Among the many series titles that arrive next week, one offers an unusual opportunity. We rarely get to see how life ultimately works out for teen series characters. Next week, Phyllis Naylor lets fans in on what happens to Alice, from entering college through her 60’s. Appropriately, it’s titled, Now I’ll Tell You Everything,

The titles highlighted here are listed on our downloadable spreadesheet, Kids New Title Radar, Week of Oct. 14.

Picture Books

I’m a Frog! (An Elephant and Piggie Book)

Number 20 in the series, another pitch-perfect title from Mo Willems. This time the two very different best friends, Elephant and Piggie, tackle the complicated topic of “let’s pretend.”

Please Bring Balloons, Lindsay Ward, (Penguin/Dial)

The many who were charmed by Ward’s bluebird (When Blue Met Egg, 2012) will be equally enchanted by this dreamy fantasy featuring carousel bears. The author presents a preview of the book’s lovely art on her blog.

Cinderella: A Fashionable Tale , Steven Guarnaccia, (Abrams BYR)

Hip parents with stylish progeny will enjoy this retelling and playing spot the designer,

Middle Grade

The Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit , (S&S BYR; S&S Audio)

Kirkus gives this one the right hook, “Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan meet Nancy Drew. In this first novel by Oscar-winning actress Spencer, Randi Rhodes thrives on solving the mysteries that unfold in her busy Brooklyn neighborhood.”

Sweet Feet: Samantha Gordon’s Winning Season, Samantha Gordon with Ari Bruening, (Walker Children’s; simultaneous paperback)

The biography of a ten-year- old girl who is a football phenom and internet sensation.

Young Adult

Now I’ll Tell You Everything, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, (S&S/Atheneum)

Booklist says it best, “Naylor has given fans a gift: the chance to see how life unfolds for a beloved character. This 500-page farewell is the twenty-eighth title of a series that began in 1985, and it opens when Alice is 18 and headed off to the University of Maryland … we follow her from college to marriage and babies, all the way up until the eve of her sixtieth birthday. For the diehard Alice fan.”

More Y.A. Series

Revealed, P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast, (Macmillan/St. Martin’s Griffin; Macmillan Audio)
The House of Night series has been on The New York Times Children’s Series bestseller list for nearly 150 weeks and counting. It’s also reach #1 on German, and UK bestseller lists. This is the eleventh and next-to-last in the series.

The Darkest Minds Never Fade, Alexandra Bracken, (Hachette?Disney-Hyperion)

Second in action packed dystopian fantasy series, following The Darkest Minds (2012). Kids will be screaming for number 3.
UnSouled, Neal Shusterman, (S&S BYR)

Unwind the first of this trilogy was a tour de force of near future dystopic fantasy. Imagine a world where birth control is illegal, parents have the right to “unwind” oppositional or ordinary or just “spare “adolescents for their body parts. Anyone who has read number one will not want to miss this next one..

The new Today Show Book Club launched last month, sending the first pick, Samantha Shannon’s debut,  The Bone Season, (Macmillan/Bloomsbury), on to the NYT Hardcover list, where it stayed for three weeks. The second pick is Helen Fielding’s  Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (RH/Knopf; BOT; RH Audio), the third in her Bridget Jones Diary series, releasing next week.

Fielding was interviewed on the show by Jenna Bush Hager and will chat with fans on the Monday, Nov. 4 for a Today Book Club Google Hangout. The book is currently at #256 on Amazon’s sales rankings.

Meanwhile, reviewers in the U.K., where the book is coming out this Thursday, are not treating it kindly, calling it a “toe-curling, clunking disappointment,” but that hasn’t put off readers. It is currently #3 on Amazon U.K.’s best seller list.

The tabloids are abuzz with a leaked story from an embargoed bio of Johnny Carson written by his longtime lawyer and close friend, Henry Bushkin. Titled simply Johnny Carson, (HMH; Brilliance Audio), the book will be published on Monday

Amazingly, it seems to still matter whether Carson’s second wife had an affair in the early 1970’s with  sportscaster Frank Gifford. His wife, Kathie Lee used some of her time on the Today Show yesterday to deny the story while also saying that when she asked her husband, now 86, he replied, “I don’t remember.” Joanna Carson, now 81, on the other hand, is certain it never happened.

