The Best and Biggest Books to Read This Fall From Margaret Atwood, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, and more. | Books - Vulture

Old Masters on this year’s Booker Prize shortlist (Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood), the Serious Season of book publishing is kicking off with a retro flavor by Boris Kachka and Molly Young.

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There’s a definitive biography of dear, departed Susan Sontag; creative reconceptions of classic tales like Don Quixote, Frankenstein, and the adventures of David Livingstone; essays by veteran novelist Emmanuel Carrère; stories by near-veteran novelist Zadie Smith, and a venture into traditional fiction by auto-fiction superstar Ben Lerner. And yet there’s plenty of invention in these pages — old ground tread by fresh minds — as well as a few debut authors and some writers you may not have heard of, but definitely should.
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