From literary fiction to mysteries & thrillers, Book of the Month Club has it all. Discover every title chosen by Book of the Month in 2025.
Book of the Month is my favorite book subscription box. Every month, they choose five or more amazing titles for you to choose from, and voila! A blue box arrives at your door carrying one (or two or three or five) new books for you to read.
Even if you don’t have a Book of the Month Club subscription (yet), I think you’ll find value in looking at their curated list of new releases. No matter what genres you love to read, you’ll find great book choices in the Book of the Month 2025 selections.
Compiled together in one place, here is every book chosen by Book of the Month in 2025.
What is Book of the Month?
Book of the Month is a monthly book subscription service highly popular among the book community. Trust me, once you try it, you’ll be hooked.
How it Works
Each month, a panel of judges chooses at least five books for you to choose from. The Book of the Month selections cover different genres and are always special edition hardcovers. Often, the chosen books haven’t been published yet, so you get to be one of the first people to read them.
At the beginning of the month, you choose one book to add to your box and shortly thereafter the little blue box arrives at your door. If you aren’t loving any of the selected books, you just skip that month and your credits will just roll over to the next month. Or, after your third box, you can choose from five member favorite books for your month’s selection instead.
On the other hand, if you want more than one book, once you’ve chosen your initial book, you can add-on up to four additional books at a discounted rate. These add-ons can be from the current month’s selection, be favorites from previous months, or be new releases specially included in the add-on catalog.
Pricing
Book of the Month runs two different pricing plans. On the monthly plan, you get one credit a month for $17. If you are willing to pay upfront, the yearly plan gives you 12 credits for $168, which averages out to $14 a book. For a hardcover new release, both prices are a steal.
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Book of the Year 2025
Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy
Dominic Salt and his three children live together on Shearwater, a remote island near Antarctica. Shearwater used to be full of researchers but now the Salts are the sole caretakers of the world’s largest seed bank. During a fierce storm, a woman washes ashore. As the Salts nurse Rowan back to health, they feel revitalized. Except Rowan is hiding the truth about her journey to Shearwater but the Salts have their own secrets to hide. McConaghy has made a name for herself with her climate fiction books, so I’m curious to see what she has in store with her March release.
Book of the Year Finalists
The Favorites
Layne Fargo
Katarina Shaw always knew she was destined to be an Olympic ice skater even if she didn’t have the support or pedigree it usually requires. When she meets Heath Rocha, a lonely kid in foster care, Katarina finds the perfect partner to make her dreams – and desires – come true. Ten years after a shocking event ends their Olympic careers and relationship, an unauthorized documentary forces Katarina to break her silence about what happened in this sports romance inspired by Wuthering Heights.
The Names
Florence Knapp
Soon after her son’s birth, Cora and her young daughter Maia set out to officially register the baby’s birth. Gordon expects that Cora will name the baby after him like generations of his family have done. Yet, Cora is tempted to name the baby Julian and Maia wants to name her brother Bear. The Names is a thoughtful story that showcases how each potential name – and the abusive father’s reaction to each name – changes the family’s trajectory.
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V. E. Schwab
V. E. Schwab writes about immortality and hunger through three different storylines spanning 500 years. In 1532, Maria is tied of being a pawn of men and jumps at an offer from a handsome stranger to take a different path. In 1827, Charlotte is shipped to London after an affair and takes an invitation from a beautiful widow. In 2019, Alice’s one-night-stand leaves her questioning all her life’s decisions.
First-Time Caller
B. K. Borison
As the host of a popular Baltimore radio romance hotline, Aiden Thomas has a problem: he’s become disenchanted with love. When Maya calls in for dating advice for her mom, the interview goes viral. Suddenly Lucie Stone finds her love life thrust into the center of a media firestorm. When the radio show decides to help Lucie find her match, she finds sparks flying with Aiden instead.
