Hey bookworm friends! I’m simultaneously enjoying the last bits of summer and looking forward to crunchy leaf season. 🍂 Now that it’s September, I’m more than ready to be cozy and spend more time reading under the blankets. To that end, I want to share my 10 Anticipated Releases to Look Forward to in Autumn 2025 so we can wait not-so-patiently together 😉!
10 Anticipated Releases to Look Forward to in Autumn 2025
You Are the Detective: The Creeping Hand Murder – Maureen Johnson & Jay Cooper
Pub Date: Sept 16, 2025; Ten Speed Press
A solve-it-yourself mystery. A man gets stabbed in front of 6 other people yet no-one saw who did it.
Slashed Beauties – A. Rushby
Pub Date: Sept 23, 2025; Berkely Publishing Corp.
A gothic feminist body horror. Ultrarealistic wax figures of women come to life at night to murder men who have wronged them.
The Summer War – Naomi Novik
Pub Date: Sept 25, 2025; Del Rey
Adult Fantasy Novella. A young witch accidentally curses her brother to live a life without love.
Demon Song – Kelsea Yu
Pub Date: Sept 30, 2025; Titan Books
Gothic Horror that draws on Chinese Mythology set in a haunted(?) Opera House.
The Works of Vermin – Hiron Ennes
Pub Date: Oct 14, 2025; Tor Books
Fantasy Horror. Exterminator hunts a centipede the size of a dragon with a deadly venom and a ravenous taste for artwork.
Powder & Poison – Julia Jackson
Pub Date: Oct 16, 2025; Self-pub/Kindle
Historical Thriller with Horror elements. Follows the first weeks of Marie Antoinette’s arrival at Versailles, where the glittering façade of royalty gives way to death and decay.
A Tempest of Ravens – E. A. Bard
Pub Date: Oct 24, 2025; Bard Songs Publishing
Historical fantasy romance. Witchy tale set in Scotland 1651, for fans of Outlander and One Dark Window.
Witches of Dubious Origin – Jenn McKinlay
Pub Date: Oct 28, 2025; Ace
Cozy Fantasy Romance. A librarian discovers she’s descended from a long line of powerful witches.
Outlaw Planet – M. R. Carey
Pub Date: Nov 18, 2025; Orbit
Standalone Sci-fi. A story of a lone outlaw, haunted by her past and with all the multiverse against her.
As Many Souls as Stars – Natasha Siegel
Pub Date: Nov 25, 2025; William Morrow
Sapphic Fantasy Romance. A witch and an immortal demon make a Faustian bargain and are drawn into a cat-and-mouse chase across multiple lifetimes.
Let’s chat in the comments!
Do you have any of these on your anticipated list too? Or, tell me about a book you’re looking forward to this autumn!
Slashed Beauties is high on my list to read! Also The Works of Vermine sounds very weird. It looks like you have some really good choices for Autumn😁
Oh awesome, I hope you enjoy Slashed Beauties. I recently learned about Anatomical Venuses from a Veronica Speedwell book so of course now I’m intrigued by that book! & Yes lots of good options!:D
I’ve only just learned about A Tempest of Ravens the other day when I saw someone post the cover reveal on Instagram! It looks and sounds awesome 🙂 I haven’t heard of any of the other titles you’ve mentioned but my eye caught on that one by Novik! I hope you enjoy all of these books whenever you get to them. Happy reading!
Ah yes, I posted A Tempest of Ravens cover reveal and it was nice to see several other people spreading the word too, It does sound super great! I haven’t read anything by Novik but I keep hearing so many good things about her books and that one sounds up my alley 🙂 Happy reading to you too 🧡
Count me in for The Works of Vermin, Witches of Dubious Origin, and As Many Souls as Stars
Ahah right? They all sound so good, glad those ones appeal to you too 😀 !!
Im very interested in quite a few of these too. Although with a few having gothic style premises that probably isn’t exactly surprising 😂 Demon Song sounds like a great fit for you with the opera house ties and I can’t believe I hadn’t heard of the Maureen Johnson book. I enjoyed what I got to of the Tryly Devious series and this sounds like a fun approach to a mystery novel.
Im going to have to add Powder & Poison to my TBR. I can never resist a book set within that period of history. I really hope you love Outlaw Planet as I know how excited you are for that one. And I’m very intrigued by the last title. Here’s hoping it has lyrical writing as the concept sounds divine
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Great list and I hope you enjoy all of these 🥰
Ahah yes definitely not surprising 😉! I heard someone talking about Demon Song on IG and thought it sounded cool! 🙂 YEs I think Maureen Johnson’s interactive mystery sounds super fun!
Yess I’m so glad Powder & Poison sounds good to you too & since we’ve been trying to read more horror and we like historical settings, this sounds perfect. Yes haha we have talked about Outlaw Planet before so thanks hehe! Yeah I hope the writing is beautiful too 🤞🏼. Thanks so much, lovely!
Ah cool, I learnt about it from one of Tammy’s Wednesday posts I think. My TBR is always growing thanks to them 😂 thats very good points about Poison & Powder, a great combination of reasons to try it 😍 I hope you enjoy all of these ❤️ and can’t wait to see your thoughts on them.
That makes sense and my tbr grows because of those posts too 😆!! I actually read Tammy’s review for Slashed Beauties the other day and I’m even more convinced it’ll be interesting!
Thanks so much, Charlotte 🥰
Im catching up on the ones I missed later this morning so it’ll be interesting to see how much mine grows again as a result 😂 ooh I read that too, it definitely sounds interesting. I wasnt expecting what the dolls looked like via that link though 😂
Ah okay I hope for your TBR to grow a healthy amount 😛 & Yeah the dolls are quite disturbingly realistic :S
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Powder & Poison sounds really good! I’ll have to look it up.
Yess, definitely look it up coz you never know you might like the premise! 🙂 Thanks for visiting 🖤