Fall 2025 New Releases, Plus More Links for Library Workers

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.)