October’s most anticipated Books and delightful must-reads

A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir

by Viet Thanh Nguyen / Release date: Oct 2, 2023

With intensely bubbling insights, ironic humor, formal design, and lyrical tone, A Man of Two Faces is a glaring tale of bold and heartbroken crisis of existential identity of a refuge in a world of a dual standard of the ostentatious “American dream”. It is a highly unconventional memoir of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen.

Nguyen orchestrated his sardonic wit and incisive analysis to expose a deep emotional openness about the dualism of being a Vietnamese American and the disgust of being the one to be the killer and being killed.

He masterfully depicts the personal memoir into a larger sphere of refugeehood, colonization, and perceived complexity about the ideas of being a Vietnamese American.

He brings in the haunting and blood-stirring reminiscence from his childhood to his teenage years and then during his adulthood. This memoir is a historical epic and living chronicle of the pains, and wounds of the colonized against the continuing pretense of the American Dream. It is a “deeply personal and intensely political” and Kaleidoscopic biography written reasonably with love, anger, and care.

“A vulnerable and scorching mirror to self and to nation …..Every American needs to read this essential book. ”– Cathy Park Hong writer of “Minor Feelings”

Let Us Descend: A Novel

by Jesmyn Ward / Release date: Oct 24, 2023

Jesmyn Ward’s “Let Us Descend” a classic tale of poignant odyssey ventured to unveil the inferno of an enslaved girl since the early years before the American Civil War.

In the world of the mystic and resilient spirits, Annis weaves a tapestry of ancestral tales and about the dangerous and unsafe landscape of slavery in the blood-teeming rice fields of fertile Louisiana plantations. This is a call for rebirth amidst the brutal, blood-thirsty and ruthless slavery a wake-up call to let their ancestral spirits descend and rise in the land which is fertile with their blood-teeming labors and sacrifices. The unforgiving forest and nature blended with the mythical spirits to reclaim their rightful authority in a land of heart-wrenching slavery.

Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

by Adam Grant  / Release date: Oct 24, 2023

Adam Grant, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again, is back again with his brilliantly orchestrated self-improvement book about what it takes to improve and succeed in a more joyful path to progress. He made a grand entree with Hidden Potential, a non-fiction book about personal development or self-improvement.

Our worldly obsession with natural talents and child prodigies is stereotypical and mostly we consider it as heavenly gifts to the chosen ones. In this book Grant shows how we can gain a range of skills by learning and improving strategically. Rather than waiting for the opportunity to come and knock, we should work ways to build the door for the opportunity to come.

With his vivid and engrossing storytelling, he provides groundbreaking evidence and surprising insights. The vital and key ingredient for progression is how well you learn than how hard you work. Growth is about how you unfold and build your character to develop.

This most anticipated Book is about how you can build your character skills, device motivational structure and design systems in your life to build your habits that will help you to achieve greater things. It’s not about the height of the peak, but it’s about how far you have climbed to reach there.

“Wickedly entertaining and deeply insightful, Adam Grant has done it again. You have more in common with Mozart and Steph Curry than you know, and Hidden Potential will show you how to achieve your absolute best. You’ll devour it and find yourself begging for more.”
—U.S. Navy Admiral William H. McRaven, author of Make Your Bed and The Wisdom of the Bullfrog

Sword Catcher 

by Cassandra Clare / Release date: Oct 10, 2023

The Sword Catcher is an unraveling epic fantasy of the #1 New York Times Bestselling Young adult author Cassandra Clare. In this heart-wrenching story two outcasts fall into the enigmatic web of forbidden love, dark secrets, and treacherous magic.

The luminous city-state of Castellane is teemed with hedonists – the richest nobles and the wicked poor- everybody lustfully desires and is in search of bottomless wealth, power and epicurean thrills.

It is a shadow world of dangerous magic, and polished vileness in contrast to the criminal underworld of visible evil. Two outcasts find themselves entangled in the mysterious conspiracy instrumentalized from both the noble kingdom to the vilest underworld with a thin line of controlled and organized dictatorship. As the truth unfolds they seem to plunge into a deadly war or a war of chaos that will bring down the world. What’s next then?

“A sumptuous feast of a book, vivid and delicious and heady. Cassandra Clare’s trademark skills are on full display here: epic worlds, wrenching romances, heart-slamming plot twists, Dickensian characters. I can’t wait to visit Castellane again.”—Kelly Link, bestselling author of White Cat, Black Dog

Sword catcher is one of the most anticipated Books in the Fantasy Genre.

What We Kept to Ourselves: A Novel

by Nancy Jooyoun Kim / Release date: Oct 10, 2023

Take a roller-coaster emotional ride with the entangled web of mystery and family drama in Nancy Jooyoun Kim’s upcoming novel “What We Kept to Ourselves”. It a breathtaking tale about the family’s quest to unveil answers following the disappearance of their mothers.

It’s an unforgettable tale of dualism in past and present to uncover the secrets between family members, and parents and children. It’s also about the disappointment of migrants in finding the American Dream. The struggle of Kim family explores the consequences of secrets in the family. How the darkest tale of disappearance may bring a sense of emptiness, and danger that could shatter their world.

