Each week, The Post compiles the buzziest latest books. Have a take a look at our favourite titles in recent weeks.
This week’s best latest books
Richard Price (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
The most recent from the chronicler of urban grit known for “Lush Life” and “Clockers” — in addition to writing on “The Wire” TV series — is ready in 2008 in East Harlem, where a five-story tenement collapses suddenly. Six bodies are quickly discovered and plenty of more residents are declared missing. Price, who was inspired partly by the 2014 collapse of a Harlem constructing, paints moving parts of several residents, amongst them a young artist latest to town and the owner of a struggling funeral home.
David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)
The most recent “6:20 Man” thriller finds former Army ranger Travis Devine helping the FBI transport a 12-year-old orphan who has an uncle under investigation and oldsters who died suspiciously.
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Lili Anolik (Scribner)
Anolik dives into the complicated friendship between the 2 late literary icons, using Eve Babitz’s revealing personal letters to raised understand the enigmatic Joan Didion.
Rob Sheffield (Dey Street Books)
Attention Swifties: A longtime Rolling Stone columnist looks on the superstar’s rise and examines what has made her such an unprecedented cultural force.
Ira M. Resnick and Raissa Bretaña (Abbeville Press)
Fifteen leading ladies of yore — including Lauren Bacall, Katherine Hepburn and Louise Brooks — are profiled on this gorgeous tome, which also includes lots of of photos and a foreword by Jane Fonda.
Bill Zehme (Simon & Schuster)
Journalist Zehme, who passed away in 2023, began working on this book in 2005 and spoke to dozens of those that knew Carson to color a nuanced portrait of the famously private “Tonight Show” host.
Best latest book releases from last week
Susan Rieger (The Dial Press)
Lila Pereira, a successful media executive, rises to the highest of her profession but has to reckon together with her youngest daughter, Grace, resenting her for not being a PTA mom. Grace also dredges up the past when she questions Lila about her own mother, who was committed to an asylum by her abusive husband when Lila was just 2 years old.
Evan Rail (Melville House)
Rail doesn’t just provide a cultural history of the notorious green liquor, he also offers up a detective story as he dives into the “absinthe underground,” where collectors pay top dollar for supposedly vintage bottles which will or is probably not the true thing.
Toshikazu Kawaguchi (Hanover Square Press)
Kawaguchi’s bestselling “Before the Coffee Gets Cold” series is ready in a comfy cafe where customers can travel back in time to correct mistakes and get much-needed closure. The brand new installment is the fifth within the series and features 4 latest guests, including a person who struggled with allowing his daughter to marry and a lady with a nameless baby.
Brian Baumgartner and Ben Silverman (Mariner Books)
The classic holiday poem has been reimagined for fans of “The Office.” The setting is now the Dunder Mifflin paper company in Scranton, Pa., and Michael Scott is playing Santa.
Peter Ames Carlin (Doubleday)
This cultural history looks at how Michael Stipe and co. rose from a university party band in Athens, Ga., to one of the influential acts in American rock in recent many years.
Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
The most recent Inspector Gamache book finds the Québécois homicide investigator looking right into a series of disturbing incidents — and a possible terrorist plot that might kill hundreds.
Best latest book releases from the week of October 27
Paula Hawkins (Mariner Books)
The bestselling creator of “The Girl on the Train” offers up one other page-turner. The distant Scottish island of Eris was once home to a famous artist named Vanessa, whose husband mysteriously vanished many years ago. Now, a solitary woman named Grace is the island’s only inhabitant, but a shocking discovery at a London art show leads people to query all that’s happened on Eris.
André Aciman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
In his beloved “Call Me By Your Name,” Aciman gave us a fictional coming-of-age story set in Lombardy, Italy. Now he writes of his own adolescence in Rome, after his family was expelled from Egypt.
Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury Publishing)
On this illustrated, Christmas-y fantasy story from the bestselling creator of “Piranesi,” a wierd girl who can refer to trees and animals comes across an odd figure at nighttime woods.
Hannah Shaw and Andrew Marttila (Plume)
Marttila’s “Shop Cats of Recent York” showed off Gotham’s cutest cats. Now, he’s partnered with Shaw to showcase kitties all over the world, from Turkey to South Africa.
Yuval Noah Harari (Harper Perennial)
The most recent illustrated version of Harari’s phenomenally popular “Sapiens” focuses on money, religion and empire.
Matty Matheson (Ten Speed Press)
“The Bear” star/executive producer and chef offers up daring twists on classics akin to Cubano sandwiches and chicken soup.
Best latest book releases from the week of October 20
Jeff VanderMeer (MCD)
Published a decade ago, the Southern Reach trilogy became a cult classic, selling tens of millions of copies and earning Stephen King’s stamp of approval. Now, VanderMeer takes readers back to the mysterious Area X wilderness, where an unknown event has rewritten the laws of nature.
Lee Child and Andrew Child (Delacorte Press)
The most recent Jack Reacher thriller finds the ex-military investigator waking up handcuffed to a bed after a automobile accident. His unwitting captors have plans to make him talk.
Alex Van Halen (Harper)
The rocker worked with Recent Yorker author Ariel Levy to pen this memoir and tribute to his late brother and bandmate Edward. He recounts their childhood within the Netherlands and Southern California, their formal Indonesian-born mom and Van Halen’s rise to fame.
Diana R. Chambers (Sourcebooks Landmark)
This work of historical fiction portrays the celebrity chef’s little known life before she taught Americans to make beef bourguignon. Child worked for the Office of Strategic Services, America’s first espionage agency, during World War II.
Shirley MacLaine (Crown)
With over 150 photos from MacLaine’s personal archive, it is a vivid account of the 90-year-old Oscar-winner’s life. She writes of growing up with brother Warren Beatty, moving to Recent York City as a 16-year-old, her acting profession and work as an activist. Along the way in which, she recalls encounters with everyone from Elvis Presley and Jack Nicholson to the Dalai Lama and Fidel Castro.
Recent York Nico (Dey Street Books)
The social media personality shares his top 100 spots — from hobby shops to slice joints — within the five boroughs.
Best latest book releases from the week of October 13
John Grisham and Jim McCloskey (Doubleday)
For his first nonfiction in nearly twenty years, the bestselling creator teams up with the founding father of Centurion Ministries, a 40-year-old organization that works to exonerate innocents convicted of crimes they didn’t commit. The book highlights 10 outrageous wrongful convictions and issues throughout the American legal system.
Michael Connelly (Little, Brown and Company)
Within the sixth book within the series, LAPD detective Renée Ballard reopens a 20-year-old cold case when a DNA connection is found between the serial rapist/murderer who was never caught and a recently arrested 24-year-old man.
Patricia Cornwell (Grand Central Publishing)
Within the twenty eighth book to feature medical expert Kay Scarpetta, the great doctor known as to a wierd murder scene at an abandoned theme park only to find the victim is a person she once knew and loved. As she investigates, Scarpetta involves suspect that her old friend deliberately left her a clue.
Stanley Tucci (Gallery Books)
The actor and TV host reflects on 12 months of eating and living, dishing on what he ate in restaurants, at home and on the job.
Susan Minot (Knopf)
A 52-year–old divorced mother embarks on a passionate affair with a handsome, intense musician 20 years her junior in the most recent from the acclaimed creator of “Evening.” It’s drawing comparisons to Miranda July’s “All Fours.”
Mark Haddon (Doubleday)
Modern situations — genetic engineering, teen bullying — are seen through the prism of Greek mythology on this latest short story collection from the creator of “The Curious Incident of the Dog within the Night-Time.”
