Anticipated September 2025 Releases

September is right around the corner and there so many incredible new books coming out! I've read a couple of these and have a few more ARCs waiting, and so far it's shaping up to be a great month. We're also moving into fall, so that means even more horror and I am ready for it! Let me know what September releases you're most looking forward to (and let me know if I left any of your most anticipated releases off of this list!).

The Hexologists: A Tangle of Time (Hexologists #2) by Josiah Bancroft || September 9th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Boudicca's Daughter by Elodie Harper || September 2nd -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Moonflow by Bitter Karella || September 2nd -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Sympathy Tower Tokyo by Jesse Kirkwood, Rie Qudan || September 2nd -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Macabre by Kosoko Jackson || September 9th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei || September 30th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

One of Us by Dan Chaon || September 23rd -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier #3) by T. Kingfisher || September 30th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Maiden and Her Monster by Maddie Martinez || September 9th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Summer War by Naomi Novik || September 16th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Fiend by Alma Katsu || September 16th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

You Weren't Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White || September 9th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The October Film Haunt by Michael Wehunt || September 30th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Spread Me by Sarah Gailey || September 23rd -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Acquired Taste by Clay McLeod Chapman || September 9th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

We Are Always Tender with Our Dead by Eric LaRocca || September 9th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre by Philip Fracassi || September 30th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Far Edges of the Known World by Owen Rees || September 30th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Crossroads of Ravens by Andrzej Sapkowski || September 30th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad || September 23rd -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

What We Can Know by Ian McEwan || September 23rd -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Belles by Lacey N. Dunham || September 9th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

A Land So Wide by Erin Craig || September 2nd -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Sunward by Alexander William || September 16th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Dinner at the Night Library by Hika Harada || September 30th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park by Takami Nieda || September 23rd -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Audition for the Fox by Martin Cahill || September 16th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Facing Infinity: Black Holes and Our Place on Earth by Jonas Enander || September 9th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Play Nice by Rachel Harrison || September 9th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Faerie Morgana by Louisa Morgan || September 16th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

This is for Everyone by Tim Berners-Lee || September 9th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Formidable Miss Cassidy by Meihan Boey || September 16th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

What are your anticipated September releases?

Can't-Wait Wednesday: Esperance by Adam Oyebanji & The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling

 

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

Esperance by Adam Oyebanji
Publication: May 20th, 2025
DAW
Hardcover. 432 pages.
Pre-order: Bookshop.org | Amazon

From Goodreads:
"The history-bending speculative fiction from Adam Oyebanji, award-winning author of BRAKING DAY.

An impossible Detective Ethan Krol has been called to the scene of a baffling a man and his son, who appear to have been drowned in sea-water. But the nearest ocean is a thousand miles away.

An improbable Hollie Rogers doesn't want to ask too many questions of her new friend, Abi Eniola. Abi claims to be an ordinary woman from Nigeria, but her high-tech gadgets and extraordinary physical abilities suggest she's not telling the whole truth.

An incredible As Ethan's investigation begins to point towards Abi, Hollie's fears mount. For Abi is very much not who she seems. And it won't be long before Ethan and Hollie find themselves playing a part in a story that spans cultures, continents... and centuries.

An extraordinary speculative thriller about the scars left by the Atlantic slave-trade, by a master of the genre."

I am unbelievably intrigued by this one and cannot wait to have a chance to check it out. "A speculative thriller about the scars left by the Atlantic slave-trade"? Uh yeah, I'm in!

The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling
Publication: May 20th, 2025
Harper Voyager
Hardcover. 352 pages.
Pre-order: Bookshop.org | Amazon

From Goodreads:
"From the nationally bestselling author of The Luminous Dead and The Death of Jane Lawrence, a transfixing, intensely atmospheric fever dream of medieval horror.

Aymar Castle has been under siege for six months. Food is running low and there has been no sign of rescue. But just as the survivors consider deliberately thinning their number, the castle stores are replenished. The sick are healed. And the divine figures of the Constant Lady and her Saints have arrived, despite the barricaded gates, offering succor in return for adoration.

Soon, the entire castle is under the sway of their saviors, partaking in intoxicating feasts of terrible origin. The war hero Ser Voyne gives her allegiance to the Constant Lady. Phosyne, a disorganized, paranoid nun-turned-sorceress, races to unravel the mystery of these new visitors and exonerate her experiments as their source. And in the bowels of the castle, a serving girl, Treila, is torn between her thirst for a secret vengeance against Voyne and the desperate need to escape from the horrors that are unfolding within Aymar’s walls.

As the castle descends into bacchanalian madness—forgetting the massed army beyond its walls in favor of hedonistic ecstasy—these three women are the only ones to still see their situation for what it is. But they are not immune from the temptations of the castle’s new masters… or each other; and their shifting alliances and entangled pasts bring violence to the surface. To save the castle, and themselves, will take a reimagining of who they are, and a reorganization of the very world itself."

How insanely good does this sound? I'm always a bit of a sucker for books like these that play with a sort of breaking down of norms. Caitlin Starling is a little hit or miss for me these days, but because The Luminous Deep remains a book I absolutely loved, I am always eager to check out everything she writes!

Anticipated April 2025 Releases

  

April is right around the corner, and of course that means a brand new month of exciting new books coming out. April is shaping up to be a particularly jam-packed month and I'm really looking forward to a lot of these. I've already read a couple that have been incredible (make sure you add The Raven Scholar to your TBR!) and have high hopes for the rest. 

What April  releases are you most looking forward? Let me know below, and be sure to let me know if I missed any of your most anticipated releases on this list as well.
Happy reading!

A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett || April 1st -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson || April 15th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig || April 29th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

A Palace Near the Wind by Ai Jiang || April 15th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy || April 22nd -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Whisper in the Wind by Luke Arnold || April 15th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Cold Eternity by S.A. Barnes || April 8th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Pretender by Jo Harkin || April 22nd -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker || April 29th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata || April 15th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin || April 22nd -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Boys with Sharp Teeth by Jenni Howell || April 8th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

House of Blight by Maxym M. Martineau || April 8th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Notorious Virtues by Alwyn Hamilton || April 1st -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Big Chief by Jon Hickey || April 8th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Heartwood by Amity Gaige || April 1st -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Rabbit Moon by Jennifer Haigh || April 1st -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Cat Who Saved the Library by Sosuke Natsukawa || April 8th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools by Mary Annette Pember || April 22nd -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Golden Road by William Dalrymple || April 29th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Last Dynasty: Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra by Toby Wilkinson || April 8th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders by Sarah Aziza || April 22nd -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

A Billion Butterflies: A Life in Climate and Chaos Theory by Jagadish Shukla || April 22nd -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America by Michael Luo || April 29th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Lie that Binds Them by Matthew Ward || April 15th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman || April 15th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Pay the Piper: A Novella of Utter Speculation by Sarah Connell || April 1st -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Cut by C.J. Dotson || April 8th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

The Ashfire King by Chelsea Abdullah || April 15th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Enigma by RuNyx || April 29th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Bad Nature by Ariel Courage || April 1st -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Audition by Katie Kilamura || April 8th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

Forged for Destiny by Andrew Knighton || April 15th -- Amazon | Bookshop.org

What are your anticipated April releases?