Fall book preview: J.K. Rowling's novel and 14 more big releases

September 7, 2012 10:35 PM

It's early September, but already fall promises a bounty: A new novel from the wildly talented Zadie Smith, a final dispatch from the late Christopher Hitchens and a red-hot account of the Navy SEAL mission that took out Osama bin Laden. And there are more to come. Here are 15 titles on our must-read list for fall. --TOM BEER, tom.beer@newsday.com