And just like that, the summer of COVID has become the autumn of COVID. And we are all looking forward perhaps with trepidation to the winter of COVID, which is looming just around the bend, grinning fiendishly.
Fortunately, there is a lot of great reading coming up to keep us fascinated, stimulated and engaged as we huddle at home and wait for a vaccine. Here are 15 of the don’t-miss books coming out between now and the end of the year:
“Jack,” by Marilynne Robinson. The fourth novel set in the fictional town of Gilead, Iowa, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Robinson, “Jack” is the story of the love affair between the white son of a minister and a Black schoolteacher. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Sept. 29.)
“Missionaries,” by Phil Klay. The discouraging and destructive power of war is illustrated through the lives of a soldier, an officer, a medic and a journalist. A novel, this is the follow-up to Klay’s award-winning story collection, “Redeployment.” (Penguin Press, Oct. 6.)