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Zibby Owens Just Released Her Fall 2025 Most Anticipated Books List—and There Are Over 150 Titles on It originally appeared on Parade.
With August comes back-to-school preparations, last-minute summer vacations and, of course, the excitement for all things fall. While we aren’t ones to wish away our summer, we can’t help but look forward to the coziness—and cooler weather—that autumn brings. And nothing says cozy like curling up with a good book, so we’re already prepping the reading list we’ll pull out when the leaves start to change. Luckily, literary influencer and bestselling author Zibby Owens just shared her list of most anticipated book releases for fall 2025, and there are over 150 titles to choose from.
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About Zibby Owens
Zibby Owens is a well-known figure in the publishing industry. She is an author herself; a literary podcast host; and the founder of Zibby Media, a thriving, multi-platform literary brand that spans publishing, podcasting, retail and beyond. The company comprises of her award-winning podcast “Totally Booked with Zibby,” her women-led boutique publishing house Zibby Publishing and her independent bookstore, Zibby’s Bookshop, in Santa Monica.
Zibby’s Fall 2025 Most Anticipated Books
With the amount of titles and genres on this list, your TBR (to-be-read!) list will definitely be set for fall… and probably winter, too.
Deep and Thoughtful Fiction
Bitter Honey by Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström
Table for One by Emma Gannon
The Phoebe Variations by Jane Hamilton
Heart the Lover by Lily King
I Wanted to Be Wonderful by Lihi Lapid
Wreck by Catherine Newman
The Irish Goodbye by Heather Aimee O’Neill
Boy from the North Country by Sam Sussman
Like Family by Erin O. White
Fiction for Easy Reading
Anne of Avenue A by Audrey Bellezza and Emily Harding
The Weekend Crashers by Jamie Brenner
And Then There Was You by Sophie Cousens
My Ex-Husband’s Ex-Husband by Melissa de la Cruz and Rachel Cohn
Hot Desk by Laura Dickerman
If I Were You by Cesca Major
Workhorse by Caroline Palmer
The Dogs of Venice by Steven Rowley
The Ten Year Affair by Erin Somers
That’s Not How it Happened by Craig Thomas
Literary Fiction
We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad
Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite
The White Hot by Quiara Alegria Hudes
Queen Esther by John Irving
Apostle’s Cove by William Kent Krueger
What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
Minor Black Figures byBrandon Taylor
Middle Spoon by Alejandro Varela
Palaver by Bryan Washington
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Mysteries & Thrillers
Where He Left Me by Nicole Baart
Girl Dinner by Olivie Blake
Last Call at the Savoy by Brisa Carleton
Gone Before Goodbye by Harlan Coben and Reese Witherspoon
The Gallagher Place by Julie Doar
The Library of Fates by Margot Harrison
The Academy by Elin Hilderbrand and Shelby Cunningham
The Widow by John Grisham
Best Offer Wins by Marisa Kashino
Other People’s Houses by Clare Mackintosh
The Birdwatcher by Jacquelyn Mitchard
The Black Wolf by Louise Penny
The Bridesmaid by Cate Quinn
All This Could Be Yours by Hank Phillippi Ryan
Remain: A Supernatural Love Story by Nicholas Sparks and M. Night Shyamalan
Short Reads From Celebrities
Crushmore: Essays on Love, Loss and Coming-of-Age by Penn Badgley, Sophie Ansari and Nava Kavelin
About Time: Poems byDavid Duchovny
Does This Make Me Funny by Zosia Mamet
Poems & Prayers by Matthew McConaughey
Celebrity Memoirs
Mamba & Mambacita Forever by Vanessa Bryant
Heart Life Music by Kenny Chesney
The Uncool byCameron Crowe
Simply More: A Book For Anyone Who Has Been Told They’re Too Much by Cynthia Erivo
Future Boy by Michael J. Fox and Nelle Fortenbery
I Wrote This for Attention by Lukas Gage
Eternally Electric: The Message in My Music by Debbie Gibson
We Did Okay, Kid by Anthony Hopkins
Softly, As I Leave You by Priscilla Presley
Grit, Spit, and Never Quit: A Marine’s Guide to Comedy and Life by Rob Riggle
The Book of Sheen by Charlie Sheen
100 Rules for Living to 100: An Optimist’s Guide to a Happy Life by Dick Van Dyke
More Memoirs
Heart of a Stranger: An Unlikely Rabbi’s Story of Faith, Identity and Belonging by Angela Buchdahl
Still Bobbi by Bobbi Brown
Bag Man: The Story Behind the Improbable Rise of Coach by Lew Frankfort
Notes on Being a Man by Scott Galloway
All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation by Elizabeth Gilbert
