You may find a few gift ideas here or a few books for your own wish list.
- The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perotta (St. Martin’s) October
- The Air We Breathe by Andrea Barrett (Norton) October
- The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold (Little, Brown) October
- The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa (FSG) October
- Breakfast With Buddha by Roland Merullo (Algonquin) October
- Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo (knopf) October
- The Elephanta Suite by Paul Theroux (Houghton) November
- Eureka by Jim Lehrer (RH) October
- Exit Ghost by Phlip Roth (Houghton) October [The last Zuckerman novel is #68 on Amazon]
- The Fall of Troy by Peter Ackroyd (Talese) October
- A Free Life by Ha Jin (Pantheon) November
- Ghost by Alan Lightman (Pantheon) October
- Lush Life by Richard Price (FSG) March
- People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (Viking) January [2006 Pulitzer Prize winner for March]
- The Quiet Girl by Peter Hoeg (FSG) November
- The Race by Richard North Peterson (Holt) October
- Songs Without Words by Ann Packer (Knopf) September
- The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama (St. Martin’s) September
- Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson (FSG) September
- Trespass by Valerie Martin (Doubleday) September ["In 'Trespass,' a brilliant contemporary novel that plays out across the world stage, Martin has created her most intriguing and absorbing novel yet, ranging broadly in scope and outlook, examining the many ways humans invade and infringe upon one another's lives." --Susan Larson in the Times-Picayune, September 30]
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy [new translation] (Knopf) October
This list excerpted from “Fall Books Preview,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, September 30, 2007