10 books to read in September: New releases from Malcolm Gladwell, Marlon James and more

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Set us as preferred Reading List10 books for your September reading listIf you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.Don’t stress about your pile of fall reading; fatten it up, baby, and pick up one of this month’s new releases.Your local booksellers and librarians will be happy to help you choose between hotly anticipated titles from Marlon James and Min Jin Lee, along with beloved East L.A.

artist Guadalupe Rosales’ photo-filled memoir.There’s also thought-provoking nonfiction from the likes of Malcolm Gladwell and the author of “Guns, Germs, and Steel.” Happy reading!FICTION:The Disappearers: A Novel By Marlon JamesRiverhead: 640 pp., $32Out now After a homophobic attack during a play rehearsal in 1988 results in death and injury, two Jamaican “battymen” (slang for homosexuals), Eddy Porteous and Jordan Brown, seek to figure out where two of their friends have gone (the “disappearers” of the title).

James, as always, brings his Dickensian eyes and ears to his birth country’s gay culture, which flourished in its own way even during years of oppression and misinformation.A triumph.The Birthing Tree: A Novel By Amanda PetersCatapult: 304 pp., $28Out now Peters follows up her excellent 2023 debut, “The Berry Pickers,” with another dive into Nova Scotia’s M’ikmaq first peoples, this time focusing on Aliet Paul, a nurse whose grandmother Kiju taught her a great deal about their tribe’s midwifery.

Aliet decides, after Kiju dies, to return permanently to her homeplace.Her reasons for leaving involve both the recent and far-off past, which the author brings to a powerful place in her conclusion.Our Cut of Salt: A Novel By Deena HelmTor Nightfire: 288 pp., $28(Sept.

22)This grief-horror debut centers on the Nakba...