The NYT‘s Pulitzer-Prize-winning critic, Michiko Kakutani, gives Donna Tartt’s new novel, The Goldfinch, (Hachette/Little, Brown; Hachette Audio; Blackstone Audio), a rare early rave, a full two weeks in advance of publication.

Calling it “deeply felt” (a phrase  she’s used for just 39 other books her more than 30 years of reviewing, according to Slate), she compares it favorably to Tartt’s 1992 debut, The Secret History; “her controlled, cerebral approach to characters in that novel has given way to a keen appreciation of the tangled complexities of the mind and heart.”

The NYT today calls Mary Oliver’s new book of poetry, coming out tomorrow, “a sweet golden retriever of a book that curls up with the reader.”

The 35 poems and one essay in Dog Songs (Penguin) are, of course, about the dogs that have been in her life.

Many libraries have not ordered Dave Eggers’ new book, The Circle, which is being published next week. A late drop-in to the RH/Knopf catalog, it was also reviewed late by the pre-pub sources (Kirkus and Publishers Weekly have covered it).

An excerpt is the cover story of last week’s NYT Magazine, an event considered such a “departure” that it had to be explained in an accompanying story (not that the magazine completely avoids  fiction; short story author George Saunders was featured on the cover at the beginning of the year as was the King family of writers this summer).

The Circle is also available in audio from BOT (CD, 9780804191180: Audiobook Download, 9780804191197)

UPDATE:

The Circle is being reviewed so widely that Gawker published an article titled, “Circle Jerks: Why Do Editors Love Dave Eggers?”

Entertainment Weekly — gives it a B+

Los Angeles Times: “Trapped in the web with Dave Eggers’ The Circle: Dave Eggers’ dystopian novel The Circle follows a young woman as she gives her life over to an Internet company.” by Carolyn Kellogg

The New York Times — “Inside the World of Big Data: The Circle, Dave Eggers’s New Novel,” by Michiko Kakutani

Slate Magazine — “All That Happens Must Be Known: Dave Eggers has zero interest in the tech world. So why did he write a 500-page satire about it?”

Time Magazine — “Dave Eggers’ Scathing Attack on Social Media: The author’s new book zings our obsession with being constantly connected,” by Lev Grossman

The Wall Street Journal — Dave Eggers’s The Circle Takes Vengeance on Google, Facebook

The Washington Post — “Dave Eggers’s The Circle is a relentless broadside against social media overload” by Ron Charles

Several big kahunas arrive next week. James Patterson’s Confessions: The Private School Murders (Hachette/LBYR; Hachette Audio; Hachette Large Print), Rick Riordan’s 4th title in his Heroes of Olympus series,  The House of Hades (Hachette/Disney-Hyperion; Hachette Audio; Thorndike Large Print) and the highly anticipated, aggressively promoted, novel by Newbery Honor winner Shannon Hale, Ever After High: The Storybook of Legends, (Hachette/LBYR) which ties in to Mattel’s doll franchise, with videos, apps and games, following Mattel’s previous Monster High (with tie-in titles by Lisi Harrison).

To top it all off, the tie-in to Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Scholastic) also arrives. But don’t let all these  big names obscure some other books worthy of attention.

All the titles mentioned here are listed, with alternate formats, on our downloadable spreadsheet, Kids New Title Radar, Week of Oct. 6

Picture Books

Captain Cat, Inga Moore, (Candlewick)

Moore, who has created lush editions of the classics Wind in the Willows and The Secret Garden, charms with this tale of an island overun with rats and ship filled with cats.

Anton and Cecil: Cats at Sea, Lisa Martin, Valerie Martin, (Algonquin YR)

For those looking for more cats at sea tales, this animal adventure story will remind readers of Avi’s Poppy.

Facts For Younger Kids

National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of Space, Catherine D. Hughes, David A. Aguilar, (National Geographic Children’s Books)

National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of the Ocean , Catherine D. Hughes, (National Geographic Children’s Books)

I love this First Big Books series. Stunning pictures (click through to the book on space to see some of the spreads) and fact-filled fun.

