Another 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.)