My Fall 2025 Most Anticipated List + Your Invitation to Meet The Authors!

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This might seem like a lot of books. But it isn’t! I’ve spent countless hours winnowing down the thousands (millions?) of books coming out from September 1st through December 31st to recommend the ones I’m most excited about. (Special thanks to the Zibby Media team members who helped!)

All of the books listed will be for sale at Zibby’s Bookshop, so pop your head into 1113 Montana Ave, Santa Monica, CA to grab your copy. (We’ll have many more titles coming to the bookstore, too!) And here’s a link to shop all the titles online at Bookshop.org.

Many of these authors have been or will be (or both!) on Totally Booked with Zibby, so be sure to subscribe to the podcast to hear them. And (drumroll, please)….

You can MEET THE AUTHORS on the list!

We’re hosting several celebrations with the authors that you won’t want to miss!!

L.A. EVENT: 4 pm - 6 pm PT on Saturday, September 13th at Zibby’s Bookshop, Santa Monica, CA 4 pm: Authors from the kids’ list; 5 pm: Authors from the regular list). Treats by SusieCakes!

Tickets here! (Free!)

NYC EVENTS: 10 am - 3 pm on September 19th, 25th and 30th at the Whitby Hotel

There are three Totally Booked: Live Season Two celebrations. Think book parties, live podcasts, lunch and swag, happening in September in New York. And in addition to live podcasts with authors from the list on all three days, there’s an additional signing party on Thursday, September 25th at noon with 20+ authors!

Tickets here. ($20 per day including 5+ podcasts, lunch, and swag)

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And now for the list!

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Fiction That Makes You Think and Feel

Mitch Albom, Twice (10/7)

Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström, Bitter Honey (11/4)

Emma Gannon, Table for One (9/30)

Jane Hamilton, The Phoebe Variations (9/23)

Joanne Harris, Vianne (9/2)

Lily King, Heart the Lover (10/7)

Lihi Lapid, I Wanted to Be Wonderful (10/21)

Catherine Newman, Wreck (10/28)

Heather Aimee O’Neill, The Irish Goodbye (9/30)

Marisa Silver, At Last (9/2)

Ariel Sullivan, Conform (10/14)

Sam Sussman, Boy from the North Country (9/16)

Erin O. White, Like Family (11/4)

Fiction That Goes Down Easy

Audrey Bellezza and Emily Harding, Anne of Avenue A (10/28)

Jamie Brenner, The Weekend Crashers (11/4)

Sophie Cousens, And Then There Was You (11/18)

Nora Dahlia, Backslide (10/21)

Melissa de la Cruz and Rachel Cohn, My Ex-Husband’s Ex-Husband (11/18)

Laura Dickerman, Hot Desk (9/2)

Cesca Major, If I Were You (9/9)

Caroline Palmer, Workhorse (10/14)

Steven Rowley, The Dogs of Venice (10/14)

Erin Somers, The Ten Year Affair (10/21)

Craig Thomas, That’s Not How it Happened (11/4)

Fiction on the Literary Side

Mona Awad, We Love You, Bunny (9/23)

Oyinkan Braithwaite, Cursed Daughters (11/4)

Nathan Harris, Amity (9/2)

Quiara Alegria Hudes, The White Hot (11/11)

John Irving, Queen Esther (11/4)

William Kent Krueger, Apostle’s Cove (9/2)

Ian McEwan, What We Can Know (9/23)

Brandon Taylor, Minor Black Figures (10/14)

Alejandro Varela, Middle Spoon (9/9)

Bryan Washington, Palaver (11/4)

Thrillers/Mysteries

Nicole Baart, Where He Left Me (11/4)

Olivie Blake, Girl Dinner (10/21)

Brisa Carleton, Last Call at the Savoy (11/4)

Harlan Coben and Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye (10/14)

Julie Doar, The Gallagher Place (12/2)

Margot Harrison, The Library of Fates (12/2)

Elin Hilderbrand and Shelby Cunningham, The Academy (9/16)

John Grisham, The Widow (10/21)

Marisa Kashino, Best Offer Wins (11/25)

Clare Mackintosh, Other People’s Houses (9/16)

Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Birdwatcher (12/9)

Louise Penny, The Black Wolf (10/28)

Cate Quinn, The Bridesmaid (11/4)

Hank Phillippi Ryan, All This Could Be Yours (9/9)

Nicholas Sparks and M. Night Shyamalan, Remain: A Supernatural Love Story (10/14)

Short Form By Hollywood Celebrities

Penn Badgley, Sophie Ansari, and Nava Kavelin, Crushmore: Essays on Love, Loss and Coming-of-Age (10/14)

David Duchovny, About Time: Poems (9/2)

Zosia Mamet, Does This Make Me Funny (9/9)