BOOK OF THE MONTH 2025 SELECTIONS
Literary Fiction
Seduction Theory
Emily Adrian
At Edwards University, Simone is the star of the creative writing department and her husband Ethan is the department’s forgotten novelist and lecturer. There perfect marriage is shaken when Ethan sleeps with Abigail, the department’s administrative assistant. While Ethan is away for the summer, Simone becomes closer to her graduate student Robbie. Robbie becomes Simone’s friend and confidante until she uses Simone’s marriage as the basis of her thesis.
Andromeda
Therese Bohman
At the Swedish publishing house Rydens, Sophie starts out at the bottom of the totem pole as an intern. Quickly noticed for her thoughtful critiques, Sophie slowly works her way up the ranks with the help of a years-long mentorship by legendary editor-in-chief, Gunnar. Over weekly lunches, Sophie and Gunnar talk about books and life, leading to a blurring between their professional and personal lives.
Black Woods, Blue Sky
Eowyn Ivey
Single mom Birdie is doing the best she can to raise her daughter Emaleen in Alaska. When Emaleen gets lost in the woods, Arthur, the scarred local recluse, brings her home safely. Soon Birdie falls in love with Arthur, craving his existence in the isolated mountains. Moving in with him, Birdie soon learns that the Alaskan wilderness, and Arthur himself, have darker sides than she realized.
A Season of Light
Julie Iromuanya
When hundreds of schoolgirls are abducted in Nigeria, Fidelis Ewerike goes mad, obsessing over memories of his little sister who was similarly kidnapped. To protect his teenage daughter Amara, Fidelis locks her in their Florida home with no explanation. Suddenly Amara’s mother and brother are thrown into chaos deciding how to handle Fidelis’s action. Meanwhile, Amara takes her first chance at freedom to fall in love with the son of the two drunk and plot an escape in this look at multigenerational trauma.
Among Friends
Hal Ebbott
Emerson and Amos have been best friends since college and over the decades, their families have become intwined as they grow. One fall evening, the two families gather to celebrate a birthday when a stunning betrayal shocks them all. Suddenly quiet resentments and shifting power dynamics tear the two families apart in a story of marriage, class, and friendship.
Maggie; Or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar
Katie Yee
A Chinese-American woman goes out to a lovely dinner with her husband only to find out he’s having an affair with a woman named Maggie. Suddenly, she has chest pains and learns that she has a tumor which she also decides to name Maggie. In the ensuing months, as she navigates grief and healing, the narrator tries to help her children fall in love with the Chinese folktales that her own mother passed down to her in this wry debut novel.
The Bombshell
Darrow Farr
In 1993, Séverine Guimard, a spoiled daughter of a French diplomat is days away from graduation when she is kidnapped by Corsican rebels demanding independence. Deciding her best hopes for survival is to charm her captors, Séverine finds herself beginning to agree with to agree with their cause. Suddenly Séverine is the spokesperson of their cause in a summer of passion and terror that can only end in disaster.
The Sun Was Electric Light
Rachel Morton
Unhappy with her life in New York, Ruth returns to a small lake town in Guatemala where she had found joy a decade earlier. Settling in Panajachel, Ruth befriends two women. Emilie is dependable, calm and practical while Carmen is full of intoxicating drama. As Ruth becomes more and more drawn into Carmen’s friendship, she pushes away Emilie’s steadfastness. Yet Ruth will soon come to learn the difference between being a visitor and truly belonging.
Liquid
Mariam Rahmani
An unnamed Iranian-American narrator is fed up that her education and hard work has not paid off. Despite being the smartest person in the room, she still hasn’t even attained middle class comfort. When her best friend Adam jokes she should marry rich, she decides to use her research skills and go on 100 dates one summer to find a rich spouse of either gender. But when a family tragedy strikes mid-summer, she visits to Tehran and finally sees the contradictions in her life, realizing that maybe what she’s been missing has been in front of her the entire time.
