{"id":27407,"date":"2025-09-17T08:25:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T08:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/27407\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T08:25:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T08:25:21","slug":"the-ultimate-fall-2025-reading-list-literary-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/27407\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Fall 2025 Reading List \u2039 Literary Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"

It may still be in the 70s in New York, but autumn, they assure me, approaches. This means it\u2019s time for Literary Hub\u2019s annual Ultimate Fall Reading List, in which (in case you\u2019re new) I read all (or at least many) of the seasonal literary recommendation\/anticipation\/best of lists on the internet, and then collate them for you in a handy list-of-lists.<\/p>\n

This season, I processed 28 lists, which collectively recommended a total of 466 books. 95 of these were included 3 times or more, and these I present to you in descending order of popularity. The list of list surveyed is, as ever, at the bottom. Have fun, and see you in the winter.<\/p>\n

15 lists:
Angela Flournoy, The Wilderness<\/a><\/p>\n

14 lists:
Patricia Lockwood, Will There Ever Be Another You?<\/a>
Susan Orlean, Joyride<\/a><\/p>\n

13 lists:
Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny<\/a>
Arundhati Roy, Mother Mary Comes to Me<\/a><\/p>\n

12 lists:
Elizabeth Gilbert, All the Way to the River<\/a>
Ian McEwan, What We Can Know<\/a>
Thomas Pynchon, Shadow Ticket<\/a><\/p>\n

11 lists:
Margaret Atwood, Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts<\/a><\/p>\n

10 lists:
Oyinkan Braithwaite, Cursed Daughters<\/a>
Lily King, Heart the Lover<\/a><\/p>\n

9 lists:
Mona Awad, We Love You, Bunny<\/a><\/p>\n

8 lists:
Quan Barry, The Unveiling<\/a>
Richard Osman, The Impossible Fortune<\/a>
Mary Roach, Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy<\/a>
Salman Rushdie, The Eleventh Hour<\/a><\/p>\n

7 lists:
Dan Brown, The Secret of Secrets<\/a>
Gish Jen, Bad Bad Girl<\/a>
Harper Lee, The Land of Sweet Forever<\/a>
Jill Lepore, We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution<\/a>
Beth Macy, Paper Girl<\/a>
Catherine Newman, Wreck<\/a><\/p>\n

6 lists:
Bolu Babalola, Sweet Heat<\/a>
Nathan Harris, Amity<\/a>
Mick Herron, Clown Town<\/a>
Olivia Laing, The Silver Book<\/a>
Julian Brave NoiseCat, We Survived the Night<\/a>
Andrew Ross Sorkin, 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History\u2014and How It Shattered a Nation<\/a>
Bryan Washington, Palaver<\/a><\/p>\n

5 lists:
Jen Hatmaker, Awake<\/a>
Elin Hilderbrand and Shelby Cunningham, The Academy<\/a>
Adam Johnson, The Wayfinder<\/a>
Ilana Masad, Beings<\/a>
Samanta Schweblin, tr. Megan McDowell, Good and Evil and Other Stories<\/a>
Joan Silber, Mercy<\/a>
Zadie Smith, Dead and Alive<\/a>
Patti Smith, Bread of Angels<\/a>
Sam Sussman, Boy from the North Country<\/a>
Souvankham Thammavongsa, Pick a Color<\/a>
Alejandro Varela, Middle Spoon<\/a>
Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben, Gone Before Goodbye<\/a><\/p>\n

4 lists:
Cameron Crowe, The Uncool<\/a>
Mark Z. Danielewski, Tom\u2019s Crossing<\/a>
Jaquira D\u00edaz, This Is the Only Kingdom<\/a>
Cory Doctorow, Enshittification<\/a>
Mariana Enriquez, Somebody is Walking on Your Grave<\/a>
Stephen Greenblatt, Dark Renaissance<\/a>
John Grisham, The Widow<\/a>
Kamala Harris, 107 Days<\/a>
Ali Hazelwood, Mate<\/a>
Joe Hill, King Sorrow<\/a>
Quiara Alegr\u00eda Hudes, The White Hot<\/a>
Ada Lim\u00f3n, Startlement<\/a>
Megha Majumdar, A Guardian and a Thief<\/a>
Adam Nicholson, Bird School<\/a>
Louise Penny, The Black Wolf<\/a>
Priscilla Presley, Softly as I Leave You<\/a>
Erin Somers, The Ten Year Affair<\/a>
Nicholas Sparks with M. Night Shyamalan, Remain<\/a>
Brandon Taylor, Minor Black Figures<\/a>
Sarah Weinman, Without Consent<\/a>
Eliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies<\/a><\/p>\n

