September books you need to read from Margaret Atwood, Louis Theroux, Jessie Burton, Joanna Cannon, Nikita Gill and Edna O'Brien

Best new fiction, memoirs, thrillers and poetry in September 2019

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The 2019 blockbuster: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

The 90s nostalgia: Don’t Look Back In Anger by Daniel Rachel

The buzzy spy thriller: The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott

The non-fiction that’ll be everywhere: Breaking and Mending by Joanna Cannon

The big lit-fic: The Confession by Jessie Burton

A Queer Muslim memoir: We Have Always Been Here by Samra Habib

The legend returns: Girl by Edna O’Brien

The creepy story: Bone China by Laura Purcell

The perfect present: Great Goddesses by Nikita Gill

The must-read: The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

The thinking thriller: Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke

The indie gem: Against Memoir by Michelle Tea

The comic eye-opener: Living My Best Life by Claire Frost

Autumn’s big biography: Gotta Get Theroux This by Louis Theroux

Some of 2019’s biggest book releases are about to arrive on your reading list.