week of september 8
Liane Moriarty (The Crown)
The highly anticipated release from the author of “Big Little Lies” has an interesting setup. The passengers face no problems on the short flight, but they meet a woman who tells them when and how they will die. At first, they laugh at what the “Death Lady” tells them, but as the months pass, the travelers perish exactly as she predicted.
Katherine Rundell, illustrated by Ashley McKenzie (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
This children’s fantasy book was phenomenally popular and received rave reviews when it was published in the UK last year – it was named Waterstones Book of the Year and compared to CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien Was. Two children set out on an adventure, wandering among uncharted islands where magical creatures have lived for centuries, but are suddenly dying. Dragons, Sphinxes and Krakens come into play.
Tony Blair (Crown)
The former Prime Minister of Britain used his own experiences to offer tips and insights on effective political leadership.
Don Lemon (Little, Brown & Company)
The ousted CNN anchor reflects on religion, the state of America, and his own life after his ouster.
Rachel Kushner (Simon & Schuster)
The acclaimed author’s latest book is shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It is a noir that focuses on a beautiful, adventurous young American woman in rural France who is actually a secret agent on a mission.
Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
Pulitzer Prize winner Strout gives us another story from fantasy author Lucy Barton. This time, Barton and other quirky characters grapple with a local murder in their small Maine town, their lives, and their search for meaning.
