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Here's our monthly newsletter from Goodreads — giving you the latest and greatest in our quest to connect people through reading!


EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS

John Grisham

In his new thriller, Gray Mountain, New York lawyer Samantha Kofer takes an unpaid internship in Appalachia, where she stumbles on a high-stakes secret.

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Marilynne Robinson

The Pulitzer winner returns to the small town of Gilead to examine the human condition and the deprived childhood of a minister's wife in her latest novel, Lila.

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Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs

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GOOD MINDS SUGGEST

Jodi Picoult's Favorite Books About Mothers & Daughters

Try these five books to better understand the unique mother-daughter bond, selected by the bestselling author of Leaving Time.

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Cary Elwes's Favorite Books that Became Movies

The dread pirate, suave swordsman, and book lover offers recs in time for As You Wish, his memoir of Princess Bride lore.

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Azar Nafisi's Favorite Books About Why We Read

Reading is like breathing for many of us, including the author of The Republic of Imagination, who shares a special list.

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DEBUT AUTHOR SNAPSHOT

Ashley Weaver

The upper crust of 1930s England gathers at a seaside resort for some sun, surf, and foul play in Murder at the Brightwell, a debut historical mystery by a Louisiana librarian.

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BEST BOOKS OF THE MONTH

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Some Luck
by Jane Smiley

The first in a trilogy that will cover 100 years in the life of an Iowa farm family, this expansive literary novel offers an intimate portrayal of the Langdons and their children as they weather the Great Depression and World War II.

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The Woman Who Would Be King
by Kara Cooney

More than 1,000 years before Cleopatra, another powerful woman ruled Egypt. The unlikely life of Hatshepsut, a rare female pharaoh who usurped the throne and held it for two decades, is chronicled in this vivid biography.

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You
by Caroline Kepnes

A flirtation turns sinister in this unnerving thriller told from the point of view of an obsessed, violent stalker - bookstore clerk Joe is single-minded in his pursuit of Guinevere, his perfect woman.

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Empire of Sin
by Gary Krist

Mayhem, debauchery, and the birth of jazz mix in this nonfiction account of New Orleans' Storyville, the red-light district created at the turn of the 20th century that lured tourists and criminals alike into its brothels and saloons.

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Nora Webster
by Colm Tóibín

Widowed at age 40, Nora Webster grieves for the love of her life as she struggles to provide for her four children and regain her sense of independence in this moving novel set in claustrophobic small-town Ireland.

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The Fall
by Bethany Griffin

Madeline Usher's family is cursed: They all go mad, trapped forever by their malevolent haunted house. Sometimes lucid, sometimes raving, Madeline fights to save herself in this Edgar Allan Poe-inspired thriller for teens.

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Want your words to reach millions of people? Goodreads and the POETRY! group have partnered to host an ongoing poetry contest. Join the POETRY! group and vote each month to pick a winner from among the finalists.You can also submit a poem for consideration. Here is our October winner!


On the way to where my brother lies dying
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by Rose Mary Boehm
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Steam rises from the asphalt path
between parked cars and unchecked hawthorn,
soft blossoms touching me in passing.
Fat drops of first summer rain.
I lift my face.

A local train comes to a slow halt
on the elevated platform behind me.
Young men and women descend
concrete stairs clutching
important briefcases.

When you got married I was eighteen
and came home for you. Mother cried
and Father blew his nose.
This was the first time you danced
with me, and I remembered
our Morse-code messages
in bomb shelters, your crystal radio,
the boots you'd outgrown
stuffed with newspapers
for my next winter.

My girl friends came to be seen
by you. I was popular
because of your beauty.

Your hair has thinned,
your skin lies dry on your bones.
Hold my hand.
Edelgard asked after you.


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