Matthew McConaughey, Poems & Prayers (9/16)

Celebrity Memoirs

Vanessa Bryant, Mamba & Mambacita Forever (11/18)

Kenny Chesney, Heart Life Music (11/4)

Cameron Crowe, The Uncool (10/28)

Cynthia Erivo, Simply More: A Book For Anyone Who Has Been Told They’re Too Much (11/18)

Michael J. Fox and Nelle Fortenbery, Future Boy (10/14)

Lukas Gage, I Wrote This for Attention (10/14)

Debbie Gibson, Eternally Electric: The Message in My Music (9/9)

Anthony Hopkins, We Did Okay, Kid (11/4)

Priscilla Presley, Softly, As I Leave You (9/23)

Lionel Richie, Truly (9/3)

Rob Riggle, Grit, Spit, and Never Quit: A Marine’s Guide to Comedy and Life (11/11)

Charlie Sheen, The Book of Sheen (9/9)

Dick Van Dyke, 100 Rules for Living to 100: An Optimist’s Guide to a Happy Life (11/18)

Memoirs By Bestselling Authors/Luminaries

Angela Buchdahl, Heart of a Stranger: An Unlikely Rabbi’s Story of Faith, Identity and Belonging (10/21)

Bobbi Brown, Still Bobbi (9/23)

Lew Frankfort, Bag Man: The Story Behind the Improbable Rise of Coach (10/14)

Scott Galloway, Notes on Being a Man (11/4)

Elizabeth Gilbert, All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation (9/9)

Gabrielle Hamilton, Next of Kin (10/14)

Jen Hatmaker, Awake: A Memoir (9/23)

Tembi Locke, Someday, Now: A Memoir of Family, Reclaiming Possibility, and One Sicilian Summer (9/23)

Elyse Myers, That’s a Great Question, I’d Love to Tell You (10/28)

Gene Pressman, They All Came to Barney’s (9/2)

Eli Rallo, Does Anyone Else Feel This Way? Essays on Conquering the Quarter-Life Crisis (10/14)

Mark Ronson, Night People: How to Be a DJ in ‘90s New York City (9/16)

Arundahti Roy, Mother Mary Come to Me (9/2)

Eli Sharabi, Hostage (10/7)

Nicholas Thompson, The Running Ground: A Father, a Son, and the Simplest of Sports (10/28)

Memoirs That Get You Through It

Stacy Waldman Bass, Lightkeeper: A Memoir Through the Lens of Love and Loss (9/16)

Jennifer Butler, Mom, Rediscovered (10/22)

Kelly Cervantes, The Luckiest: A Memoir of Love, Loss, Motherhood and the Pursuit of Self (11/4)

Jane Chen, Like a Wave We Break: A Memoir of Falling Apart and Finding Myself (10/14)

Betsy Cornwell, Ring of Salt: A Memoir of Finding Home and Hope on the Wild Coast of Ireland (9/30)

Todd Diamond, Pass the Trauma, Please: My Father’s Not-So-Depressing Holocaust Memoir About Love, Loss, Laughter and Legacy (9/16)

Rachel Lithgow, My Year of Really Bad Dates (11/11)

Leslie Johansen Nack, Nineteen: A Memoir of Reckoning and Recovery (10/14)

Beth Macy, Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in Fractured America (10/7)

Joe McGinnis, Damaged People: A Memoir of Fathers and Sons (10/21)

Janice Page, Year of the Water Horse (12/2)

Karen Palmer, She’s Under Here (9/16)

Emily Meg Weinstein, Turn to Stone: A Memoir (9/2)

Bee Wilson, The Heart-Shaped Tin: Love, Loss, and Kitchen Objects (11/4)

Health, Illness and Caretaking Stories

Molly Burke, Unseen: How I Lost My Vision But Found My Voice (9/23)

Diane Button, What Matters Most: Lessons the Dying Teach Us About Living (9/16)

Tiffany Graham Charkosky, Living Proof: How Love Defied Genetic Legacy (10/21)

Sanjay Gupta, It Doesn’t Have to Hurt (9/2)

Emma Heming Willis, The Unexpected Journey (9/9)

Rachel Kolb, Articulate: A Deaf Memoir of Voice (9/16)

Kathy Page, In This Faulty Machine: A Memoir of Loss and Transformation (9/9)

Clea Shearer, Cancer is Complicated and Other Unexpected Lessons I’ve Learned (9/23)

Writers and Artists… in Their Own Words

Margaret Atwood, Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts (11/4)

Hwang Bo-reum, Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books (12/2)

Lee Child, Reacher: The Stories Behind the Stories (9/9)

Sue Monk Kidd, Writing Creativity and Soul (10/21)

David Mamet, Everywhere an Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of 40 Years in Hollywood (11/4)

