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10 best books of September: the Monitor's picks

What the Monitor's book critics liked best this month.

10. 'The Nix,' by Nathan Hill

Lethargic lit professor Samuel Andresen-Anderson spends most of his time playing fantasy video games 鈥 that is, until his mother suddenly becomes infamous, accused of throwing rocks at a conservative Republican governor. Nathan Hill鈥檚 debut novel about an adult鈥檚 attempt to unravel his mother鈥檚 complicated past is funny, touching, and compulsively readable.

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