The Book of the Month September 2026 selections are here! Decide which of these books you want to add to your subscription box.
Book of the Month is my favorite subscription box. Every month, I choose between their curated book selections, and voila! A blue box arrives at my door carrying one (or two or three) new books for me to read.
Each month, Book of the Month chooses between five to seven hardcover books you can choose from. Rather listen to an audiobook? Book of the Month has those, too! Now you can opt for audiobooks as your monthly pick or add them on at any time during the month.
Every month, I will highlight the books chosen and let you know my thoughts on the chosen titles.
Even if you don’t have a Book of the Month subscription (yet), I think you’ll find value in looking at a curated list of new releases.
Keep scrolling to see all the details about the Book of the Month September 2026 selections and to find out which one I’m adding to my subscription box.
What is Book of the Month?
Book of the Month is a monthly subscription book 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.
Even better, when you include additional books into your box, they are only $10 each!
Book of the Month also offers 3, 6, and 9-month gift cards if you are considering purchasing it as a gift.
For new subscribers, Book of the Month’s homepage almost always has a special offer to get your first book for $10. But I can do you one better. If you are interested in joining, you can use this Book of the Month Club referral link to get your first book for $5 right now!
Bonus Features
But wait, there’s more! Once you’ve chosen your 12th book from Book of the Month, you join the BFF club and get a special Book of the Month tote.
After that, you’ll get a free add-on every year for your birthday month. Plus, when the end of the year rolls around, you get one of the top 5 Book of the Month selections from the year for free. That’s an additional two books each year for no additional cost.
What are you waiting for? Join Book of the Month and get your first book at a discounted price!
September 2026 Book of the Month Selections
Kiss Slay Replay
Rachel Harrison
Willa Sullivan is having an awful time at her best friends’ wedding. The wedding is perfect but her ex-fiancé is there with a date. Willa falls in with the groom’s charming childhood best friend and as they sneak off they are confronted by a masked killer terrorizing the wedding reception. After the horrifying night, Willa wakes up to find she has to relive the day all over again. Can she ever escape the time loop of a wedding going horrifying wrong?
The Wretched Divine
Adalyn Grace
After her family was killed by the demons who plague the kingdom, Aurelie Chantelune has trained as a knight. All she needs is her first kill and she’ll inherit a bond with Yuriel, an angel whose power can save the kingdom. But when her loved ones start turning into monsters, Aurelie makes a bond with Severin, a demon who claims to know how to stop the war. The more Aurelie learns about Yuriel, Severin and the war, the more she realizes she must choose between the angels she has trusted her whole life or the demons who will either save or destroy them.
Before You Were Anne
Emiko Jean
Detective Chelsey Calhoun is loving life – her steady marriage, her amazing job, and excited for the child she is expecting. When a mother is found dead and her teenage daughter is missing, Chelsey finds the case brings up disturbing memories of her past. The victim went by Anne but her real name was Rika Takahashi from Japan who had spent her life running from something or someone. Now Chelsey must find the missing daughter before she becomes the next victim.
If Not You
Ellen O’Clover
Campbell Porter has been the bane of Mattie French’s existence since they were interns together four years ago. Now both of their ad agencies are competing for a luxury resort account and Mattie is determined to win. Traveling to the various resorts over the next month to prepare her pitch, Mattie keeps running into Campbell. As their final pitch approaches, Mattie realizes that the story she’s told herself about Campbell all these years might have been completely wrong.
The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman
Deesha Philyaw
Coming from humble roots, Scharisse Freeman shocked the community when she married a megachurch pastor fifteen years her senior. Although never really accepted, Scharisse has used her husband’s power to build a successful business empire of books, clothing, and branded products. When she turns 40, Scharisse is invited to participate in the First Lady USA pageant. Scharrisse hopes she will finally win the approve of the other pastors’ wives until a scandal from her childhood comes back to implode her life
Fallow
Sarah Anderson
Working a dead-end job with student loans looming over her head, Natalie is intrigued by a mysterious flyer for the Company. The Company is looking for a corporate surrogate who will deliver seven babies in ten years so their executives don’t have to take maternity leave. For ten years Natalie’s ever need is met but as the terms of her contract are about to expire, a staffing shakeup puts her in the midst of a completely different social experiment.
Want an Audiobook Instead?
Recently, Book of the Month has started including audiobooks as another option for your monthly picks. Instead of choosing a hardcover copy, you can choose one of these audiobooks as your main selection this month.
September’s Audiobooks:
September’s 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 these new books (or any past release) to your box.
September’s New Books:
My September 2026 Picks
Honestly, I was not that excited by the September picks. Normally, I would have skipped but I really want to read the latest releases by Emily St. John Mandel and Ariel Lawhon. I have read every Emily St. John Mandel book since Station Eleven and I keep hoping something will capture the magic of that novel. Ariel Lawhon captured my heart with Code Name Hélène and has been on my automatic read list ever since.
Even though I didn’t really want any of the monthly picks, it’s about the same price to get three hardcovers from Book of the Month as it is to get one new release hardcover at the bookstore. I almost chose Kiss Slay Replay for my pick because it does sound fun but I instead went with The Wretched Divine. From my research into upcoming releases, I know the publisher is expecting The Wretched Divine to be a bestseller so I figure I might as well read it and give my thoughts.
Which of the Book of the Month September 2026 Selections Are You Going to Pick?
What books can you not wait to get your hands on this month? Or are you skipping this month’s selections? As always, let me know in the comments!
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Micheline Heckler says
I picked one of the collection “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier and Spy” by John le Carré. For the second book, I picked Exit Party.