10 best books of September: the Monitor's picks

Here are the 10 September releases most highly recommended by the Monitor's book critics.

5. 'Border,' by Kapka Kassabova

Memoirist and poet Kapka Kassabova returns to her native country, Bulgaria, for the first time in 25 years and finds her hometown at the crossroads of Turkey and Greece to be both greatly altered and much the same. Once a refuge for fleeing East Germans, she now meets desperate Syrian refugees and offers a compassionate reflection on lives upended by politics. You can read the Monitor's full review of "Border" here.

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