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How will you talk about the best books of the season? This page might be the only thing you need to read.

- ADAM RATHE

We'd all like to make it through the year's most important books-so we can casually recommend them to friends or bring them up over dinner with bespectacled intellectual types. Alas, you may need a cheat sheet. Here are T&C's picks for the fall's best, and the lines that kick them off.

PRIDE AND PLEASURE

Amanda Vaill

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 21 One of our great biographers takes the Schuyler sisters out of Hamilton's supporting cast and puts them front and center.

"Shortly before eight o'clock on the morning of July 11, under a clear sky with a light breeze ruffling the surface of the water, four oarsmen rowed a boat across the Hudson River from Weehawken, in New Jersey, to the village of Greenwich."

WILL THERE EVER BE ANOTHER YOU

Patricia Lockwood

Riverhead, September 23.