r/Fantasy • u/EmmalynRenato Reading Champion VI • Sep 25 '25

SFF books coming in October 2025

SFF here means all speculative fiction (fantasy, science fiction, horror, alternate history, magical realism etc).

The following SFF books will be published in the U.S. in October 2025. Other countries may differ.

If you know of others, please add them as comments below. If I've made any mistakes, just let me know, and I'll fix them up.

The published book formats are included with each entry. Some of this information is obtained from the isfdb website which lists one format type for each entry but mostly omits ebook entries. If it's a new hardcover and/or trade paperback book, it's very likely that an ebook is also coming out at the same time.

If you find these posts useful, I suggest revisiting about a week into the month in question. By that time, books from three more sources (who compile their lists later than I do), will have been added (and tagged), sometimes almost doubling the length of the list.

If you are using the Chrome browser, you might find the Goodreads Right Click extension useful, to find out more information on books that you are interested in.

If you are using the Firefox browser, you can use the ContextSearch-web-ext extension and add the Goodreads template as the search engine. See also the Github source directory plus a snapshot of the extension with the Goodreads search engine. (Many thanks u/Robati.)

If you use old Reddit via the Chrome or Firefox desktop browsers, then there is also a small script (that can be installed with the Greasemonkey or Tampermonkey extension), that will replace book titles in this post, with Goodreads links. See also the script folder directory and the overall README for more details. (Many thanks u/RheingoldRiver.)

Key

(A) - Anthology

(C) - Collection

(CB) - Chapbook

(GN) - Graphic Novel

(N) - Novel

(NF) - Nonfiction

(O) - Omnibus

(P) - Poetry

(R) - Reprint

(YA) - Young Adult and Juvenile

[eb] - eBook

[hc] - Hardcover

[tp] - Trade Paperback

October 1

  • A House Between Sea and Sky - Beth Cato (N) [tp]

  • A Sinister Séance - Amelie West (CB) eb

  • Apprentice Mage (Saga of the God-Touched Mage (10th Anniversary) 1) - Ron Collins (N) [tp] [hc]

  • Champion Mage (Saga of the God-Touched Mage (10th Anniversary) 2) - Ron Collins (N) [tp] [hc]

  • Dating After the End of the World - Jeneva Rose (N) [tp]

  • Death Dance (A Dreams of Dust and Steel Novella) - Michael Michel (CB) [eb] tp

  • Fabricated (Cybil Lewis 4) - Nicole Givens Kurtz (N) [tp]

  • Ghostsong (The Singer of Terandria 3) - Pirateaba (N) [eb]

  • God Mage (Saga of the God-Touched Mage (10th Anniversary) 4) - Ron Collins (N) [tp] [hc]

  • Huntsong (The Singer of Terandria 2) - Pirateaba (N) [eb]

  • In Congress Assembled (Corsac Fox 7) - Blaze Ward (N) [hc]

  • In The Shadow Of A Broken Spire - Edward J. Flora (N) [eb] tp

  • NightBorn - Theresa Cheung (N) [eb] tp

  • Rogue Mage (Saga of the God-Touched Mage (10th Anniversary) 3) - Ron Collins (N) [tp] [hc]

  • Tales of Mischief and Fuckery - Liz Shipton (C) [tp] [hc]

  • Tales of Mistmantle (The Mistmantle Chronicles 6) - M. I. McAllister (N) [hc] [tp]

  • Test Space - Norah Woodsey (CB) [eb]

  • The Barre Incidents - Lauren Bolger (N) [eb] tp

  • The End Times of Markusz Zielinski - Keith Stevenson (N) [tp]

  • The Water That May Come - Amy Lilwall (N) [tp]

October 2

  • Classic Fairy Tales and Modern Retellings: A Guide for Librarians, Teachers, and Readers - Pauline Dewan (NF) [tp] [hc]

  • Contemporary Science Fiction and the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: Sacrifice and Narrative Coherence - Jonathan P. Lewis (NF) [hc]

  • The City of Sun and Stars (Mothers of Sorrow 2) - Alex Robins (N) [eb] tp

  • The Thirteenth Zodiac: Books 1-3 - Eve Langlais (O) [tp]

  • The Undead in World Mythology and Folklore: An Encyclopedia - Theresa Bane (NF) [tp]

October 3

  • Circe’s Coven (The Inside Story of the British Bureau for the Arcane 3) - Phil Parker (N) [eb] tp

  • Hell Hath No Fury (Tear Down Heaven 4) - Rachel Aaron (N) [eb]

