An election year is notoriously tricky for book publishers: What author wants their book to come out in the weeks immediately before Americans go to the polls, when the news is consumed by the race? But the weeks and months that follow an unexpected result can be even tougher times for authors to get noticed (a moment’s silence for everyone who had a book out in November and December 2016). The crop of books coming out this fall is a strong and particularly brave batch. Few of those on our list are about today’s political landscape—though long views from Ta Nehisi Coates and Richard Beck have much to say to our moment—and their release dates perhaps wis
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