Did you know September has the highest concentration of birthdays? That’s why it only makes sense that this month is stocked full of literary greats to celebrate. Check out the list below to add to your September TBR list.

Reads to celebrate with: 

Malcolm Gladwell (9/3)

TALKING TO STRANGERS: WHAT WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE PEOPLE WE DON’T KNOW 

(Back Bay Books, $18.99)

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Richard Wright (9/4)

BLACK BOY 

(Harper Perennial Modern Classics, $17.99)

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Mary Oliver (9/10)

DEVOTIONS: THE SELECTED POEMS OF MARY OLIVER

(Penguin Books, $20)

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Georgia Douglas Johnson (9/10)

BRONZE: A BOOK OF VERSE 

(Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, $8.39)

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Agatha Christie (9/15)

THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES: THE FIRST HERCULE POIROT MYSTERY

(Vintage, $9.95)

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Upton Sinclair (9/20)

THE JUNGLE 

(Penguin Classics, $14)

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Stephen King (9/21)

BILLY SUMMERS 

(Scribner, $30)

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bell hooks (9/25)

BONE BLACK: MEMORIES OF GIRLHOOD 

(Holt Paperbacks, $17)

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Truman Capote (9/30) 

THE COMPLETE STORIES OF TRUMAN CAPOTE

(Vintage, $16.95)

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Ta-Nehisi Coates (9/30)

BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME 

(One World, $26)

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