What We’re Excited to Read This Fall

If the U.S. Open has your tennis fever in full pitch, Assouline is releasing “Federer” on Sept. 4, a new coffee table book done in close collaboration with legend Roger Federer on his life and career.

The tome, which is the first visual biography of Federer, features never-before-seen photographs from his family life, along with quotes from the likes of Rafael Nadal, Lionel Messi, Trevor Noah and Bill Gates. 

“I want it to be a story that people feel inspired by,” Federer says of the book. “I will always want to be connected to the sport.”

A portion of proceeds from the book sales will benefit the Roger Federer Foundation, which works in Southern Africa and his home country of Switzerland to support education.

Coco Mellors’ debut book “Cleopatra and Frankenstein,” which she started writing at age 25 and finished at 30, was released in 2022 and has gone on to become a national bestseller, with a TV adaptation from Warner Brothers in the works. The London-raised, New York-based author is back this September with her second book, “Blue Sisters,” which follows three estranged sisters who reunite after the death of their fourth sister. 

“I knew I wanted to write about siblings, I wanted to write about sisters,” Mellors says. “I was very inspired by something that a friend of mine, who’s one of four sisters, had said to me: if you don’t know my sisters, you don’t know me. And so I really loved this idea of we’re so defined by our siblings and by our birth order within a family.”

Elsewhere in buzzed-about fiction, Sally Rooney is back with another novel. The Irish writer, beloved for her works “Normal People,” “Conversations with Friends” and “Beautiful World, Where Are You,” explores the relationship between two brothers in her new book “Intermezzo.” Releasing Sept. 24, “Intermezzo” opens with Peter and Ivan Koubek each grieving the death of their father and balancing their own romantic relationships, while navigating their bond with one another.