Your fall reading list

Thirty new books land between now and mid-November, split between fiction heavyweights and a heavy run of memoirs. Here are the ones worth clearing a weekend for.

Rome, from the inside

Robert Harris follows "Conclave" with "Agrippa," built around Emperor Augustus' right-hand man and the slide from republic to dictatorship. Out now.

Kingston, 1989

Marlon James' "The Disappearers" opens with eight gay men beaten during a play rehearsal, one of them killed. The rest of the book follows how each survivor carries it. Booker long-listed.

The pirate who quit her husband

Ariel Lawhon turns to Grace O'Malley, born noble in 16th century Ireland, who left her marriage, took command of a fleet and fought the English at sea.

A last trip to Switzerland

Emma Cline's "Switzy" rides along with a dementia-addled executive traveling to die by assisted suicide, stopping to face a semi-estranged daughter and an old friend he wronged.

Antarctica and a lost son

In Chloe Benjamin's "Under Story," a grieving scientist washes dishes at a polar research station. Then her physicist ex arrives and they start testing time travel.

Los Angeles, 2031

Emily St. John Mandel sets "Exit Party" just after the fall of the United States. A curfew lifts, a party host vanishes, and a shadow world opens up. Sept. 15.

Preparing for the worst

Jodi Picoult's Molly Fitzgerald lost her mother on 9/11 and grew up to work in emergency preparedness. She and her cop husband learn how little that actually prevents. Sept. 15.

Famous at the worst time

John Green returns to young love with two actors whose careers detonate after an Andy Warhol biopic. Fame plus falling for your co-star is a lot at once. Sept. 22.

Seoul to Sydney to SoCal

Min Jin Lee follows "Pachinko" with the Koh family's long migration and the grind of building something their grandchildren can stand on. Sept. 29.

Stealing electricity

Hernan Diaz, Pulitzer winner for "Trust," jumps centuries ahead. His orphan hero is a "pincher" selling stolen power on the black market until she stumbles onto an invention that changes everything. Sept. 29.

Three more novels to watch

Sarah Langan's "Trad Wife" sends a journalist to an influencer's farmhouse horror. Barbara Kingsolver's "Partita" reopens an old conservatory romance. Bonnie Garmus lands in 1980s poetry publishing.

Maas and Bosch close out October

Sarah J. Maas returns to the Night Court rebuilding after the Hybern War. Michael Connelly's 21st Bosch book sends the detective back to the children's facility where he grew up. Both Oct. 27.

How thrillers get made

Harlan Coben's memoir walks through his early days, the making of his novels and the line he lives by. Emily Wilson's essay collection runs from Aristophanes to Cardi B.

“You only fail when you quit”

Huberman's first book

The Stanford neuroscientist and podcaster finally writes one. "Protocols" collects dozens of rules for living, from morning sunlight to cooling down at night to reframing grief. Sept. 15.

A spy with a secret

Ben Macintyre reconstructs "Redwood," a KGB officer in 1980s Iran who turned to MI6 because of a sexual secret he feared would surface. Tehran unravels as the extraction clock runs. Sept. 15.

The reporting that hurts

Cheyenne Roundtree traces Sean Combs' rise and collapse. Evan Gershkovich writes from nearly 500 days in a Russian prison. Robert Kolker follows nine siblings carrying a mutation that brings dementia in their 40s.

Hollywood tells on itself

Ari Emanuel, Sylvester Stallone, Michael Douglas, Dustin Hoffman and LeVar Burton all publish memoirs this fall, running from the CAA mailroom to Rocky's steps to "Reading Rainbow."

“This is my attempt to pull back the curtain”