From urgent nonfiction about sexual abuse and toxic masculinity to spellbinding novels about monsters, families, and climate war.
Something about fall demands a new stack of books. Maybe it’s that infectious back-to-school energy. We rounded up some of the season’s best reads, from urgent nonfiction about sexual abuse and toxic masculinity to spellbinding novels about monsters, families, and climate war.
1.Dominicana: A Novel 
View it on Amazon In this sensational coming-of-age novel, a Dominican teenager named Ana immigrates to midcentury New York City by way of a loveless marriage to a man twice her age. As Ana grows closer to her brother-in-law, she wrestles with her duty to her family back home, who hope to follow her to America. At once tender, musical, and electric, this novel meditates on how immigration shapes lives, from both without and within. 2.She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement 
View on AmazonIn October 2017, Kantor and Twohey helped to ignite a global movement against sexual harassment and abuse through their Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting on Harvey Weinstein’s sexual misconduct. In She Said, they pull back the curtain on months of gumshoe reporting, while also investigating the structural tools of complicity that inoculate abusers from consequences. Kantor and Twohey even-handedly assess the impact of the #MeToo movement thus far while also turning a perceptive, hopeful eye on the way forward. 3.For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity 
View on Amazon It’s a man’s world, but as Liz Plank argues in this timely, gimlet-eyed book about toxic masculinity, men aren’t exactly enjoying the emotional repression and strict gender roles that have become their MO. With sparkling wit and razor-sharp cultural criticism, Plank investigates toxic masculinity and the threat it poses not just to women, children, and society, but to the emotional wellbeing of men themselves. 4.A Cosmology of Monsters: A Novel 
View on AmazonH.P. Lovecraft meets Stephen King in this spooky debut novel about a family of haunted house proprietors who are haunted across generations by monsters—and not the hokey jump-scare kind. Hamill has crafted an ambitious, spellbinding horror novel for the ages, one where the looming specters of ambition, obsession, and loss are every bit as terrifying as the flesh-and-blood monsters themselves.
5.Red at the Bone: A Novel
One of our most empathetic writers turns her full-hearted eye on an intergenerational Brooklyn story of two families from different social classes who are bound forever by a teenage pregnancy. Lyrical, dreamy, and brimming with compassion for her characters, Woodson explores the forces that divide us and the ties that bind with her signature extremity of feeling.
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