15 New Books Coming in August

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, by Helen Phillips

Phillips’s latest is an unsettling story about technology gone awry. The novel follows a tech skeptic who must rely on the very A.I. she distrusts when her family comes under threat while on what is supposed to be an offline vacation.

S & S/Marysue Rucci Books, Aug. 6

“Unspeakable Home” follows a narrator named Ismet Prcic (who happens to share many biographical details with Prcic himself) writing to a comedian for advice about his life and his current book project. The stakes are high: The fictional Prcic’s previous book (which was a blend of fiction and memoir) resulted in his divorcing his wife.

Avid Reader/Simon & Schuster, Aug. 6

In the latest ****** romance from the author of “Red, White and Royal Blue” and “The Last Stop,” Kit and Theo — who haven’t seen each other since their brutal breakup — find themselves on the same ********* food tour.

St. Martin’s Griffin, Aug. 6

Expect to see this prominently displayed at your nearby indie — a fond history of book-selling in America over two centuries, from Benjamin Franklin to Barnes & Noble. Also appearing between the covers: eccentric experts, sidewalk vendors and more.

Viking, Aug. 6

Studded with blue-chip names, multi-million-dollar paintings, private jets and bottles of Dom Pérignon ’08, this tantalizing glimpse by a former dealer into the art world’s most rarefied stratum doubles as a cautionary tale about a largely unregulated industry where hubris, greed and ****** abound.

Pantheon, Aug. 6

Lee (“The League of Wives,” “Winnie Davis”) turns her penetrating gaze on someone who, largely by choice, ******** one of our least-known modern first ladies. Frequently dismissed and ignored in her day, Pat Nixon emerges in Lee’s deeply researched work as a woman of complexity and privacy, thrown onto the world’s largest stage.

St. Martin’s, Aug. 6

On an August afternoon in 2020, an aging British author arrives at a London theater to watch his daughter’s latest play — only to learn it’s a thinly veiled fictionalization of an argument they had on a Sicilian holiday years earlier. The second novel by the author of “Three Rooms” skewers a generation of artists embodied by this one 60-something man, whose success has rested on the precise controversy and misogyny now on display for his daughter’s generation to laugh at.

Pantheon, Aug. 13

Tomorrow, Natwest leaves for university, but for the next 24 hours he’s obsessed with just one thing: retrieving an embarrassing package meant to be delivered to his home. This comic debut from a 26-year-old British novelist (who counts Zadie Smith among their mentors) finds its hero-on-the-hunt crossing paths with an internet troll, an imam who loves movies and a dentist who paints mouths.

Viking, Aug. 13

A century ago, a Tennessee teacher broke the law when he taught the theory of evolution in a high school classroom. Wineapple takes the familiar story of the ensuing courtroom drama, nicknamed the Scopes Monkey Trial, and teases out the political threads of the Progressive Era conflict that pitted a populist demagogue against a headline-chasing rationalist with a soft spot for labor organizers and anarchists.

Random House, Aug. 13

What drove Germany’s citizens and leaders to support a regime committed to war, genocide and dictatorship? Evans, a prominent historian of Nazism, tackles a question that ******** even now a conundrum, seeking, through portraits of diverse Third Reich figures — including Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess and ******* himself as well as the architect Albert Speer and the filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl — a common human denominator.

Penguin, Aug. 13

A single drop of rainwater connects characters across time and geography — an ancient Mesopotamian king reading “The Epic of Gilgamesh,” a baby born in squalor by the Thames in Victorian England, a Turkish girl in 2014 witnessing the growing threat of ISIS along the Tigris, a London divorcée living in a houseboat on the Thames in 2018 — in the 13th novel by the Turkish British author.

Knopf, Aug. 20

For 15 years, Frazier walked hundreds of miles of streets in the Bronx, observing its many environments and bounty of cultures. He documents much of what he saw in this thorough history and appreciation of the borough, from its Native ********* past to the gentrifying neighborhoods of the present.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Aug. 20

Pedersen’s debut horror novel follows an estranged family, separated because of the father’s terrible ****** and his rejection of one son’s ****** wife, that tries to reconcile after the father announces he is near ******. But not everything is as it seems, and as new connections form, primordial danger may be lurking in the wings.

St. Martin’s, Aug. 20

In this 864-page bid at a definitive biography, the editor of Isherwood’s diaries and letters chronicles his restless journey from England to Berlin to postwar Hollywood, observing the self-creation of a gay cultural icon.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Aug. 27

The fashion historian and journalist MacDonell tells the story of the group of women who, during the 1940s, turned New York into a world fashion capital. Cut off from Europe’s great houses by World War II, homegrown designers, journalists and retailers created an ********* look — and a business — that was uniquely suited to the moment: accessible, youthful and modern.

St. Martin’s, Aug. 27

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