Periodically, we poll our staff to see what they’re reading and to ask about what they’re excited to see published in the coming weeks and months. For this fall’s installment of ASF Reads, we’ve included recently published and forthcoming titles, as well as a few earlier titles and a couple of classics that our staff demanded appear here. While this is certainly not a best-of list, it does include some titles that you’ve likely heard of elsewhere (Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies, for instance) as well as some debut novels that have had people talking (Jennine Capó Crucet’s Make Your Home Among Strangers, Angela Flournoy’s The Turner House). While we’re particularly interested in what fiction titles are of interest to our staff, they’ve also sent along some nonfiction titles that grabbed them (including Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates) and a couple of collections of poetry (by Frank Stanford and Wong May).
Loitering by Charles D’Ambrosio
The Leopard by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa
Bobcat and Other Stories by Rebecca Lee
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
What’re you reading (or looking forward to reading) this fall? Let us know by tweeting us here.