September 2025 Book Releases Perfect for Fall

Wondering what to read now? Here are all the hot new September 2025 book releases for you. I’ll let you know what I’ve read, what I can’t wait to read, and what’s getting all the attention this month.

In case you’re new to Booklist Queen, every month I cover all the hottest new book releases. I try to read as many new book releases as I can to give you an honest perspective on what to read and what to skip. 

However, I realize that my to-read list might not exactly match yours. That’s why I’ve also included some of the most popular September 2025 book releases from your favorite authors. 

Enough from me, let’s get on to the September 2025 book releases so you can fill up your to-read list.

In the eight book of the series, Private Investigators Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott take on a case of dismembered corpse found in the fault of a silver shop. While the police claim it belongs to a convicted armed robber, Decima Mullins swears it belongs to her boyfriend who disappeared. The more Cormoran and Robin investigate, the more complicated the case becomes. Meanwhile, Robin seems to be becoming serious with her police officer boyfriend forcing Cormoran to decide if he will share his feelings with her.

Publication Date: 2 September 2025
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Elin Hilderbrand teams up with her daughter Shelby to pen a tale of a drama-filled year at a New England boarding school. Tiffin has been ranked one of the top boarding schools in the country but a new campus app starts revealing the secrets of its students and faculty. The queen bee, a history teacher, a transfer student and even the Admissions Director are all caught up in its web.

Publication Date: 16 September 2025
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In the last days of the Civil War, cruel master Mr. Harper separated enslaved siblings Coleman and June and took June with him to Mexico where he could keep her his slave. When Coleman receives a letter from Mr. Harper, he thinks his sister’s freedom is finally at hand. But disaster forces Coleman and Mr. Harper’s daughter to flee into the Mexican desert searching for June while being pursued by two desperate men intend on capturing them.

Publication Date: 2 September 2025
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After the success of his bestselling memoir Greenlights, actor Matthew McConaughey returns with a collection of personal poetry and prayers. McConaughey likes to wax philosophical and Poems & Prayers shares his thoughts on life and the pursuit of belief.

Publication Date: 16 September 2025
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Ever since her father’s death five years ago, Lucy Smith has been on the run to avoid being in the foster system. When a kind case worker tracks her down with an old woman, Lucy is skeptical when they say they want to help. The woman tells Lucy that she is Ojibwe and that she has a sister and grandparents who want to look after her. Can Lucy settle into this new life or will the past threaten to destroy her hope at a family?

Publication Date: 2 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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After the pandemic, rival editors Rebecca Blume and Ben Heath are forced to share the same desk on alternating days. When a revered literary legend dies, Rebecca and Ben must decide how far they are willing to go to win his estate. Until Rebecca discovers a connection between her mother and the author, a story of her mother’s friendship in Manhattan decades earlier that changed her life forever.

Publication Date: 2 September 2025
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Acclaimed historian David McCullough was considered one of the foremost biographers when he died in 2022. History Matters brings together a collection of McCullough’s essays writing throughout his career about the importance of history in understanding our presence and our future. Edited by McCullough’s daughter and longtime friend, History Matters reveals fresh insights into McCullough’s love of history and his writing life. 

Publication Date: 16 September 2025
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Set in the same world as her bestseller young adult novel Divine Rivals, Wild Reverence is an adult novel that follows a young goddess with messenger magic. Matilda carries words and letters throughout the land while guarding a secret from even her dearest allies. A mortal boy keeps dreaming of Matilda and begs her to help him. When she doesn’t answer, he becomes the hardened lord of the river. A decade later, Matilda delivers him a letter and comes face to face with the young man in an act of Fate that could change the very nature of the gods.

Publication Date: 2 September 2025
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In 2014, acclaimed poet Francis Blundy reads a poem, “A Corona for Vivien,” during his wife’s birthday dinner. With no surviving copy, generations will speculate about the contents of the poem. In 2119, Thomas Metcalfe is a scholar and researcher in a flooded world ruined by nuclear disaster. Thomas becomes obsessed with the poem and when he finds a clue in the archives, he learns of a crime that shatters the assumptions of what he thought he knew about the people involved.

Publication Date: 23 September 2025
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Robert Langdon returns with a trip to Prague to attend a conference presentation by his new girlfriend Katherine Solomon. Katherine is on the verge of publishing a new book that calls into question everything we know about human consciousness. When a brutal murder occurs, Katherine disappears with her manuscript and Langdon must track her down as he uncovers a secret project that will change the way we think about the human mind.

Publication Date: 9 September 2025
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Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things, was surprised by her intense reaction to her mother’s death. Mary Roy was a force of nature that Arundhati has ran from at age eighteen. In her first memoir, Roy details her childhood in Kerala, India, where her single mother founded a school and shaped the author in the woman she is today.

Publication Date: 2 September 2025
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Years after escaping the unsufferable artistic world of New York, an unnamed young woman returns to the Lower East Side. When she runs into two past acquaintances, she attends a dinner party at their house which she thinks is in honor of their recently deceased friend. Instead, the dinner becomes a showcase of brazen materialism and self-obsession in this satirical new novel.

Publication Date: 2 September 2025
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Lauren Roberts’s bestselling young adult series, Powerless, continues with a new novel set during the events of Fearless. When the king makes a life-altering decision, Mara decides to return to Ilya again. Since he is destined to join her in Mors, Mara is determined to understand Kitt Azer’s state of mind. But observing the castle, Mara is reminded that there is more to life than death.

Publication Date: 2 September 2025
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Ken Follett ambitiously tackles an epic tale of the building of Stonehenge. Seft, a flint miner, travels to the Midsummer Fair to find his love, Neen, when her family offers him an escape from his harsh life with his family. Neen’s sister Joja is a priestess who dreams of building an incredible monument and Seft makes it his life work, despite droughts and wars that threaten to break out on the Great Plains.

Publication Date: 23 September 2025
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Jen and Brandon Hatmaker made a name for themselves in the Christian community as bestselling authors, television personalities and faith leaders. After 26 years of marriage, Jen woke up one night to hear her husband on the phone in bed talking to another woman. In the ensuing divorce, Jen felt completely lost, questioning not only her marriage but also the religious and social systems that forced her to reexamine her entire life.

Publication Date: 23 September 2025
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In the exciting of the Allied victory in Europe during WWII, Cal Jenkins and Margaret Salt share an intimate moment that will affect their families for generations to come. Haunted by his inability to fight in the war, Cal lives with his wife Becky, a seer who helps families connect with the dead they have lost. Meanwhile, Margaret’s husband is serving on a Navy cargo ship when she gets word that the unthinkable may have happened. Over the ensuing decades, Cal and Margaret’s secrets haunt their families since nothing can stay secret forever in a small Ohio town.

Publication Date: 2 September 2025
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What September 2025 Book Releases are You Most Excited to Read?

What books can you not wait to get your hands on this month? Did I miss any September 2025 book releases that you are anticipating? As always, let me know in the comments!

More New Book Releases:

• August 2025 Book Releases
• October 2025 Book Releases
• Most-Anticipated Upcoming Releases
• The Complete List of 2025 Releases
• Booklist Queen’s 2025 Reading Challenge

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