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September 2025

September's Books on Screen roundup includes the season premieres of Apple TV+'s "The Morning Show" and "Slow Horses," along with AMC's "The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon"; the season finales of "Dexter: Resurrection" on Paramount+ with Showtime and "The Terminal List: Dark Wolf" on Prime Video; the conclusion of Prime Video's "The Summer I Turned Pretty"; the series premieres of "The Dead Girls" on Netflix and "The Girlfriend" on Prime Video; the continuation of STARZ's "Outlander: Blood of My Blood" and USA Network's "The Rainmaker"; the films The Long Walk, The Man in My Basement and One Battle After Another; and the DVD/Blu-ray releases of Jurassic World Rebirth, Superman, The Life of Chuck and Clown in a Cornfield.

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September 2, 2025

In this newsletter, you will find books releasing the weeks of September 1st and September 8th that we think will be of interest to Bookreporter.com readers, along with Bonus News, where we call out a contest, feature or review that we want to let you know about so you have it on your radar.

This week, we are calling attention to our special contest on ReadingGroupGuides.com for award-winning author Suzanne Nelson’s debut novel for adults, THE LIBRARIANS OF LISBON. We are giving 25 readers the opportunity to win a copy of this captivating historical novel, which has received so much praise since its release in February. Be sure to submit your entries by Wednesday, September 24th at noon ET.

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September 2, 2025

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we know people will be talking about this fall. Read more about it, and enter our Fall Reading Contest by Wednesday, September 3rd at noon ET for a chance to win one of five copies of APOSTLE'S COVE by William Kent Krueger, which is now available and will be a Bookreporter.com Bets On pick. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

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Week of September 29, 2025

Paperback releases for the week of September 29th include REVENGE OF THE TIPPING POINT, a brand-new volume from Malcolm Gladwell that reframes the lessons of his groundbreaking first book, THE TIPPING POINT, in a startling and revealing light; PLAYGROUND by Richard Powers, a sweeping, panoramic novel set in the world’s largest ocean where four lives are drawn together; Paula Hawkins' THE BLUE HOUR, a masterful work of fiction that is as page-turning as it is unsettling and recalls the sophisticated suspense of Shirley Jackson and Patricia Highsmith; THE SEQUEL, the eagerly awaited follow-up to THE PLOT, in which Jean Hanff Korelitz gives readers an antihero to root for while illuminating and satirizing the world of publishing; and FIRE AND BONES by Kathy Reichs, a twisty, unputdownable thriller featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, who finds herself at the center of an arson investigation that spawns deepening levels of mystery and, ultimately, violence.

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Week of September 22, 2025

Paperback releases for the week of September 22nd include INTERMEZZO, an exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family --- but especially love --- from Sally Rooney; GOING HOME IN THE DARK by Dean Koontz, a novel about childhood fears and buried secrets that threaten to be unearthed when hometown horrors come back to haunt; H. W. Brands' AMERICA FIRST, which recounts the fierce debate over America's role in the world in the runup to World War II through its two most important figures --- President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who advocated intervention, and his isolationist nemesis, aviator and popular hero Charles Lindbergh; SHE-WOLVES, in which award-winning historian Paulina Bren tells the propulsive story of how women infiltrated Wall Street from the swinging '60s to 9/11; and the paperback original FAMOUS by Blake Crouch, a darkly comedic psychological suspense novel about a man who goes to terrifying extremes to adopt his celebrity doppelgänger's life.

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Week of September 15, 2025

Paperback releases for the week of September 15th include THE AUTHOR’S GUIDE TO MURDER by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig and Karen White, a locked-room whodunit in which three very different American novelists become prime suspects when a famous writer is found dead in the book-lined study of a remote Scottish castle; Rumaan Alam's ENTITLEMENT, a riveting tale for our new gilded age --- a story that confidently considers questions about need and worth, race and privilege, philanthropy and generosity, passion and obsession; KEEPING THE FAITH by Brenda Wineapple, the dramatic story of the 1925 Scopes trial, which captivated the nation and exposed profound divisions in America that still resonate today; and the paperback original MIDNIGHT BURNING, Paul Levine's gripping thriller featuring Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin, who are determined to thwart a Nazi scheme involving an armed insurrection and the assassinations of Hollywood's biggest stars.

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Week of September 8, 2025

Paperback releases for the week of September 8th include THE MEDICI RETURN, the 19th installment in Steve Berry's series starring Cotton Malone, who is on the hunt for a forgotten 16th-century Pledge of Christ, a sworn promise made by Pope Julius II that evidences a monetary debt owed by the Vatican; Haruki Murakami's THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, which is a love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for our peculiar times; BONE OF THE BONE, a searing and insightful volume of the brilliant and provocative essays that established Sarah Smarsh as one of the most important commentators on America’s class problem; and the paperback original THE GRAVE ARTIST, the second entry in Jeffery Deaver and Isabella Maldonado's series featuring Homeland Security Investigations agent Carmen Sanchez and her partner, security expert Jake Heron, who uncover chilling evidence pointing to a serial killer who has taken evil to the next level.

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Week of September 1, 2025

Paperback releases for the week of September 1st include YOU LIKE IT DARKER, a collection of 12 short stories from the legendary Stephen King that delves into the darker part of life --- both metaphorical and literal --- many of which have never been published before; THE LIFE IMPOSSIBLE by Matt Haig, a story of hope and the life-changing power of a new beginning, filled with wonder and wild adventure; BATTLE MOUNTAIN, C. J. Box's 25th Joe Pickett thriller that finds outlaw falconer Nate Romanowski off the grid and out for revenge; WE'RE ALONE, a collection of exceptional essays that traces a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat’s childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent events in Haiti; and the paperback original PLEASE DON'T LIE by Christina Baker Kline and Anne Burt, a stylish and twisty thriller in which a young woman heads to the Adirondacks with her new husband for a fresh start --- but the past won’t let her go.

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Apostle's Cove by William Kent Krueger

A few nights before Halloween, as Cork O’Connor gloomily ruminates on his upcoming birthday, he receives a call from his son, Stephen, who is working for a nonprofit dedicated to securing freedom for unjustly incarcerated inmates. Stephen tells his father that decades ago, as the newly elected sheriff of Tamarack County, Cork was responsible for sending an Ojibwe man named Axel Boshey to prison for a brutal murder that Stephen is certain he did not commit.

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August 23, 2025

August is a month where what’s happening depends on where you live. Some of the country is back in school --- cue cute kids in first-day-of-school outfits with their chalkboard dreams on social media. Others are trudging home from camp with dirty laundry and heading to family summer vacation. 

As I live in the New York area, I think of September as the month for a mini-reset. It does not bring the resolutions of January, but there are renewed goals. One might be “never miss book group” or “be sure to read the book.”

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