Welcome back to our monthly column about the galleys everyone in publishing is reading. The fall season kicks off next week, and more previews have appeared from Time, the AP, and Oprah Daily. Many of the same titles recur, like Susan Orleans’ memoir Joyride (Avid Reader, 10/14), Lily King’s Heart the Lover (Grove, 9/30), and The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai (Hogarth, 9/23), which was nominated for the Booker. Meanwhile, awards season is beginning to take shape. The Kirkus Prize named its finalists, with Desai’s novel as well as Flesh by David Szalay (Scriber, 4/1) the overlapping […]
