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The Most Anticipated Stories for Your Book Club in Fall 2025

by PRH Editors

Gather your book club together because we have the latest books coming this fall that you and your friends won’t be able to stop talking about! From novels by beloved authors to fascinating memoirs, this list has it all.

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    Like Family

    by Erin O. White

    After a near-stranger dies in their small town, a tightknit group of friends can no longer ignore their long-dormant desires and unfulfilled dreams — a moving debut about the complicated joys of chosen family.
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    What We Can Know

    by Ian McEwan

    From the Booker prize–winning, bestselling author of Atonement and Saturday, a genre-bending new novel full of secrets and surprises; an immersive exploration, across time and history, of what can ever be truly known. What We Can Know is a masterpiece, a fictional tour de force, a love story about both people and the words they leave behind, a literary detective story which reclaims the present from our sense of looming catastrophe and imagines a future world where all is not quite lost.
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    The Vanishing Place

    by Zoë Rankin

    A shocking murder in the New Zealand bush — and the witness who looks all too familiar — draws a woman back to the very place she swore she’d never return to in this breakneck debut thriller.
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    The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

    by Kiran Desai

    A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years — an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity, by the Booker Prize–winning author of The Inheritance of Loss.
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    Minor Black Figures

    by Brandon Taylor

    From the Booker Prize finalist and bestselling author: A perceptive novel about a gay Black painter navigating the worlds of art, desire, and creativity. As he did so adeptly in Booker finalist Real Life and the bestselling The Late Americans, Brandon Taylor brings to life in Minor Black Figures a fascinating set of characters, this time in the competitive art world, and the lives they lead with each and on their own. Minor Black Figures is an involving and tender portrait of friendship, creativity, and the connections between them.
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    I, Medusa

    by Ayana Gray

    From New York Times bestselling author Ayana Gray comes a new kind of villain origin story, reimagining one of the most iconic monsters in Greek mythology as a provocative and powerful young heroine. Exploding with rage, heartbreak, and love, I, Medusa portrays a young woman caught in the crosscurrents between her heart’s desires and the cruel, careless games the Olympian gods play.
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    Cursed Daughters: A Read with Jenna Pick

    by Oyinkan Braithwaite

    A young woman must shake off a family curse and the widely held belief that she is the reincarnation of her dead cousin in this wickedly funny, brilliantly perceptive novel about love, female rivalry, and superstition from the author of the smash hit My Sister, the Serial Killer (“A bombshell of a book … Sharp, explosive, hilarious” —New York Times).
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    Conform

    by Ariel Sullivan

    In the far future, one young woman finds herself torn between two loves — and two sides of a rebellion boiling under the surface — in the first novel of a sweeping dystopian romance series. “Compulsively readable and vividly written — it kept me awake long past my bedtime” (Sarah J. Maas, author of A Court of Thorns and Roses)!
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    A Land So Wide

    by Erin A. Craig

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Thirteenth Child comes an irresistible blend of dark fairytale and romantic fantasy. The town of Mistaken has a secret … and it’s up to one woman to uncover the truth, confront her past, and save the man she loves. Playfully drawing from Scottish folklore, Erin A. Craig’s adult debut is both a deeply atmospheric and profoundly romantic exploration of freedom versus security: A stunning celebration of one woman’s relentless bravery on a quest to reclaim her lost love — and seize her own future.
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    We’ll Prescribe You Another Cat

    by Syou Ishida

    The Kokoro Clinic for the Soul reopens in this delightful follow-up to the award-winning, bestselling Japanese novel We’ll Prescribe You a Cat. This moving, magical novel of interconnected tales proves the strength in the unfathomable bond between cats and people.
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    Thirst Trap

    by Gráinne O'Hare

    A bitingly funny novel about your late 20s as you stare down 30 — when do you tire of morning hangovers, days of dead-end entry-level jobs, and late nights at bars? This friend group is about to find out. Brimming with heart and humor, Thirst Trap is an exuberant ode to friendship, to not having it all figured out, and to ordering just one more round before heading home.
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    A Guardian and a Thief: Oprah’s Book Club

    by Megha Majumdar

    Megha Majumdar’s electrifying new novel, following her acclaimed New York Times bestseller A Burning — longlisted for the National Book Award — is set in a near-future Kolkata, India, ravaged by climate change and food scarcity, in which two families seeking to protect their children must battle each other. A piercing and propulsive tour de force.
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    Bad Bad Girl

    by Gish Jen

    The award-winning author of The Resisters returns with an engrossing, blisteringly funny-sad autobiographical novel tracing a tumultuous mother-daughter relationship. Spanning continents, generations, and cultures, Bad Bad Girl is a novel only Gish Jen could have written: Genre-bending, courageous, wise, and as immensely incisive as it is compassionate.
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    Will There Ever Be Another You

    by Patricia Lockwood

    From the Booker Prize finalist and “formidably gifted writer” (The New York Times), a vertiginous novel about a woman’s descent into illness and insanity. Amid a global pandemic, one young woman is trying to keep the pieces together – of her family, stunned by a devastating loss, and of her mind, left mangled and misfiring from a mystifying disease. She’s afraid of her own floorboards, and “WHAT IS LOVE? BABY DON’T HURT ME” plays over and over in her ears. Has the illness stolen her old mind and given her a new one? Does it mean she’ll get to start over from scratch, a chance afforded to very few people?
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    Alchemised

    by SenLinYu

    In this riveting dark fantasy debut, a woman with missing memories fights to survive a war-torn world of necromancy and alchemy — and the man tasked with unearthing the deepest secrets of her past.
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    All the Way to the River: Oprah’s Book Club

    by Elizabeth Gilbert

    In her first nonfiction book in a decade, the #1 bestselling writer who taught millions of readers to live authentically (Eat Pray Love) and creatively (Big Magic) shows how to break free. All the Way to the River is a landmark memoir that will resonate with anyone who has ever been captive to love — or to any other passion, substance, or craving — and who yearns, at long last, for liberation.
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    It Was the Way She Said It

    by Terry McMillan

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting to Exhale comes a remarkable, career-spanning collection of short fiction and essays about love, aging, culture, and all the things in between.
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    Dead and Alive

    by Zadie Smith

    A profound and unparalleled literary voice, Zadie Smith returns with a resounding collection of essays. In this eagerly awaited new collection, Smith brings her unique skills as an essayist to bear on a range of subjects that have captured her attention in recent years. Throughout this thrilling collection, Smith shows us once again her unrivalled ability to think through critically and humanely some of the most urgent preoccupations and tendencies of our troubled times.
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    Book of Lives

    by Margaret Atwood

    How does one of the greatest storytellers of our time write her own life? The long-awaited memoir from the author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments, one of our most lauded and influential cultural figures. As we travel with her along the course of her life, more and more is revealed about her writing, the connections between real life and art — and the workings of one of our greatest imaginations.
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    Bread of Angels

    by Patti Smith

    A radiant new memoir from artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award winner Just Kids.
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    Writing Creativity and Soul

    by Sue Monk Kidd

    From the bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Book of Longings: An intimate work on the mysteries, frustrations, and triumphs of being a writer, and an instructive guide to awakening the soul.
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    Strong Ground

    by Brené Brown

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Brené Brown returns with an urgent call to reimagine the essentials of courageous leadership. In a time when uncertainty runs deep and bluster, hubris, and even cruelty are increasingly framed as acceptable leadership, Brown delivers practical, actionable insights that illuminate the mindsets and skill sets essential to reclaiming focus and driving growth through connection, discipline, and accountability.
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