Next of Kin by Gabrielle Hamilton
Awake: A Memoir by Jen Hatmaker
Someday, Now: A Memoir of Family, Reclaiming Possibility, and One Sicilian Summer by Tembi Locke
That’s a Great Question, I’d Love to Tell You by Elyse Myers
They All Came to Barney’s by Gene Pressman
Does Anyone Else Feel This Way? Essays on Conquering the Quarter-Life Crisis by Eli Rallo
Night People: How to Be a DJ in ‘90s New York City by Mark Ronson
Mother Mary Come to Me by Arundahti Roy
The Running Ground: A Father, a Son, and the Simplest of Sports by Nicholas Thompson
Memoirs for Tough Times
Lightkeeper: A Memoir Through the Lens of Love and Loss by Stacy Waldman Bass
Mom, Rediscovered by Jennifer Butler
The Luckiest: A Memoir of Love, Loss, Motherhood and the Pursuit of Self by Kelly Cervantes
Like a Wave We Break: A Memoir of Falling Apart and Finding Myself by Jane Chen
Ring of Salt: A Memoir of Finding Home and Hope on the Wild Coast of Ireland by Betsy Cornwell
Pass the Trauma, Please: My Father’s Not-So-Depressing Holocaust Memoir About Love, Loss, Laughter and Legacy by Todd Diamond
My Year of Really Bad Dates by Rachel Lithgow
Nineteen: A Memoir of Reckoning and Recovery by Leslie Johansen Nack
Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in Fractured America by Beth Macy
Damaged People: A Memoir of Fathers and Sons by Joe McGinnis
Year of the Water Horse by Janice Page
She’s Under Here by Karen Palmer
Turn to Stone: A Memoir by Emily Meg Weinstein
The Heart-Shaped Tin: Love, Loss, and Kitchen Objects by Bee Wilson
On Health & Illness
Unseen: How I Lost My Vision But Found My Voice by Molly Burke
What Matters Most: Lessons the Dying Teach Us About Living by Diane Button
Living Proof: How Love Defied Genetic Legacy by Tiffany Graham Charkosky
It Doesn’t Have to Hurt by Sanjay Gupta
The Unexpected Journey by Emma Heming Willis
Articulate: A Deaf Memoir of Voice by Rachel Kolb
In This Faulty Machine: A Memoir of Loss and Transformation by Kathy Page
Cancer is Complicated and Other Unexpected Lessons I’ve Learned by Clea Shearer
From Writers & Artists
Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts by Margaret Atwood
Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books by Hwang Bo-reum
Reacher: The Stories Behind the Stories by Lee Child
Writing Creativity and Soul by Sue Monk Kidd
Everywhere an Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of 40 Years in Hollywood by David Mamet
Art Work: On the Creative Life by Sally Mann
A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction by Elizabeth McCracken
Joyride: A Memoir by Susan Orlean
Conversations on Faith by Martin Scorsese and Antonio Spadaro
Nonfiction
When All the Men Wore Hats by Susan Cheever
Dorothy Parker in Hollywood by Gail Crowther
Carole King: She Made the Earth Move by Jane Eisner
Twice Born: Finding My Father in The Margins of Biography by Hester Kaplan
Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist by Daniel Pollack-Pelzner
The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at the New Yorker by Amy Reading
Hidden Portraits: Six Women Who Shaped Picasso’s Life by Sue Roe
How Sondheim Can Change Your Life by Richard Schoch
Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife by Francesca Wade
About Sports
Heartbeats: A Memoir by Bjorn Borg
American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback by Seth Wickersham
Squash: A History of the Game by James Zug
Home and Entertaining
Foundations by Nate Berkus
A Screaming Blast: Exceptional Entertaining by Rebecca Gardner
Parenting and Self-Help
Smarter: 10 Lessons for a More Productive and Less Stressed Life by Emily Austen
Toxic Grit: How to Have All and Actually Love What You Have by Amanda Goetz
Playful: How Play Shifts Our Thinking, Inspires Connection, and Sparks Creativity by Cas Holman and Lydia Denworth
Jump and Find Joy by Hoda Kotb
Having it All: What Data Tells Us About Women’s Lives and Getting the Most Out Of Yours by Corinne Low
Finding Focus: Own Your Attention in an Age of Distraction by Dr. Zelana Montminy
Why Do I Keep Doing This? Unlearn the Habits Keeping You Stuck and Unhappy by Kati Morton
Why Brains Need Friends: The Neuroscience of Social Connection by Ben Rein
Click Here: The Art and Science of Digital Marketing and Advertising by Alex Schultz
Talk to Your Boys: 16 Conversations to Help Tweens and Teens Grow into Confident, Caring Young Men by Joanna Schroeder and Christopher Pepper
Kiku: The Japanese Art of Good Listening by Haru Yamadu
Historical Fiction
The Guest in Room 120 by Sara Ackerman
The Lost Story of Eva Fuentes by Chanel Cleton
