Ready? The fall Reading Season has started in earnest, and all over the country trucks packed with heavy books are headed your way. The next four months will see over 400 new novels, collections, anthologies, art books and more crammed unto the shelves of your local bookstore. This is where you’ll find them first.

New books and advance proofs in our offices this week include the latest Icewind Dale novel from R. A. Salvatore, Volume 4 of Kate Elliott’s Crown of Stars, and A Storm of Swords, the long-awaited third installment in George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy saga A Song of Ice and Fire. Better hold your breath — Martin has announced there will be at least three more.

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