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Each week Entertainment Weekly reviews a small selection of popular new books. Titles available for the Kindle reviewed in the October 2nd issue include:


Year of the Flood, by Margaret Atwood. Nan A. Talese. NOVEL. EW's slant: "...a welcome blend of satire, character study, and gripping suspense." Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (18 reviews). Kindle edition $14.82. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. The Year of the Flood is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power. The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners - a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life - has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women have survived: Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, a God's Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa where many of the treatments are edible. Have others survived? ... By turns dark, tender, violent, thoughtful, and uneasily hilarious ... Atwood at her most brilliant and inventive." - Amazon.
$9.99 or less alternative: Atwood's earlier dystopian novel Oryx and Crake.

Juliet, Naked, by Nick Hornby. Riverhead. NOVEL. EW's slant: "...endearingly minor-key tale of never-too-lateness told in Hornby's dry, Brit-wit tones." Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (4 reviews). Kindle edition $14.27. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"...a quintessential Nick Hornby tale of music, superfandom, and the truths and lies we tell ourselves about life and love. Annie loves Duncan - or thinks she does. Duncan loves Annie, but then, all of a sudden, he doesn't. Duncan really loves Tucker Crowe, a reclusive Dylanish singer-songwriter who stopped making music ten years ago. Annie stops loving Duncan, and starts getting her own life. In doing so, she initiates an e-mail correspondence with Tucker, and a connection is forged between two lonely people who are looking for more out of what they've got. ... What happens when a washed-up musician looks for another chance? And miles away, a restless, childless woman looks for a change? Juliet, Naked is a powerfully engrossing, humblingly humorous novel about music, love, loneliness, and the struggle to live up to one's promise." - Amazon.
$9.99 or less alternative: Hornby's amusing novel of musical addiction High Fidelity - made into the acclaimed John Cusack film of the same name.


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The Time of My Life, by Patrick Swayze and Lisa Niemi. Atria. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. EW's slant: "...the late actor talks frankly about his marriage, his battles with alcohol, and most of all, his indelible performances." Amazon customer rating: none yet. Kindle edition $14.30. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"In a career spanning more than thirty years, Patrick Swayze has made a name for himself on the stage, the screen, and television. Known for his versatility, passion and fearlessness, he's become one of our most beloved actors. But in February 2008, Patrick announced he had been diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer. Always a fighter, he refused to let the disease bring him to his knees, and his bravery has inspired both his legion of fans and cancer patients everywhere. Yet this memoir, written with wisdom and heart, recounts much more than his bout with cancer. In vivid detail, Patrick describes his Texas upbringing, his personal struggles, his rise to fame with North and South, his commercial breakthroughs in Dirty Dancing and Ghost, and the soul mate who's stood by his side through it all: his wife, writer and director Lisa Niemi." - Amazon.
$9.99 or less alternative: The biography of another Hollywood great: Paul Newman, by Shawn Levy.