It’s the beginning of a new month, a new school year, and a new publishing season. Now’s a good time to amp up those library skills with new book roundups, genre resources, and more book lists than you can shake a stick at. (Why you’d want to shake a stick at these book lists is beyond me, but you do you.)

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New & Upcoming Titles

• 8 recent mystery novels with unexpected pairings between boomer and Gen-Z characters.
• 30 more SFF titles to look forward to in 2025.
• 10 new reads for fans who are still obsessed with the YA dystopian novels of the 2010s.
• The best new poetry collections to read right now.
• 5 new mystery series to introduce you to new sleuths.
• LGBTQIA+ crime fiction summer 2025 reads for every reader.
• 12 new queer Indigenous books.
• 6 compelling new post-apocalyptic reads.
• New K-pop books coming out in 2025.
• 6 immersive new space operas.

Readers Advisory & Genre Resources

• “Igno-fiction” is the latest literary term for “stories that lean into all that humans do not know.”
• A guide to all of the Outlander novels, short stories, and novellas.
• A history of women SFF writers.
• The best small town settings in mystery novels.
• The six kinds of romance plots.

Books & Authors In the News

• Children’s author Allan Ahlberg has died at 87.
• Fourth Wing has inspired a new party game.
• Oprah picks Richard Russo’s 2007 novel, Bridge of Sighs, as her next book club pick. (You can also read Kelly Jensen’s reaction to yet another white man being added to Oprah’s list.)
• Richard Osman discusses finding a number of AI-generated “companion novels” on Amazon for the film adaptation of the Thursday Murder Club.

Numbers & Trends

• Backlist books about tyranny see a sales bump for obvious reasons.
• You can now book worldwide trips inspired by BookTok.
• Do kids start reading too late in life?
• New BookTok trends.
• Romance bookstore owners talk about how TikTok has impacted their businesses.

Book Lists

Children & Teens

• 8 wordless picture books.
• 4 picture book biographies about athletes.
• 12 books to help beat the back-to-school jitters.
• 5 middle grade books like The Goonies.
• The best horse books for tween readers.
• 34 YA books inspired by real events.
• 13 YA books with dual timelines.

Adults

• 25 books that highlight the beauty of Indigenous literature.
• 5 books that dangle family secrets in front of the reader.
• 21 books for Summerween. (Because honestly, every season is scary season.)
• 10 books to read while you wait for the film adaptation of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.
• 9 books that feature David Lynchian déjà vu.
• 5 literary amusement parks that are an absolute scream.
• 9 fantasy books with magic systems based on blood and bones.
• The most popular memoirs of the last ten years, according to Goodreads.
• 5 fat-positive queer romances.
• Haunted house mysteries & thrillers.
• Mysteries and true crime books that feature museums.

Want more library-related reads? Check out this look at zine culture today and enjoy this deep dive into the history of Carnegie libraries.