I just love More magazine…  I started reading it years ago to prepare for turning the big 4-0 this year.  Here are their recommendations for great fall books (with a quick summary from Publisher’s Weekly):

1. Blame by Michelle Huneven  In this gripping tale, Huneven charts the parameters of guilt and how a young, wisecracking intellectual becomes a shadow of her former self.
2. New World Monkeys by Nancy Mauro  In this unabashedly eccentric debut, a young couple with a troubled marriage make the fateful decision to summer in a decaying upstate New York house, leading to a series of bizarre events.
3. Day After Night by Anita Diamant  In her compulsively readable latest, she sketches the intertwined fates of several young women refugees at Atlit, a British-run internment camp set up in Palestine after WWII.
4. The Confessions of Edward Day by Valerie Martin Martin (Mary Reilly; Property) adroitly plays with the boundary between reality and performance in her fluidly written new novel about a group of New York thespians in the 1970s and ’80s.
5. Dreaming in French by Megan McAndrew McAndrew’s atmospheric second novel (after Going Topless) takes readers into the superficially glamorous lives of the expatriate Sanders family in late 1970s Paris.

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