59 new books coming out October 1 - 7, 2024
The best books coming out this week
It’s hard to think back 25 years to when Malcolm Gladwell’s career-launching, genre-defining international bestseller The Tipping Point was first published. In that book the New Yorker columnist sought to find the why behind different kinds of trends that seemed to spread virally—a hot topic in the wake of the dot-com boom and bust. At the time, nonfiction bestseller lists were populated by memoirs like Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes, popular histories like Tom Brokaw’s The Greatest Generation, with occasional appearances by talk-radio personalities like Laura Schlessinger. But after Gladwell’s accessible blend of thought-provoking anecdotes and enlightening academic studies found a mass audience (propelled by subsequent works Blink and Outliers) a tidal wave of books followed, including Freakonomics, Nudge, Predictably Irrational and more recently, Sapiens. The Tipping Point was a crossover hit with readers in interested in social phenomena as well as readers of business how-to books in search of a marketing edge. In Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering, Gladwell revisits the topic of social epidemics and “tipping points” to explain the ugly underbelly of a variety of viral trends we might wish to be inoculated from. One trend not addressed is the spread of books in the Gladwellian mold—a genre about which the author has expressed mixed feelings.
In Jean Hanff Korelitz’ 2021 novel The Plot, Jake is a writing teacher whose career failed to launch, so he decides that the death of a student whose first novel features a can’t-miss plot decides to “borrow” the plot for a book of his own—which leads to all the fame and fortune his late student believed (with surprising confidence, given this is the book business we’re talking about) was his to enjoy. Then Jake receives a letter informing him only that he hasn’t quite gotten away with his scheme. In The Sequel… actually, we can’t tell you anything about it without ruining the plot of The Plot. Suffice it to say, if you haven’t yet read Korelitz’ delicious 2021 book—one which no less than Stephen King and Malcolm Gladwell have lauded—you must ASAP before The Sequel spoils it for you.
This week from horror writer Stephen Graham Jones we’re getting a handful of books from before books including The Only Good Indians and My Heart is a Chainsaw made him a star of the genre. Three Miles Past is a collection of stories that’s perfect for spooky season. But it’s just one of a handful of “new” SGJ books now available instantly.
More books coming out this week
🧰 Help and How-to
Re-Regulated: Set Your Life Free from Childhood PTSD and the Trauma-Driven Behaviors That Keep You Stuck by Anna Runkle
Thriving Beyond Fifty (Expanded Edition): 111 Natural Strategies to Restore Your Mobility, Avoid Surgery and Stay Off Pain Pills for Good by Will Harlow BSc, MSx, MCSPm Cert. MA
The Obstacle is the Way Expanded 10th Anniversary Edition: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday
Witch in Darkness: Magick for Tough Times, Bad Days and Moments of Total Catastrophe by Kelly-Ann Maddox
The Elements of Baking: Making any recipe gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free or vegan (The art and science of baking ANY recipe) by Katarina Cermelj
💡 Big Ideas
Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering by Malcolm Gladwell
Q: A Voyage Around the Queen by Craig Brown
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Clever Girl: Jurassic Park by Hannah McGregor
Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win by Jessica Valenti
The Audacity of Relevance: Critical Conversations on the Future of Arts and Culture by Alex Sarian
If We Are Brave: Essays from Black Americana by Theodore Johnson
🗣 True Stories
Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir by Ina Garten
Black Saturday: An Unfiltered Account of the October 7th Attack on Israel and the War in Gaza by Trey Yingst
The Paranormal Ranger: A Navajo Investigator's Search for the Unexplained by Stanley Milford, Jr.
Strange, Spooky and Supernatural: Curious Tales of Fascinating People, Places and Things by Mike Browne
The Vietnam War: A Military History by Geoffrey Wawro
May It Have a Happy Ending: A Memoir of Finding My Voice as My Mother Lost Hers by Minelle Mahtani
Unlike the Rest: A Doctor's Story by Chika Stacy Oriuwa
💘 Romance
Deserving Maisy by Susan Stoker
Triangle by Danielle Steel
The Bloody Ruin Asylum & Taproom by Seana Kelly
Second Chance Husband by Carrie Ann Ryan
Heir by Sabaa Tahir
Best Hex Ever by Nadia El-Fassi
🗡️ Action, Crime, and Mystery
Their Frozen Bones by D.K. Hood
The Mistletoe Mystery by Nita Prose
A Walking Shadow by Melissa F. Miller
The Drowned by John Banville
Society of Lies by Lauren Ling Brown
Exposure by Ramona Emerson
🖊️ Literary & Contemporary Fiction
The Sequel by Jean Hanff Korelitz
The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister
The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich
The Third Realm by Karl Ove Knausgaard
The Coming Bad Days by Sarah Bernstein
Tasmania by Paolo Giordano
Season of the Swamp by Yuri Herrera
Marigold Mind Laundry by Jungeun Yun
In the Shadows of Love by Awais Khan
✨ Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, and Speculative Fiction
I'll Be Waiting by Kelley Armstrong
Candle & Crow by Kevin Hearne
The House at Watch Hill by Karen Marie Moning
The City in Glass by Nghi Vo
A Song to Drown Rivers by Ann Liang
Coup de Grâce by Sofia Ajram
Three Miles Past: Stories by Stephen Graham Jones
Livesuit by James S. A. Corey
The Last Dangerous Visions by Harlan Ellison
Model Home by Rivers Solomon
Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman's Trek by Nana Visitor
Invisible Kitties by Yu Yoyo
🗯 Manga & Graphic Novels
Karen's Grandmothers: A Graphic Novel (Baby-sitters Little Sister #9) by DK Yingst
Tegan and Sara: Crush by Tegan Quin and Sara Quin
Kaiju No. 8, Vol. 11 by Naoya Matsumoto
My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999 Volume 3 by Mashiro
My Hero Academia, Vol. 39 by Kohei Horikoshi
MrBallen Presents: Strange, Dark & Mysterious by MrBallen
Does it Count if You Lose Your Virginity to an Android? Vol. 4 by Yakinikuteishoku
Tegan and Sara: Crush by Tegan Quin and Sara Quin
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