Book of the Month August 2025 Predictions

The Locked Ward by Sarah Pekkanen

Release Date: August 5, 2025

Repeat Author, Possible add-on

Nothing is as it seems in Sarah Pekkanen’s The Locked Ward, a shocking psychological thriller about the complex bonds of sisterhood―and what happens when they are stretched to the breaking point.

Forget Me Not by Stacy Willingham

Release Date: August 26, 2025

Repeat Author, Possible add-on

A pulse-pounding new Southern thriller from the author of the runaway bestseller A Flicker in the Dark.

The Woman in Suite 11 by Ruth Ware

Release Date: July 8, 2025

Repeat Author, Second book in a series, Possible Add-on

In this follow-up to #1 New York Times bestselling author Ruth Ware’s multi-million copy mega-hit The Woman in Cabin 10, Lo Blacklock returns to attend the opening of a luxury hotel, only to find herself in a white-knuckled race across Europe.

This Stays Between Us by Sara Ochs

Release Date: July 15, 2025

Repeat Author, possible add-on

For fans of Lucy Foley and Society of Lies comes a crackling study abroad thriller that proves that a trip of a lifetime can have deadly consequences.

She Didn’t See It Coming by Shari Lapena

Release Date: July 29, 2025

Repeat Author, Possible add-on

When a beloved wife and mother disappears, a luxurious condo building transforms into a potential crime scene, and the investigation begins: can the detectives find her before it’s too late?

Anywhere With You by Ellie Palmer

Release Date: August 5, 2025

Repeat Author, Possible add-on

From the beloved author of Four Weekends and a Funeral, a nostalgic, heartwarming romance about a Type-A woman who road trips through the Minnesotan woods with her non-committal childhood best friend . . . only for their long-suppressed sparks to start flying.

The Incredible Kindness of Paper by Evelyn Skye

Release Date: August 12, 2025

For fans of Matt Haig and Clare Pooley, an enchanting novel about a pair of long-lost childhood friends who find themselves magically linked through origami flowers as adults—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Hundred Loves of Juliet.

Maid for Each Other by Lynn Painter

Release Date: July 15, 2025

Repeat Author, Possible mid-month add-on

A millionaire and a house cleaner are a match maid in heaven in this sparkling new romantic comedy by Lynn Painter, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Happily Never After.

L. A. Women by Ella Berman

Release Date: August 5, 2025

An electrifying novel about the complicated friendship between two ambitious writers and the ultimate artistic betrayal: one writes a book based upon the other’s life, revealing everything…from the author of Reese’s Book Club Pick Before We Were Innocent.

Wayward Girls by Susan Wiggs

Release Date: July 15, 2025

From New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs, a wrenching but life-affirming novel based on a true story of survival, friendship, and redemption. Set in the turbulent Vietnam era in the All-American city of Buffalo, New York, six girls are condemned to forced labor in the laundry of a Catholic reform school.

Atomic Hearts by Megan Cummins

Release Date: August 5, 2025

Debut Author

Atomic Hearts is an unforgettable story of the relationships that shape us beyond all reason and the ways it might be possible to pull ourselves back from the brink.

Love Forms by Claire Adam

Release Date: July 29, 2025

Repeat Author, Possible Add-on

A heart-stirring novel about a mother’s love, in all its forms, as a woman searches for the daughter she gave up for adoption, from the prize-winning author of Golden Child.

Loved One by Aisha Muharrar

Release Date: August 12, 2025

A funny, wise, heartbreaking story about a woman journeying into the unknown in the wake of sudden loss.

The Other Wife by Jackie Thomas-Kennedy

Release Date: July 15, 2025

A big-hearted novel of nostalgia and longing, and a poignant exploration of how we choose to love.

My Train Leaves at Three by Natalie Guerrero

Release Date: July 15, 2025

Debut Author

By a striking new voice in fiction, an electric coming-of-age novel that explores grief, family, sexuality, and love as an ambitious young woman from Washington Heights tries to make it on Broadway.

The Possession of Alba Díaz by Isabel Cañas

Release Date: August 19, 2025

Repeat Author, Possible add-on

When a demonic presence awakens deep in a Mexican silver mine, the young woman it seizes must turn to the one man she shouldn’t trust…from bestselling author Isabel Cañas.

Katabasis by R. F. Kuang

Release Date: August 26, 2025

Repeat Author, Possible September Pick/add-on

Dante’s Inferno meets Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul—perhaps at the cost of their own. 

The Society of Unknowable Objects by Gareth Brown

Release Date: August 12, 2025

From the author of the internationally bestselling The Book of Doors, another fantastical, stand-alone novel in which a trio of seemingly everyday people are members of a secret society tasked with finding and protecting hidden magical objects—ordinary items with extraordinary properties. 

Silvercloak by L. K. Steven

Release Date: July 29, 2025

Repeat Author, Possible Add-on

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Our Infinite Fates comes an addictive new fantasy series where magic is fueled by pleasure and pain and an obsessive detective must infiltrate a brutal gang of dark mages—knowing that one wrong move will get her killed. . . .

**I only included this book because it a repeat author, but I highly doubt BOTM would carry another book by the same author within a couple of months of each other.