Though it’s up for debate, fall just might be the best reading season there is. We all turn in and cozy up and some fantastic reads hit the shelves. From breathtaking nonfiction to spicy monster romance, this season of books has something for everyone. These are our most anticipated books of fall 2025.
Wild Reverence by Rebecca Ross (9/2)
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Divine Rivals comes a story set in the same world readers fell in love with. Matilda is a young goddess who is coming of age at a time where alliances are breaking and survival is dependent on her keeping secrets even from those closer to her. Vincent is a mortal man who as a boy wrote to Matilda and dreamed of her. Now, a hardened lord, the last thing he was expecting was for the goddess to tumble into his room with a message. Though destined for each other, Matilda will have to face a bloody conflict and her fear of falling in love.
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Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley (9/2)
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Firekeeper’s Daughter is returning with another captivating story that has been selected as a Good Morning America Book Club pick. When Lucy’s father died five years ago, she never found a home again. Now a couple is offering to pull her from the foster system and take her to her Ojibwe family. But Lucy isn’t sure she can outrun the secrets of her past and find a family again.
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All the Way to the River by Elizabeth Gilbert (9/9)
Millions of readers fell in love with Elizabeth Gilbert’s breakout book, Eat, Pray, Love. Now, she’s back with her first nonfiction book in a decade, returning to the subject that made her a household name. When she met Rayya, they became friends, then best friends, and finally discovered they were in love. But a beautiful love story also became an inescapable nightmare. In a book about healing and breaking and then healing again, Gilbert reminds us that life is a constant cycle of learning, hurting and growing.
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The Golden Boy’s Guide to Bipolar by Sonora Reyes (9/16)
In a companion novel to the beloved book, The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School, comes a heart-filled and poignant story. Cesar thinks he’s ready to get back with Jamal—after coming out to his family, taking his meds faithfully and getting his therapist’s blessing. But he can’t quiet his Catholic upbringing and the feeling like he doesn’t deserve Jamal. After a manic episode exposes the struggle that sits beneath the surface, Cesar must decide if he will isolate himself or finally ask for the help he truly needs.
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The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy (9/16)
National Book Award finalist Angela Flournoy’s second novel is a sweeping story that follows five friends from the beginning of adulthood into midlife. Over the course of 20 years, the women face personal hurdles in marriage, motherhood and careers as well as the political, social and economic instability of America from the late 2000s into the 2020s.
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The Academy by Elin Hilderbrand and Shelby Cunningham (9/16)
The #1 New York Times bestselling author has partnered with her daughter for an academia-set novel perfect for fall. Tiffin Academy was more of a party school, but when it gets surprisingly ranked as the number two boarding school in the country, there’s a new tone to the institution. But no one is safe at the school as a new app, ZipZap, begins sending blind messages to students and staff alike, threatening to reveal secrets that no one wants to see get out.
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The Lost Story of Eva Fuentes by Chanel Cleeton (9/30)
New York Times bestseller, Chanel Cleeton, returns with a tale across time. A book lovers delight, her novel follows three women: an antique collector, hired to find a book, a librarian in Havana and a young Cuban woman who went to Harvard and wrote about a passionate, forbidden love. Exploring the timelessness of story, this mystery unfolding over time is one that can’t be missed.
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The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osmond (9/30)
As Thursday Murder Club hits Netflix, the #1 New York Times bestselling author, Richard Osmond is dropping book five in the series. Joyce, Elizabeth, Ron and Ibrahim have had a quiet year when Elizabeth meets a man at a wedding who needs her help. When he disappears, the four friends have another case to solve.
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The Portrait by Danielle Steel (9/30)
From the iconic author, Danielle Steel, comes a deeply moving story of love and what we drag into our lives from the past. Devon is a highly skilled portrait artist who appears to capture the very essence of a person. Charles is living in the shadow of his father’s disapproval in a loveless marriage. When he spots Devon, he’s taken by him and hires her to do his portrait, but as the two get to know each other they are awakened to something deeply passionate. However, as they get closer, their wounds become more exposed and they have to decide whether to maintain the walls they’ve so tediously built.
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Heart the Lover by Lily King (9/30)
If you adored Writers & Lovers get ready for another masterpiece from Lily King. The story starts with a narrator in college. She’s swept up into a friendship—and triangle— with Sam and Yash, exploring love, connection and ambition in the immaculate home of a professor on sabbatical. When graduation arrives, the three go their own ways, impacted forever, but presuming the past is in the past. Decades later, a surprise arises that drags her back to the world of her youth and the lies and choices that happened there.