Sally Mann, Art Work: On the Creative Life (9/9)

Elizabeth McCracken, A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction (12/2)

Susan Orlean, Joyride: A Memoir (10/14)

Martin Scorcese and Antonio Spadaro, Conversations on Faith (11/4)

Non-Fiction About Writers and Creators

Susan Cheever, When All the Men Wore Hats (10/28)

Gail Crowther, Dorothy Parker in Hollywood (10/7)

Jane Eisner, Carole King: She Made the Earth Move (9/16)

Hester Kaplan, Twice Born: Finding My Father in The Margins of Biography (10/14)

Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist (9/9)

Amy Reading, The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at the New Yorker (9/30)

Sue Roe, Hidden Portraits: Six Women Who Shaped Picasso’s Life (11/18)

Richard Schoch, How Sondheim Can Change Your Life (11/11)

Francesca Wade, Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife (10/7)

For the Sports Lover

Bjorn Borg, Heartbeats: A Memoir (9/23)

Seth Wickersham, American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback (9/9)

James Zug, Squash: A History of the Game (11/11)

Home/Entertaining

Nate Berkus, Foundations (11/18)

Rebecca Gardner, A Screaming Blast: Exceptional Entertaining (9/2)

Self-Help/Psychology/Parenting

Emily Austen, Smarter: 10 Lessons for a More Productive and Less Stressed Life (9/2)

Amanda Goetz, Toxic Grit: How to Have All and Actually Love What You Have (10/21)

Cas Holman and Lydia Denworth, Playful: How Play Shifts Our Thinking, Inspires Connection, and Sparks Creativity (10/21)

Hoda Kotb, Jump and Find Joy (9/23)

Corinne Low, Having it All: What Data Tells Us About Women’s Lives and Getting the Most Out Of Yours (9/23)

Dr. Zelana Montminy, Finding Focus: Own Your Attention in an Age of Distraction (9/16)

Kati Morton, Why Do I Keep Doing This? Unlearn the Habits Keeping You Stuck and Unhappy (12/9)

Ben Rein, Why Brains Need Friends: The Neuroscience of Social Connection (10/14)

Alex Schultz, Click Here: The Art and Science of Digital Marketing and Advertising (10/7)

Joanna Schroeder and Christopher Pepper, Talk to Your Boys: 16 Conversations to Help Tweens and Teens Grow into Confident, Caring Young Men (9/9)

Haru Yamadu, Kiku: The Japanese Art of Good Listening (10/7)

Historical Fiction

Sara Ackerman, The Guest in Room 120 (9/23)

Chanel Cleton, The Lost Story of Eva Fuentes (9/30)

Victoria Redel, I Am You (a Sarah Jessica Parker imprint novel) (9/30)

Alyson Richman, The Missing Pages (10/14)

Kitty Zeldis, One of Them (9/9)

True Stories

Paulina Bren, She-Wolves: The Untold History of Women on Wall Street (9/23)

Ryan Goldberg, Bird City: Adventures in New York’s Urban Wild (11/4)

Eli Frankel, Sisters in Death: The Black Dahlia, the Prairie Heiress, and Their Hunter (10/28)

Sarah Hurwitz, As a Jew: Reclaiming Our Story from Those Who Try to Blame, Shame, and Try to Erase Us (9/9)

Renaud Leblond, The Swimmer of Auschwitz (10/21)

Sarah McCoy, Whatever Happened to Lori Lovely (9/2) (based on a true story)

Marisa Meltzer, It Girl: The Life and Legacy of Jane Birkin (10/7)

Brandon Stanton, Dear New York (10/7)

Anthology/Essays/Poetry

Kate Baer, How About Now (11/4)

Stephanie Catudal, Radicle, or When the World Lived Inside Us: Poems (10/28)

Rachel Cooke, The Book of Women’s Friendship (12/2)

Jonathan Lethem, A Different Kind of Tension: New and Selected Stories (9/23)

Marie Kondo, Letter from Japan (10/21)

Terry McMillan, It Was the Way She Said It (9/9)

Michael Morpurgo, Funny Thing, Getting Older: And Other Reflections (11/11)

Hannah Rosenberg, Same: Poems (10/21)

Wendy I. Zierler, Going Out with Knots: My Two Kaddish Years with Hebrew Poetry (10/1)

Food Stories and Cookbooks

Jake Cohen, Dinner Party Animal (9/30)

Niki Russ Federman, Josh Russ Tupper, and Joshua David Stein, Russ & Daughters: 100 Years of Appetizing (9/9)

Drew Nieporent, I’m Not Trying to Be Difficult (9/23)

Marion Nestle, What to Eat Now (11/11)

Ruthie Rogers, Table 4 at the River Cafe (10/28)

