0The Big Books of FallSara Nelson picks the season's literary hits—including new novels from Philip Roth, Vladimir Nabokov, and Dominick Dunne, Ted Kennedy’s memoir, and a sprawling biography of Ayn Rand.Updated Jul. 14, 2017 4:56PM EDT / Published Sep. 07, 2009 10:41AM EDT True Compass by Edward M. Kennedy The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Hoover Bartlett Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris DicksteinEverett Collection I Shudder: And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey by Paul Rudnick The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter Spooner by Pete Dexter Have a Little Faith by Mitch AlbomAndrew H. Walker / Getty Images Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem Crush It! Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion by Gary Vaynerchuk One and the Same: My Life as an Identical Twin and What I’ve Learned About Everyone’s Struggle to Be Singular by Abigail Pogrebin Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne C. Heller The Humbling by Philip Roth, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt A Friend of the Family by Lauren Grodstein The Original of Laura by Vladimir Nabokov and Dmitri NabokovHorst Tappe, Hulton Archive / Getty Images Too Much Money by Dominick DunneEverett Collection
True Compass by Edward M. Kennedy The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Hoover Bartlett Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris DicksteinEverett Collection I Shudder: And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey by Paul Rudnick The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter Spooner by Pete Dexter Have a Little Faith by Mitch AlbomAndrew H. Walker / Getty Images Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem Crush It! Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion by Gary Vaynerchuk One and the Same: My Life as an Identical Twin and What I’ve Learned About Everyone’s Struggle to Be Singular by Abigail Pogrebin Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne C. Heller The Humbling by Philip Roth, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt A Friend of the Family by Lauren Grodstein The Original of Laura by Vladimir Nabokov and Dmitri NabokovHorst Tappe, Hulton Archive / Getty Images Too Much Money by Dominick DunneEverett Collection