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Exciting Fall Fiction from PRHSB Speakers

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Fall back into reading this autumn with gripping new books from some of our most acclaimed speakers. From spellbinding works of imagination to breathtaking interpretations of history, these speakers surprise, enchant, and spark conversations among readers and audiences everywhere with their incredible craft.

Lauren Groff

National Book Award finalist and bestselling author of Fates and Furies and Florida

LaurenGroff Pitch

Lauren Groff is a two-time National Book Award finalist and the New York Times–bestselling author of Fates and Furies and Florida. Her thrilling new book Matrix is a defiant and timely exploration of the raw power of female creativity in a corrupted world. Matrix follows a young woman, exiled from the French court and sent to a remote abbey to live out her days, who revolutionizes the convent with the help of some divine inspiration. Groff gathers currents of history, sensuality, and sisterhood in a mesmerizing portrait of passionate feminism, aberrant faith, and women empowerment.

Colson Whitehead

Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys

ColsonWhitehead Pitch

Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead has established himself as one of the most versatile and innovative writers in contemporary literature. From the secret lives of elevators to international poker tournaments, Whitehead takes on the marginal, the strange, and the surreal. In his latest novel, Harlem Shuffle, Whitehead once again takes us on another entertaining adventure—this time one of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s.

Elizabeth Strout

Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Olive Kitteridge

ElizabethStrout Pitch
A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and New York Times bestselling mainstay, Elizabeth Strout captivates audiences with her distinctively New England stories and powerful narrative ability to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. In Oh William!, a follow-up to her sensational hit My Name is Lucy Barton, Strout explores the mysteries of marriage and the secrets we keep, as a former couple reckons with the quiet forces that hold us together—even after we’ve grown apart. .

Meg Wolitzer

Author of The Interestings and The Ten-Year Nap 

MegWolitzer Pitch

New York Times-bestselling author Meg Wolitzer explores gender politics, motherhood, sexuality, the life of the artist, and more in dynamic and critically acclaimed works such as The Wife, The Ten Year Nap, and The Interestings. In her picture book debut, Millions of Maxes, Wolitzer provides an excellent portrayal of a kid learning that uniqueness is more than just a name and that there are other ways to be special.

Ruth Ozeki

Filmmaker, novelist, and Zen Buddhist priest

RuthOzeki Pitch

Booker Prize-finalist Ruth Ozeki is a filmmaker, novelist, and Zen Buddhist priest. Whether discussing the meat industry, agribusiness, or Zen Buddhism, Ozeki’s lectures are always thoughtful, sometimes philosophical, but never without her trademark wit. In her brilliantly inventive new novel The Book of Form and Emptiness, with its blend of sympathetic characters, riveting plot, and vibrant engagement with everything from climate change to our attachment to material possessions, Ozeki teaches us to listen to the things that truly matter.

Lee Child

Author of The Interestings and The Ten-Year Nap 

LeeChild Pitch

Called “the best thriller writer of the moment” by The New York Times, award-winning and bestselling author Lee Child knows how to keep pulses racing with one of the most intriguing heroes in print—ex-Army cop and all-around tough guy Jack Reacher. In this brand-new page-turning thriller, Better Off Dead, Reacher is back in his next action-packed adventure—this time with some dangerous people.

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