Book of the Month September 2025 Selections

The Book of the Month September 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 September 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!

Clio is a picture-perfect stylist and influencer with a secret: she grew up in a haunted house. After a messy divorce, Clio’s mother Alex moved Clio and her sisters to a house that was occupied by a demon. At least, that’s what Alex claimed in her memoir although the state didn’t believe her when they stripped her of custody. After Alex’s death, Clio seizes the opportunity to makeover the house until Clio begins to realize her mother might not have been crazy after all.

Publication Date: 9 September 2025
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Author of the bestselling memoirs Eat, Pray Love and Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert returns with a new memoir about finding freedom. In 2000, Gilbert met Rayya and soon the two friends became inseparable. After a tragedy, they both realized they were in love. But the pair of addicts fed off each other, sending them both toward disaster. Gilbert tells her story of passion and craving and the yearning for freedom from addiction.

Publication Date: 9 September 2025
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Marisa hates her job at a successful advertising agency in Madrid. She spends her days hiding in her office bingeing videos while contemplating if its worth getting hit by a car to go on disability. When Marisa is forced to go to the company’s annual retreat, she is worried her coworkers will realize her success is largely lies and stolen ideas. In the woods, Marisa feels herself pushed to the brink by crazy bosses, overzealous coworkers and an abundance of drugs.

Publication Date: 2 September 2025
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After a breakup, Louisa Walsh finds herself unable to afford the rent on her gorgeous Colorado mountain home. Instead, she convinces her landlord Henry Rhodes to let her stay for free as she turns the home into a bed and breakfast. Marketed as a retreat for the recently heartbroken, The Comeback Inn opens its doors to sad but hopeful guests forcing Louisa and Henry to confront their mutual attraction.

Publication Date: 23 September 2025
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When she was five, Steph Harper’s mother fled an abusive husband and landed in the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma. Steph grows up dreaming of becoming the first Cherokee astronaut and nothing will stop her from her dreams of joining NASA. Meanwhile, Steph’s sister becomes a social media influencer and her ex-girlfriend tries to reclaim her Cherokee identity after being forcefully taken from her home as a child. Through it all, Steph’s mother holds to her tribal identity in an epic debut novel that spans three decades.

Publication Date: 2 September 2025
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Most students believe the Professor’s lessons on Local Legends and Urban Myths but Holland St. James believes in magic. When she tracks down local legend The Watchman, he tells Holland she will die at midnight if she doesn’t find an ancient magical object, the Alchemical Heart. As Holland searches the magical world of L.A., she feels drawn to a magical stranger. But everyone in this magical world seems to be lying to her and he might not be any different.

Publication Date: 7 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.

September’s Audiobooks:

Sometimes, it happens. If none of the September 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. 

September’s New Books:

I recently declared that I was going to be pickier about the new releases I selected. I finally finished all the books I own and was celebrating the opportunity to go to the library more.

Of course, then Book of the Month comes out with a trove of tempting selections for September. 

I’m proud of myself for only selecting one. I went with Stephanie Garber’s Alchemy of Secrets, even though I had to pay extra since it’s a limited edition. I still remember my delight at her young adult Caraval series so I’m hoping her newest novel is as entertaining.

But I didn’t fully stop there. I decided to place library holds on two other September selections. All the Way to the River by Elizabeth Gilbert and The Book of Lost Hours by Hayley Gelfuso. I’m not a big Elizabeth Gilbert fan but I feel like, as a professional book reviewer, I need to read her new memoir. GMA just announced The Book of Lost Hours as their September book club pick and I’m intrigued by the parallels to Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library. 

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

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