What Are We Reading? Our Staff’s First Fall Picks

A student will find that the hardest lessons sometimes come outside the classroom in this stunning dark academia novel from the acclaimed author of The Year of the Witching and House of Hunger.

A Nobel Peace Prize winner reflects on poverty, injustice, and the struggles of Mayan communities in Guatemala, offering “a fascinating and moving description of the culture of an entire people” (The Times)

“The Unmothers is a triumph of folk horror that will gratify lovers of Midsommar and The Handmaid's Tale.”—Library Journal, starred reviewIn this raw and lyrical folk horror novel, a journalist sent to a small town begins to unravel a dark secret that the women of the town have been keeping for generations.

From the former Poet Laureate of the United States and New York Times bestselling author of Aimless Love comes a wondrous and personal new collection of poems about the joys and mysteries of daily life"Among the best poems that Collins has ever written."—Maureen Corrigan, NPR"Collins remains the most companionable of poetic companions." —The New York Times

THE NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • From the bestselling historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Charles King, the moving untold story of the eighteenth-century men and women behind the making of Handel’s Messiah"A delicious history of music, power, love, genius, royalty and adventure."—Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The World"A book of power and glory, brimming with emotion and dazzling in its reach."—Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra and The Revolutionary

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.

A richly imagined, sweeping novel of hope, love, and adventure set in the unforgiving world of our own descendants, by the acclaimed author of WHISKEY WHEN WE’RE DRY

From life coach Kate Gladdin, this easy-to-follow, three-step plan for how to bravely face life’s unexpected challenges is the foolproof solution to developing resilience.