Discontent
Beatriz Serrano
Marisa hates her job at a successful advertising agency in Madrid. She spends her days hiding in her office bingeing videos while contemplating if its worth getting hit by a car to go on disability. When Marisa is forced to go to the company’s annual retreat, she is worried her coworkers will realize her success is largely lies and stolen ideas. In the woods, Marisa feels herself pushed to the brink by crazy bosses, overzealous coworkers and an abundance of drugs.
The Ten Year Affair
Erin Somers
In a small town, Cora and Sam meet at a baby group and their connection is instantaneous. Except both are happily married with kids. As their lives start to intertwine, their romantic tension grows stronger until the book fractures into two parallel timelines – one where they pursue their feelings and one where they resist. Slowly, The Ten Year Affair explores what might have been in an examination of marriage, family and the what-ifs of life.
Contemporary Fiction
The Three Lives of Cate Kay
Kate Fagan
Written as a fictional “memoir”, The Three Lives of Cate Kay tells the life story of Cate Kay, whose bestselling book trilogy turned into the hit movie franchise of the decade. Cate Kay’s identity has been a closely guarded secret for years. As a teen, the author and her best friend dreamed of moving to California to be movie stars. After a tragedy, she ran away, living under an assumed name, but might now be ready to return home and pick make all parts of herself whole once again.
Good Dirt
Charmaine Wilkerson
The daughter of a wealthy Black family, Ebby Freeman accidentally turns the headlines to herself during a failed wedding. Now the press is rehashing the death of her brother twenty years earlier in a home invasion. Fleeing to France, Ebby begins looking into her family history and researching a heirloom stoneware jar that was destroyed in that same home invasion. Will Ebby’s family’s past be the thing that sets her free in this multigenerational family drama from the author of Black Cake.
The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits
Jennifer Weiner
Effervescent and ambitious Zoe and shy musical prodigy Cassie could not be more different even though they are sisters. Catapulted to fame as a pop duo sensation, the sisters spent a whirlwind year in the early 2000s until they abruptly broke up. Now twenty years later, Zoe’s teenage daughter Cherry also wants to be a star and is determined to learn why the band broke up. Now Zoe, Cassie and Cherry must face the consequences of the decisions they made and the decisions the music industry made for them.
To the Moon and Back
Eliana Ramage
When she was five, Steph Harper’s mother fled an abusive husband and landed in the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma. Steph grows up dreaming of becoming the first Cherokee astronaut and nothing will stop her from her dreams of joining NASA. Meanwhile, Steph’s sister becomes a social media influencer and her ex-girlfriend tries to reclaim her Cherokee identity after being forcefully taken from her home as a child. Through it all, Steph’s mother holds to her tribal identity in an epic debut novel that spans three decades.
Cursed Daughters
Oyinkan Braithwaite
On the day her cousin Monife tragically dies, Ebun gives birth to a daughter who looks strickingly like her cousin. Her whole life, Eniiyi’s family believes she is the reincarnation of Monife, fated to follow her exact footsteps to a similar end. Add to that, the family is cursed that no man will call the house his home, leaving three generations of brokenhearted women living in the same house in Lagos, Nigeria. When Eniiyi falls in love with a boy she saves from drowning, she struggles against the family’s superstition, determined to break the pattern of trauma.
Penitence
Kristin Koval
When their daughter shoots her brother, Angie and David Sheehan turn to Martine, a small-town lawyer to defend her. To make matters complicated, Martine is the mother of Angie’s ex-boyfriend Julian who is now a high-powered defense attorney. As Angie and Julie overcome long buried feelings of guilt from a tragic accident that killed Angie’s little sister, they each must discover the power of true forgiveness for themselves but also for Nora as every tries to figure out why she did it.
