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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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