PEOPLE’s Best Books of September 2025: Powerful Memoirs from Priscilla Presley and Elizabeth Gilbert, Haunting New Fiction and More

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Coll’s high-spirited brand of comedy is back, this time trained on a week in the life of 26-year-old Clemi. She’s tasked with putting on a gala for a bankrupt, scandal-ridden literary nonprofi t in Washington, D.C. Will anything go right? Or should Clemi just give up and take the LSAT already?

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