Schools are largely back in session, public pools are closed, and many are in the opening stages of grief for another summer's end. But not the Vagabound! Autumn, like all seasons (of course), is for real reads. So, now that summer has (more or less officially) come and gone, leave those beach reads at the beach! Here are some of the Vagabound's favorite books about all things transitory.
Books in this dispatch — 9 titles

Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe

Autumn of the Patriarch
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A Farewell To Arms
Ernest Hemingway

Death in Midsummer
Yukio Mishima

Death by Water
Kenzaburo Oe

A Brief History of Seven Killings
Marlon James

A Burnt-Out Case
Graham Greene

American Pastoral
Philip Roth

Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon; Frank Miller
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