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Which of the following titles releasing in paperback in September have you read or do you plan to read? Please check all that apply.

September 19, 2025, 490 voters

September 19, 2025 - October 3, 2025

Here are reading recommendations with your comments and a rating of 1 to 5 stars for the contest period of September 19 - October 3.

September 19, 2025

I had such a great time interviewing Adriana Trigiani at the Milford Readers & Writers Festival last weekend. We have been friends for decades. I remember reading an advance copy of her first book, BIG STONE GAP, which originally was written as a screenplay, but her agent felt it would work much better as a book. Adriana is celebrating her 25th year of being a published author.

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September 16, 2025

Although it has been years since I had children headed back to school, I always see the weeks after Labor Day as a chance to reset. It’s a great time for your book group to stop and take a look at what you are doing. We call it the Book Group Checkup. It's an opportunity for your group to do a self-check to be sure that your goals are still being met. Years ago, we created some questions for a Book Group Checkup. You can find them here, along with feedback that a few groups shared in the past.

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September 16, 2025

In this newsletter, you will find books releasing the weeks of September 15th and September 22nd 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 a HUGE contest on ReadingGroupGuides.com. The Grand Prize will be all eight of Marie Benedict’s solo historical novels and her novella AGENT 355, which released as an Audible Original in 2020 and is now available in a print edition. Three runners-up will receive up to 12 copies of her most recent novel, THE QUEENS OF CRIME, for their book group. The deadline for your entries is Wednesday, October 8th at noon ET.

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September 16, 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 for a chance to win one of five copies of MIDNIGHT BURNING: An Einstein-Chaplin Thriller by Paul Levine, which is now available.

PLEASE NOTE: Typically our Fall Reading giveaways are open for just 24 hours, but we are extending the deadline of this contest to Thursday, September 18th at noon ET. That gives you an extra day to submit your entries!

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Joanne Harris, author of Vianne

On the evening of July 4th, a young woman scatters her mother’s ashes in New York and follows the call of the changing winds to the French coastal city of Marseille. For the first time in her life, Vianne feels in control of her future. Charming her way into a job as a waitress, she tries to fit in, make friends, and come to terms with her pregnancy, knowing that by the time her child is born, the turning wind will have changed once again. As she discovers the joy of cooking for the very first time, making local recipes her own with the addition of bittersweet chocolate spices, she learns that this humble magic has the power to unlock secrets. And yet her gift comes at a price. And Vianne has a secret of her own --- a secret that threatens everything.

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Arundhati Roy, author of Mother Mary Comes to Me

MOTHER MARY COMES TO ME is a soaring account of how Arundhati Roy became the person and the writer she is. “Heart-smashed” by her mother Mary’s death in September 2022 yet puzzled and “more than a little ashamed” by the intensity of her response, Roy began to write, to make sense of her feelings about the mother she ran from at age 18, “not because I didn’t love her, but in order to be able to continue to love her.” And so begins this astonishing, sometimes disturbing and surprisingly funny memoir of the author’s journey from her childhood in Kerala, India, where her single mother founded a school, to the writing of her prize-winning novels and essays, through today.

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Hank Phillippi Ryan, author of All This Could Be Yours

Debut sensation Tessa Calloway is on a whirlwind book tour for her instant bestseller, All This Could Be Yours. She receives standing ovations from adoring fans while her husband, Henry, and their two children cheer her on from their brand-new dream house. But there's a chilling problem with Tessa's triumphant book tour. She soon discovers she is being stalked by someone who's obsessed not only with sabotaging her career, but also with destroying her perfect family back home. Tessa fears that the fallout from an impossible decision she once made appears to be coming due. And she’s realizing that every high-stakes bargain comes with a high-stakes price. If Tessa can't untangle who's threatening to expose her darkest secrets, she'll lose her career, her family --- and possibly her life.

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Mick Herron, author of Clown Town

David Cartwright has left his library to the Spooks’ College in Oxford, and now one of the books is missing. Or perhaps it never existed. River, once a “slow horse” of Slough House, MI5’s outpost for demoted and disgraced spies, starts investigating the secrets of his grandfather’s library. Over at the Park, MI5 First Desk Diana Taverner is in a pickle. An operation carried out during the height of the Troubles laid bare the ugly side of state security, and those involved are threatening to expose details. But every threat hides an opportunity, and Taverner has come up with a scheme. Jackson Lamb, the enigmatic and odiferous head of Slough House, has no plans to send in the clowns. On the other hand, if the clowns ignore his instructions, any harm that befalls them is hardly his fault. But they’re his clowns. And if they don’t all make it home, there will be a reckoning.

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