Contemporary & Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction | Romance | Thrillers & Mysteries | Horror & Gothic Fiction | Fantasy, Science Fiction, & Magical Realism | Young Adult | Nonfiction
Contemporary & Literary Fiction
Blue Sisters
Coco Mellors
Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister’s death in this unforgettable story of grief, hope, and the complexities of family, from the acclaimed author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein.
Publication date: September 3
Publisher: Ballantine
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Colored Television
Danzy Senna
A brilliant dark comedy about making art and selling out, love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial- identity-industrial complex from the bestselling author of Caucasia.
Publication date: September 3
Publisher: Riverhead
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Creation Lake
Rachel Kushner
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of the most gifted authors of her generation” (The New York Times Book Review), comes a new novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France—a propulsive page-turner of glittering insights and dark humor.
Publication date: September 3
Publisher: Scribner
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Madwoman
Chelsea Bieker
“The rare kind of book that lives in your bones” (Ashley Audrain), this novel tells a gripping story of motherhood and motherloss and the brutal, mighty things women do to keep themselves and each other alive, marking Chelsea Bieker as a major fiction talent.
Publication date: September 3
Publisher: Little, Brown & Co.
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Small Rain
Garth Greenwell
A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and luminous novel by award-winning author Garth Greenwell.
Publication date: September 3
Publisher: FSG
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The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife
Anna Johnston
For readers of Remarkably Bright Creatures and The Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a warm, life-affirming debut about a zany case of mistaken identity that allows a lonely old man one last chance to be part of a family.
Publication date: September 10
Publisher: William Morrow
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Still Life
Katherine Packert Burke
Everything in Edith’s life is approaching disaster. Her writing career is stagnant. Her love life is a mess. Her ex, Tessa, is marrying a man. Her teeth are rotting in her skull. And her best friend, Val, is dead. A profound and piercing tribute to messy webs of queer friendship and to what is left behind in transition.
Publication date: September 10
Publisher: W.W. Norton
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Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
Elizabeth Strout
With her extraordinary capacity for radical empathy, remarkable insight into the human condition, and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst, fall in love and yet choose to be apart, and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it, “What does anyone’s life mean?”
Publication date: September 10
Publisher: Random House
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Entitlement
Rumaan Alam
A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind. Taut, unsettling, and alive to the seductive distortions of money, Entitlement is a riveting tale for our new gilded age, a story that confidently considers questions about need and worth, race and privilege, philanthropy and generosity, passion and obsession. It is a provocative, propulsive novel about the American imagination.
Publication date: September 17
Publisher: Riverhead Books
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Rejection
Tony Tulathimutte
From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens, an electrifying novel-in-stories that follows a cast of intricately linked characters as rejection throws their lives and relationships into chaos. These brilliant satires explore the underrated sorrows of rejection with the authority of a modern classic and the manic intensity of a manifesto. Audacious and unforgettable, Rejection is a stunning mosaic that redefines what it means to be rejected by lovers, friends, society, and oneself.
Publication date: September 17
Publisher: William Morrow
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Intermezzo
Sally Rooney
From the global phenomenon Sally Rooney, an exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family―but especially love― and two brothers with little else in common.
Publication date: September 24
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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A Reason to See You Again
Jami Attenberg
From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling novel of family, following a troubled mother and her two daughters over forty years and through a swiftly changing American landscape as they seek lives they can fully claim as their own.
Publication date: September 24
Publisher: Ecco
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Playground
Richard Powers
Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Set in the world’s largest ocean, this awe-filled book explores that last wild place we have yet to colonize in a still-unfolding oceanic game, and interweaves beautiful writing, rich characterization, profound themes of technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared humanity in a way only Richard Powers can.
