Fiction

Zero History (September): The always innovative William Gibson writes about the people and plots surrounding a zillionaire marketing magnate named Hubertus Bigend.

Ape House (September): Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants) returns with a novel about a scientist developing a sign language for bonobo apes, and a television reporter who becomes involved with her as well as the apes.

Worth Dying For (October): Lee Child’s new Reacher novel, a continuation of 61 Hours.

Nemesis (October): Philip Roth … Newark … 1944 … polio. Consider the possibilities.

Our Kind of Traitor: (October): John Le Carre’s new novel about a couple on a vacation in Antigua, and how they are ensnared by a Russian spy.

Swamplandia (February): Former South Floridian Karen Russell writes a novel about the decline and fall of an Indian alligator-wrestling dynasty in the Everglades.

West of Here (February): The second novel by Jonathan Evison is an epic with two time frames: the founding of a town in Washington state in the late 19th century, and the descendants of those characters in 2006.

Nonfiction

A Journey (September): The memoirs of British prime minister Tony Blair.

The Noel Coward Reader (October): Palm Beacher Barry Day edits a 600-page omnibus of the best of Coward from all the different forms in which he dabbled: short stories, novels, screenplays, plays, poetry, lyrics, you name it.

Frank: The Voice (October) James Kaplan’s biography of the young Sinatra, the first serious book about the singer … ever.

Finishing the Hat (October): Stephen Sondheim’s magnum opus on his craft, his collected lyrics from 1954 to 1981, along with much scintillating prose about his own shows and the work of his peers, not to mention trenchant criticism about great and not-so- great lyricists that came before.

The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: (October): The fifth edition of David Thomson’s compendium that is on the short shelf of everybody who loves movies.

The Elephant to Hollywood (November): Michael Caine’s second volume of memoirs brings his story up to date and adds new details about some of his best movies.

Unbroken (November) Laura Hillenbrand (Seabiscuit) writes the story of Louie Zamperini, an Olympic runner who not only survived on a life raft for 47 days after being shot down by the Japanese in World War II, but a series of brutal prisoner of war camps.

I Remember Nothing (November): Nora Ephron’s new collection of pieces about, well, everything.

I Was a Dancer (February): The memoirs of the great Jacques d’Amboise, encompassing everything from Balanchine to Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.