Fall 2025 New Releases, Plus More Links for Library Workers
⚓ Books 📅 2025-09-16 👤 surdeus 👁️ 17Another week, another roundup of library-related news and links to keep you at the top of your game. Today, I’ve pulled a bunch of September and Fall 2025 new releases lists, a ton of assorted book lists to freshen up your displays, and lots of random book-related links that don’t have a better category to go in. Let’s jump in!
September & Fall Releases
- September picks from Amazon, Barnes & Noble (adults, kids), Kirkus, LA Times, New York Times, People, Reactor (fantasy, sci-fi), and Washington Post.
- Book Riot’s best new books of September in every genre, plus September picks for mysteries/thrillers, SFF, romance, nonfiction, queer reads, children’s books, and graphic novels.
- The biggest Fall 2025 picks from CBC, Goodreads, Kirkus, LA Times, New York Times (fiction, nonfiction), Oprah Daily, and Time.
- The best end-of-summer historical fiction.
- New witchy books for fall.
Book Lists, Book Lists, Book Lists
Children/YA
- 15 picture books that celebrate Hispanic and Latine heritage.
- Creepy picture books for Halloween.
- Children’s books to help kids overcome perfectionism.
- 13 of the best search-and-find books for kids.
- 5 “pick your path” books for kids.
- Middle grade books by Latine authors.
- 32 YA books with magic & mythology.
- 12 YA cosmic horror novels you’ll never forget.
Adults
- 5 female Spanish speculative writers to be aware of.
- 16 queer road trip books to adventure with.
- 5 SF works about repurposing organs and other body parts.
- Pierce Brown recommends sci-fi novels to take you on an epic journey. (Also please note that this is not Pierce Brosnan, which is how I originally read the headline, and I was very confused.)
- 20 best queer romances of all time.
- 5 hopeful novels about the climate crisis.
- Scandalous trad wife thrillers if you loved The Hunting Wives.
- 7 enemies-to-lovers sports romances.
- Romance novels to read on a plane so that no one bothers you.
- 6 darkly funny horror novels.
- Mysteries & thrillers featuring teachers and professors.
- 7 historical fiction books set in Japanese American concentration camps.
A Smorgasbord of Bookish Miscellanea
- Bidding on a rare first edition of The Hobbit has already exceeded $25,000.
- 7 tips for starting your own book club. Plus, people are trying to deprogram their MAGA parents through book clubs.
- Meet the Bad Bitch Book Club, which offered a three-day members-only reading retreat in Maine. This sounds DIVINE.
- Why The Shining should be considered “literary,” and thoughts about what “literary” even means.
- *sigh* Skibidi has officially been added to the Cambridge Dictionary.
- This middle school teacher got his reluctant readers interested in books by reading aloud.
- A look at zine culture today.
- The NYT’s mini crossword has been paywalled.
- NYC is getting its first horror bookstore. (I want to go to there.)
