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Our Top 10 books of September 2024

September’s best books include Richard Osman’s start to a new series and Attica Locke’s conclusion to one.
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Book jacket image for Ash’s Cabin by Jen Wang

Beautiful, complex and affirming, Ash’s Cabin will prompt deep conversations about how best to support one another and our environment, at a time when the

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Book jacket image for First in the Family by Jessica Hoppe

Jessica Hoppe’s stunning debut memoir, First in the Family, shows that understanding our histories allows for recovery, healing and liberation.

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In this careful recording of the experiences of Japanese atomic bomb survivors, M.G. Sheftall provides a crucial service for our collective memory of Hiroshima.

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Book jacket image for The House on Yeet Street by Preston Norton

Preston Norton has crafted an action-packed, compelling tale about coming out and becoming brave, wrapped up in a supremely creepy horror story rife with ghosts

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In Elif Shafak’s spellbinding novel There Are Rivers in the Sky, a single drop of water falls and regenerates and falls again across continents and

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Book jacket image for Guide Me Home by Attica Locke

Attica Locke’s language is precise, refreshing and often beautiful in Guide Me Home, the final installment in the literary triumph that is her Highway 59

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Book jacket image for Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner

Rachel Kushner has taken the bones of the traditional spy novel and spun it into something that is as thought-provoking as it is fun, an

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Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune book jacket

Somewhere Beyond the Sea, the highly anticipated sequel to TJ Klune’s The House in the Cerulean Sea, is a triumphant rallying cry for freedom and

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Book jacket image for We Solve Murders by Richard Osman

In We Solve Murders, Richard Osman accomplishes the seemingly impossible: a cozy mystery-thriller mashup.

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Book jacket image for Survival Is a Promise by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Audre Lorde gets her flowers in Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ Survival Is a Promise, a masterful, poetic biography of the literar and feminist icon.

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