New in September!

 

September Fiction 

There are a LOT of new books due out in September, including a many big name authors like Jodi Picoult, John Grisham, James Patterson, John Green, Danielle Steel, Jeneva Rose, James Patterson, Alice Hoffman, Chloe Benjamin, James Patterson, Emily St. John Mandel, Alexander McCall Smith, and James Patterson.

Staff members are especially looking forward to books by Sarah Addison Allen, John Green, Chloe Benjamin, and Richar Osman.  Whatever genre you read, there is probably a new book for you in this list!

Adler-Olsen, Jussi  No Song for the Dead (Dept. Q)

Alderman, Naomi  The Strangers

Alexander, Tasha  Murder on the Sacred River  (Lady Emily Mystery)

Allen, Sarah Addison  Paper Ghosts

Bardugo, Leigh Dead Beat (9^th House)

Barrett, Lorna   A Critical Conjunction                           

Benjamin, Chloe Under Story

Bentley, Don Double Tap:  A Mitch Rapp Novel

Cahn, Jonathan  The Altar of Pergamon: the Mystery of the Dark Angel & the Future of the World

Cleeves, Ann The Dying Light (Matthew Venn)

Cline, Emma Switzy

Diaz, Hernan  Ply

Due, Tananarive  Mazywood

Foley, Lucy  Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel: The New Miss Marple Mystery

Francis, Felix  The Chase: A Dick Francis Novel

Green, John  Hollywood Ending

Grisham, John  The French Illusion

Hale, Shannon  Christmas in Austenland

Harris, Robert  Agrippa: A Novel of Ancient Rome’s Descent into Dictatorship

Hoffman, Alice  The Witches of Cambridge

Ishida, Syou  Welcome to the Kokoro Cat Clinic (We’ll Prescribe You a Cat)

King, Laurie R. Those Who Are Gone (Raquel Laing)

Koryta, Michael  Die Famous

Kuang, R.F. Taipei Story

Lawhon, Ariel  The Pirate Queen

Lee, Min Jin  American Hagwon

Mackintosh, Clare It’s Not What You Think

Mandel, Emily St. John Exit Party

Mason, Meg  Sophie, Standing There

McCall Smith, Alexander  The Big Cats Dance Party (No. 1 Ladies

Michaels, Fern A Season of Secrets

Mizushima, Margaret Fighting Edge (Timber Creek K-9)

MrBeast and James Patterson  The Most Dangerous Games

Osman, Richard We Chase Shadows (We Solve Murders)

Patterson, James  The Munich Affair

Peters, Amanda  The Birthing Tree

Picoult, Jodi Hollow Bones

Robb, J.D.  Fury in Death

Rose, Jeneva Sometimes I Scare Myself:  A Collection of Horror

Snelling, Lauraine  Fair Are the Meadows (Home to Green Creek)

Steel, Danielle Ruthless

Stewart, Jack  Tom Clancy Pressure Depth (Jack Ryan, Jr.)

Nevermore Books: November 17, 2025

 

Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America by Beth Macy

 

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

  

A History of Present Illness by Anna DeForest

 

All But My Life: A Memoir by Gerda Weissmann Klein

 

 

Follow Me to Alaska: A true story of one couple's adventure adjusting from life in a cul-de-sac in El Paso, Texas, to a cabin off-grid in the wilderness by Ann Parker

 

When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris 

Sleep by Honor Jones

 

 

The Last Gentleman Adventurer: Coming of Age in the Arctic by Edward Beauclerk Maurice

 

Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin 

The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston

Nevermore: Paris Trout, Perfect Phrases for Dealing with Difficult People, Eat Well and Get Lots of Rest, The Good American, When Justice Sleeps

 

 

Reported by Garry

Paris Trout by Pete Dexter was our first book reviewed this week, and our reader loved it!  This historical novel takes place in 1940’s Cotton Point, Georgia where the titular Paris Trout is on trial for the murder of a local 14 year old Black girl.  Privileged, White, indifferent, and descending into madness, Paris is a deeply warped man who thinks he did nothing wrong in the shooting death of Rose, his victim.  Told from multiple view points, including that of Rose, this book has a little mystery, a whole lot of South, and is a darkly entertaining page turner. 

 

Perfect Phrases for Dealing with Difficult People:  Hundreds of Ready-to-Use Phrases for Handling Conflict, Confrontations and Challenging Personalities by Susan Benjamin has become a go-to book for one of our readers.  While this book is written for and targeted to businesses, our reader stated that the lessons and phrases in this book are absolutely useful in personal interactions with difficult relatives as well. 

 

Eat Well and Get Lots of Rest:  Wolfie’s Guide to the Good Life by Wolfie Maine Coon and Michael McGaulley is a cute, fluffy (no pun intended) book written from a pampered cat’s perspective.  Our reader said that this humorous look at the good life from the viewpoint of a housecat who has it all is truly aspirational.  Who wouldn’t want a house full of servants to feed you, pet you and cater to your every whim?!

 

 

The Good American: The Epic Life of Bob Gersony, the U.S. Government’s Greatest Humanitarian by Robert Kaplan was what our reader called “a fascinating look at a man who tirelessly worked behind the scenes for the betterment of the world” on behalf of the U.S. government for four decades.  Quiet and unassuming, Gersony was a high-school dropout who was awarded the Bronze star for his service in Vietnam.  He went on to work with the State Department and did on-the-ground research in war-torn areas all over the world, gathering information and getting into places that diplomats could not, or would not.  Risking his own life multiple times, Gersony worked to bring aid and understanding to refugees and victims of wars wherever he went. 

 

While Justice Sleeps is a new novel by nationally renowned politician and political activist Stacey Abrams. This taut thriller follows Avery Keene, a young law clerk for the legendary Supreme Court Justice Howard Wynn.  When Wynn falls into a coma, Keene has to untangle the secret web of lies, deceit, corruption and power that Wynn has been researching – all without getting herself killed.  Our reader says that this is a very well written book that is hard to put down.

 

Also Mentioned:

Jimson Weed – Poetry and prose written by students at UVA Wise.

200 Years of American Short Stories edited by Martha Foley

Second Glance by Jodi Picoult

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt

No One Is Too Small To Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg

Return of the Witch by Paula Braxton

Midnight Witch by Paula Braxton

Saint Patrick’s Battalion by James Alexander Thom

Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy

Intentional Fallacies by Edison Jennings

A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle

Auntie Poldi series by Mario Giordano

Geniuses at War: Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age by David Price

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

The I Hate to Cook Book by Peg Bracken