Here’s a list of books I’m looking forward to this fall season. Not all of them will rise to the level of the advertisement, but they are abundant crops.

Home After Dark by David Small (Liveright, Sept. 11 )

In 2009, Small published a celebrated graphic memoir(回忆录) called Stitches. Now the Caldecott Medal winner is back with a graphic novel about a motherless 13-year-old boy brought up in an unhappy home in California. This is a tale told in few words and many striking images. On Sept. 11 at 3 p.m., Small will be at AmazonBooks at Union Market. More information at www.amazon.com/graph-tale.

Waiting for Eden by Elliot Ackerman (Knopf, Sept. 25)

This brief novel is related to a dead soldier who is watching over a horribly burned partner in a Texas hospital. That sounds embarrassingly emotional, but Ackerman, who served in a navy in Iraq and Afghanistan, is one of the best soldier-writers of his generation.More information at www. amazon.com/military-essay.