The Books of the Graphic! Fall Festival

Books that matter–from presenters in conversations that you'll want to hear.

Many incredible books are at the heart of this year's Fall Festival. From a slate of prominent historians, like Doris Kearns Goodwin, Jill Lepore, Ron Chernow, and Joanne Freeman, to literary giants, like Alice Walker and George Saunders, brilliant prose abounds. And as always, we're thrilled to host an array of influential public voices tackling pressing current issues, like Steve Kornacki, Carol Anderson, Eve Ewing, and Kwame Anthony Appiah. From artists and critics to science writers and scholars, the authors behind the books of Graphic! will surely spark your thinking and creativity.

History

Grant by Ron Chernow

Leadership: In Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin

These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore

The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne Freeman

The White Darkness by David Grann

Literature and Poetry

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart by Alice Walker

Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser

The Real Lolita:The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World by Sarah Weinman

Shadowhouse Fall by Daniel José Older

Monument: Poems New and Selected by Natasha Trethewey

feeld by Jos Charles

Inquisition by Kazim Ali
Godsong: A Verse Translation of the Bhagavad-Gita, with Commentary by Amit Majmudar

Public Intellectuals

The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah

Identity by Francis Fukuyama

Provocations by Camille Paglia

The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis by Martha Nussbaum

The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth by Ken Krimstein

Politics and Society

The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism by Steve Kornacki

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson

Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Power by Rebecca Traister

Scarlet A: The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Ordinary Abortion by Katie Watson

Current Events

Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side by Eve L. Ewing

We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time by José Andrés

The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantù

Undocumented by John Moore

Technology and Science

World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech by Franklin Foer

The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age by Tim Wu

Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality by Jaron Lanier

Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat by Marion Nestle

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris

New Media Futures: The Rise of Women in the Digital Arts by Donna Cox

Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Claire Evans

Gods and Robots: The Ancient Quest for Artificial Life by Adrienne Mayor

Dark Commerce: How a New Illicit Economy Is Threatening Our Future by Louise Shelley

Popular Culture

The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity by Esther Perel

Everything's Trash, But It's Okay by Phoebe Robinson

I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff by Abbi Jacobson

Uncommon Type: Some Stories by Tom Hanks

Marvelocity: The Marvel Comics Art of Alex Ross by Chip Kidd and Alex Ross

Night Moves by Jessica Hopper

Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece by Michael Benson

My Own Devices by Dessa

Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive by Kristen J. Sollée

Graphic Novels

Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures by Yvan Alagbé

Monograph by Chris Ware

Art, Architecture, and Design

Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, And the Decline of Civic Life by Eric Klinenberg

The Last Pictures by Trevor Paglen

On Color by David Scott Kastan

The Book of Circles: Visualizing Spheres of Knowledge by Manuel Lima

Architectural Intelligence: How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape by Molly Wright Steenson

Picture Freedom: Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century by Jasmine Nichole Cobb

Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now by Robert Cozzolino and Maggie Taft

Sites Unseen by Trevor Paglen

Sustainable Nation: Urban Design Patterns for the Future by Douglas Farr