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September is the biggest and busiest month of the year in the publishing world, so here's a round-up of 10 notable September releases from Flavorwire. These are the blockbusters from all the major publishers, and likely will be the books that everyone is reading and talking about.

Only a few weeks after the publication of his latest NYT best-selling novel, Knopf announced the release of a new Murakami book, this one a trim 96-pager, called The Strange Library.

Finally, this week we celebrated B-Day and and she decided to grace us all with a poem, co-written with Pulitzer Prize finalist Forrest Gander.