Publication date: September 24
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
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Historical Fiction
The Mesmerist
Caroline Woods
Before hypnotism, there was Mesmerism. And in 1894 Minneapolis, in the wake of a national financial crisis, spiritualism of every stripe is all the rage, and women are dying under mysterious circumstances. What follows is a tightly plotted page-turner ripped from the headlines of history, as three very different women must work together to stop a killer and save the truest home they’ve ever known.
Publication date: September 10
Publisher: Doubleday
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Mademoiselle Eiffel
Aimie K. Runyan
From the author of The School for German Brides and A Bakery in Paris, this captivating historical novel set in nineteenth-century Paris tells the story of Claire Eiffel, a woman who played a significant role in maintaining her family’s legacy and their iconic contributions to the city of Paris.
Publication date: September 10
Publisher: William Morrow
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Bright I Burn
Molly Aitken
A fierce, electrifying novel inspired by the true story of the first woman to be condemned as a witch in Ireland. In thirteenth-century Ireland, a woman with power is a woman to be feared. A breathtaking act of imagination, Bright I Burn gives voice to a woman lost to history, who dared to carve a space of her own in a man’s world.
Publication date: September 10
Publisher: Knopf
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The Shadow Key
Susan Stokes-Chapman
On an isolated estate in late-eighteenth-century rural Wales, a young English doctor uncovers dangerous secrets that may threaten his own life in this spellbinding Gothic tale from the bestselling author of Pandora.
Publication date: September 10
Publisher: Harper
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Us Fools
Nora Lange
A tragicomic, intimate American story of two precocious sisters coming of age during the Midwestern farm crisis of the 1980s. With her debut novel, Nora Lange has crafted a rambunctious, ambitious, and heart-rending portrait of two idiosyncratic sisters, determined to persevere despite the worst that capitalism and their circumstances has to throw at them.
Publication date: September 17
Publisher: Two Dollar Radio
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The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts
Louis Bayard
In this singularly powerful novel, bestselling author Louis Bayard brings Oscar Wilde’s wife Constance and two sons out from the shadows of history and creates a vivid and poignant story of secrets, loss, and love.
Publication date: September 17
Publisher: Algonquin Books
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The Lightning Bottles
Marissa Stapley
The author of New York Times bestseller and Reese’s Book Club pick Lucky returns with a spellbinding story of rock ‘n’ roll and star-crossed love—about grunge-era musician Jane Pyre’s journey to find out what really happened to her husband and partner in music, who abruptly disappeared years earlier.
Publication date: September 24
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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A Golden Life
Ginny Kubitz Moyer
Embark on a journey to 1930s California in Ginny Kubitz Moyer’s spellbinding historical novel in which a woman must choose between friendship and her own secrets.
Publication date: September 24
Publisher: She Writes Press
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Romance
The Book Swap
Tessa Bickers
Still reeling from a recent tragedy, Erin Connolly knows she needs to start living, but has no idea how. When she accidentally donates her favorite book—a heavily annotated copy of To Kill a Mockingbird containing a memento she can’t be without—to a local little community library, she’s devastated. But then the book turns up a week later, back in the library with fresh notes in the margins, along with an invitation in a copy of Great Expectations to meet her newfound pen pal.
Publication Date: September 3
Publisher: Graydon House
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Prime Time Romance
Kate Robb
A young divorcée finds herself in the ideal world of her favorite 2000s teen soap in this “gleefully nostalgic and completely fresh” romance from the author of This Spells Love.
Publication Date: September 3
Publisher: Dial Press
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No One Does It Like You
Katie Shepard
College sweethearts reunite to restore more than just an old inn in this new romance by Katie Shepard, author of Sweeten the Deal.
Publication Date: September 3
Publisher: Berkley
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The Cottage Around the Corner
D.L. Soria
A feisty witch and a handsome mage must put their heated business rivalry aside to save their small town from supernatural forces in this charming contemporary fantasy romcom from the author of Thief Liar Lady.