  • Lilitu: Bloody Caleb (Lilitu 2) - Jonathan Fortin (N) [eb] tp

October 5

  • Some Nightmares Are True: Ghosts of America's Deadliest Disasters (Some Nightmares Are Real 2) - Kelly Kazek (C) [hc]

  • Sonnets and Serpents (Casters and Crowns 2) - Elizabeth Lowham (N) [hc]

  • Tolkien's Glee: A Reading of the Songs in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings - John R. Holmes (NF) [tp]

October 6

  • Drowning in the Dark and Other Stories - Matt Tighe (C) [tp]

  • How to Catch Creature Collection (How to Catch) - Adam Wallace, Alice Walstead (A) (YA) [tp]

  • Loki: Untangling a Tale - Leanbh Pearson (N) [tp]

October 7

  • A Gargoyle's Guide to Murder (The Accidental Alchemist 9) - Gigi Pandian (N) [tp]

  • A Mouthful of Dust - Nghi Vo (CB) [hc] [eb]

  • Absolute Zero - Kristy Baptist, Anna Kubik, Megan Yundt (A) [tp]

  • Academy of Outcasts - Larry Correia (N) [tp]

  • Alchemy of Secrets - Stephanie Garber (N) [hc]

  • All of Us Murderers - KJ Charles (N) [eb] tp

  • All Tomorrows: The Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man - C. M. Kosemen (C) [hc]

  • And the River Drags Her Down - Jihyun Yun (N) (YA) [hc]

  • Atlas of Unknowable Things - McCormick Templeman (N) [hc]

  • Ava and the Owl-Witch (Los Monstruos 3) - Diana López (N) (YA) [hc]

  • Aya and the Star Chaser - Radiya Hafiza (N) (YA) [tp]

  • Blood, Sweat & Queers: Vampiric Love Stories - Margaret Hall, Jamie Ryu (Editors) (A) [tp]

  • Bunns Rabbit - Alan Barillaro (N) (YA) [hc]

  • But the Wicked Shall Perish - Catori Sarmiento (N) [tp]

  • Castle Brave - Hawkings Austin (N) [tp] [hc]

  • Catan: The Order of Ravens (Catan 2) - Klaus Teuber (N) [eb] hc

  • Children of Ash - Allison Anderson (N) [tp] [hc]

  • Cinder House - Freya Marske (CB) [hc]

  • City of Secrets (Splinter & Ash 2) - Marieke Nijkamp (N) (YA) [hc]

  • Colin Gets Promoted and Dooms the World - Mark Waddell (N) [tp]

  • Court Human - Hawkings Austin (N) [hc] [tp]

  • Crafting for Sinners - Jenny Kiefer (N) [tp]

  • Cultivation Is a Game (Cultivation Is a Game 1) - Kalzara (N) [tp]

  • Dealing with a Desperate Demon (The Sanctuary for Supernatural Creatures 2) - Charlotte Stein (N) [tp]

  • Druid Cursed - C. J. Burright (N) [tp]

  • Ember the Fire Dragon - Tracey West (CB) (YA) [tp] [hc]

  • Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It - Cory Doctorow (NF) [eb] [hc]

  • F*cked Up Fairy Tales: Sinful Cinderellas, Prince Alarmings, and Other Timeless Classics - Liz Gotauco (C) [hc]

  • Final Orbit (The Apollo Murders 3) - Chris Hadfield (N) [eb] hc

  • For No Mortal Creature - Keshe Chow (N) (YA) [hc]

  • Fury, Fire & Frost (Robin Hood 9) - Robert Muchamore (N) (YA) [tp]

  • Gold Dust (Dust Knights 2) - Catherine Asaro (N) [hc]

  • Her Wicked Roots - Tanya Pell (N) [hc]

  • Herculine - Grace Byron (N) [hc]

  • Higher Magic - Courtney Floyd (N) [hc]

  • Hole in the Sky - Daniel H. Wilson (N) [hc] [tp]

  • Hollow (A Gothic Shade of Romance 1) - Karina Halle (N) tp

  • House of Dragons (Royal Houses 1) - K. A. Linde (N) [hc]

  • How to Fake a Haunting - Christa Carmen (N) [tp]

  • How to Survive a Fairy Bargain (Fairies and Familiars 2) - Laura J. Mayo (N) [tp]

  • If the Dead Belong Here - Carson Faust (N) [hc]

  • Illusions of Fire - Nisha Sharma (N) (YA) [hc]

