New Book Releases: September 8, 2020

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

ANXIOUS PEOPLE, Fredrik Backman. A failed bank robber takes a disparate group of strangers hostage during a real estate open house. From the author of A Man Called Ove. “A deeply funny and warm examination of how individual experiences can bring a random group of people together,” writes Bookpage. Aggregated critical reviews, Bookshop.

BEFORE SHE WAS HELEN, Caroline B. Cooney. When she goes to check up on her unlikeable neighbor, a woman instead finds a beautiful object, which she photographs and posts online. But the subsequent media attention — and revelation that the neighbor has, in fact, been murdered — threatens to expose the careful lie of a life the woman has pieced together over the years. From the author of The Face on the Milk Carton. Bookshop.

WHAT ARE YOU GOING THROUGH, Sigrid Nunez. From the author of the National Book Award-winning The Friend, a woman describes a series of encounters over the course of her life. “It’s as good as The Friend, if not better,” writes The New York Times. Aggregated critical reviews…