Maps, Daniel Mizielinski, (Canglewick/Big Picture Press)

A stunning publishing debut for a new publishing house, which introduces itself  this way, “Big Picture Press is a new list of highly illustrated books launching September 2013, publishing as an imprint of … Candlewick Press (US and Canada). We believe that books should be visually intelligent, surprising, and accessible to readers of all ages, abilities, and nationalities.”

Middle Grade

Will in Scarlet, Matthew Cody, (RH/Knopf BYR; Listening Library)

An old fashioned fast-paced historical adventure from the point of view of the youngest member of the Robin Hood’s band of merry men.

Adam Gidwitz has taken apart, mashed-up, spun around Grimm’s fairytales in this series that has a Princess Bride narrative tone. Don’t miss number three. All are superb read alouds.

Young Adult

A cyber reality page-turning adventure from the the author of the New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series as well as the books in the 13th Reality series and The Infinity Ring.

Kirkus calls this mystery, “smart, intricate storytelling loaded with genuinely teen concerns. Atmospheric, lyric and unexpected.”

Just One Year, Gayle Forman, (Penguin/Dutton Juvenile; Dreamscape Audio)

Published in January, Just One Day told the story of a pair of teenagers spending a day (and night) in Paris, from the point of view of Allyson. Just One Year picks ups where the first book left off, but from the boy’s point of view. Must have for the romance fans.

Emerald Green, Kerstin Gier, Anthea Bell, (Macmillan/Holt; Macmillan Young Listeners)

I’ve been waiting for this — the final book in the Ruby Red Trilogy , a this time traveling romance series with a hint of humor.

Opening today, the Tom Hanks-produced movie Parkland reminds us that the fiftieth anniversary of the JFK assassination is next month. Based on Vincent Bugliosi’s Four Days in November (Norton; tie-in released last week), it examines the chaos at the Dallas hospital when the dying president was brought to  the emergency room.

Several  books about Kennedy arrive next week, including a novel by former PBS New Hour anchor Jim Lehrer, Top Down, (Random House). The title refers to the fateful deceision to remove the bubble top from Kennedy’s car.

In Dallas 1963: Politics, Treason, and the Assassination of JFK, (Hachette/Twelve), two Texas journalists  look at the politics that made Dallas a city so hostile to JFK that many, including vice president Lyndon Johnson, a Texas native, warned him not to make the trip.  In Camelot’s Court (Harper),  Kennedy historian Robert Dallek examines the president’s relationships with his advisors.

For a gentler view, Caroline Kennedy has edited a book of her grandmother’s personal family photos, Rose Kennedy’s Family Album, (Hachette/Grand Central).

All the titles highlighted here, and more, are on our downloadable spreadsheet, with ordering information and alternate formats, New Title Radar, Week of Oct. 6

Known Quantities

Leading in library holds among next week’s titles are new book by Stuart Woods, John Sandford, and a Christmas themed book by Debbie Macomber, whose fan base has grown since Andie MacDowell brought new attention to the Cedar Cove books with the Hallmark TV series. Speaking of big names,  twenty writers, including Lee Child, C. J. Box, Charlaine Harris, John Connolly and Mary Higgins Clark collaborate on a “serial novel” titled Inherit the Dead, (S&S/Touchstone; S&S Audio).

In nonfiction, Daniel Goleman, author of the long-running best seller, Emotional Intelligence, turns to the subject of what make leaders in Focus, (Harper; HarperAudio)

Watch List

Longbourn, Jo Baker, (RH/Knopf; RH Audio)

A GalleyChat favorite that is now a LibraryReads pick for October, this is the downstairs to Pride and Prejudice‘s upstairs, focusing on the servants in the Bennet household. Word seems to be getting out; libraries are already showing holds.

Jo Baker spoke to librarians at the Random House Breakfast during BEA:

Media Magnets

Two remarkable young women who have triumphed over  adversity will be featured in the news this week. One is  the Pakistani girl who was shot in the head for her efforts to secure education for women, Malala Yousafzai. She writes about her beliefs in  I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, (Hachette/Little, Brown; Hachette Audio). Honored last week at Harvard, she is currently a favorite for the Nobel Peace Prize. Diane Sawyer landed the first U.S. television interview with Malala, to air beginning on Monday on all ABC News broadcasts culminating with a special edition of  20/20  on Friday, Oct. 11. On Tuesday, Oct. 13, she is scheduled to appear on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. She is also featured on the cover of Parade magazine. [NOTE: we got ahead of ourselves and announced this on last week’s New Title Radar].

