These Are the 10 Best Books to Look Out for in September 2025

Can you judge that it’s been implicit 20 years since Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code was archetypal released? Well, Robert Langdon (played by Tom Hanks successful the movie adaptation) is backmost successful The Secret of Secrets.

In it, we question to Prague arsenic Robert accompanies the celebrated academic, Katherine Solomon (who fans of the bid mightiness retrieve from the 3rd book), to a lecture she’s been invited to give. Things soon instrumentality a sinister crook erstwhile she disappears without a trace.

In a metropolis known for its acheronian past, helium indispensable telephone upon each of his arcane abilities and cognition to get answers and prevention the pistillate that helium loves.

Alchemised by SenLinYu

• Release date: September 23

It’s not the archetypal clip that we’ve seen instrumentality fabrication marque its mode onto bookstore shelves. Still, with the archetypal iteration of SenLinYu’s communicative garnering implicit 20 cardinal idiosyncratic downloads, it’s nary astonishment that the caller and reworked instrumentality connected it has go 1 of the astir pre-ordered and talked astir books this year.

A reimagining of Manacled, the ‘Dramione’ (Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger romance) instrumentality fabrication that captured the attraction of the masses, Alchemised explores galore of the aforesaid themes.

It follows Helena, a once-promising alchemist who is being held prisoner. However, she can’t retrieve the months starring up to her capture, making her enemies wonderment precisely what she’s hiding. In a bid to retrieve her mislaid memories, she’s sent to unrecorded with 1 of the astir almighty and ruthless necromancers, though helium seems to beryllium keeping conscionable arsenic galore secrets. Let’s conscionable say, we can’t hold to springiness this a read.

Uncharmed by Lucy Jane Wood

• Release date: September 16 (US)/September 18 (UK)

With spooky play accelerated approaching, Uncharmed by writer and YouTuber Lucy Jane Wood is giving america witchy vibes successful the precise champion way. Brimming afloat of magic, recovered family, and slow-burn romance, it’s cleanable for the fast-approaching spooky season, oregon immoderate clip you privation a small enchantment.

When Annie is tasked with mentoring a troubled teenage witch with bonzer powers, it throws her seemingly cleanable beingness into disarray. A communicative of recovered family, there’s besides a beauteous dilatory pain romance astatine its halfway betwixt Annie and Hal, the gruff warlock and proprietor of their impermanent lodgings.

Even though it’s acceptable successful the aforesaid satellite arsenic Lucy’s debut book, Rewitched, it’s not a sequel. So, there’s thing to halt you from starting with Annie’s communicative first. Just don’t beryllium amazed if you extremity up going backmost to work her archetypal publication next.

The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman

• Release date: September 25 (UK)/September 30 (US)

With The Thursday Murder Club movie hitting our screens astatine the extremity of past month, fans of the cosy transgression bid volition beryllium thrilled to cognize that the pack is taking connected a caller case, and it kicks disconnected with a wedding.

Yes, determination mightiness not person been arsenic galore cases for them to enactment connected – with Elizabeth grieving, Ron dealing with household issues, Ibrahim providing therapy to a definite criminal, and Joyce being kept engaged with each the wedding planning.

However, erstwhile Elizabeth meets a wedding impermanent who is successful fearfulness for his life, the pack is plunged backmost into things. With a villain who volition halt astatine thing to get entree to an uncrackable code, tin they lick the puzzle—and different murder—in time? I can’t hold to walk a play speechmaking this.

Wild Reverence by Rebecca Ross

• Release date: September 2 (US)/September 11 (UK)

If you’re already acquainted with Rebecca Ross’ Divine Rivals and the follow-up Ruthless Vows, you should recognise immoderate acquainted characters from the aforesaid satellite successful her latest release, Wild Reverence. Yet, this is simply a standalone story.

Leaning into the ‘goddess x mortal’ trope, it follows Matilda, who has been blessed with messenger magic, and Vincent, who dreams of her contempt them ne'er having met.

Ten years ago, helium wrote to the goddess for help, but his plea went unanswered until present - erstwhile she comes bearing a missive that could alteration some their destinies and necktie them unneurotic acold beyond his dreams.

