Book of the Month October 2025 Selections

The Book of the Month October 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 October 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!

In an alternate version of Los Angeles, alchemy is closely controlled by two competing syndicates. These crime organizations produce sand, a drug which can turn a person into their best version of themselves. The delicate balance between Grand Central and the Lumines is thrown off-balance when two childhood best friends find themselves rising powers on opposite sides in a star-crossed lovers fantasy about the illusive goal of perfection.

Publication Date: 14 October 2025
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Paige Lancaster is so close to reaching her dream of a songwriting contract but a music executive thinks she is still holding back. Impulsively, Paige reaches out to her ex-boyfriend Liam whom she hasn’t spoken to in four years. Maybe if they got back together and broke up, she could once again feel all those powerful emotions from their breakup. As the lines between reality and their fake relationship starts to blur, Paige finds herself wondering if she might have to give up true love in pursuit of her music.

Publication Date: 28 October 2025
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Over a decade ago, Samantha witnessed her father burying the body of a dead child at the family’s lakeside cottage. Her father committed suicide before the trial but her grandfather always claimed he was innocent and hasn’t spoken to Samantha since. When her grandfather dies, Samantha is shocked to find he left her the family cottage on the condition she stay there for a month. Paranoid and plagued by insomnia, Samantha finds herself questioning all her childhood memories as she tries to figure out the truth.

Publication Date: 14 October 2025
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As a child, Evander was taken in by a reclusive billionaire guardian, Byron Lennox-Hall. Wondering the edges of the massive estate, Evander has three rules to live by: Never leave the estate; Never enter the garden; and never be alone with Laurie, Byron’s grandson, who once tried to kill Evander. When Byron dies, Evander inherits everything and Laurie might be the only one who can help him understand the family secrets before Evander is killed next.

Publication Date: 28 October 2025
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On a late night walk as they plan their wedding, Ellie and Drake stumble upon a glamourous cinema playing their formative memories on the big screen. Haunted by a night in her past, Ellie is excited to piece together her memoires to better understand the past. But as the viewings begin to touch on more recent events, Ellie and Drake realize they both have been keeping secrets from each other in this second-chance romance.

Publication Date: 7 October 2025
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In a small town, Cora and Sam meet at a baby group and their connection is instantaneous. Except both are happily married with kids. As their lives start to intertwine, their romantic tension grows stronger until the book fractures into two parallel timelines – one where they pursue their feelings and one where they resist. Slowly, The Ten Year Affair explores what might have been in an examination of marriage, family and the what-ifs of life.

Publication Date: 21 October 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.

October’s Audiobooks:

Sometimes, it happens. If none of the October 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. 

October’s New Books:

I have to say, I am rather underwhelmed by the October selections. None of them are calling to me. The Haunting of Paynes Hollow and Hazelthorn are both an automatic no for me. I know Halloween is coming but I don’t feel the need to make my life any scarier than it already is.

Second Chance Cinema and Never Over both sound too cheesy for me. I have no interest in spending even more money for another sprayed edge book. And I have no desire to read about cheating spouses.

However, I think I have one or two referral credits about to expire, so I might just use them to purchase audiobooks this month. 

Which of the Book of the Month October 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 September 2025
• October 2025 Book Releases
• The Fall 2025 Reading Guide
• Book of the Month: All the 2025 Selections

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