Earlier this year, we began adding a new feature to our articles — including our seasonal previews and weekly editors’ choice columns — enabling people to save the books they’ve read and the ones they want to read. Thousands of you have made good use of it by adding titles to your personal reading lists. Here are the new books New York Times readers say they’re most eager to dive into this season.
You can save the books you’re most excited about on a personal reading list, and find even more recommendations from our book experts.
Fiction
1. The Secret of Secrets
by Dan Brown
The hero of “The Da Vinci Code” returns for his sixth adventure, unraveling a shocking conspiracy in the streets of Prague. Read our review.
2. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
by Kiran Desai
Nearly two decades after her Booker Prize-winning novel, “The Inheritance of Loss,” Desai returns with an epic family saga about Sunny, a young New York journalist, and Sonia, an aspiring novelist in Vermont. Read more in our fall preview.
3. Buckeye
by Patrick Ryan
Ryan’s sweeping novel follows two complicated families in small-town Ohio whose lives intersect across the mid-20th century. Read our review.
4. What We Can Know
by Ian McEwan
In 2119, when a nuclear accident and climate change have reshaped society, a humanities professor becomes obsessed with a literary mystery: a famous poem, recited at a dinner party in 2014, that has been lost. Read more in our fall preview.
5. The Wilderness
by Angela Flournoy
Flournoy’s saga of Black millennial friendship follows five women over 20 years, charting careers, pregnancies, divorces and deaths against the backdrop of the evolving American political landscape. Read more in our fall preview.
6. The Killer Question
by Janice Hallett
This whodunit centers on a rural English pub, the locals who populate its Monday trivia night and the team of suspicious outsiders who begin to dominate the weekly game — right after a dead body shows up in the nearby river. Read more in our fall preview.
7. The Impossible Fortune
by Richard Osman
Osman’s beloved septuagenarian sleuths, who recently made their film debut, investigate the disappearance of a guest at a wedding. Read more in our September preview.
8. Shadow Ticket
by Thomas Pynchon
Pynchon’s first book in more than a decade contains all the hallmarks of his personal canon, including espionage, paranoia and bumbling characters in over their heads — in this case, Hicks McTaggart, a private eye tasked with tracking down a runaway Wisconsin cheese heiress. Read more in our fall preview.
9. Circle of Days
by Ken Follett
The popular Welsh novelist imagines the origins of Stonehenge in this sweeping novel, charting the monument’s conception and construction amid growing tensions and the threat of war. Read more in our fall preview.
10. Will There Ever Be Another You
by Patricia Lockwood
Lockwood’s new novel — which follows a young writer suffering from a bizarre illness — offers a characteristically witty, lyrical and sometimes bonkers reminder of what it was like to live through the pandemic. Read more in our fall preview.
Nonfiction
1. Mother Mary Comes to Me
by Arundhati Roy
The “God of Small Things” author channels warmth, moral clarity and a sweeping bird’s-eye view of modern India to tell the story of her life — and of how much she was shaped by her singular, strong-willed mother. Read our review.
2. The Arrogant Ape
by Christine Webb
Webb, a primatologist, explores the intelligence and sensitivity found throughout the animal world in this passionate argument against human exceptionalism. Read our review.
3. We the People
by Jill Lepore
Why is amending the U.S. Constitution is so hard? Lepore tells the story of the centuries-long fight to remake American law in colorful detail. Read more in our fall preview.
4. The Tragedy of True Crime
by John J. Lennon
The first book by Lennon, a convicted murderer and distinguished jailhouse journalist, unfolds his story and those of four fellow inmates — highlighting the myriad frustrations, dangers and absurdities of prison life. Read more in our fall preview.
5. All the Way to the River
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Gilbert’s memoir explores the complex tragedy of navigating love, terminal cancer and active addiction with her friend-turned-soul mate, Rayya Elias. Read our review.
6. Dark Renaissance
by Stephen Greenblatt
Greenblatt, a leading historian of Elizabethan England, recounts the brief, brilliant and enduringly enigmatic life of the playwright Christopher Marlowe. Read more in our fall preview.
7. Awake
by Jen Hatmaker
A former queen bee in the world of online evangelicals chronicles the implosion of her 26-year marriage and her climb out from under that disaster. Read more in our fall preview.
8. 1929
by Andrew Ross Sorkin
This immersive history by the New York Times financial columnist offers a fly-on-the-wall account of the bankers, regulators and politicians whose ambition and maneuvering led to the stock market crash of 1929. Read more in our fall preview.
9. Replaceable You
by Mary Roach
The best-selling popular science writer Roach brings her riotous brand of immersive journalism to the subject of artificial — or foreign — body parts. Read more in our fall preview.
10. Family of Spies
by Christine Kuehn
With all the trappings of a le Carré spy thriller, Kuehn’s deeply researched history tells the story of her grandfather Otto Kuehn, the patriarch of a Berlin family sent to Honolulu to spy for the Nazis. Read more in our fall preview.
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