Anticipated October 2025 Releases

October is right around the corner and that means the October releases are coming! There are so many amazing books coming out--as usually--and I'm excited to check them out. As always, I've compiled a list of some incredible new books coming soon below, so be sure to check them out and let me know what your most anticipated October releases are!

Atlas of Unknowable Things by McCormick Templeman || October 7th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Devil is a Southpaw by Brandon Hobson || October 28th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Unveiling by Quan Barry || October 14th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Wayfinder by Adam Johnson || October 14th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Hong Kong Widow by Kristen Loesch || October 7th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Women of Artemis by Hannah M. Lynn || October 21st -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

If the Dead Belong Here by Carson Faust || October 7th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Kill the Beast by Serra Swift || October 14th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

All that We See or Seem by Ken Liu || October 14th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Graceview Patient by Caitlin Starling || October 14th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Psychopomp & Circumstance by Eden Royce || October 21st -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Futility by Nuzo Onoh || October 21st -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder that Inspired the Abolition of Slavery by Siddharth Kara by  || October 14th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow || October 28th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Haunting of Paynes Hollow by Kelley Armstrong || October 14th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Alchemy of Secrets by Stephanie Garber || October 7th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Ordeals by Rachel Greenlaw || October 7th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Night is Not for You by Eman Quotah || October 7th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

American Grammar: Race, Education, and the Building of a Nation by Jarvis R. Givens || October 14th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri || October 21st -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Her Wicked Roots by Tanya Pell || October 7th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Girl Dinner by Olivia Blake || October 21st -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon || October 7th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Savage Blooms by S.T. Gibson || October 7th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

I Am Cleopatra by Natasha Solomons || October 21st -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald by John U. Bacon || October 7th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

What are your anticipated October releases?

Can't-Wait Wednesday: The Graceview Patient by Caitlin Starling & All That We See or Seem by Ken Liu

   

 Can't-Wait is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings that spotlights exciting upcoming releases that we can't wait to be released! 

The Graceview Patient by Caitlin Starling
Publication: October 14th, 2025
St. Martin's Press
Hardcover. 304 pages.
Pre-order: Bookshop.org | Amazon

From Goodreads:
"Misery meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers in this genre-bending, claustrophobic hospital gothic from the bestselling author of The Death of Jane Lawrence.

Margaret lives with a rare autoimmune condition that has destroyed her life, leaving her isolated. It has no cure, but she’s making do as best she can—until she’s offered a fully paid-for spot in an experimental medical trial at Graceview Memorial.

The conditions are simple, if grueling; she will live at the hospital as a full-time patient, subjecting herself to the near-total destruction of her immune system and its subsequent regeneration. The trial will essentially kill most of, but not all of her. But as the treatment progresses and her body begins to fail, she stumbles upon something sinister living and spreading within the hospital.

Unsure of what's real and what is just medication-induced delusion, Margaret struggles to find a way out as her body and mind succumb further to the darkness lurking throughout Graceview's halls."

Caitlin Starling is a little hit or miss for me these days, but I'm so intrigued by this premise and have high hopes for this one.

All That We See or Seem by Ken Liu
Publication: October 14th, 2025
Saga Press
Hardcover. 304 pages.
Pre-order: Bookshop.org | Amazon

From Goodreads:
"Award­ winning author Ken Liu returns with his first sci-fi thriller in a brand-new series following former “orphan hacker” Julia Z as she is thrust into a high-stakes adventure where she must use her cybersecurity and hacking skills to unravel a virtual reality mystery, rescue a kidnapped dream artist, and confront the blurred lines between technology, identity, and the power of shared dreams.

Julia Z, a young woman who gained notoriety at fourteen as the “orphan hacker,” is trying to live a life of digital obscurity in a Boston suburb.

But when a lawyer named Piers—whose famous artist wife, Elli, has been kidnapped by dangerous criminals—barges into her life, Julia decides to put the solitary life she has painstakingly created at risk as she can’t walk away from helping Piers and Elli, nor step away from the challenge of this digital puzzle. Elli is an onierofex, a dream artist, who can weave the dreams of an audience together through a shared virtual landscape, live, in a concert-like experience by tapping into each attendee’s waking dream and providing an emotionally resonant and narrative experience. While attendees’ dreams are anonymous, Julia discovers that Elli was also providing a one-on-one dream experience for the head of an international criminal enterprise, and he’s demanding his dreams in return for Elli.

Unraveling the real and unreal leads Julia on an adventure that takes her across the country and deep into the shadows of her psyche."

Admittedly, I have not been much of a fan of previous books I've tried by Ken Liu, but I'm curious about this one and I've been hearing quite a bit about it, so I'm eager to check it out for myself!

October Anticipated Releases

  

October is here and it's one of my favorite months! And with October comes a whole new slew of new releases to get excited about. As always, I've compiled a list of just some of the many books coming out this month, so be sure to take a look and let me know which ones you're looking forward to! I am excited for all of these, and especially H.G. Parry's new release. I'm planning to dive into The Fury of the Gods and The Black Hunger as well, and I can't wait. Happy reading!

The Black Hunger by Nicholas Pullen || October 8th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Fury of the Gods by John Gwynne || October 22nd -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The City in Glass by Nghi Vo || October 1st -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Great When by Alan Moore || October 1st -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door by H.G. Parry || October 22nd -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Wild Huntress by Emily Lloyd-Jones || October 1st -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Don't Let the Forest In by CG Drews || October 29th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Red in Tooth and Claw by Lish McBride || October 8th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Strange Beasts by Susan J. Morris || October 15th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Sorcery and Small Magics by Maiga Doocy || October 15th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Shadow Road by K.D. Kirchmeier || October 15th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

A Song to Drown Rivers by Ann Liang || October 1st -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Zodiac Rising by Katie Zhao || October 1st -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Prince of Fortune by Lisa Tirreno || October 15th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Treasure Hunters Club by Tom Ryan || October 15th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

A Dark and Secret Magic by Wallis Kinney || October 8th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Inheritance of Scars by Crystal Seitz || October 1st -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Polostan by Neal Stephenson || October 15th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

How to Summon a Fairy Godmother by Laura J. Mayo || October 8th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Society of Lies by Lauren Ling Brown || October 1st -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Shock Induction by Chuck Palahniuk || October 8th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Spectacular by Stephanie Garber || October 22nd -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Ancient's Game by Loni Crittenden || October 29th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Stone Witch of Florence by Anna Rasche || October 8th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Tangleroot by Kalela Williams || October 15th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Light Enough to Float by Lauren Seal || October 8th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

What are your anticipated October releases?