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Each week Entertainment Weekly reviews a small selection of popular new books. Titles available for the Kindle reviewed in the September 25th issue include:


Spooner, by Peter Dexter. Grand Central Publishing. NOVEL. EW's slant: "...will make you laugh yourself into a fit one page and hold back tears the next..." Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (20 reviews). Kindle edition $14.25. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"What can you do when your twin brother, dead at birth, is your mother's favorite? This is only one of the burdens placed on young Warren Spooner, the hero of National Book Award–winner Dexter's calamitously funny and riotously tragic new novel. Spooner, who tends toward a life of criminal mischief, turns out to be a baseball phenom, but after an elbow injury puts an end to his pitching career, he ends up a newspaper reporter in Philadelphia, where he's so universally disliked that firing him is at the top of his editor's to-do list. Spooner eventually settles down, becomes a columnist and published novelist, and starts a family. He is dogged, though, by a combination of bad luck and bad judgment..." - Publishers Weekly.
$9.99 or less alternative: Dexter's earlier novel Train.

The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown. Doubleday. NOVEL. EW's slant: "Sometimes it seems that authors, like their villains, don't know when to leave well enough alone." Amazon customer rating: 3 stars (435 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"...the third Brown novel to involve the character of Harvard University symbologist Robert Langdon. ... The story takes place over a period of 12 hours in Washington, D.C., with a focus on Freemasonry. Langdon is summoned to give a lecture in National Statuary Hall at the United States Capitol, with the invitation apparently from his mentor, a 33rd degree Mason named Peter Solomon, who is the head of the Smithsonian Institution. However instead of an audience for his lecture, Langdon finds the severed right hand of Peter Solomon tattooed into a Hand of the Mysteries and pointing upwards, to the fresco The Apotheosis of Washington on the inside of the Capitol dome. Mal'akh has taken Peter hostage, and demands that Langdon unlock the Ancient Mysteries in return for Peter's life..." - Wikipedia.

Nocturnes, by Kazuo Ishiguro. Knopf. NOVEL. EW's slant: "...he has set the bar so high that you can't help but be underwhelmed by these five tales..." Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (8 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"One of the most celebrated writers of our time gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly etched, interconnected stories in which music is a vivid and essential character. A once-popular singer, desperate to make a comeback, turning from the one certainty in his life ... A man whose unerring taste in music is the only thing his closest friends value in him ... A struggling singer-songwriter unwittingly involved in the failing marriage of a couple he’s only just met ... A gifted, underappreciated jazz musician who lets himself believe that plastic surgery will help his career ...A young cellist whose tutor promises to “unwrap” his talent... An exploration of love, need, and the ineluctable force of the past, Nocturnes reveals these individuals to us with extraordinary precision and subtlety, and with the arresting psychological and emotional detail that has marked all of Kazuo Ishiguro’s acclaimed works of fiction." - Amazon.

The Possibility of Everything, by Hope Edelman. Ballantine Books. MEMOIR. EW's slant: "...a well-crafted tale of skepticism versus spirituality, occasionally weighed down by overdescriptive tangents about ancient Mayans." Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (20 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"In the autumn of 2000, Hope Edelman was a woman adrift, questioning her marriage, her profession, and her place in the larger world. Feeling vulnerable and isolated, she was primed for change. Into her stagnant routine dropped Dodo, her three-year-old daughter Maya’s curiously disruptive imaginary friend. Confused and worried about how to handle Dodo’s apparent hold on their daughter, Edelman and her husband made the unlikely choice to take her to Maya healers in Belize, hoping that a shaman might help them banish Dodo - and, as they came to understand, all he represented–from their lives. An account of how an otherwise mainstream mother and wife finds herself making an extremely unorthodox choice, The Possibility of Everything chronicles the magical week in Central America that transformed Edelman from a person whose past had led her to believe only in the visible and the 'proven' to someone open to the idea of larger, unseen forces." - Amazon.

American on Purpose, by Craig Ferguson. HarperCollins. MEMOIR. EW's slant: "raw. funny new memoir..." Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (12 reviews). Kindle edition $12.16. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"...Craig Ferguson delivers a moving and achingly funny memoir of living the American dream as he journeys from the mean streets of Glasgow, Scotland, to the comedic promised land of Hollywood. Along the way he stumbles through several attempts to make his mark - as a punk rock musician, a construction worker, a bouncer, and, tragically, a modern dancer. To numb the pain of failure, Ferguson found comfort in drugs and alcohol, addictions that eventually led to an aborted suicide attempt... But his story has a happy ending: in 1993, the washed-up Ferguson washed up in the United States. Finally sober, Ferguson landed a breakthrough part on the hit sitcom The Drew Carey Show, a success that eventually led to his role as the host of CBS's The Late Late Show. By far Ferguson's greatest triumph was his decision to become a U.S. citizen, a milestone he achieved in early 2008, just before his command performance for the president at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. In American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson talks a red, white, and blue streak about everything our Founding Fathers feared." - Amazon.
$9.99 or less alternative: I'm Hosting as Fast as I Can, by Tom Bergeron.