Gabriel Tallent’s My Absolute Darling is Amazon‘s spotlight pick for September (though it actually published Tuesday of this week), and Ali Land’s Good Me Bad Me* is their featured debut. The rest of their top picks for the month, which include 4 titles you can sample now in our free Buzz Books*, are:
Sourdough*, by Robin Sloan
Little Fires Everywhere*, by Celeste Ng
The Golden House, by Salman Rushdie
Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process, by John McPhee
Sing, Unburied, Sing, by Jesmyn Ward
Ranger Games, by Ben Blum
The Burning Girl, by Claire Messud
A Legacy of Spies, by John le Carré
Coming to My Senses, by Alice Waters
The Twelve-Mile Straight*, by Eleanor Henderson
Barnes & Noble‘s top fiction list for the month also recommends the books by Ng, Rushdie, and Ward, along with:
A Column of Fire, by Ken Follett
The Girl Who Takes An Eye For An Eye, by David Lagercrantz
Sleeping Beauties, by Stephen King and Owen King
To Be Where You Are, by Jan Karon
Love and Other Consolation Prizes, by Jamie Ford
The Ninth Hour, by Alice McDermott
The Vengeance of Mothers, by Jim Fergus
The Best Kind of People, by Zoe Whittall
Dinner at the Center of the Earth, by Nathan Englander
Plus, use this link for our full list of notable titles releasing in September.