August was hot. So were these picks.

A gif showing photos of some of August's most popular picks, including a speaker, a coffee maker, a pair of socks, a pen, and a backpack.

Photos: Wirecutter Staff

Happy September, y’all. Wirecutter readers spent last month busily prepping for fall: jotting down to-dos with our top-pick pen, brewing a whole bunch of coffee with our favorite cheap coffee makers, and zipping up new backpacks for back-to-school season. Meanwhile, some—actually, a lot—of you looked into getting some new deodorant. (No sweat. Same here.)

What you all loved last month→

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More of last month’s favorites (that are now on sale, sorry … )

A selection of pillows tested for our review of the best bed pillow.

Our top-pick bed pillow

We’ve loved it since 2016 because of its firm-yet-soft support and adjustability→

Four of our top pick bath towels, from Frontgate, Riley, Fieldcrest, and the Onsen Bath Towel.

Some great bath towels

We’ve researched hundreds to find the coziest and most luxurious ones→

An L.L.Bean 280-Thread-Count Pima Cotton Percale Sheet Set.

Sheets we’ve loved for 9 years

If you like a cool, crisp feel to your sheets, these might be your new favorites→

A white Glocusent Bookmark Style Reading Light perched on a book.

A chic little reading light

For escaping internet distractions and getting back into reading paper books→

One last thing: What we bought

A close-up of the Onsen bath towel next to a photo of the full Onsen bath towel.

Illustration: Dana Davis; Photo: Michael Murtaugh

We’ll leave you with a peek at what your newsletter editors treated themselves to in August:

After talking about it for months, Haley finally got a set of these (currently on-sale!) lattice-weave bath towels. In the color denim, for those curious.
Brittney got this sleek hair pin, and it hasn’t left her side, or her scalp, since it arrived. She says it makes it easy to toss her hair up into French twists and messy buns, without being too loose or too tight. Goodbye, scrunchie-induced headaches.
Meanwhile, Isoke let her “strange obsession with office supplies” run wild with a first-time purchase of our top-pick pens. They’ve since dethroned her former favorites because they glide across pages without leaving a single smudge behind. So satisfying.

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