Publication Date: September 3
Publisher: Del Rey
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Casket Case
Lauren Evans
In this warm-hearted debut rom-com, a young woman returns home to run her family’s casket business and falls in love with a seemingly perfect stranger. But there’s just one problem . . . he works for Death.
Publication Date: September 10
Publisher: Dell
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Sunshine and Spice
Aurora Palit
When two complete opposites agree to fake date in order to solve their cultural dilemmas, they find the only force more powerful than an immigrant mother’s matchmaking schemes might just be true love.
Publication Date: September 10
Publisher: Berkley
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Can’t Help Falling in Love
Sophie Sullivan
A struggling waitress and the heir to a major Seattle company stumble into a high-profile fake engagement while simultaneously trying to keep up with their own love lives in this flirty fall rom-com!
Publication Date: September 17
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
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Counting Miracles
Nicholas Sparks
From the acclaimed author of The Longest Ride and The Notebook comes an emotional, powerful novel about wondering if we can change—or even make our peace with—the path we’ve taken.
Publication Date: September 24
Publisher: Random House
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One on One
Jamie Harrow
They call it March Madness for a reason: Anything can happen on the way to a national championship. In addition to being funny, romantic, and sexy, One on One examines the pressure put on college athletes, challenges the sexism in the world of sports, and exposes the dangers in whole communities idolizing the big men on campus.
Publication Date: September 24
Publisher: Dutton
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Thrillers & Mysteries
The Trap
Ava Glass
British spy Emma Makepeace races against the clock to stop the Russians from carrying out a high-profile assassination in this gripping thriller from the author of Alias Emma.
Publication date: September 3
Publisher: Bantam
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Where They Last Saw Her
Marcie R. Rendon
From the award-winning author of the Cash Blackbear series comes a compelling novel of a Native American woman who learns of the disappearance of one of her own and decides enough is enough.
Publication date: September 3
Publisher: Bantam
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Here One Moment
Liane Moriarty
Aside from a delay, there will be no problems. The flight will be smooth, it will land safely. Everyone who gets on the plane will get off. But almost all of them will be forever changed. Because on this ordinary, short, domestic flight, something extraordinary happens. People learn how and when they are going to die. For some, their death is far in the future—age 103!—and they laugh. But for six passengers, their predicted deaths are not far away at all.
Publication date: September 10
Publisher: Crown
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Once More from the Top
Emily Layden
A propulsive, layered novel about the meteoric rise of a legendary pop star and the secret she’s kept hidden for fifteen years, for fans of Megan Abbott and Daisy Jones & the Six.
Publication date: September 10
Publisher: Mariner Books
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The Night We Lost Him
Laura Dave
In this riveting novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me, estranged siblings discover their father has been keeping a secret for over fifty years, one that may have been fatal…
Publication date: September 17
Publisher: Marysue Rucci Books
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We Solve Murders
Richard Osman
A brand new mystery. An iconic new detective duo. And a thrilling new murder to solve . . . Solving murders. It’s a family business.
Publication date: September 17
Publisher: Pamela Dorman Books
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Snake Oil
Kelsey Rae Dimberg
A razor-sharp literary thriller about three women vying for power at a wellness startup, where the cost of ambition might be deadly. Part page-turning suspense, part darkly comic skewering of startup culture, Snake Oil is a gripping exploration of ambition and authenticity, shining a revealing light on the wellness world.
Publication date: September 17
Publisher: Mariner Books
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Graveyard Shift
M.L. Rio
The author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a novella about a ragtag group of night shift workers who meet in the local cemetery to unearth the secrets lurking in an open grave.
Publication date: September 24
Publisher: Flatiron
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Horror & Gothic Fiction
We Came to Welcome You
Vincent Tirado
The Other Black Girl meets Midsommar in this spine-chilling, propulsive psychological adult debut from highly acclaimed author Vincent Tirado, in which a married couple moves into a gated “community” that slowly creeps into a pervasive dread akin to the social horror of Jordan Peele and Lovecraft County—We Came to Welcome You cleverly uses the uncanny to illuminate the cultish, shocking nature of systemic racism.
