New Book Releases: September 15, 2020

Each week, I’ll catalog the biggest and most exciting adult and YA fiction — and the occasional nonfiction — coming out that Tuesday.

HOMELAND ELEGIES, Ayad Akhtar. The story of an immigrant family in post 9/11 America. “This is the book of the year,” writes Junot Diaz in Oprah Magazine. Aggregated critical reviews, Bookshop.

THE EVENING AND THE MORNING, Ken Follett. A small cast of characters in 997 CE — Europe’s Dark Ages — must contend with a chaotic, changing world, including invading Vikings and war with the Welsh. “Readers will gobble up this exciting prequel to his 1989 classic, The Pillars of the Earth,” writes Library Journal. Aggregated critical reviews, Bookshop.

PIRANESI, Susanna Clarke. In one of my favorite novels of 2020, a mysterious man named Piranesi works to uncover the identity of a stranger in his House, which encompasses the entire world and in which only one other person lives. Magical, haunting, and sensitive. “To abide in these pages is to find oneself happily detained in awe,” writes Ron Charles in the Washington Post. Aggregated critical reviews, Bookshop.