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Tracy Flick Can’t WinIn a Q&A with Tom Perrotta about the sequel to “Election,” he explains how actress Reese Witherspoon changed his perception of his heroine

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A Queen For All SeasonsBritish actress Joanna Lumley is a big fan of Queen Elizabeth II, and her book pays homage to the monarch in her Platinum Jubilee year

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In "Tree Thieves,” Lyndsie Bourgon investigates the billion-dollar timber-poaching industryIn a Q&A, the author reveals how theft of old-growth trees is linked to the conservation movement and what motivates the poachers.

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THE BIG READ

The Toronto International Festival of Authors Honours Salman Rushdie and the Freedom to Write and Read / As the festival returns Sept. 22 with in-person events, Margaret Atwood, John Irving, Ian McEwan and Deepa Mehta will join the tribute to “the Satanic Verses” author>

MORE BIG READS

>An Archivist Uncovers the Real Story of a Royal Love Affair in ‘Once a King’

>How ‘Accidental Icon’ Lyn Slater Reinvented Herself and Reclaimed Her Voice

>Maurice Vellekoop Sketches Out His Eccentric Life in a Raw Memoir

>In ‘Muse,’ New York Designer B Michael Salutes Cicely Tyson

>How a New British Mystery Pays Homage to Late ‘Antiques Roadshow’ Expert Judith Miller

>Bringing Up Royal Babies: How the British Monarchy Got its Stiff Upper Lip

>A Year in Reading: The Best of 134 Titles From an Omnivorous Reader

>Omid Scobie Weighs In On the Future of the Monarchy in ‘Endgame’

>What a Rush! Geddy Lee’s Memoir Hits High and Low Notes of the Rock n’ Roll Legend’s Life

>The Stars Align in Salah Bachir’s Celebrity-Filled Memoir

>Travel by the Book: A Literary Tour of Morocco

>Taras Grescoe Digs Into the Past to See What Humans Could Be Eating in the Future

>Spies Like Them: Mick Herron on His Contemporary World of Espionage

>The Inside Story of Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope

>For Bibliophiles … Right Now the Past Is Present

>Colson Whitehead Resurrects a Life of Crime in ‘Crook Manifesto’

>A Bibliophile’s Delight: Patrick deWitt’s ‘The Librarianist’ Is a Remembrance of Things Past

>State of Mind: Tom Rachman Is Having an Existential Crisis

>From ‘Black Panther’ to ‘Do The Right Thing’, Ruth E. Carter Chronicles a Career Making the Seemingly Invisible, Visible

>A London Hotel’s Fortune Rests on Queen Elizabeth II’s Crown in ‘Coronation Year’

>The Bangles Front Woman Susanna Hoffs Finds a New Calling as a Romance Writer

>In ‘Künstlers in Paradise,’ a 93–year-old Raconteur Regales her Grandson with Family Lore

>It’s About Time

>Salman Rushdie Plays With Storytelling and His Complicated History in ‘Victory City’

>7 Takeaways From ‘Love, Pamela’, the Hot New Memoir from the Baywatch Star and Playboy Playmate

>‘Spare’: An Engrossing Memoir Covering Harry’s Childhood, Military Service and the Meghan Years

>The Year in Reading: 157 Titles Later, a Bibliophile Recommends Her Favourites

>Lost and Found: Excavating our Literary Past Gives Neglected Books a New Lease on Life

>‘A Ballet of Lepers’: Michael Posner on Leonard Cohen’s Posthumous Novel and Writing a Biography about the Canadian Icon

>The Last Chairlift: At Home With John Irving, Discussing His Biggest, Boldest Novel Yet

>How a 21st Century Feminist Inhabits the Minds and Lives of Sixth Century Monks in “Haven”

>The Toronto International Festival of Authors Honours Salman Rushdie and the Freedom to Write and Read

>Kismet

>The It Girl

>Cold Cold Bones

>In Praise of Summer Reading

>Ghost of the Hardy Boys

>Tracy Flick Can’t Win

>Murder, They Wrote: Canada’s First Crime and Mystery Writing Festival Features an Enviable Slate of Authors

>Hey, Good Luck Out There

>As the Graphic Novel Medium Matures, Older Readers Are Seeing their Lives Reflected in Panels and Prose

>The Story Behind Leonard Cohen’s 1973 Concerts for Israeli Troops Fighting the Yom Kippur War

>Anna: The Biography

>The Palace Papers

>An Unthinkable Thing

>Sea of Tranquility

>Stories I Might Regret Telling You

>French Braid

>Beneath Her Skin

>Jameela Green Ruins Everything

>Run, Rose, Run

>Looking For Jane

>Foreverland

>The Betrayal of Anne Frank

>An Italian Scandal

>The Maid

>2021 By the Book

>The Ghosts of Christmases Past

>Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone

>Once Upon a Wardrobe

>Senior Citizen Sleuths Join the Murder Club

>The Heron’s Cry

>The Dark Remains

>The Magician

>State of Terror

>Out of the Sun: On Art, Race, and the Future

>Bewilderment

>Denial

>Summer of Love

>Her Heart For A Compass

>The Other Passenger

>The Bone Code

>I Am Invincible

>One-on-One With ‘Five Little Indians’ Author Michelle Good

>Malibu Rising

>Love, Lust and Leonard Cohen

>Elizabeth and Monty

>Like Father, Like Son

>Master of Suspense

>Brat, Unpacked

>Hooked

>The Windsor Knot

>The Code Breaker

>Klara and the Sun

>How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

>Cicely Tyson Dies At 96: Revisiting The Hollywood Legend’s Life In Her Own Words

>The Secret Life of Harriet the Spy’s Creator

>Holiday Books To Give and To Get

>True Perspective

>Extraordinary Canadians

>HRH: So Many Thoughts on Royal Fashion

>What If Cary Grant’s Most Famous Character Was Cary Grant, the Famous Actor?

>Who Makes the Best Donair? A New Book Argues for a Truce in the Heated Debate

>The Curious Case of the Girl Detective

>The Latest Blow to Trump’s Presidency

>“Melania and Me”: A Post-Mortem of a Friendship

>Margaret Atwood, Wayne Gretzky and Others Reflect on How Terry Fox Inspired Them

> ’Finding Freedom’: New Book Aims to Set Record Straight on Palace Intrigue and Drama Around Meghan and Harry’s Royal Relationship

>Emma Donoghue’s “The Pull of the Stars” Will Tug on Your Heartstrings

>The Other Woman

NOVEL ENCOUNTERS

The Best Books to Read in September 2022 / As we turn the corner into fall, heavyweights Ian McEwan, Fredrik Backman and Kate Atkinson are back, as well as a perennial favourite, Miss Marple>

READ & RECOMMENDED

Top of Our List / To take the guesswork out of your next selection, here are the books Zoomer editors and writers loved and heartily endorse>

AT HOME

>On the Home FrontThe latest in design and decor books, on everything from White House Rose Garden designer Bunny Mellon to wallpaper, feng shui and country houses

>A Feast of Words7 Food-Centric Books to Feed Your Body and Mind

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