Also arriving is Elizabeth Smart’s memoir, My Story, (Macmillan/St. Martin’s; Macmillan Audio) who was kidnapped at age 14, survived nine months of rape and torture, managed to engineer an escape and now is an advocate for educating children on sex crimes. NBC News will air Elizabeth’s Story: A Meredith Vieira Special tonight.  Smart will appear again live on the Today Show on publication day, Tuesday, October 7. (See our downloadable spreadsheet for several other titles that are scheduled for media attention next week).

Movie Tie-ins

Romeo and Juliet gets a Hollywood makeover  that’s newsworthy enough to land it in the pages of the new issue of People (USA Today quipped about the premiere, “Some aspiring screenwriter named William Shakespeare worked with Downton Abbey writer Julian Fellowes to produce the screenplay.”)  The trade pbk. tie-in (RH/Ember) includes both Shakespeare’s and Fellowes’ versions. Worth seeing, if only for Paul Giamatti as Friar Laurence.

An excerpt of the third installment of Bridget Jones’s diary, the upcoming Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy by Helen Fielding (RH/Knopf, 10/15), in The Sunday Times of London is causing much wailing and gnashing of teeth. It reveals that Bridget, who became an international obsession in 1996 with the publication of Bridget Jones’s Diary, and the subsequent film, is now a 51-year-old widow.

Yes, dear readers, she married Mark Darcy, but it did not turn out as hoped.

The book rose to #79, from #225, on Amazon’s sales rankings as a result of the attention.

For those who prefer to remember happier times, below is the trailer for the movie adaptation of the first book in the series:

Holds are already heavy relative to light ordering by libraries for The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida (Random House) and likely to rise after David Mitchell, who translated the book from the original Japanese with his wife, KA Yoshida, appears on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart tomorrow night.

Mitchell, the author of Cloud Atlas (2004) and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (2010), and his wife say this book helped them to better understand their own autistic child’s daily life. Stewart has a personal interest in the subject; he organizes an annual benefit for autism education, Night of Too Many Stars,

The NYT Book Review last month stated that, on its own, the book “makes for odd reading — a book about disordered sensorineural processing by a person with disordered sensorineural processing, written one letter at a time in adolescent Japanese prose and then translated into colloquial English.”

Among the big names releasing new titles next week are Iris Johansen, Malcolm Gladwell and, leading in holds, James Patterson, with his tenth book of the year, Gone.

Titles highlighted here, and more arriving next week, are listed on our downloadable spreadsheet, New Title Radar, Week of Sept 30

Also arriving to waiting holds is Elizabeth Gilbert’s sixth book and second novel, The Signature of All Things, (Penguin/Viking; Penguin Audio), a historical novel, featuring a 19th C. female biologist who specializes in mosses. Gilbert’s first three books, a collection of short stories, a novel and and a biography, received critical praise and decent sales. Then lightning struck in the form of her memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, resulting in the double-edged sword that comes with such a phenomenon. Each new book receives lavish advance attention (this one was on the majority of the lists of the most-anticipated titles for the fall, and the author was profiled in the 9/22 NYT Magazine), but none are likely to reach Eat, Pray, Love‘s level of success. Acknowledging this in her upcoming review on the cover of the New York Times Book Review, Barbara Kingsolver politely calls The Signature of All Things “a winning next act.”

James isn’t the only best-selling Patterson arriving next week. Richard North Patterson’s latest is Loss of Innocence, (Quercus). Known for best selling thrillers (Degree of Guilt and Silent Witness), he recently stepped out of that genre with the family-drama tinged mystery, Fall From Grace (S&S/Scribner), about a CIA agent investigating his estranged father’s death near his home on Martha’s Vineyard. This new title is a prequel, set in the 1960’s and focusing on the family dynamics of the previous generation. Kirkus makes a compelling comparison, “Think The Thorn Birds or Rich Man, Poor Man among the Martha’s Vineyard moneyed set.”