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Mate by Ali Hazelwood (10/7)
This is a Halloween season kickoff if ever there was one. After everyone fell for Bride, we’ve been waiting for Ali Hazelwood’s followup. Serena is the first of her kind—a Human-Were hybrid. What should have been a uniting occurrence tears the political world of Weres, Vampyres, and Humans apart. The only option is to mate with the Alpha, Koen Alexander.
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Alchemy of Secrets by Stephanie Garber (10/7)
If you can remember what it felt like to obsess over Caraval, it’s time to join Stephanie Garber for her next adventure. In her adult debut, Garber takes readers into an enticing magical world. Holland’s Local Legends and Urban Myths class is taught by a professor whose stories everyone believes are made up, but not Holland. She thinks magic is real. When she tracks down a local legend who tells her when she’s going to die at midnight the next day, the clock is ticking for her to find the Alchemical Heart that can save her life.
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Overdue by Stephanie Perkins (10/7)
In this delightful and totally bookish adult debut from New York Times bestselling author, Stephanie Perkins, a couple is facing a turning point in life. Ingrid and her college boyfriend, Cory, have been together for 11 years and never considered marriage. But when her sister gets engaged, it leaves them feeling there’s a decision to make. Having only been with each other, they decide to take a one-month break to date other people before taking the final step. Ingrid explores a crush on a co-worker, but Cory and Ingrid decide they aren’t ready to stop the break at one month and she must face a more complicated situation.
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Gone Before Goodbye by Harlan Coben and Reese Witherspoon (10/14)
One of the queens of the book club world has paired up with a #1 New York Times bestseller for a must-read thriller of the fall season. Maggie is a an Army surgeon whose reputation proceeds her, but when a series of tragedies leads to her licensed being revoked, she’s low on options but not on her trademark gumption. A friend comes to her offering an opportunity to work in the highly discreet world of elite, secret surgery. While working in the luxury of this hush hush operation, one of her patients goes missing and it’s up to her to find them before she’s next.
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Remain by Nicholas Sparks and M. Night Shyamalan (10/14)
Two titans of storytelling are uniting in this one-of-a-kind collaboration from The Notebook author, Nicholas Sparks, and The Sixth Sense writer and director, M. Night Shyamalan. In a novel that explores love, death and what happens after, this mashup could not be better. When Tate’s sister passes, she reveals to him on her deathbed that she can see spirits trapped between this world and the next. Now, he’s moved to Cape Cod hoping for a fresh start where he meets a beautiful young woman who electrifies his carefully crafted world. However, the town is filled with envy and malice that threatens this budding relationship. In order to help Wren, Tate will have to dig up the past and unfold his beliefs on the nature of existence.
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How About Now by Kate Baer (11/4)
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind of Woman comes a new collection of poetry that explores midlife. From grown children, to regaining a sense of self and aging, Baer uses her candor and keen eye to deliver punchy and perfect poetry that speaks directly to this moment in a woman’s journey.
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Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite (11/4)
The brilliant mind that brought us the hit novel, My Sister, the Serial Killer, is delivering another sensational story about family and female connections that is both funny and propulsive. On the day Eniiyi is born, her cousin, Monife is buried and thus begins the long-held family belief that she is her cousin reincarnated—and destined to follow her tragic fate. To compound her struggle, the women of her family are cursed to never keep a man and live under one roof. As Eniiyi grows and begins to fall for a boy she saved from drowning, she must confront the curse, the destiny she’s been told is unescapable and the secrets her family holds.
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Son of the Morning by Akwaeke Emezi (11/4)
In her steamy romantasy set in the Black South, New York Times bestselling author explores a battle between Hell, Heaven and earth. Galilee is raised by a clan of Black women, but feels an emptiness inside of her she fears she’ll never escape. That is, until she meets Lucifer Helel. But as they begin to unravel the secrets of Gali, Leviathan—the trusted prince of Hell—wants to stop her before she can destroy all that he cares about.
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Next Time Will Be Our Turn by Jesse Q. Sutanto (11/11)
Izzy Chen is not looking forward to her annual family gathering where her successful relatives all try to one up each other. But when her grandmother walks in with a woman on her arms, she is shocked and intrigued as she is exhibiting desire that Izzy holds within her own heart. With this new revelation, her grandmother shares with her the lifetime of managing harboring these feelings and her journey through confronting cultural and gender norms versus the calling of her own heart.
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Best Offer Wins by Marisa Kashino (11/25)
In this twisted and darkly funny debut, Margo is desperate to find a house after losing out in 11 bidding wars in the DC area. Desperate to leave her small apartment and to finally start the life she and her husband have been planning. So when she hears that the perfect home will be coming onto the market in a month, what’s a little stalking, trespassing and an unhinged desire to win going to hurt?
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