9 New Books Recommended by Readers This Week

Posted by Cybil on September 9, 2025
Need another excuse to treat yourself to a new book this week? We've got you covered with the buzziest new releases of the day, according to early data from your fellow readers.

To create our list, we focused on the books Goodreads members can't wait to read, which we measure by how many times a book has been added to Want to Read shelves. All these top titles are now available in the United States! Which ones catch your eye?
 

  Readers' top books of the week:

You should read this book if you like: Contemporary romance, small-town Rocky Mountain communities, hot guys with names like Sebastian Rousseau, advanced romance maneuvers like dating your ex-boyfriend’s dad, the Rose Hill series


You should read this book if you like: Mystery-thrillers, kinda-sorta historical fiction, dual timelines, background stories set in the 1980s, foreground stories set on a wild cross-country road trip, rock star dads, gradually revealed secrets, If We Were Villains


You should read this book if you like: Mysteries, thrillers, globe-trotting adventures, ancient mystical traditions, dangerous secret societies, bookish symbologists who somehow keep stumbling into lethal danger, The Da Vinci Code


You should read this book if you like: Contemporary fiction, literary fiction, acclaimed Dublin authors with thoughtful variations on traditional crime fiction, books that stitch together multiple interconnected stories, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas


You should read this book if you like: Horror, 21st-century haunted house stories, desperate online influencers with dubious plans for new content, demons both literal and figurative, complex mother-daughter dynamics, Cackle


You should read this book if you like: Fantasy, horror, intriguing story premises, haunted paintings, family curses, art history, ghost stories, m/m romance, the dark side of inheritance issues, YA/romance authors making their adult fantasy debut


You should read this book if you like: Horror, science fiction, alien hivemind organisms in rural Appalachia, Faustian bargains, extreme body horror, autistic trans protagonists, heavy allegory, debut adult novels, Hell Followed With Us


You should read this book if you like: Sports romance, hot professional hockey players, even hotter professional softball players, fake-dating and second chance tropes, romance authors dubbed “the Michelangelo of dirty talk,” tortured puns, the Big Shots series


You should read this book if you like: Nonfiction, memoirs, books about complicated and eventually unhealthy relationships, addiction issues, world-famous authors who specialize in candid autobiographical books, Eat, Pray, Love