“Bursting with yearning, twists, and secrets, What We Kept to Ourselves is about the difficult questions that die in our throats when it comes to asking our loved ones. A triumph!”—Frances Cha, author of If I Had Your Face

“Layers after layers of mystery are revealed with each chapter of this exquisitely written novel. What We Kept to Ourselves is a compelling, poetic, important, thought-provoking, and unforgettable read. Nancy Jooyoun Kim is a master storyteller who has the power to keep us spellbound and reminds us what we must do to make this world a better place.”—Nguyen Phan Que Mai, internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing and Dust Child

How to Say Babylon: A Memoir

by Safiya Sinclair / Release date: Oct 3, 2023

Safiya Sinclair’s “How to say Babylon” is a harrowing tale of orthodox rearing in a strict Rastafarian family in Jamaica. In her memoir, she unfolds how she escaped the rigid and chaotic Rastafarian upbringing to find her voice as a woman in America. She refers to her father’s adherence to volatile militancy to preserve and keep untainted purity and obedience to keep his daughter from Rasta–Western society.

Safiya evolves with her education and breaks the silence to rebel against the paranoia of long silence to assert power over her father’s rigidity and patriarchal traditions.

“Sinclair recounts her harrowing upbringing in Jamaica in this bruising memoir…. In dazzling prose … she examines the traumas of her childhood against the backdrop of her new life as a poet in Babylon…. Readers will be drawn to Sinclair’s strength and swept away by her tale of triumph over oppression. This is a tour de force.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Sinclair’s gorgeous prose is rife with glimmering details, and the narrative’s ending lands as both inevitable and surprising. More than catharsis; this is memoir as liberation.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“An essential memoir. Sinclair’s devotion to language has been lifelong, and How to Say Babylon is the result. This book is lit from the inside by Sinclair’s determination to learn and live freely, and to see her beloveds freed, too.”—Jesmyn Ward, author of Let Us Descend

The Burnout: A Novel 

by Sophie Kinsella / Release date: Oct 10, 2023

Sophie Kinsella’s romantic comedy is a devouring book about the daily crisis and chaos of the post-pandemic struggle of living on the edge. Humans are living on the verge of existential catastrophe with their stress and distress. The ever-rising difficulties and worries of replying to every message, every social media post, and each email has become equivalent to an unseen tumultuous wave in their life.

To appease their turbulent mind, Sasha and Finn, are on a holiday in a resort along the British seaside. This is an amusing novel about the hard realities of life tinted with a comic flair and a sense of humor. In their holiday quest to soothe their burnouts, they find each other as opposing characters, and then later open up their burnouts. This sparkles a new beginning and a revitalized meaning to their life.

“I devoured The Burnout in one greedy gulp. It’s funny, sad, relatable, and brilliantly done. Sophie Kinsella is the queen of romantic comedy.”—Jojo Moyes

The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA

by Liza Mundy / Release date: Oct 17, 2023

Propelled by galvanizing storytelling and thorough reporting, Liza Mundy’s “The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA”, is a historical bonanza about the contribution of the unimportant Women in building the CIA archive prior to World War II and in identifying the rising threat of Al Qaeda.

This book is about the female spies in the CIA who defied discrimination and played a crucial role in building CIA archives, analyzing data to bring in data-driven assumptions, and forecasting risks and threats.

These unlikely spies were insignificant and they could see things that spies with high rank failed to notice.

“A rip-roaring read about spycraft and the CIA’s inner workings . . . an inspiring group portrait of extraordinary CIA women whose careers are multisided profiles in courage.”—Steve Coll, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Ghost Wars

“An indispensable history, untold until now, The Sisterhood has stellar reporting, sparkling writing, and shocking revelations of power struggles inside the world’s most famous secret intelligence service.”—Tim Weiner, National Book Award–winning author of Legacy of Ashes

Wreck the Halls: A Novel 

by Tessa Bailey / Oct 3, 2023

Tessa Bailey’s, #1 New York Times bestselling author, Wreck the Halls is a hilarious and sexy romantic comedy perfect for a pleasant reading for you this Christmas Eve.

It is an entertainingly navigating family drama to reunite a rockstar chaos to restore peace for a Christmas concert.

Here two adult children of two elderly sparkling rockstars team up to set aside a decade-old feud and set down to maneuver a grand comeback with a Christmas concert.

“Bailey writes banter and rom-com scenarios with aplomb, but for those who like their romance on the spicier side, she’s also the Michelangelo of dirty talk. She wields filth like Da Vinci does a paintbrush, and there’s a lot to be said for an author who can fill such exchanges with all the requisite heat, enthusiastic consent, and yes, even humor, of such a scenario without veering into corny territory.”
— Entertainment Weekly

Making It So: A Memoir

by Patrick Stewart / Oct 3, 2023

Another long-awaited pleasant memoir about the most iconic and living legend of the Star Trek – Patrick Stewart.

It’s an exuberant story about the enduring influence and reputation of Sir Partick for his captivating and magical on-screen performance that kept the audience mesmerized and enticed for decades around the world. For his indelible performance, he is a favorite of multiple generations across the world.

His memoir reveals his humble beginning and his star-studded rise as a Hollywood superstar with recognition and acclamation for lasting impact from one generation to the next.

“I read this book in a state of wonder, not just for the author’s gifts as a nuanced storyteller and sharp observer, but for those other remarkable gifts, of intelligence, sensitivity, wit, intuition, self-awareness, and élan that were bestowed on him when he came into the world—all of which he has freely shared with us so long and so beautifully; and finished reading in a state of deep gratitude for the gifts, and the gift, of Patrick Stewart.” —Michael Chabon

“Patrick’s early life is a Dickensian tale of domestic violence and misfortune, transformed by chance and some good folk into the actor internationally admired and loved. He writes as well as he acts, with insight, truth, and passion. Another Stewart Triumph!” —Sir Ian McKellen

Making it So is one of the most anticipated Books in the nonfiction Genre.