What We're Reading, now that fall is creeping in! (September 2025 Edition)

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

Welcome to the September edition of our beloved “What Are You Currently Reading?” thread — your monthly excuse to gush, gripe, and geek out over your current reads!

Whether you’re:
🍂 Leaning into cozy fall reads and dark academia vibes
☀️ Still holding on to the last rays of summer with beachy books
📚 Staring down your September TBR like it’s a boss battle
🎃 Or already planning spooky season reads way too early (no judgment)…

This is your space to shout out what’s on your nightstand, your Kindle, or playing in your ears right now!

💬 Jump in with:
• What you just picked up / just finished
• A quote that floored you (or made you snort-laugh in public)
• A one-sentence review, or a wildly unhinged rant — we love both
• How your September TBR is shaping up (or already derailing 👀)

✨ This thread will be open all month, and we’ll start fresh in October to keep things tidy.

🆕 Bonus Fun: Don’t miss our other bookish convos:
→ Weekly Author Appreciation: A new author to spotlight (or side-eye) each week
→ Monthly Theme Chat: September’s theme is Dark Academia 🏫📖 — perfect for the season of sharpened pencils, candlelight, and questionable life choices.

So tell us — what’s your September read-along companion? Sound off below! 👇📖

[Erin *Proud Book Hoarder*]

I read a lot of horror and dark thrillers generally in October, but that's starting in September.

Not much dark academia but I am planning to re-read a trilogy of short novels from Tamara Thorne - Sorority Trilogy. I won these in my 20's from a live chat with the author and received the trilogy autographed with personalized messages for each as well as a bookmark, so this series will always be dear to me just as a keeper on my shelf. Eve | Merilynn | Samantha

Due to The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand FINALLY being released - I've known about it two years from Brian Keene's X Post years back, and have had it pre-ordered since last year as a Hardcover, I am re-reading The Stand before starting the anthology to do it right. While I've read it before in paperback and e-book, this time I am listening to it with the audiobook narrated by Grover Gardner. The anthology is based on The Stand, and meanwhile I need to finish You Like It Darker since I don't like reading two anthologies at the same time. I'm so slow reading them, although I enjoy them. The Stand anthology will take a long time as I don't want to rush through it and it is 800 pages.

Also of course many random series and oddball books - hope all have a good September reading month.

[Christine]

I’m reading a book called The Day I Died by Lori Rader-Day

[Audiophile Audrey]

If dark academia is your jam, this is a great book one so far. I'm only halfway through Immortal Consequences: The Souls of Blackwood Academy, Book 1 and in the land in between, the ether, such immortal adventures six overachieving students undergo to compete in a dangerous race to graduate.

[Christine]

I’m reading a book called The Oligarch's Daughter by Joseph Finder

[Sara]

The Crescent Moon Tearoom is a cutesy, cozy fall book

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

I am reading the Dungeon Crawler Carl series! I finished the first and immediately started the second. Highly recommend! It's so much fun!

[Christine]

I’m reading a book called Winning Back His Wife by Melissa McClone

[Christine]

I’m reading a book called Ghost Stories of Texas by Jo-Anne Christensen

[Christine]

I’m reading a book called Haunted Massachusetts: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Bay State by Cheri Farnsworth

[Christine]

I’m reading a book called Ghosts of Mount Holly:: A History of Haunted Happenings by Jan Lynn Bastien

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

🕸🍂 Hey ghouls and bookworms! 🍂🕸

September is winding down, which means this thread will be closing soon to make way for our October edition. 🎃📚

On October 1st, a brand-new spooky-season What We’re Reading thread will rise from the shadows — perfect for sharing your haunted reads, cozy fall favorites, and pumpkin-spiced page-turners. 👻☕️

So keep chatting here through the end of September, but get ready to follow the trail of candy corn into the next thread when the calendar flips.

✨ Stay tuned for the link — and prepare yourself… if you dare. 🕯

[Christine]

I’m reading a book called Ghosts of Burlington County:: Historical Hauntings from the Mullica to the Delaware by Jan Lynn Bastien

[Christine]

I’m reading a book called Springtime in Salt River / Love Thine Enemy by RaeAnne Thayne

[T.M.]

Just finished Red Rising by Pierce Brown. Yes, it was worth the hype. Don't let the writing style bring you down, nah, the book is worth every second of sleep deprivation.