3 lists:
John U. Bacon, The Gales of November<\/a>
Claire-Louise Bennett, Big Kiss, Bye-Bye<\/a>
Stephanie Burt, Taylor\u2019s Version<\/a>
Jeff Chang, Water Mirror Echo<\/a>
Dan Chaon, One Of Us<\/a>
Jelani Cobb, Three or More is a Riot<\/a>
Susan Coll, The Literati<\/a>
Michael Connelly, The Proving Ground<\/a>
Zoe Dubno, Happiness and Love<\/a>
Rose Dommu, Best Woman<\/a>
Ken Follett, Circle of Days<\/a>
Michael J. Fox, Future Boy<\/a>
Janice Hallett, The Killer Question<\/a>
Gabrielle Hamilton, Next of Kin<\/a>
Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting<\/a>
Ana Huang, The Defender<\/a>
Chris Kraus, The Four Spent the Day Together<\/a>
R.F. Kuang, Katabasis<\/a>
Christine Kuehn, Family of Spies<\/a>
David McCullough, History Matters<\/a>
Marisa Meltzer, It Girl<\/a>
Kristen Miller, The Women of Wild Hill<\/a>
Lauren Morrow, Little Movements<\/a>
Jen Percy, Girls Play Dead<\/a>
Steven Pinker, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows\u2026<\/a>
Philip Pullman, The Rose Field<\/a>
Olga Ravn, tr. Martin Aitken, The Wax Child<\/a>
Ron Rindo, Life, and Death, and Giants<\/a>
Patrick Ryan, Buckeye<\/a>
SenLinYu, Alchemised<\/a>
Charlie Sheen, The Book of Sheen<\/a>
John Fabian Witt, The Radical Fund<\/a>
Adrienne Young, Fallen City<\/a><\/p>\n

List of lists surveyed:<\/p>\n

Kirkus\u2019s 60 Most Anticipated Books of the Fall<\/a> \u2022 Publishers Weekly\u2019s Adult Books for 2025<\/a> (Top 10s in all categories) \u2022 TIME\u2019s The 24 Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2025<\/a> \u2022 Boston Globe\u2019s Forty new books for the best fall reading <\/a> \u2022 The New York Times\u2019 21 Nonfiction Books Coming This Fall<\/a> and 27 Novels Coming This Fall<\/a> \u2022\u00a0The Washington Post\u2019s A fall preview for readers of all kinds<\/a> \u2022 Los Angeles Times\u2019 30 books to read this fall<\/a> \u2022 W\u2019s 18 Must-Read Books for Fall<\/a> \u2022 The Guardian\u2019s The biggest books of the autumn<\/a> \u2022 Newsday\u2019s Fall books preview 2025<\/a> \u2022\u00a0People\u2019s Must-Read Books of Fall 2025<\/a> \u2022 Oprah Daily\u2019s The 25 Best Books of Fall 2025<\/a> \u2022 The Toronto Star\u2019 fall book preview<\/a> \u2022 Goodreads Readers\u2019 Most Anticipated Fall Books <\/a> \u2022 AP\u2019s The fall\u2019s 10 most anticipated books<\/a> \u2022 BookPage\u2019s Our most anticipated books of fall 2025<\/a> \u2022 AARP\u2019s Big Fall 2025 Book Preview<\/a> \u2022 The New York Post\u2019s 30 exciting new books to read this fall<\/a> \u2022 LibbyLife\u2019s The most anticipated books of Fall 2025<\/a> \u2022 E News\u2019s Fall Into Reading With These Cozy Autumn Books<\/a> \u2022 Our Culture\u2019s Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2025 (Part 1)<\/a> \u2022 Bustle\u2019s The Most Anticipated Books Of Fall 2025<\/a> \u2022 Vulture\u2019s 10 Books We Can\u2019t Wait to Read This Fall<\/a> \u2022 The Chicago Tribune\u2019s Books for fall 2025<\/a> \u2022\u00a0Town & Country\u2019s The 49 Must-Read Books of Fall 2025<\/a> \u2022 Chatelaine\u2019s Your Fall 2025 Reading List<\/a> \u2022 and of course, Lit Hub\u2019s 15 Novels You Need to Read This Fall<\/a><\/p>\n

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