7 New Books Recommended by Readers This Week

Posted by Cybil on September 23, 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: Literary speculative fiction, highly acclaimed U.K. authors, dual timeline stories, the world circa 2119, sublimated ecological dread, books that encourage you to think about how you think about history, Atonement


You should read this book if you like: Horror, thrillers, dark academia, phantasmagoria, psychotic graduate school cohorts, unfortunate college reunion incidents, standalone novels that also function as highly anticipated prequel-sequels, Bunny


You should read this book if you like: Dark fantasy, dark romance, powerful necromancers, desperate resistance fighters, bleak transpositions of familiar fantasy tropes, popular fan fiction series, Manacled


You should read this book if you like: Fantasy, romance, vampires and werewolves and the humans who love them, ancient power struggles, penultimate installments in pioneering romantasy franchises, the Blood and Ash series


You should read this book if you like: Dark romance, gallows humor, slow-burn enemies-to-lovers arcs, eccentric small-town folks with an unusual tolerance for psychopathic violence, romance series that require content warnings, The Ruinous Love Trilogy


You should read this book if you like: Nonfiction, memoirs, books that chronicle the messy end of a 26-year marriage, affiliated issues of trauma and faith, authors who are also TV presenters and podcast hosts, For the Love


You should read this book if you like: Nonfiction, first-person journalism, history, public policy, books that were researched and written entirely within prison, critical new perspectives on true-crime pop culture and entertainment