Connie Chung's memoir, Joyce Carol Oates' latest and more

COLORED TELEVISION byDanzy Senna

This nervy satire stars a biracial Los Angeles writer named Jane, who’s living large for a year. She's on sabbatical from her teaching job and housesitting a mansion with her husband and two kids, giving her space to work on her epic second novel, aka "the mulatto ‘War and Peace.’" Then Hollywood beckons, and things get complicated. With one hilarious scene and outrageous observation after another, Senna hits it out of the park. (Riverhead, out now)

FRIGHTEN THE HORSES by Oliver Radclyffe

This moving, crucially important memoir tracks the journey of a Connecticut housewife and mother of four, daughter of wealthy British parents, as the person he truly is wriggles slowly but inexorably out of the cocoon. First, he comes out as a lesbian to his husband, children and parents. Then it turns out that's just the first step. A beautifully told story of family and identity. (Roxane Gay Books, Sept, 17)

ENTITLEMENT by Rumaan Alam

When Brooke leaves a frustrating teaching job for a position finding worthy beneficiaries for the Asher and Carol Jaffee Foundation, this beautiful Black woman quickly becomes the boss' favorite, riding in town cars to restaurants and auction houses. But proximity to wealth and ease proves dangerous, and the suspense mounts exponentially as Brooke loses her bearings on what is rightfully hers. (Riverhead, Sept. 17)

CONNIE by Connie Chung

Given her perfectly composed appearance and impeccable resume, you might not expect the memoir of Asian-American broadcasting pioneer Chung to be so irreverent and, at times, down and dirty. Well, it hasn't been easy being the only girl and person of color in the room over the course of a 50-year career. Chung always tells it like it is, including the juicy story of her long love with talk show host Maury Povich. (Grand Central, Sept. 23)

INTERMEZZO by Sally Rooney

This compelling novel from the author of “Normal People” centers on several fraught romances, starting with 22-year-old chess prodigy Ivan who is seeing 36-year-old and not-yet-divorced Margaret. Who knows better than Ivan what people will think? Among the judgmental crowd is his 32-year-old brother, Peter, a Dublin lawyer who is dating — yes! — a woman Ivan's age, while also involved with a longtime ex. As they say, it's complicated. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Sept. 24)

THE MIGHTY RED by Louise Erdrich

Erdrich is back with another brilliant, funny, profound story of people and place, earth and spirit. Even in Argus, North Dakota, Gary Geist and Kismet Poe are on the young side for marriage. But Gary believes only she can save him from the darkness of a recent tragedy. While his family owns most of the town, her father has disappeared and she and her mother are living on the edge. Can this possibly work out? (Harper, Oct. 1)

BROKE HEART BLUES by Joyce Carol Oates

If you love high school drama and small-town intrigue, this story of the handsome, mysterious antihero John Reddy Heart is for you. Since his family showed up in Willowsville, New York, in a salmon-colored Cadillac — at age 11, he was driving — the whole town's been obsessed with him, and no one more than the members of his class at school. Then, at 16, he shot a man dead in his mother's bedroom. Oates’ All-American epic follows this brilliantly drawn group of characters to their thirtieth high school reunion. (Akashic, Oct. 1)

OUR EVENINGS by Alan Hollinghurst

When you start this book, you'll think it's a classic boarding school coming-of-age novel featuring a charming, biracial, gay British boy. But it doesn't stop there. The book seamlessly glides into the subsequent phases of David Win's life, moving to the present day, where he is a well-known 70-ish actor, happily married to a man. At the same time, a bully he went to school with has become a leader of a changed and dangerous England. (Penguin, Oct. 3)

LOVE YOU A LATKE by Amanda Elliot

When a Vermont town tries to woo tourists by putting on a Hanukkah festival instead of the typical Yuletide celebration, coffee-bar owner Abby Cohen is tapped to lead the charge. Yes, she's Jewish, but she's more of a cranky curmudgeon than a born party thrower — and she's not going to let the locals slap yarmulkes on the Three Wise Men and call it a day. Fortunately, her regular customer Seth is happy to help, as long as she'll pose as his girlfriend during a family visit. (Berkley, Oct. 8)

RIVER OF BOOKS: A Life in Reading by Donna Seaman

"A love of books ensures that one always has something to look forward to," writes Seaman. For those of us who are never without a book, this slim and lovely memoir will resonate and inspire. From her childhood and adolescence in upstate Poughkeepsie to student years in Kansas City, Missouri, and then to Chicago, through seasons of loss and becoming, Seaman recalls the books that taught her to think, kept her sane and brought her joy. (Ode Books, Nov. 4)

LAZARUS MAN by Richard Price

Acclaimed urban storyteller Price (“Clockers,” “The Wire”) spins a story of a 2008 building collapse in Harlem as it affects a constellation of local characters. As funeral director Royal Davis sends his son out with business cards, a drifter named Anthony Carter is rescued from the rubble and becomes a man with a mission. Meanwhile, Detective Mary Roe is obsessed with tracking down one last missing person, and aspiring photographer Felix Pearl shoots an image that profoundly changes the story. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Nov. 12)

WATER FINDS A WAY by Meghan Perry

After her release from prison for a mysterious murder, Blake Alvares returns to coastal Maine to rebuild her life. She apprentices on the lobster boat of Leland Savard, who has a 9-year-old daughter and lots of messy history with other locals, including the Hayes family, whose garage apartment Blake ends up renting. As an unlikely love takes root, old feuds revive and storm clouds gather as Perry's propulsive debut builds to its satisfying climax. (Harper Collins, Nov. 12)