Watch List

The Rosie Project, Graeme Simsion, (S&S; S&S Audio)

We’ve been writing about this book for months; it’s been a favorite on GalleyChat and is now #1 on both the IndieNext and the LibraryReads lists (annotation below):

“Don Tillman, a brilliant geneticist, thinks that having women fill out a six-page, double-sided questionnaire before a date is logical and reasonable. Rosie Jarman, an impetuous barmaid, thinks Don should loosen up and learn to live a little. Follow the unlikely pair in this laugh-out-loud, feel-good story of unexpected joys, discovery and love.” — Paulette Brooks, Elm Grove Public Library, Elm Grove, WI

Entertainment Weekly joins the bandwagon this week, saying, “Move over, Sheldon Cooper. There’s a new brilliant, socially inept scientist poised to win over a huge audience, and his name is Don Tillman, in The Rosie Project.”

The Tilted World, Tom Franklin & Beth Ann Fennelly, (HarperCollins/Morrow)

This title is also a LibraryReads pick for October:

“The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 is the backdrop for one of my favorite historical novels of the last few years. Bootleggers, revenuers, an orphaned child, extreme weather, a disintegrating marriage and romance. There are no dull characters or moments in this beautifully-written story.” — Janet Lockhart, Wake County Public Libraries, Cary, NC

Coincidentally, Bill Bryson writes about that flood in One Summer: America, 1927, (RH/Doubleday), which is also out this week.

Thursdays in the Park, Hilary Boyd, (Quercus; Pbk original)

Several librarians on GalleyChat enjoyed this book, but objected to its being called “Gran Lit” (the character is turning 60) in Britain where it was a self-published word-of-mouth hit. The tabloid, The Daily Mail, compared it to Fifty Shades of Grey, even though the sex is mild (maybe confused by the word grey in the title). It’s an IndieNext pick for October.

Media Magnets

Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked, Chris Matthews, (S&S; S&S Audio)

The host of The Chris Matthews Show writes about the relationship between Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill (Matthews was O’Neill’s chief of staff for six years). Appealing to Democrats as well as Republicans, it will get media coverage, of course. The author is scheduled for NBC’s Meet the Press, The Today Show, MSNBC’s Morning Joe, NPR’s Fresh Air; and Comedy Central’s Colbert Report, among others.

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, Christina Lamb, Malala Yousafzai, (Hachette/Little, Brown; Hachette Audio)

Last year, when she was just 15, Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban and became an international symbol of the fight for women’s rights. Although she had to leave her home in Pakistan, she has not been silenced and continues to argue for education for girls and women, as she does is this book, co-written with journalist Christina Lamb, who has covered Pakistan for many years.

Diane Sawyer landed the first U.S. television interview with Malala, to air on all ABC News broadcasts including World News with Diane Sawyer, Good Morning America, and Nightline. The following week, she is scheduled to appear on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

In July, on her 16th birthday, she brought the U.N. Youth Assembly to their feet with a powerful and articulate speech (video here).

The Vegucation of Robin: How Real Food Saved My Life , Robin Quivers, (Penguin/Avery)

Howard Stern’s longtime sidekick, Robin Quivers revealed earlier this month that she has been doing the show from home while receiving chemotherapy for endometrial cancer and now is cancer-free. She has also embraced veganism, which she says has helped her overcome the aches and pains she endured for many years.

New books from award winners are big next week, from Caldecott medalists Jerry Pinkney and David Wiesner to the longlisted National Book Awards title from Meg Rosoff … Your next favorite read aloud, Snatchabook, focuses on the love of reading … In tie-ins, releases of Ender’s Game and Frozen signal two big fall movies arriving in November.

Titles mentioned here, and more arriving next week, are listed on our downloadable spreadsheet, Kid’s New Title Radar; Week of Sept. 30.

Picture Books

The Tortoise & the Hare, Jerry Pinkney, (Hachette/LBYR)

Caldecott-winning artist Pinkney, (The Lion And The Mouse) retells Aesop’s fable, set in the American Southwest. The illustrations are rich in detail, accurately displaying the flora and fauna of the region’s landscape. These animals are more anthropomorphic than his previous retelling, with the turtle sporting a train engineer’s cap (perhaps a nod to John Henry) and the rabbit in a checkered vest. Another winner.