Melinda Strauss, Eat Jewish: Over 100 Recipes That Blend Jewish Heritage, Modern Flavors and Family Traditions (9/2)

Rudy Tandoh, All Consuming: Why We Eat The Way We Eat Now (9/9)

Alice Waters, A School Lunch Revolution (9/2)

Holiday Reads

Tod Goldberg, Eight Very Bad Nights (10/14)

Jean Meltzer, The Eight Heartbreaks of Hanukkah (10/21)

Iva Marie Palmer, Christmas People (9/30)

Meghan Quinn, Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animal (10/7)

Holiday Reads for Kids

Megan Alexander, The Magic of a Small Town Christmas (9/9)

Sandra Boynton, A Dance with Santa Claus (10/14)

Hannah Shafiroff, My Little Book of Big Jewish Holidays (9/9)

Laurel Snyder, The Book of Candles (9/16)

Younger Protagonists

Chloe Gong, Coldwire (11/4)

Ana Huang, The Defender (10/28)

Katrina Leno, Persephone’s Curse (12/2)

Gracie Page, The Wildest Dreams Bookshop (11/4)

Raegan Revord, Rules for Fake Girlfriends (9/2)

Middle Grade Novels

Katherine Applegate, Pocket Bear (9/9)

Kate DiCamillo, Lost Evangeline (9/30)

Stuart Gibbs, Spy School Blackout (10/7)

Karina Yan Glaser, The Nine Moons of Han You and Luli (9/16)

Maddy Mara, Maya the Ember Dragon: Dragon Girls 18 (10/7)

Shannon Messenger, Keeper of the Lost Cities: Unraveled Book 9.5 (12/3)

Sarah Mlynowski, Mirror Mirror: Whatever After 17 (10/7)

James Ponti, The Sherlock Society: Hurricane Heist (9/2)

Jason Reynolds, Coach (10/14)

Holly Goldberg Sloan, Finding Lost (10/7)

Rebecca Stead, The Experiment (9/16)

Lauren Tarshis, I Survived the Dust Bowl (12/2)

Graphic Novels

Jeff Brown, Flat Stanley: The Graphic Novel (9/2)

Alan Gratz and Syd Fini, Refugee Graphic Novel (10/7)

Ann M. Martin and Ellen T. Crenshaw, The Baby-Sitters Club: Jessi Ramsey, Pet Sitter Graphic Novel (10/7)

Ann M. Martin, The Babysitters Club: Kristy and the Secret of Susan (11/4)

Sarah Mlynowski and Bethany Crandall, If The Shoe Fits: Whatever After Graphic Novel #2 (11/4)

Dav Pilkey, Dogman 14 (11/11)

Tui T. Sutherland and Jake Parker, Darkstalker: A Graphic Novel (11/4)

Raina Telgemeier, Facing Feelings (10/21)

Megan Wagner Lloyd and Michelle Mee Nutter, Winging It (10/21)

Picture Books

Jacinda Arden, Mom’s Busy Work (9/23)

Leigh Bardugo and John Picacio, The Invisible Parade (8/26)

Sophie Blackall, If We Were Dogs (9/16)

Tami Charles, Together, United (9/16)

Misty Copeland, Bunheads, Act 2: The Dance of Courage (9/16)

Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers, Good Night, Crayons

Dave Eggers and Shawn Harris, The Eyes, the Fire & The Avalanche Kingdom (11/18)

Clothilde Ewing, Stella and Roger Are on the Move (11/11)

Laura Gehl, The Elevator on 74th Street (9/30)

Tiffany Hammond, A Day with No Words (11/11)

Penn Holderness, Kim Holderness, and Vin Vogel, All You Can Be with ADHD (10/14)

Oliver Jeffers, I’m Very Busy: A (Nearly Forgotten) Birthday Book (10/7)

Jory John, The Humble Pie (11/4)

Stephen King and Maurice Sendak, Hansel and Gretel (9/2)

Charlie Mackesy, Always Remember (10/14)

Richard Michelson and Alyssa Russell, Fanny’s Big Idea: How Jewish Book Week Was Born (11/4)

Jane O’Connor, Fancy Nancy: Besties for Eternity (9/16)

Aaron Reynolds and Peter Brown, Troubling Tonsils (9/2)

AJ Sass and Noa Kelner, Shabbat Is... (9/2)

Jennifer E. Smith, A Cure for the Hiccups (11/4)

Philip Stead, A Snow Day for Amos McGee (9/30)

Suzy Ultman, It’s a Mitzvah! (9/2)

Chris Van Dusen, If I Built a Town (9/30)

What’d you think of the list?!

Hope you’ll support these authors and come meet them at our upcoming events!

September 13th at Zibby’s Bookshop in Santa Monica here

September 19th, 25th and 30th at the Whitby Hotel in NYC here

Enjoy!

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