Booker Prize-winning author Aravind Adiga and Whitbread Novel of the Year author Ali Smith are both back with new novels this month as is National Book Award author Lily Tuck. Plus new work from Neal Stephenson and a collection of Calvin Trillin's funniest stuff.
1. Aleph by Paulo Coelho
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist, The Winner Stands Alone) faces a crisis of faith and so embarks on a round the world journey that lands him face to face with the woman he loved 500 years ago. Get it? No, neither do I, but it's Paulo Coelho.
2. I Married You for Happiness by Lily Tuck
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Atlantic Monthly, September 2011
In Lily Tuck's (The News from Paraguay) I Married You for Happiness, woman reflects on the life she had with her husband as she mourns his sudden death.
3. Last Man in Tower by Aravind Adiga
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Knopf, September 20, 2011
Man Booker Prize-winning Aravind Adiga (The White Tiger) returns with a story of money and power in Mumbai and a single man who stands in the way of real estate developer Dharmen Shah's grand plan.
4. Life Itself: A Memoir by Roger Ebert
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Grand Central, September 2011
Roger Ebert, who recently lost his voice to thyroid cancer, has been writing and talking about films since 1967. He may not be able to speak, but he's still writing.
5. Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff by Calvin Trillin
Random, September 2011
Renown journalist Calvin Trillin has selected the funniest of his work and organized it into this definitive collection.
6. The Magician King by Lev Grossman
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Viking, September 2011
In the sequel to The Magicians, Leve Grossman revisits his characters, now the kings and queens of Fillory looking for a little adventure.
7. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
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Doubleday, September 13, 2011
A circus that arrives unannounced and only at night, a duel between two young magicians, a love afair like no other - a magical debut from Erin Morgenstern.
8. There but for The by Ali Smith
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Pantheon, September 2011
Satirically funny Whitbread Award winner Ali Smith (The Accidental) returns with the story of a dinner party guest who locks himself in a bedroom and doesn't come out. Never comes out.