Publication date: September 3
Publisher: William Morrow
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The Night Guest
Hildur Knútsdóttir
An eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík that’s sure to keep you awake at night. Iðunn is in yet another doctor’s office. She knows her constant fatigue is a sign that something’s not right, but practitioners dismiss her symptoms and blood tests haven’t revealed any cause. Nothing helps. Until one night Iðunn falls asleep with the watch on, and wakes up to find she’s walked over 40,000 steps in the night . . .
Publication date: September 3
Publisher: Tor Nightfire
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William
Mason Coile
Psychological horror meets cyber noir in this delicious one-sitting read—a haunted house story in which the haunting is by AI.
Publication date: September 10
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons
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So Thirsty
Rachel Harrison
A woman must learn to take life by the throat after a night out leads to irrevocable changes in this juicy, thrilling novel from the USA Todaybestselling author of Such Sharp Teeth and Black Sheep.
Publication date: September 10
Publisher: Berkley
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Bitter Is the Heart
Mina Hardy
Haunted by childhood abuse, a woman is forced to care for her cruel elderly mother in this electrifying horror novel exploring generational trauma, perfect for fans of Cassandra Khaw and T. Kingfisher.
Publication date: September 17
Publisher: Crooked Lane
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The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
Olga Tokarczuk
September 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen in the village of Görbersdorf, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and debate the great issues of the day: Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women born inferior? War or peace? Meanwhile, disturbing things are happening in the guesthouse and the surrounding hills. The Nobelist’s latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas.
Publication date: September 24
Publisher: Riverhead
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Devils Kill Devils
Johnny Compton
Devils Kill Devils is perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Certain Dark Things and Southern gothic horror. Johnny Compton brings his trademark terror and dread that readers fell in love with in The Spite House to a new roster of monsters—angels, devils, vampires—and a heart-pounding race to save the world.
Publication date: September 24
Publisher: Tor Nightfire
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Fantasy, Science Fiction, & Magical Realism
Under the Eye of the Big Bird
Hiromi Kawakami
From one of Japan’s most brilliant and sensitive contemporary novelists, this speculative fiction masterpiece envisions an Earth where humans are nearing extinction, and rewrites our understanding of reproduction, ecology, evolution, artificial intelligence, communal life, creation, love, and the future of humanity.
Publication date: September 3
Publisher: Softskull
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Sky Full of Elephants
Cebo Campbell
One day, a cataclysmic event occurs: all of the white people in America walk into the nearest body of water. A year later, Charlie Brunton is a Black man living in an entirely new world. Having served time in prison for a wrongful conviction, he’s now a professor of electric and solar power systems at Howard University when he receives a call from someone he wasn’t even sure existed: his daughter Sidney, a nineteen-year-old left behind by her white mother and step-family.
Publication date: September 10
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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The Fallen Fruit
Shawntelle Madison
Combining history and fantasy, a sweeping multi-generational epic in the vein of Kindred and The Time Traveler’s Wife about a woman who travels through time to end a family curse that has plagued her ancestors for generations.
Publication date: September 3
Publisher: Amistad
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Somewhere Beyond the Sea
T.J. Klune
In this highly anticipated sequel to The House in the Cerulean Sea, a magical house, a secret past, and a summons that could change everything collide. Somewhere Beyond the Sea is a story of resistance, lovingly told, about the daunting experience of fighting for the life you want to live and doing the work to keep it.
Publication date: September 10
Publisher: Tor Books
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An Academy for Liars
Alexis Henderson
A student will find that the hardest lessons sometimes come from outside the classroom in this stunning dark academia novel from the acclaimed author of The Year of the Witching and House of Hunger.
Publication date: September 17
Publisher: Ace
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A Dark and Drowning Tide
Allison Saft
A sharp-tongued folklorist must pair up with her academic rival to solve their mentor’s murder in this lush and enthralling sapphic fantasy romance from the New York Timesbestselling author of A Far Wilder Magic.