Snatchabook, Thomas Docherty, Helen Docherty, (Sourcebooks/Jabberwocky)

Looking for a new read aloud picture book so delightful that it sings? Look no further, it’s here.

Click on the title link to see some of the charming interior spreads.

Mr. Wuffles!, David Wiesner, (HMH/Clarion Books)

The world has gone cat crazy, from French video star, Henri, Le Chat Noir, who paces to an interior monologue of ennui, to  Grumpy Cat, who has his own bestselling book from Chronicle (and the longest lines at Book Expo).

Now there is Mr. Wuffles! Inventive, surprising, with sly humor and visual jokes, three-time Caldecott-winner David Weisner gives new life to the alien invasion trope.

Young Adult

Picture Me Gone, Meg Rosoff, (Penguin/Putnam)

Longlisted for the National Book Awards, this is a story that sneaks up on you. Written from the point of view of a very smart, very aware (think Sherlock Holmes) twelve-year-old, it is about a girl accompanying her father on a trip to the United States to search for his missing best friend.

Movie Tie-ins

Ender’s Game (Movie Tie-In), Orson Scott Card, (Macmillan/Tor Teen; also in trade pbk)

Whatever you think of Orson Scott Card’s politics or point of view, when Enders Game was published in 1985, it brought a new vision to speculative fiction with its intergalactic power plays and the fate of the human race resting on the gaming skills of children. The book has reappeared on best seller lists as attention is gearing up for the movie, which open Nov. 1, starring Harrison Ford as Col. Hyrum Graff and Asa Butterfield as Ender Wiggin.

New TV spot below:

Frozen Tie-ins

Disney’s big animated feature for the winter, opening Nov. 27, is appropriately titled Frozen, which is oosely based on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen,

In addition to the novelization (pictured), several tie-ins are being published.

See our downloadable spreadsheet, Kid’s New Title Radar; Week of Sept. 30, for the full list.

Scientist and “celebrity atheist,” Richard Dawkins, appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night, to discuss his book, An Appetite for Wonder, (HarperCollins/Ecco; HarperAudio), which is part one of his memoir. The second part is due out in two years, if, says the author, he is “not carried off by the unpredictable equivalent of a sneeze.”

The book is reviewed twice on the NPR web site, one calls it a “delightful memoir… funny and modest, absorbing and playful … a marvelous love letter to science.” The other complains that the first half of the book suffers from “little drama, humor, or any other redeeming factor,” but that the “the pace of the book moves up a notch” after Dawkins discovers science.

Several libraries are showing increased holds on light ordering for the book.

Below is the extended interview, part one (link to the site for parts two and three)

A new trailer for the BBC Film adaptation of Great Expectations whets appetites for Helen Bonham Carter’s and director Mike Newell’s (Four Weddings and a Funeral and the fourth Harry Potter) take on the iconic spinster, Miss Havisham. Unfortunately, the movie is planned for just a limited run in New York, Los Angeles and Toronto on November 8.

At 46, Helena Bonham Carter is one of the youngest actresses to play the part (she is edged out slightly by Gillian Anderson, who was 43 when she starred in the BBC TV miniseries). The film’s director, says, however, “if you read the book she’s actually in her 40′s.”

For the backstory on Miss Havisham’s early life, novelist Ronald Frame’s Havisham, (Macmillan/Picador) arrives here on Nov. 5.  It received admiring reviews when it was published in the U.K., with The Times of London saying, “this re-imagining will delight readers … Frame has a talent for thrilling Victorian melodrama.”  Canada’s National Post said that Frame not only illuminates Dickens’ Miss Havisham, but makes the character his own.

Judge for yourself; print galleys have been released here and it is available on NetGalley.

Great Expectations has inspired other spin-offs, most notably, Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs and Lloyd Jones’s Mister Pip (which was also made into a movie), but this is the first to be based on Havisham.

Less than a month after The Today Show relaunched their book club, sending the first title, The Bone Season onto best seller lists, MSNBC’s Morning Joe begins a club of its own, with a LibraryReads pick for September, Sheri Fink’s Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, (RH/Crown; RH Audio/BOT).

Below is the video of the introduction of the club and a discussion with the author:

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