New Book Releases: September 28, 2021

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

A CALLING FOR CHARLIE BARNES, Joshua Ferris. A 68-year-old financial planner rediscovers himself after a cancer scare turns out to be nothing. “Ferris can now truly sit back and enjoy the ride. He’s finally done it,” writes The Irish Times. Aggregated critical reviews, Bookshop.

THE MORNING STAR, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Martin Aitken (Translator). A huge star suddenly appears in the sky, causing mysterious events to occur in the lives of nine different characters. Aggregated critical reviews, Bookshop.

CLOUD CUCKOO LAND, Anthony Doerr. From the author of All The Light We Cannot See, three storylines — from medieval Constantinople, present-day Idaho, and a spaceship far in the future — intertwine in an epic narrative that The New York Times calls “a wildly inventive novel that teems with life.” Aggregated critical reviews, Bookshop.

THE ORPHAN WITCH, Paige Crutcher. A survivor of the foster care system — who seems to…