The days are already shortening, but that’s what reading lamps and last vacations are for.

Wrap up the season with these standouts below, from Broadway babies and brutally honest memoirs to read-them-in-one-night debuts.

August Books

Credit: Penguin (3); Random House (2); Farrar, Straus and Giroux

August Books

Random House

August Books

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

August Books

Penguin

August Books

Random House

August Books

Penguin

August Books

Penguin