Landing Credit: Walk Through Walls by Marina Abramovic
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BY: PROVOKR Staff
After a 10-year hiatus from novel writing, the author of Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close returns with a dark tale that mixes relationship troubles—a Washington, D.C. couple on the verge of divorce—with a full-blown geopolitical crisis in the Middle East. Release date: September 6
A decades-spanning, timeline-hopping saga that follows the joys and tragedies experienced by a blended family brought together by a chance encounter. Release date: September 13
The author of Room—the harrowing 2010 novel about a boy and his mom being held captive—returns with another psychological thriller about a child in danger. This one is set in 1850s Ireland. Release date: September 20
The Canadian literary legend puts a modern spin on the Shakespeare play The Tempest. Atwood focuses her tale on a aggrieved theater director who seeks revenge on those who’ve wronged him. Release date: October 6
Music critic Simon Reynolds recounts the cultural history of glam and glitter rock spearheaded by such superstars as David Bowie, Alice Cooper and Roxy Music. Release Date: October 6
In a novel Picoult has described as one of the hardest she’s ever written, the author tackles the subject of racism via the character of Ruth Jefferson, an African American labor and delivery nurse whose world gets upended when a white supremacist couple refuses to let Ruth touch their child. Release date: October 11
The co-creator (along with David Lynch) of the epic early 1990’s TV series—which is slated to return next year on Showtime—delves into the history and mysteries surrounding the making of the show. Release date: October 18
The life story of the performance artist takes readers from her early days growing up in communist Yugoslavia through the development of some of her most provocative art pieces. Release date: October 27
Three different narrators tell this tale about eight scientists tasked with trying to come up with an alternate plan for humanity as climate change begins to imperil life on Earth. Release date: October 25
The British author of the acclaimed White Teeth delivers a new novel—set in London and west Africa—that follows two girls determined to become dancers, though only one of them has true promise. Release date: November 15
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author is still aiming high with this novel described as “a tale of madness, of war and adventure, of sex and desire and ordinary love, of existential doubt and model rocketry, of the shining aspirations and demonic underpinnings of American technological accomplishment at mid-century and, above all, of the destructive impact—and the creative power—of the keeping of secrets and the telling of lies.” Release date: November 22
