The Book of the Month July 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 July 2025 selections and to find out which one I’m adding to my subscription box.
What is Book of the Month?
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.
Pricing
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!
Bonus Features
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!
July 2025 Book of the Month Selections
Finding Grace
Loretta Rothschild
Honor is living a seemingly perfect life in Paris with her charming daughter Chloe and her handsome husband Tom. But Honor lusts for another child, a desire that sets of a tragedy that changes their lives forever. Years later, a misdirected letter leads Tom to a fateful decision that will bring up old secrets and make you wonder if redemption is possible.
Publication Date: 8 July 2025
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How Freaking Romantic
Emily Harding
Beatrice is known for being a fiesty lawyer so when her best friend gets divorced, she has no qualms marching into the opposing lawyer’s office to tell them exactly what she thinks about the situation. Unfortunately, days later that same lawyer turns out to be a new hire at her NYU Law office. Slowly Beatrice’s hatred toward Nathan turns to respect and more until secrets about her friends divorce force her to choose between their happily-ever-after and her own.
Publication Date: 1 July 2025
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Among Friends
Hal Ebbott
Emerson and Amos have been best friends since college and over the decades, their families have become intwined as they grow. One fall evening, the two families gather to celebrate a birthday when a stunning betrayal shocks them all. Suddenly quiet resentments and shifting power dynamics tear the two families apart in a story of marriage, class, and friendship.
Publication Date: 24 June 2025
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You Belong Here
Megan Miranda
Beckett Bowery never expected to return to Wyatt Valley, the beautiful mountain town where her parents are professors at a small college. Decades earlier, Beckett’s college best friend disappeared after setting a fire that killed two locals and everyone thought Beckett knew more than she let on. When Beckett’s daughter Delilah decides to go to the same college, Beckett is on edge, knowing the town’s memory lasts a very long time.
Publication Date: 29 July 2025
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These Summer Storms
Sarah MacLean
For the last five years, Alice Storm has been estranged from her wealthy family and cut off from their influence and vast wealth. When her father dies, Alice travels to the family’s private island off the Rhode Island coast. But Alice’s father has left the family one last challenge – an inheritance game where members must stay on the island for a week and complete assigned tasks. Can Alice survive a week with her family or will past secrets threaten to pull her under?
Publication Date: 8 July 2025
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Maggie; Or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar
Katie Yee
A Chinese-American woman goes out to a lovely dinner with her husband only to find out he’s having an affair with a woman named Maggie. Suddenly, she has chest pains and learns that she has a tumor which she also decides to name Maggie. In the ensuing months, as she navigates grief and healing, the narrator tries to help her children fall in love with the Chinese folktales that her own mother passed down to her in this wry debut novel.
Publication Date: 22 July 2025
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Want an Audiobook Instead?
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.
July’s Audiobooks:
Not Feeling the July Books?
Sometimes, it happens. If none of the July 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:
July’s New Add-Ons
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.
July’s New Books:
My July 2025 Picks
I decided I just wanted some lighthearted fun in my reading selection this month. Summers all about beach reads, right?
I don’t usually go for romances but How Freaking Romantic seemed like the perfect beach read for the summer. To round out my box, I decided to go with the GMA July Book Club pick, The Compound. Sexy people doing stupid things in a thriller just feels like a good summer escape. I’m honestly not expecting much but sometimes it’s nice to read a book or two that doesn’t really make you think.
Which of the Book of the Month July 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!
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