If you’ve seen our guide to the big books of September, you may already be clearing your schedule in anticipation. But you don’t have to wait: This week’s recommended reading is more than enough to get you through the holiday weekend.

For fellow fiction fans, there’s Tope Folarin’s debut, which explores cultural identity, mental health and family, as well as new novels from Nell Zink, Jonathan Coe, Mario Benedetti and Cara Wall. Nonfiction readers have options, too, from Margaret O’Mara’s history of Silicon Valley to Anthony McCann’s account of the 2016 standoff in Oregon. There are Jess Row’s essays on race and literature, Anthony Kronman’s critique of diversity, Susan Straight’s multigenerational, multiethnic memoir, and from Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers, a look at how humans and other life-forms handle adulting. The “Handmaid’s Tale” sequel will be here before you know it.

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DOXOLOGY, by Nell Zink. (Ecco, $27.99.) This novel about two generations of an American family is more ambitious and expansive and sensitive than Zink’s earlier work. It has rock music on its mind, as well as a subversive history of recent American politics. “In terms of its author’s ability to throw dart after dart after dart into the center of your media-warped mind and soul, it’s the novel of the summer and possibly the year,” our critic Dwight Garner writes. “It’s a ragged chunk of ecstatic cerebral-satirical intellection. It’s bliss.”

MIDDLE ENGLAND, by Jonathan Coe. (Knopf, $27.95.) The latest humorous and humane novel by Coe features characters from two of his previous books — “The Rotters’ Club” and “The Closed Circle” — but can easily be read on its own. It charts how generational reflexes create political tensions among members of two families, and it has much to say about the maelstrom of Brexit/Trump/climate change/identity debates/social media.