Spotlight On New Fall Reading
Summer is over, so it's time to put away those beach books. Some long-awaited, highly-anticipated novels are being published this fall. Cosmopolitan magazine's book editor, John Searles, also author of the novel "Strange But True," stopped by The Early Show with a preview of new fall reads.
How did Searles come up with his list?
"All the authors we're looking at, their previous books were runaway hits so we're looking at their much-anticipated follow-up book everyone's been salivating, waiting for these books, and here they are," he explains.
"How much darker can you get than a novel narrated by a dead girl?" Searles asks. "So it will be interesting to see how readers respond to this one."
"It a story of two women and their friendship over the course of a lifetime," Searles tells Russ Mitchell. "This is a quiet, lyrical novel."
"It's an epic tale of ordinary people, set in upstate New York. It's about small-town life in America and how it's slowly dying."
"One critic said it best about this book, 'Run,' that you don't want normally to compare a novel to a great TV show but it is like this HBO series," Searles says. "Set over the course of 24 hours. It's about a freak accident on a snowy night and a mysterious stranger. It's really beautiful. It is a great book."
"It's the story of a woman looking for happiness, a mother searching for her daughter, an immigrant story. The writer writes about some pretty interesting characters but she's also an interesting character herself," Searles says. "She was a practicing therapist for 20-plus years and she's also the creator of a new show on Lifetime, 'State of Mind,' about practicing therapists."
"The main character believed Oscar Wao suffers from a curse," Searles says.