What Will You Read This September 2026?

By Rachel Tran | June 23 2026 | Staff Picks

Request eGalleys of some of our favorite September titles, and if you love the books, please consider nominating them for LibraryReads! Remember, voting for the September list ends on 8/1.

View our featured picks below, or browse extended collections in fiction and nonfiction.

Exit Party
Exit Party
A Novel
Emily St. John Mandel
The award-winning, bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility returns with a breathtaking novel of doubles, shadow worlds, and fractured timelines as a man disappears from a glittering Los Angeles party, and a woman—a gunrunner, an art collector, an operative of the State—searches for answers.
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Switzy
Switzy
A Novel
Emma Cline
A mesmerizing portrait of an aging man’s last pilgrimage, from the New York Times best selling author of The Girls and The Guest.
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Blacktail
Blacktail
A Novel
Scott Hawkins
“A tale of lupine vengeance—at first—whose stakes escalate to degrees I never saw coming. Unexpected, blood-soaked, and vividly told.”—qntm, author of There Is No Antimemetics Division The long-awaited second novel from the author of the cult hit The Library at Mount Char, a one-of-a-kind dark fantasy in which a wolf sets out on an epic journey of revenge.
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Under Story
Under Story
Chloe Benjamin
The New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists returns with an intimate yet epic love story—and a sweeping odyssey of scientific discovery. Under Story invites us to consider the promise of this life, what might lie beyond it, and how far we would go for more time with the people we love, cementing Chloe Benjamin’s place among our best, and most lasting, storytellers. “We wake up to tomorrow, never yesterday.”
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The Disappearers
The Disappearers
A Novel
Marlon James
From Marlon James, author of the Booker Prize–winning A Brief History of Seven Killings: a propulsive novel about the murder of a gay man in 1980s Jamaica and its tragic consequences
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The Rouse
The Rouse
China Miéville
From the bestselling and award-winning master of speculative fiction comes a deeply moving, decade- and continent-spanning epic: forced to investigate a devastating personal tragedy, an ordinary woman stumbles on dark conspiracies, and provokes the attention of uncanny forces.
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