Book of the Month August 2025 Predictions

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.

Confirmed pick via Book of the Month teaser email.

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.

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?

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.

The Book of Lost Hours by Hayley Gelfuso

Release Date: August 26, 2025

For fans of The Ministry of Time and The Midnight Library, a sweeping, unforgettable novel following two remarkable women moving between postwar and Cold War-era America and the mysterious time space, a library filled with books containing the memories of those who bore witness to history.

Best guess for one of Book of the Month in-app hints.

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.

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.

Seduction Theory by Emily Adrian

Release Date: August 12, 2025

When two married professors tiptoe toward infidelity, their transgressions are brought to light in a graduate student’s searing thesis project.

Confirmed pick via Book of the Month teaser email.

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 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.

Immortal Consequences by I. V. Marie

Release Date: August 26, 2025

Six students compete to change their fate at a darkly enchanted boarding school in purgatory where graduation is the only escape—and love can cross the boundaries between life and death.

Confirmed pick via Book of the Month teaser email.

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.

All the Tomorrows After by Joanne Yi

Release Date: August 19, 2025

A captivating, heartrending novel about a Korean American teen navigating grief and first love who agrees to accept money from her estranged father in exchange for letting him get to know her—for fans of Nina LaCour, Kathleen Glasgow, and All My Rage.