All the Tomorrows After
Joanne Yi
Winter Moon, a Korean American teen, has been saving every penny so she and her grandmother can escape their life. When Winter’s mom steals her life savings, Winter agrees to accept money from her estranged father in exchange for allowing him to get to know her. While navigating grief, first love, and forgiveness, Winter learns a secret about her father that threatens their budding relationship.
Finding Grace
Loretta Rothschild
Honor is living a seemingly perfect life in Paris with her charming daughter Chloe and her handsome husband Tom. But Honor lusts for another child, a desire that sets of a tragedy that changes their lives forever. Years later, a misdirected letter leads Tom to a fateful decision that will bring up old secrets and make you wonder if redemption is possible.
Next to Heaven
James Frey
In New Bethlehem, Connecticut, Devon and Belle lack for nothing. They have money, status and beauty in their country club world with immaculate lawns. Bored of their perfect lives, Devon and Belle decide to throw a curated one night swinger’s party for the town’s elite. But a murder will shatter the facade and air everyone’s dirty laundry.
The Summer We Ran
Audrey Ingram
In 1996, Tess’s mother lands a job as a cook at an affluent Virginia estate. Over the summer, the outspoken Tess falls madly in love with Grant Alexander, the wealthy boy next door, until the summer ends in tragedy. Two decades later, Tess and Grant find themselves both running for Governor of Virginia with their long-kept summer secrets threatening to shatter their lives and political careers.
Home of the American Circus
Allison Larkin
Tired of her life as a bartender in Maine, thirty-year-old Freya Arnalds decides to return home to New York to stay in the home she inherited from her parents. Although Freya tries to lay low, she keeps running into old acquaintances, ex-boyfriends, and former friends. When she discovers her teenage niece is living in the home, the two strike up a bond as they try to recover from the tragedies that tore the family apart.
The Second Chance Cinema
Thea Weiss
On a late night walk as they plan their wedding, Ellie and Drake stumble upon a glamourous cinema playing their formative memories on the big screen. Haunted by a night in her past, Ellie is excited to piece together her memoires to better understand the past. But as the viewings begin to touch on more recent events, Ellie and Drake realize they both have been keeping secrets from each other in this second-chance romance.
Before I Forget
Tory Henwood Hoen
When her father is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s, Cricket Campbell decides to move back to her childhood lake house to become his caretaker. As Cricket settles back into the home she left as a teen, she learns that as her father begins to forget things he also seems to predict the future. However, her father’s prophecies force Cricket to confront the pain of her past if she hope to finally move forward.
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Romance
How Freaking Romantic
Emily Harding
Beatrice is known for being a fiesty lawyer so when her best friend gets divorced, she has no qualms marching into the opposing lawyer’s office to tell them exactly what she thinks about the situation. Unfortunately, days later that same lawyer turns out to be a new hire at her NYU Law office. Slowly Beatrice’s hatred toward Nathan turns to respect and more until secrets about her friends divorce force her to choose between their happily-ever-after and her own.
An Academic Affair
Jodi McAlister
Sadie Shaw and Jonah Fisher have been academic rivals since they met as undergraduates over a decade ago. When a teaching job opens up that they both desperately want, their rivalry grows even more intense. When Sadie realizes that the position offers an automatic hire to the applicant’s spouse, Sadie and Jonah decide to get married so they can both get positions except they weren’t prepared for sparks to fly in their fake marriage
Passion Project
London Sperry
With no direction and no social life, Bennet Taylor’s is not thriving as a single twentysomething in New York City, still grieving her first love. Hours after standing him up for a date, Bennet runs into Henry. In a drunken confession, Bennet admits she isn’t ready to date and is struggling to find passion about anything. Henry takes it as a challenge and every Saturday the two meet, as friends, to try to bring passion back into Bennet’s life. But old secrets will taste Bennet’s will to finally move on with her life.