Tourist Season by Brynne Weaver

• Release date: September 23

The opening of a caller trilogy for Butcher & Blackbird’s Brynne Weaver, Tourist Season seamlessly blends romance and execution successful a mode that lone she tin manage.

Harper is keen to support the seaside municipality of Cape Carnage from troublesome tourists, and she’ll rather virtually termination to bash so. Nolan, connected the different hand, isn’t your mean tourist; he’s retired for revenge.

On the day of the hit-and-run mishap that upended his life, helium slays 1 target, and this twelvemonth he’s got his sights acceptable connected Harper. Yet, erstwhile an amateur existent transgression researcher arrives looking for answers successful the tiny town, the 2 hold to a truce. But could the 2 of them getting person pb to thing altogether much unexpected?

Thief of Night by Holly Black

• Release date: September 23

The highly anticipated sequel to Holly Black’s Book of Night, which conscionable truthful happens to beryllium the decision to the duology, Thief of Night should beryllium astatine the apical of your TBR (to beryllium read) database this September.

The communicative picks up aft Charlie yet bartered with the Cabal for her fellow Vince’s freedom. But successful doing so, she’s ended up having to hunt rogue shadows connected their behalf. It besides doesn’t assistance that the tether that binds Charlie and Vince has erased each the memories helium had of her and summoned Red, a unsafe Blight with Vince’s face.

With this entity nary longer trusting oregon adjacent liking her, it makes for a lonely and susceptible beingness arsenic she battles to prevention herself, and astatine what cost? You’ll request to prime up a transcript to find out.

Hekate by Nikita Gill

• Release date: September 16

Fans of Greek mythology retellings are successful for a dainty this September acknowledgment to Hekate by Nikita Gill.

A kid of war, Hekate becomes the all-powerful goddess of witchcraft and necromancy, raised by Styx and Hades successful the Underworld aft being separated from her parents. And successful this coming-of-age story, she indispensable measurement into her existent powers erstwhile warfare breaks retired erstwhile again, earlier everything from Mount Olympus to the Underworld is destroyed.

And what she soon realises is that adjacent the astir almighty Olympians are terrified of her. Let’s conscionable say, it volition nary uncertainty person you itching to delve deeper into the lore and research much of the backstory to immoderate of the different characters, that’s for sure.

The Killer Question by Janice Hallett

• Release date: September 4 (UK)/September 23 (US)

We’ve antecedently enjoyed Janice Hallett’s intriguing mysteries The Appeal and The Examiner, and her latest—The Killer Question—will support you guessing until the precise end. It besides features the mixed media format that she’s known for.

In this story, the landlords of a quiescent state pub person gone missing, the windows agelong since boarded up. What happened to Mal and Sue? Did it person thing to bash with the assemblage recovered successful the adjacent stream days before? Or possibly it had thing to bash with the usually quiescent play quiz, aft a mysterious caller squad of outsiders arrived and started winning each round.

By sifting done WhatsApp chats and quiz sheets, the couple’s hidden past is dilatory revealed. Will you beryllium capable to enactment retired who is liable from the clues provided?

Wild Card by Elsie Silver

• Release date: September 9

There are immoderate large romance books to look guardant to this September. From Tessa Bailey’s sports romance Pitcher Perfect, to the cosy If It Makes You Happy by Julie Olivia. But, I personally cannot hold to instrumentality to the fictional municipality of Rose Hill with Elsie Silver’s latest release, Wild Card.

The 4th publication successful the series, though it tin beryllium work arsenic a standalone, follows Gwen and Bash, and grumpy aviator Bash conscionable truthful happens to beryllium Gwen’s ex-boyfriend’s dad.

Cue immoderate of our favourite romance tropes, specified arsenic forced proximity – with them some surviving nether the aforesaid extortion – and immoderate superior communal pining.

Given that Bash is trying to mend the alternatively fragile narration that helium has with his son, they some cognize that acting connected their increasing feelings would not lone interruption the rules but besides perchance betray the 1 idiosyncratic who connects them. Basically, if you emotion a bully property spread romance, look nary further.

Ellis is simply a freelance journalist, based successful the UK, with a emotion of each things books. She besides routinely chairs bookish events up and down the country, getting the scoop from immoderate of the biggest and bestselling authors to support you successful the know.

Originally posted:

Sep 4, 2025 3:00 pm