Fall 2007 Adult Listings

-- Publishers Weekly, 8/6/2007

As our fall preview goes to press, it's hot; and the temper of the autumn offerings is no cooler. With the conflicts in Iraq and elsewhere blazing away, new titles are examining wartime issues from a variety of approaches. An October title from Casemate, War on Two Fronts: An Infantry Commander's War in Iraq and the Pentagon, sums up the war's duality; other titles discuss Iraq's reconstruction, recount atrocities and laud the American military. Earlier wars are the focus of books by two esteemed chroniclers—Ken Burns (WWII) and David Halberstam (Korea). Bush-bashing continues to be hot as well: John Dean takes a patrician torch to things in Broken Government while Madeleine Albright delivers a somewhat cooler Memo to the President Elect. Anniversary fever seems to have gripped the publishing community, too: Sputnik and NASA turn 50; Ralph Lauren's been at it for 40; George Lucas's Star Wars saga debuted 30 years ago; and Princess Grace perished a quarter century back. The big literary centenary is Richard Wright—all of these addressed by prominent fall books. On the fiction front, there are big books from the bestseller ranks (including two Grishams) and an abundance of literary names, some of whom haven't been heard from in some time—David Leavitt, Ha Jin and Sebastian Faulks. Finally, for those who cannot find a title or two from the following 90+ pages, there's the DIY approach—Clarkson Potter's How to Make Books: Fold, Cut & Stitch Your Way to a One-of-a-Kind Book.