Xochitl Gonzalez stopped by TODAY on Sept. 3 to share the books she's excited about in September, including a thriller-meets-family saga set in the Dominican Republic and two modern classic mysteries.

Gonzalez is the author of novels "Olga Dies Dreaming" and "Anita de Monte Laughs Last," and her next novel, "Last Night in Brooklyn," is a modern retelling of "The Great Gatsby."

Read on for her book picks for September 2025.

Best Thriller

'What We Can Know' by Ian McEwan

What We Can Know: A Novel

Ian McEwan's "What We Can Know" is set in two time periods: in 2014 and 2119, the latter in which is ravaged by climate change. The book is focused on scholar Tom Metcalfe, who exists in the year 2119 and looks for a poem from 2014 that may be significant not only to him, but to all of humanit

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