Welcome to the autumn cultural preview, in which we present the September issue of Bloomberg Business Week. We have already explained five museum exhibitions we are most looking forward toThe Seven new TV shows to watchand the Eight films that will be talked about. Next up: The books you should add to your reading list.

Lake of Creation
by Rachel Kushner
With her three previous novels, Kushner made a name for herself as one of the most interesting and competent voices in contemporary fiction: Telex from Cuba (plays immediately before Castro), The Mars Room (set in a prison) and The flamethrowers (set partly in 1970s New York). Here she broadens her range with a thriller set in rural France, where her narrator, a beautiful, deeply cynical American undercover agent named Sadie, is infiltrated into a group of suspected eco-activists. Sadie is there on behalf of dark interests to spy and gather evidence of wrongdoing, but gradually she becomes fascinated by the group’s enigmatic quasi-founder, who communicates only through long, rambling emails. Kushner’s writing style is clean, concise, and often very funny, as she jumps back and forth between past and present but never loses her iron grip on the reader’s attention. September 3, Scribner