The Best New Books Publishing in September 2025

September

2025

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Happiness and Love: A Novel
by Zoe Dubno
Scribner, 09/02/2025
 
Years after escaping New York and the center of its artistic world—a group of self-important, depraved, and unscrupulous artists, curators, and ...more
Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
Mercy
by Joan Silber
Counterpoint Press, 09/02/2025
 
In the gritty East Village of 1970s New York, Ivan and his best friend, Eddie, a popular local bartender, are dabbling in drugs following a short tour...more
Literary Fiction
Mother Mary Comes to Me
by Arundhati Roy
Scribner, 09/02/2025
 
Mother Mary Comes to Me, Arundhati Roy's first work of memoir, is a soaring account, both intimate and inspirational, of how the author became the ...more
Biography/Memoir
A Land So Wide: A Novel
by Erin A. Craig
Pantheon Books, 09/09/2025
 
Like everyone else in the settlement of Mistaken, Greer Mackenzie is trapped. Founded by an ambitious lumber merchant, the village is blessed with ...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Middle Spoon: A Novel
by Alejandro Varela
Viking, 09/09/2025
 
The narrator of Middle Spoon appears to be living the dream: He has a doting husband, two precocious children, all the comforts of a quiet bourgeois ...more
Literary Fiction
Play Nice
by Rachel Harrison
Berkley Books, 09/09/2025
 
Clio Louise Barnes leads a picture-perfect life as a stylist and influencer, but beneath the glossy veneer she harbors a not-so glamorous secret: she ...more
The Hunter's Daughter
by Nicola Solvinic
Berkley Books, 09/09/2025
 
Anna Koray escaped her father's darkness long ago. When she was a girl, her childhood memories were sealed away from her conscious mind by a ...more
Thrillers
The Last Time We Spoke: A Story of Loss
by Jesse Mechanic
Street Noise Books, 09/09/2025
 
Grief never goes away.

When he was a teenager, Jesse Mechanic's mother passed away after a long struggle with cancer. In this memoir, he looks ...more
Graphic Novels
For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran's Women-Led Uprising
by Fatemeh Jamalpour
Pantheon Books, 09/16/2025
 
In September 2022, a young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Jîna Amini, died after being beaten by police officers who arrested her for not adhering to the ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Different Kind of Tension: New and Selected Stories
by Jonathan Lethem
Ecco, 09/23/2025
 
This dazzling, genre-defying collection from Jonathan Lethem features seven major stories published since his last collection, along with his best ...more
Literary Fiction
Dinner at the Night Library: A Novel
by Hika Harada
Hanover Square Press, 09/30/2025
 
All Otaha Higuchi wants to do is work with books. However, the exhausting nature of her work at a chain bookstore, combined with her paltry salary and...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Great Disasters: A Novel
by Grady Chambers
Tin House Books, 09/30/2025
 
This is the story of how we became. I write those words but remain uncertain what they mean... . Drinking was a part of it. But as much as it was ...more
Literary Fiction
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