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Field Notes · September 14, 2026

The End (of Summer) Is Near

A short note from the shop on this week's arrivals.

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 cover image
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
Autumn of the Patriarch cover image
Autumn of the Patriarch
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Farewell To Arms cover image
A Farewell To Arms
Ernest Hemingway
Death in Midsummer: And Other Stories (New Directions Paperbook) cover image
Death in Midsummer
Yukio Mishima
Death by Water cover image
Death by Water
Kenzaburo Oe
A Brief History of Seven Killings (Booker Prize Winner): A Novel cover image
A Brief History of Seven Killings
Marlon James
A Burnt-Out Case (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) cover image
A Burnt-Out Case
Graham Greene
American Pastoral: American Trilogy 1 (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (Vintage International) cover image
American Pastoral
Philip Roth
Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) cover image
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon; Frank Miller
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