Good Spirits
B. K. Borison
Nolan Callahan serves as the Ghost of Christmas Past, haunting people with their memories while awaiting the afterlife. When Nolan is assigned to haunt Harriet York, neither Nolan or Harriet can figure out why. Harriet is the sweetest person he’s ever met. With a Christmas Eve deadline approaching, Nolan and Harriet realize their intertwined past actually binds them together in this cozy holiday romance.
The Heartbreak Hotel
Ellen O’Clover
After a breakup, Louisa Walsh finds herself unable to afford the rent on her gorgeous Colorado mountain home. Instead, she convinces her landlord Henry Rhodes to let her stay for free as she turns the home into a bed and breakfast. Marketed as a retreat for the recently heartbroken, The Comeback Inn opens its doors to sad but hopeful guests forcing Louisa and Henry to confront their mutual attraction.
Never Over
Clare Gilmore
Paige Lancaster is so close to reaching her dream of a songwriting contract but a music executive thinks she is still holding back. Impulsively, Paige reaches out to her ex-boyfriend Liam whom she hasn’t spoken to in four years. Maybe if they got back together and broke up, she could once again feel all those powerful emotions from their breakup. As the lines between reality and their fake relationship starts to blur, Paige finds herself wondering if she might have to give up true love in pursuit of her music.
Historical Fiction
Buckeye
Patrick Ryan
In the excitement of the Allied victory in Europe during WWII, Cal Jenkins and Margaret Salt share an intimate moment that will affect their families for generations to come. Haunted by his inability to fight in the war, Cal lives with his wife Becky, a seer who helps families connect with the dead they have lost. Meanwhile, Margaret’s husband is serving on a Navy cargo ship when she gets word that the unthinkable may have happened. Over the ensuing decades, Cal and Margaret’s secrets haunt their families since nothing can stay secret forever in a small Ohio town.
Six Days in Bombay
Alka Joshi
Working at the Wadia Hospital in Bombay, Sona is enraptured by her newest patient – Mira Novak, a world-renowned painter. Over her six day recovery from a miscarriage, Mira enchants Sona with tales of her travels and the many lovers she’s had across the world. Upon her release, Mira invites Sona to a lavish society event only for Mira to die mysteriously the next day. When the police suspect Sona, Sona must uncover Mira’s history to clear her name by fulfilling Mira’s dying wish to deliver paintings to Mira’s first love, first art dealer, and first painting tutor.
What Kind of Paradise
Janelle Brown
In the 1990s, Jane grows up in isolation with her father in a rural Montana cabin. All she knows is that after her mother died in a car accident in the Bay Area when she was little, her father decided it was best for them to live off the grid. When she realizes that her devotion to her father has made her an accomplice in a horrific crime, Jane runs away to California to search for answers in a modern world completely different than anything she ever imagined.
Isaac’s Song
Daniel Black
Growing up a queer Black man, Isaac was raised to suppress his artistic desires and his sexuality since they were not manly enough. Now an adult living in Chicago in the 1980s, Isaac finally feels like he can embrace his true self when the AIDS epidemic and the Rodney King riots shake him to his core. At his therapist’s advice, Isaac begins journaling his story, leading him back to his family’s ancestral home in Arkansas. Just as Isaac feels like he can find himself again, a shocking discover will throw him out of balance in this poignant new novel.
Mystery & Thriller
A Killing Cold
Kate Alice Marshall
Theo fell in love with Connor in a whirlwind romance six months ago. Despite anonymous texts telling her to stay away from Connor, Theo knows it’s her chance to win over his wealthy family when she visits Idlewood, the family’s remote winter retreat. But at the family cabin, Theo finds a photo of herself as a child and begins to recall long-repressed memories that someone in Connor’s family will do anything to keep buried.
Famous Last Words
Gillian McAllister
After months on maternity leave, Camilla is excited and nervous to drop her new baby off at daycare and return to her job as a literary agent. When she awakes, she finds her husband, Luke, is gone with only a note left behind. The police arrive and tell her that Luke is the gunman in a hostage situation in downtown London. Now Camilla must decide how well she actually knows her husband, considering she is the only one who knows what’s on the note.