Publication date: September 17
Publisher: Del Rey
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Vilest Things
Chloe Gong
Calla Tuoleimi has succeeded in the impossible. Despite the odds, she has won San-Er’s bloody games and eliminated King Kasa, her tyrant uncle and the former ruler of Talin. She now serves as royal advisor to Kasa’s adopted son, August Shenzhi, who has risen to the throne. Only Calla knows it isn’t really August. Chloe Gong returns with power plays, spilled blood, and lethal romance in the thrilling fantasy sequel to Immortal Longings, inspired by Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra.
Publication date: September 10
Publisher: Saga Press
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A Fire in the Sky
Sophie Jordan
New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan returns to the high-stakes, sweeping world of dragons, romance, and drama first evoked in her bestselling young adult Firelight series, in a brand-new epic adult romantasy series.
Publication date: September 24
Publisher: Avon
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Bringer of Dust
J.M. Miro
The second fantasy in the Talents trilogy takes readers to 1883 Sicily, where the sprawling, superpowered cast faces a new threat. The world of the dead is closer than you think.
Publication date: September 17
Publisher: Flatiron
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Alien Clay
Adrian Tchaikovsky
From Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky comes a far-future epic that confirms his place as a modern master of science fiction, in which a political prisoner must unlock the secrets of a strange and dangerous planet.
Publication date: September 17
Publisher: Orbit
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Short Stories & Essays
We’re Alone: Essays
Edwidge Danticat
Tracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat’s childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent events in Haiti, the essays gathered in We’re Alone include personal narrative, reportage, and tributes to mentors and heroes such as Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Gabriel García Márquez, and James Baldwin that explore several abiding themes: environmental catastrophe, the traumas of colonialism, motherhood, and the complexities of resilience.
Publication date: September 3
Publisher: Greywolf
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A Sunny Place for Shady People: Stories
Mariana Enríquez
A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, goblins, and the macabre, by “one of Latin America’s most exciting authors” (Silvia Moreno-Garcia).
Publication date: September 17
Publisher: Hogarth
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Memoirs & Biographies
First in the Family: A Story of Survival, Recovery, and the American Dream
Jessica Hoppe
In this deeply moving and lyrical memoir, Hoppe shares an intimate, courageous account of what it means to truly interrupt cycles of harm. For readers of The Recovering by Leslie Jamison, Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford, and Heavy by Kiese Laymon.
Publication date: September 10
Publisher: Flatiron Books
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The Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and a Medical Miracle
Dr. Rachel Clarke
A riveting and inspiring true story of two families linked by one heart—written by a bestselling author and palliative care doctor. Dr. Rachel Clarke interweaves the history of medical innovations behind transplant surgery with the story of two children—one of whom desperately needs a new heart. The Story of a Heart is a testament to compassion for the dying, the many ways we honor our loved ones, and the tenacity of love.
Publication date: September 10
Publisher: Scribner
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Rage: On Being Queer, Black, Brilliant . . . and Completely Over It
Lester Fabian Brathwaite
A debut book from Entertainment Weekly writer and former Out magazine editor Lester Fabian Brathwaite, Rage is a darkly comedic exploration of Blackness, queerness, and the American Dream, at a time when creative anger feels like the best response to inequality.
Publication date: September 10
Publisher: Tiny Reparations
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Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue
Lester Fabian Brathwaite
From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of A Woman of No Importance, an electrifying re-examination of one of the 20th century’s greatest unsung power players. ritten with the novelistic richness and investigative rigor that only Sonia Purnell could bring to this story full of sex, politics, yachts, palaces and fabulous clothes, Kingmaker re-asserts Harriman’s rightful place at the heart of history.
