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16 Books to Read in September

How Three Visionaries Expanded Our Understanding of Reality

Cousins (and Co-Authors) Write a Love Letter to New York

Zadie Smith Makes 1860s London Feel Alive, and Recognizable

‘A Wound That Is On the Mend’: Indigenous Art Today

One Morning in Maine, 225 People Went to the Library

Newly Published, from Children’s Books to 1970s Counterculture

Audiobook of the Week: ‘How to Write About Africa’

A Panel-by-Panel Life of the Man Who Created Charlie Brown

9 New Books We Recommend This Week

Imprinted by Belief

James McBride Doesn’t Read Reviews. Here’s Why.

A Writer Scrutinizes Privilege, Starting With His Own

Can You Get Out of Poverty Without Having to Beg?

It Totally Peaked in High School

The Making of an Ivy League President: Two Women’s Stories

A Languid, Atmospheric Thriller Steeped in Postwar Melancholy

The Case for Home Births in America

Amor Towles Sees Dead People

6 Paperbacks to Read This Week

Audiobook of the Week: ‘The Ghost Club’

Nick Hornby Reviews a Short History of the Beatles Before the Band

9 New Books We Recommend This Week

The Essential Ursula K. Le Guin

Shari Lapena Believes in the Feline Mystique

Newly Published, from Young Adult Novels to The Allman Brothers Band

How Many Books Do You Know That Became Broadway Musicals?

Finding Her Voice Was Just a Rowboat Journey Away

The Artist and Mystic Who Collected the World

George Eliot’s Scandalous Answer to ‘The Marriage Question’

Purging Books, Making Art and Ruling Chicago

A Rollicking Tragicomic Tale of Unending Family Drama

6 New Paperbacks to Read This Week

Newly Published Thrillers, From Bloodthirsty Toddlers to a Cabin Killer

Witches, Robots and Martial Artists, Ready for Battle

To Have and to Hold, Even if You Turn Into a Literal Shark

Can You Find These 13 Hidden Crime and Mystery Titles?

So Your Mother Is Hiding in the Multiverse? Then Here, Eat This.

James McBride’s Latest Is a Murder Mystery Inside a Great American Novel

When the Favor of a Beloved Schoolteacher Turns Sinister

A Swedish Fever Dream of Literature and Love, Lost and Found

No Place Is Home, for the Immigrant Hero of This Debut Novel

6 Paperbacks to Read This Week

Edan Lepucki’s Favorite Place to Read Is in the Tub

Lois Libien, Who Found a Readership With Household Tips, Dies at 87

A Rich Stranger Wants to Give You All His Money. There’s a Catch.

A.I.’s Inroads in Publishing Touch Off Fear, and Creativity

Being Underestimated Was Her Secret Weapon