You Belong Here
Megan Miranda
Beckett Bowery never expected to return to Wyatt Valley, the beautiful mountain town where her parents are professors at a small college. Decades earlier, Beckett’s college best friend disappeared after setting a fire that killed two locals and everyone thought Beckett knew more than she let on. When Beckett’s daughter Delilah decides to go to the same college, Beckett is on edge, knowing the town’s memory lasts a very long time.
Count My Lies
Sophie Stava
Sloane Carraway has a tendency to lie; usually just harmless little lies that make her seem a little more interesting. When she sees a hurt little girl at the park, she can’t resist telling the girl’s father she’s a nurse as she pulls out the bee stinger. Soon Sloane finds herself hired as the nanny for the picture perfect New York City power couple. But the deeper Sloane goes into Jay and Violet’s world the more she realizes that she is not the only one lying.
King of Ashes
S. A. Cosby
When his father is in a come after a car accident, Roman Carruthers returns home to help his sister run the family crematorium. When his younger brother confesses their father’s injury is because he is massively in debt to the local drug dealers, Roman sets out to use his skills as a finance whiz to make the problems go away. Except these gangsters aren’t like the wannabes he deals with in the music industry.
Best Offer Wins
Marisa Kashino
Living in a cramped apartment with her husband in DC, Margo Miyake is desperate to move into a home in the suburbs where they can expand their family. After eighteen months and almost a dozen failed bidding wars, Margo feels like it will never happen. When Margo gets a tempt about the perfect house that will go on the market soon, she begins obsessively stalking the homeowners, willing to do anything to guarantee she gets this house.
The Ghostwriter
Julie Clark
In 1975, two teenagers are found dead in their home and rumors swirl that Vincent, their surviving brother, is responsible. Decades later, the legends grow as Vincent becomes a bestselling horror writer. Vincent’s daughter Olivia Dumont has hidden her connection to him, afraid it would hurt her career as a ghostwriter. When Olivia is hired to ghostwrite her father’s memoir, she learns the truth may be darker than anyone imagined.
Forget Me Not
Stacy Willingham
Decades ago, Claire’s older sister Natalie disappeared and a man was quickly arrested and convicted. Now a investigative journalist, Claire returns home and takes a job at the South Carolina vineyard where her sister used to work. When Claire stumbles on an old journal of one of the owner’s, she is engrossed but a tale of youthful rebellion and love. As the journal starts to reveal details of unsolved crimes, Claire finds herself obsessed and can’t stop thinking it all connects back to her missing sister.
Every Sweet Thing is Bitter
Samantha Crewson
In a moment of teenage madness, Providence Byrd put her car in reverse and ran over her mother, almost killing her and becoming a convicted felon in the aftermath. When her mother disappears, Providence finally returns to her estranged family, sure her abusive father is responsible. As Providence draws closer to her younger sisters, she is caught between the desire for revenge and the desire to end the cycle of violence that has plagued her family for generations.
Her One Regret
Donna Freitas
One day, successful Rhode Island real estate agent Lucy Mendoza vanishes with from a grocery store parking lot her baby still in the car. As the police desperately search for her, Lucy’s friend Michelle wonders if she should share their conversations with the police. Once in a dark moment, Lucy confessed to Michelle that she regretted having a child so much she fantasized about faking her kidnapping. But Lucy would never actually abandon her child, would she?
The Man Made of Smoke
Alex North
As a child, Dan Garvie narrowly escaped an encounter with a serial killer. Now a criminal profiler, Dan returns to his small island community when his father dies under mysterious circumstances. Determined to find the truth behind his father’s death, Dan begins to wonder if the monster who haunts his nightmares is still lurking in the shadows.
