Memoirs will loom large on the nonfiction shelves as the late Edward M. Kennedy, Serena Williams, Michael Chabon, and Andre Agassi weigh in.
Also coming: Works about Barack and Michelle Obama, NFL star/Army ranger Pat Tillman, Elizabeth Taylor, and the late Queen Mother.
The commercial heavy hitters, in both fiction and nonfiction, will be out in force, too, including Dan Brown, Mitch Albom, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, James Patterson, Clive Cussler, J.D. Robb, and John Sandford.
Who needs television?
- Michael D. Shaffer,
Inquirer books editor
Nonfiction
True Compass: A Memoir
By Edward M. Kennedy
(Twelve, September)
Long in the gathering and making, and written with the help of Pulitzer-winner Ron Powers, this tells the story of an American life spanning, embracing, and causing some of the formative events of the 20th and 21st centuries.
The Greatest Show on Earth
The Evidence for Evolution
By Richard Dawkins
(Free Press, September)
Forget Dawkins' ill-fated God stuff. This is what he's best at. The news here is that Dawkins, with characteristic brilliance and wit, lays out the proof that evolution exists and is chugging away even now. In the process, he conveys his own wide-eyed wonder at the sheer glory of it.
You Were Always Mom's Favorite!
Sisters in Conversation
Throughout Their Lives
By Deborah Tannen
(Random House, September)
Tannen, renowned sociologist of conversation, studies one of the most intense and burdened relations of all: that between sisters. "Love/hate" doesn't begin to describe the elation and heartbreak, the humor and perplexed contradictions revealed in this delightful book when sisters speak of and to each other.
Where Men Win Glory
By Jonathan Krakauer
(Doubleday, September)
