This September, fall into fresh ideas and new adventures. From nonfiction that empowers—think financial confidence, persistence, decluttering, and trying something new—to memoirs of love, loss, and liberation, these releases offer insight and inspiration. Add in sweeping novels, romantic fantasies, and edge-of-your-seat thrillers, and you’ve got ten can’t-miss books that will carry you into autumn with curiosity, excitement, and plenty of page-turning fun.

The Best New Books To Read In September 2025

1. What We Can Know by Ian McEwan

A sweeping, genre-bending literary detective story that spans centuries, exploring love, mystery, and what it truly means to understand the past.

2. Give Me a Year: 12 New Things to Embrace Change and Live Your Best Life by Shonda Scott

Chronicling her year of saying yes to twelve new experiences, Shonda Scott shows how stepping outside your comfort zone can spark growth, resilience, and joy.

3. Wild Card by Elsie Silver

A forbidden, sizzling romance ignites when a grumpy pilot and his son’s ex-girlfriend are forced to live under the same roof.

4. Your Money Has Feelings: Understand Your Financial Wounds to Find True Freedom by Shannon Ryan

A refreshing, behavior-focused guide that helps you understand the emotions behind your money habits and empowers you to make better financial choices.

5. Wild Reverence by Rebecca Ross

A lush, romantic fantasy about a young goddess whose secret power and forbidden connection with a mortal may change the fate of the gods.

6. Give Clutter the Middle Finger: A Chingona’s Guide to Taking Control of Your Stuff and Your Life by Meggie Mangione

A funny, empathetic take on decluttering that trades perfectionism for freedom, helping you reclaim time, space, and peace of mind.

7. Tourist Season by Brynne Weaver

Darkly funny and deliciously twisted, this enemies-to-lovers romance pits two killers against each other in a seaside town where love might be deadliest of all.

8. The Power to Persist: 8 Simple Habits to Build Lifelong Resilience by Lamell J. McMorris

An inspiring guide that shares eight proven habits to turn setbacks into opportunities and fuel lasting personal and professional success.

9. All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation by Elizabeth Gilbert

A raw, fearless memoir about addiction, heartbreak, and the transformative power of love and liberation from the bestselling author of Eat Pray Love.

10. The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown

Robert Langdon returns in a high-stakes thriller that blends science, mythology, and conspiracy into a pulse-pounding race to uncover a shocking truth about the human mind.

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