I Am You by Victoria Redel
The Missing Pages by Alyson Richman
One of Them by Kitty Zeldis
Based on a True Story
She-Wolves: The Untold History of Women on Wall Street by Paulina Bren
Bird City: Adventures in New York’s Urban Wild by Ryan Goldberg
Sisters in Death: The Black Dahlia, the Prairie Heiress, and Their Hunter by Eli Frankel
As a Jew: Reclaiming Our Story from Those Who Try to Blame, Shame, and Try to Erase Us by Sarah Hurwitz
The Swimmer of Auschwitz by Renaud Leblond
Whatever Happened to Lori Lovely by Sarah McCoy
It Girl: The Life and Legacy of Jane Birkin by Marisa Meltzer
Dear New York by Brandon Stanton
Essays and Poetry
How About Now by Kate Baer
Radicle, or When the World Lived Inside Us: Poems by Stephanie Catudal
The Book of Women’s Friendship by Rachel Cooke
A Different Kind of Tension: New and Selected Stories by Jonathan Lethem
Letter from Japan by Marie Kondo
It Was the Way She Said It by Terry McMillan
Funny Thing, Getting Older: And Other Reflections by Michael Morpurgo
Same: Poems by Hannah Rosenberg
Going Out with Knots: My Two Kaddish Years with Hebrew Poetry by Wendy I. Zierler
For Foodies
Dinner Party Animal by Jake Cohen
Russ & Daughters: 100 Years of Appetizing by Niki Russ Federman, Josh Russ Tupper and Joshua David Stein
I’m Not Trying to Be Difficult by Drew Nieporent
What to Eat Now by Marion Nestle
Table 4 at the River Cafe by Ruthie Rogers
Eat Jewish: Over 100 Recipes That Blend Jewish Heritage, Modern Flavors and Family Traditions by Melinda Strauss
All Consuming: Why We Eat The Way We Eat Now by Rudy Tandoh
A School Lunch Revolution by Alice Waters
Holiday Season Reads
Eight Very Bad Nights by Tod Goldberg
The Eight Heartbreaks of Hanukkah by Jean Meltzer
Christmas People by Iva Marie Palmer
Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animal by Meghan Quinn
Kids Holiday Reads
The Magic of a Small Town Christmas by Megan Alexander
A Dance with Santa Claus by Sandra Boynton
My Little Book of Big Jewish Holidays by Hannah Shafiroff
The Book of Candles by Laurel Snyder
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With Younger Main Characters
The Defender by Ana Huang
Persephone’s Curse by Katrina Leno
The Wildest Dreams Bookshop by Gracie Page
Rules for Fake Girlfriends by Raegan Revord
Junior Fiction
Pocket Bear by Katherine Applegate
Lost Evangeline by Kate DiCamillo
Spy School Blackout by Stuart Gibbs
The Nine Moons of Han You and Luli by Karina Yan Glaser
Maya the Ember Dragon: Dragon Girls 18 by Maddy Mara
Keeper of the Lost Cities: Unraveled Book 9.5 by Shannon Messenger
Mirror Mirror: Whatever After 17 by Sarah Mlynowski
The Sherlock Society: Hurricane Heist by James Ponti
The Experiment by Rebecca Stead
I Survived the Dust Bowl by Lauren Tarshis
Graphic Novels
Flat Stanley: The Graphic Novel by Jeff Brown
Refugee Graphic Novel by Alan Gratz
The Baby-Sitters Club: Jessi Ramsey, Pet Sitter by Ann M. Martin
The Babysitters Club: Kristy and the Secret of Susan by Ann M. Martin
If The Shoe Fits: Whatever After Graphic Novel #2 by Sarah Mlynowski
Darkstalker: A Graphic Novel by Tui T. Sutherland
Facing Feelings by Raina Telgemeier
Winging It by Megan Wagner Lloyd
Picture Books
Mom’s Busy Work by Jacinda Arden
If We Were Dogs by Sophie Blackall
Together, United by Tami Charles
Bunheads, Act 2: The Dance of Courage by Misty Copeland
Good Night, Crayons by Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers
The Eyes, the Fire & The Avalanche Kingdom by Dave Eggers and Shawn Harris
Stella and Roger Are on the Move by Clothilde Ewing
The Elevator on 74th Street by Laura Gehl
Finding Lost by Holly Goldberg Sloan
A Day with No Words by Tiffany Hammond
All You Can Be with ADHD by Penn Holderness, Kim Holderness and Vin Vogel
I’m Very Busy: A (Nearly Forgotten) Birthday Book by Oliver Jeffers
The Humble Pie by Jory John
Hansel and Gretel by Stephen King and Maurice Sendak
Always Remember by Charlie Mackesy
Fanny’s Big Idea: How Jewish Book Week Was Born by Richard Michelson and Alyssa Russell
Fancy Nancy: Besties for Eternity by Jane O’Connor
Troubling Tonsils by Aaron Reynolds and Peter Brown
Shabbat Is… by AJ Sass and Noa Kelner
A Cure for the Hiccups by Jennifer E. Smith
A Snow Day for Amos McGee by Philip Stead
It’s a Mitzvah! by Suzy Ultman
If I Built a Town by Chris Van Dusen
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Zibby Owens Just Released Her Fall 2025 Most Anticipated Books List—and There Are Over 150 Titles on It first appeared on Parade on Aug 8, 2025
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