Selected new titles appearing next Tuesday, October 4:
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis by Adam Hochschild (Mariner, $29.99, 9780358455462) explores American history immediately following World War I.
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman (Penguin Press, $32, 9780593297346) investigates the former president.
Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder by William Shatner (Atria, $28, 9781668007327) is the memoir of the stellar actor.
Our Missing Hearts: A Novel by Celeste Ng (Penguin Press, $29, 9780593492543) takes place in a future America with strict censorship laws.
Mad Honey: A Novel by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan (Ballantine, $29.99, 9781984818386) follows two New Hampshire transplants and their children.
Daughter of Darkness by Terry Brooks (Del Rey, $28.99, 9780593357415) is the second entry in the Viridian Deep fantasy series.
The Janus File by David Weber and Jacob Holo (Baen, $25, 9781982192150) continues the Gordian Division sci-fi series.
Hester: A Novel by Laurie Lico Albanese (St. Martin's Press, $27.99, 9781250278555) is a reimagining of the woman who inspired Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter.
The First to Die at the End by Adam Silvera (Quill Tree, $19.99, 9780063240803), a prequel to They Both Die at the End, is about two young men facing a new technology that alerts people on their death day.
Sisterhood of Sleuths by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman, illus. by Vesper Stamper (Christy Ottaviano Books, $16.99, 9780316331074), is a middle-grade mystery novel homage to Nancy Drew stories.
Paperbacks:
Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark by Cassandra Peterson (Hachette Books, $17.99, 9780306874383).
Life Is Everywhere: A Novel by Lucy Ives (Graywolf Press, $17.99, 9781644452042).
Project Hail Mary: A Novel by Andy Weir (Ballantine, $20, 9780593135228).
A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020) by David Sedaris (Back Bay, $18.99, 9780316270182).
Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet by Thich Nhat Hanh (HarperOne, $17.99, 9780062954817).
Both/And: A Memoir by Huma Abedin (Scribner, $20, 9781501194818).