The Haunting of Paynes Hollow
Kelley Armstrong
Over a decade ago, Samantha witnessed her father burying the body of a dead child at the family’s lakeside cottage. Her father committed suicide before the trial but her grandfather always claimed he was innocent and hasn’t spoken to Samantha since. When her grandfather dies, Samantha is shocked to find he left her the family cottage on the condition she stay there for a month. Paranoid and plagued by insomnia, Samantha finds herself questioning all her childhood memories as she tries to figure out the truth.
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Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Immortal Consequences
I. V. Marie
In Purgatory, Blackwood Academy exists on the edge of the afterlife. Once you enter, the only way to escape is the Decennial, a cutthroat magical competition with only one winner. This year, six of the Academy’s top students will compete as ambition, love, obsession and hate might make them succumb to fates worse than death in this dark academia young adult novel.
Silver Elite
Dani Francis
In a land where being modified means certain death, Wren Darlington must hide the fact that she is the most powerful mod ever to exist. A careless mistake lands her in the hands of the enemy where she must joins their most elite training program in disguise. Under the eyes of her commanding officer Cross Redden, Wren must hide her true identity and decide how much she is willing to sacrifice to change the world.
Alchemy of Secrets
Stephanie Garber
Most students believe the Professor’s lessons on Local Legends and Urban Myths but Holland St. James believes in magic. When she tracks down local legend The Watchman, he tells Holland she will die at midnight if she doesn’t find an ancient magical object, the Alchemical Heart. As Holland searches the magical world of L.A., she feels drawn to a magical stranger. But everyone in this magical world seems to be lying to her and he might not be any different.
Red City
Marie Lu
In an alternate version of Los Angeles, alchemy is closely controlled by two competing syndicates. These crime organizations produce sand, a drug which can turn a person into their best version of themselves. The delicate balance between Grand Central and the Lumines is thrown off-balance when two childhood best friends find themselves rising powers on opposite sides in a star-crossed lovers fantasy about the illusive goal of perfection.
Our Infinite Fates
Laura Steven
Over and over, Evelyn is reincarnated into a new life only to fall in love with Arden and be murdered on her 18th birthday. Evelyn is enjoying her current life and her little sister needs her. Determined to finally break the cycle, Evelyn sets out to find the devil that haunts her to break her curse. She just needs to make sure she doesn’t fall in love again.
We Who Will Die
Stacia Stark
Stacia Stark presents a new Roman-inspired romantasy about vampires. To save her brothers, Aravelle makes the impossible vow to kill the empire, an ancient vampire created by the Gods. Aravelle enters the Sundering, a fierce arena where only the deadliest survive to become the emperor’s elite guards. With no choice but to ally with the man who once broke her heart and with the emperor’s sadistic son, Aravelle must learn to understand her new powers as she unravels a conspiracy bigger than anything she could imagine.
Babylonia
Costanza Casati
In Mesopotamian lore, Semirami was an ambitious warrior who became a conquering queen of equal fame to Alexander the Great. Yet Semirami fails to show in historical record. Mixing ancient lore and early history, Constanza Casati tells the story of an orphan girl born on the outskirts of the Assyrian Empire who was willing to risk anything to claim power.
The Bones Beneath My Skin
TJ Klune
After the death of his parents and being fired from his job as a reporter, Nate Cartwright moves back home to Roseland, Oregon. At his family’s summer cabin, Nate discovers that a man named Alex has been living their with a 10-year-old girl named Artemis Darth Vader. Instead of living in memories of the past, Nate is forced to stay present to protect Artemis from forces that want to control her extraordinary abilities.
Play Nice
Rachel Harrison
Clio is a picture-perfect stylist and influencer with a secret: she grew up in a haunted house. After a messy divorce, Clio’s mother Alex moved Clio and her sisters to a house that was occupied by a demon. At least, that’s what Alex claimed in her memoir although the state didn’t believe her when they stripped her of custody. After Alex’s death, Clio seizes the opportunity to makeover the house until Clio begins to realize her mother might not have been crazy after all.
