Book of the Month August 2025 Selections

The Book of the Month August 2025 selections are here! Decide which of these books you want to add to your subscription box.

Book of the Month is my favorite subscription box. Every month, I choose between their curated book selections, and voila! A blue box arrives at my door carrying one (or two or three) new books for me to read.

Each month, Book of the Month chooses between five to seven hardcover books you can choose from. Rather listen to an audiobook? Book of the Month has those, too! Now you can opt for audiobooks as your monthly pick or add them on at any time during the month.

Every month, I will highlight the books chosen and let you know my thoughts on the chosen titles. 

Even if you don’t have a Book of the Month subscription (yet), I think you’ll find value in looking at a curated list of new releases.

Keep scrolling to see all the details about the Book of the Month August 2025 selections and to find out which one I’m adding to my subscription box.

Book of the Month is a monthly subscription book service highly popular among the book community. Trust me, once you try it, you’ll be hooked.

How it Works

Each month, a panel of judges chooses at least five books for you to choose from. The Book of the Month selections cover different genres and are always special edition hardcovers. Often, the chosen books haven’t been published yet, so you get to be one of the first people to read them.

At the beginning of the month, you choose one book to add to your box and shortly thereafter the little blue box arrives at your door. If you aren’t loving any of the selected books, you just skip that month and your credits will just roll over to the next month. Or, after your third box, you can choose from five member favorite books for your month’s selection instead.

On the other hand, if you want more than one book, once you’ve chosen your initial book, you can add-on up to four additional books at a discounted rate. These add-ons can be from the current month’s selection, be favorites from previous months, or be new releases specially included in the add-on catalog.

Book of the Month runs two different pricing plans. On the monthly plan, you get one credit a month for $17. If you are willing to pay upfront, the yearly plan gives you 12 credits for $168, which averages out to $14 a book. For a hardcover new release, both prices are a steal.

Even better, when you include additional books into your box, they are only $10 each! 

Book of the Month also offers 3, 6, and 9-month gift cards if you are considering purchasing it as a gift.

For new subscribers, Book of the Month’s homepage almost always has a special offer to get your first book for $10. But I can do you one better. If you are interested in joining, you can use this Book of the Month Club referral link to get your first book for $5 right now!

But wait, there’s more! Once you’ve chosen your 12th book from Book of the Month, you join the BFF club and get a special Book of the Month tote.

After that, you’ll get a free add-on every year for your birthday month. Plus, when the end of the year rolls around, you get one of the top 5 Book of the Month selections from the year for free. (Note: They didn’t do the Book of the Year in 2023 so I’m not sure if they are still doing this bonus, though it is listed as a benefit on the website.) That’s an additional two books each year for no additional cost.

What are you waiting for? Join Book of the Month and get your first book at a discounted price!

At Edwards University, Simone is the star of the creative writing department and her husband Ethan is the department’s forgotten novelist and lecturer. There perfect marriage is shaken when Ethan sleeps with Abigail, the department’s administrative assistant. While Ethan is away for the summer, Simone becomes closer to her graduate student Robbie. Robbie becomes Simone’s friend and confidante until she uses Simone’s marriage as the basis of her thesis.

Publication Date: 12 August 2025
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Winter Moon, a Korean American teen, has been saving every penny so she and her grandmother can escape their life. When Winter’s mom steals her life savings, Winter agrees to accept money from her estranged father in exchange for allowing him to get to know her. While navigating grief, first love, and forgiveness, Winter learns a secret about her father that threatens their budding relationship.

Publication Date: 19 August 2025
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In 1985, a white man walked into a South Georgia church and brutally murdered two Black attendees. The case went unsolved until a decade later the state convicted Dennis Perry, a nearby carpenter, and sentenced him to double life sentences. Investigative journalist Joshua Sharpe tells of his tireless search for the truth, revealing corruption, mistakes and secrets that put an innocent man in jail and the his hard battle to get him freed and justice finally served correctly.

Publication Date: 5 August 2025
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Decades ago, Claire’s older sister Natalie disappeared and a man was quickly arrested and convicted. Now a investigative journalist, Claire returns home and takes a job at the South Carolina vineyard where her sister used to work. When Claire stumbles on an old journal of one of the owner’s, she is engrossed but a tale of youthful rebellion and love. As the journal starts to reveal details of unsolved crimes, Claire finds herself obsessed and can’t stop thinking it all connects back to her missing sister.

Publication Date: 26 August 2025
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In Purgatory, Blackwood Academy exists on the edge of the afterlife. Once you enter, the only way to escape is the Decennial, a cutthroat magical competition with only one winner. This year, six of the Academy’s top students will compete as ambition, love, obsession and hate might make them succumb to fates worse than death in this dark academia young adult novel.

Publication Date: 29 July 2025
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Recently, Book of the Month has started including audiobooks as another option for your monthly picks. Instead of choosing a hardcover copy, you can choose one of these audiobooks as your main selection this month.

August’s Audiobooks:

Sometimes, it happens. If none of the August 2025 Book of the Month selections are calling your name, don’t despair. After your third box, you now have another option!

Previously, if you didn’t love the five choices, you would have to skip the whole month. Now if you have BFF status, you can choose a member fave hardcover for your monthly box and then add-on up to four more books if you choose.

Member Faves:

Book of the Month also includes a few extra releases on top of their monthly selections. Once you have picked your main selection, you can choose to add-on these new books (or any past release) to your box. 

August’s New Books:

I was debating if I wanted to choose a book this month. I’ve been working really hard to finish all the books I own but haven’t read. Adding even more books to the pile always makes that difficult.

At first, I was going to go with I. V. Marie’s Immortal Consequences. I need to read a dark academia novel for my 2025 Reading Challenge and this fun ya story is likely going to be a bestseller. But I really didn’t want to pay extra for a limited edition with sprayed edges.

Instead, I decided to go with yet another thriller, this time by author Stacy Willingham. I liked her earlier novels so hopefully this one is just as fun to read.

Which of the Book of the Month August 2025 Selections Are You Going to Pick?

What books can you not wait to get your hands on this month? Or are you skipping this month’s selections? As always, let me know in the comments!

More New Book Releases:

• Book of the Month July 2025
• August 2025 Book Releases
• Book of the Month: All the 2025 Selections

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