Publication date: September 17
Publisher: Tiny Reparations
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Connie
Connie Chung
In a sharp, witty, and definitive memoir, iconic trailblazer and legendary journalist Connie Chung delves into her storied career as the first Asian woman to break into an overwhelmingly white, male-dominated television news industry.
Publication date: September 17
Publisher: Grand Central
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One Day I’ll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman: A Mother’s Story
Abi Maxwell
A fiery, heartbreaking, riveting memoir that follows one New Hampshire family over the course of three years, unspooling a story of gender identity, class, trans youth, and a child caught in the riptide of America’s culture wars.
Publication date: September 17
Publisher: Knopf
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We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People
Nemonte Nenquimo & Mitch Anderson
From a fearless, internationally acclaimed activist comes an impassioned memoir about an indigenous childhood, a clash of cultures, and the fight to save the Amazon rainforest. We Will Be Jaguars is an astonishing memoir by an equally astonishing woman.
Publication date: September 17
Publisher: Abrams Press
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Nonfiction
Chaos Comes Calling: The Battle Against the Far-Right Takeover of Small-Town American
Sasha Abramsky
A harrowing tale of how polarization threatened to break apart two American communities and how one found a way back while the other splintered. Chaos Comes Calling vividly captures both the regressive forces gaining momentum all over the country and the tireless efforts of citizens determined to organize against them.
Publication date: September 3
Publisher: Bold Type
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How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History
Josephine Quinn
An award-winning Oxford history professor overturns the way the West thinks about itself, tracing its innovations and traditions to societies from all over the world and making the case that the West is, and always has been, truly global.
Publication date: September 3
Publisher: Random House
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Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America
Rebecca L. Davis
The first sweeping history of sex and sexuality in America since John D’Emilio and Estelle Freedman’s classic work, Intimate Matters, Rebecca L. Davis’s Fierce Desires presents a story of dramatic and often surprising change. Davis’s absorbing narrative takes us across four hundred years, from two-spirit people among the Pueblo Indians in the seventeenth century to the gay rights activist Kiyoshi Kuromiya in the twentieth.
Publication date: September 3
Publisher: W.W. Norton
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The Anatomy of Deception: Conspiracy Theories, Distrust, & Public Health in America
Sara E. Gorman
Veteran health writer Sara Gorman compellingly argues that the backbone of medical conspiracy theories is not misinformation but lack of trust–in our hospitals and in our democracy writ large.
Publication date: September 3
Publisher: Oxford University
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The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, & A 20 Year Fight for Justice
Dan Slepian
An NBC Dateline producer’s cinematic account of his two-decade journey navigating the broken criminal justice system to help free six innocent men.
Publication date: September 10
Publisher: Celadon Books
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The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
Sharon McMahon
From America’s favorite government teacher, a heartfelt, inspiring portrait of twelve ordinary Americans whose courage formed the character of our country.
Publication date: September 10
Publisher: Thesis
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The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy
Jessica Pishko
A leading authority on sheriffs investigates the impunity with which they police their communities, alongside the troubling role they play in American life, law enforcement, and, increasingly, national politics.
Publication date: September 17
Publisher: Dutton
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Precious: The History & Mystery of Gems Across Time
Helen Molesworth
A renowned jewelry expert recounts her career working with nature’s most extraordinary treasures—gemstones—and traces these rare jewels from ancient Egyptian records through the high-stakes auctions of today.
Publication date: September 17
Publisher: Ballantine
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The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi
Wright Thompson
A shocking and revelatory account of the murder of Emmett Till that lays bare how forces from around the world converged on the Mississippi Delta in the long lead-up to the crime, and how the truth was erased for so long.
Publication date: September 24
Publisher: Penguin Press
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Book and Dagger: How Scholars & Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
Elyse Graham
The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the war. Thrillingly paced and rigorously researched, Book and Dagger is an inspiring and gripping true story about a group of academics who helped beat the Nazis—a tale that reveals the indelible power of the humanities to change the world.
Publication date: September 24
Publisher: Ecco
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