Lightbreakers
Aja Gabel
Maya and Noah have a happy marriage though Noah is still haunted by the death of his young daughter from his first marriage. When Noah is invited to work as a physicist on a time travel project, he participates in a dangerous experiment that might allow him to see his daughter again. Meanwhile, Maya revisits a former lover in Japan who once shattered her heart. Except the experiments might not be what they seem in this tale of human connection and grief.
Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore
Emily Krempholtz
When the dark sorcerer Guy Shadowfade dies, his right-hand assistant Violet Thistlewaite decides to start her life anew as someone good and kind. Settling in a quaint town, Violet charms the town with her florist shop while she prunes dark magic out of her life. When a blight strikes the town, Violet must work together with her handsome greenhouse neighbor to save the town in a cozy fantasy asking whether a former villain can ever deserve happily-ever-after.
Hazelthorn
CG Drews
As a child, Evander was taken in by a reclusive billionaire guardian, Byron Lennox-Hall. Wondering the edges of the massive estate, Evander has three rules to live by: Never leave the estate; Never enter the garden; and never be alone with Laurie, Byron’s grandson, who once tried to kill Evander. When Byron dies, Evander inherits everything and Laurie might be the only one who can help him understand the family secrets before Evander is killed next.
Dark Sisters
Kristi DeMeester
Horror meets historical fiction in a tale of curse that binds three generations of women. It begins with Anne Bolton, a healer accused of witchcraft who bargains with a dark entity for protection. Picture perfect wife Mary Shephard falls for a woman and begins a forbidden affair that could destroy them both. And preacher’s daughter Camilla Burson uncovers an ancient power while the congregation spirals into crisis.
Nonfiction Books
All the Way to the River
Elizabeth Gilbert
Author of the bestselling memoirs Eat, Pray Love and Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert returns with a new memoir about finding freedom. In 2000, Gilbert met Rayya and soon the two friends became inseparable. After a tragedy, they both realized they were in love. But the pair of addicts fed off each other, sending them both toward disaster. Gilbert tells her story of passion and craving and the yearning for freedom from addiction.
The Man No One Believed
Joshua Sharpe
In 1985, a white man walked into a South Georgia church and brutally murdered two Black attendees. The case went unsolved until a decade later the state convicted Dennis Perry, a nearby carpenter, and sentenced him to double life sentences. Investigative journalist Joshua Sharpe tells of his tireless search for the truth, revealing corruption, mistakes and secrets that put an innocent man in jail and the his hard battle to get him freed and justice finally served correctly.
Alive Day
Karie Fugettt
In a gripping memoir of the high costs of war, Karie Fugett shares the story of her husband’s return from war with serious injuries. High school dropout Karie is living out of her car when her boyfriend Cleve suggest they get married. Within months they are married and Cleve ships off to Iraq with his Marine unit. When his humvee is hit by an IED, Cleve returns home alive but gravely injured. As Karie adjusts to her role as a caregiver, Cleve is haunted by his experience in Iraq, turning to painkillers to dull his physical and emotional pain.
Care and Feeding
Laurie Woolever
In a candid memoir, Laurie Woolever describes her career working in acclaimed restaurants and food kitchens under the shadow of both Mario Batali and Anthony Bourdain. With a chaotic life, Woolever tries to find a place for herself in a world that is both alarming and alluring while balancing her ambivalent relationship to marriage and motherhood. When her mentors face high-profile descents, Woolever must figure out what she truly values.
BOOK OF THE MONTH 2025: BY MONTH
January 2025
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2025 New Add-Ons
Book of the Month also includes a few extra releases on top of their monthly selections. Once you have picked your main selection, you can choose to add-on one of these new books (or any past release) to your box.
In addition to the monthly selections, here are all the new add-ons offered in 2025.
What Were Your Favorite Book of the Month 2025 Selections?
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