What Will You Read for August 2025?

By Rachel Tran | May 20 2025 | NewsStaff Picks

Request eGalleys of some of ourĀ favorite August titles, and if you love the books, please consider nominating them for LibraryReads! Remember, voting for the July list ends on 7/1.

View our featured picks below, or browse an extended collectionĀ here.

View a Spanish language collection of August titlesĀ here.

A Novel
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE SWEDISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD • A profoundly moving debut novel that follows an elderly man’s attempts to mend his relationship with his son before it’s too late: an emotional story of love, friendship, fatherhood, dogs, and atonement that is already an international sensation. "One of those ‘you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll want to buy twenty copies and give them to everyone you love’ books.” —Fredrik Backman, bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, in The New Yorker “A powerful, sneakily emotional meditation on life and death, and the foundational relationships in our lives. This is a book that will echo in your soul.” —Garth Stein, New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain

Fictions
Joyful and surprising, Something to Look Forward To celebrates people from all across America who are learning to cope and to connect in a changing world—fiction by the beloved New York Times bestselling author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe "Fannie Flagg is a national treasure."—Adriana Trigiani, author of The Good Left Undone

A Novel
From the award-winning author of Girls Burn Brighter, a couple from India—so different from generations of white colonialists who came before them—move to Montana, only to discover the secrets the land holds in this stunning literary novel.

A Novel
A riveting tale of forbidden love centered on an estranged couple brought together to reckon with the mysterious events that splintered their family.

A Novel
“[Loved One] is special . . . full of wildly astute, delectably thorny questions about love and loss and possession.” —Maggie Shipstead, New York Times bestselling author of Great Circle “Shimmers with wit even as it explores deep loss.” —Rachel Khong, New York Times bestselling author of Real AmericansFrom an Emmy Award–winning writer comes a funny, wise, heartbreaking story about a woman journeying into the unknown in the wake of sudden loss

A Novel
In a climate-ravaged landscape where AI and humans vie for political power, a journalist must unravel a murderous plot that will either upend the world or save it.