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Atlantic Monthly
See What I Have Done
Sarah Schmidt (Aug., $26,
hardcover)
Author tour, an August Indie Next
pick, a Barnes & Noble Discover
Great New Writers selection, a PW
Fall Writer to Watch
This debut novel about Lizzie
Borden received a starred PW
review for being “equally compelling as a whodunit, ‘whydunit,’
and historical novel.” The review
continues, “The book honors known facts yet fearlessly
claims its own striking vision.”
Catapult
Reservoir 13
Jon McGregor (Oct., $16.95,
trade paper)
New York City appearances, advertising on social media, longlisted for
the Man Booker Prize
The prize-winning British novelist tells the story of an English
village in the wake of a teenage
girl’s disappearance. “To read John
McGregor’s novel Reservoir 13 is to
read a thousand tiny poems in
quick succession,” says David
Enyeart at Common Good Books
in St. Paul, Minn. “In fragments
THE
BIG INDIE
BOOK SOF
FALL 2017BY JUDITH ROSEN
Books from independent presses
and university presses continue
to offer some of the most exciting
writing available today. These
houses are not afraid to publish
works in translation; to offer new
ways of thinking about science,
history, and economics; or to use
a book as a way to make a statement on an important topic such
as the environment. They even
give a new gloss to memoirs. This
year we considered more than
200 submissions from small
presses and university presses,
along with recommendations
from booksellers and PW’s reviews
editors, to come up with our
picks for some of the best books
for adults and children that are
just out or scheduled to publish
later this fall.
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