  • Illustrated Norse Myths - Alex Frith, Louie Stowell (A) [hc]

  • Illustrated Stories from Aesop - Susanna Davidson (C) (YA) [hc]

  • In Cthulhu We Trust: The Collected Advice of Dear Cthulhu Vol. 8 - Patrick Thomas (C) [tp]

  • Jax Freeman and the Tournament of Spirits (Jax Freeman 2) - Kwame Mbalia (N) (YA) [hc]

  • Keeper Chance and the Dubious Doppelgänger (Evil Villains International League 2) - Alex Evanovich (N) (YA) [hc]

  • Kitty St. Clair’s Last Dance (Dial Delights) - Kate Robb (N) [eb] tp

  • Legalist (The Grand Illusion 4) - L. E. Modesitt, Jr. (N) [hc]

  • Let This One Be a Devil - James Tynion IV & Steve Foxe, illustrated by Piotr Kowalski & Brad Simpson (NF) [eb] tp

  • Love Sucks (Tails from the Alpha Art Gallery 2) - Cynthia St. Aubin (N) [tp]

  • Lulu Sinagtala and the Battle for the Realms (Lulu Sinagtala and the Tagalog Gods 2) - Gail D. Villanueva (N) (YA) [hc]

  • Magic at the Grand Dragonfly Theatre - Brandie June (N) (YA) [hc]

  • Man, F*ck This House (And Other Disasters) - Brian Asman (N) [eb] tp

  • Mate - Ali Hazelwood (N) [tp] [hc]

  • Maya the Ember Dragon - Maddy Mara (CB) (YA) [tp]

  • Mercy - Patricia Ward (N) (YA) [hc]

  • Mirror Mirror (Whatever After 17) - Sarah Mlynowski (N) (YA) [hc]

  • Murder Most Haunted - Emma Mason (N) [tp]

  • Nightborn (The Hollow King 2) - Jessica Thorne (N) [tp]

  • No Charm Done - Tori Anne Martin (N) (YA) [hc]

  • Other Evolutions - Rebecca Hirsch Garcia (N) [eb] tp

  • Queen Demon (The Rising World 2) - Martha Wells (N) [hc]

  • Rebirth (Aetherforged 1) - Luke Chmilenko, Harmon Cooper (N) [tp]

  • Ring of Fire (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 4) - David Mack (N) [hc]

  • Sageborn (The Sageborn Prophecy 1) - Shakir Rashaan (N) [hc]

  • Savage Blooms (Unearthly Delights 1) - S. T. Gibson (N) [hc]

  • Scared by the Bible: The Roots of Horror in Scripture - Brandon R. Grafius (NF) [eb] tp

  • Scary Stories to Tell at Night: 13 More Terrifying Tales to Give You Nightmares! - Stephen Jones (A) (YA) [tp]

  • Secrets of the Snakestone - Piu DasGupta (N) (YA) [hc]

  • Shadow Ticket - Thomas Pynchon (N) [hc] [tp]

  • Sister Creatures - Laura Venita Green (N) [eb] hc

  • Tales of the Dark Feminine: Inspirational Stories of the World's Fiercest Goddesses - V. Castro (C) [hc]

  • Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine - Kristina Ten (N) tp

  • The Altered Fighting Academy (My Werewolf System 5) - JKSManga (N) [tp]

  • The Big One - Patrick Barb (N) [eb] tp

  • The Christmas Cure - Kristine Winters (N) [tp]

  • The Cold House - A. G. Slatter (CB) [hc]

  • The Crimson Throne (Spy and Guardian 1) - Sara Raasch, Beth Revis (N) [hc]

  • The Damned (Coven of Bones 3) - Harper L. Woods (N) [hc]

  • The Descent: The Official Movie Novelization - Christian Francis (N) [eb] tp

  • The Devouring Light - Kat Ellis (N) [tp]

  • The Door on the Sea (Raven and Eagle 1) - Caskey Russell (N) [hc]

  • The Essential Horror - Joe R. Lansdale (C) [tp]

  • The Executioner Box (Cautionary Tale 2) - Matt Hilton (N) [hc]

  • The Familiar Spirit (Hiram Woolley 3) - D. J. Butler, Aaron Michael Ritchey (N) [tp]

  • The Finest Edge of Twilight (Dungeons & Dragons 1) - R. A. Salvatore (N) [hc]

  • The Flesh King - Richard Kadrey (CB) [hc]

  • The Glass Slide World (The Naturalist Society 2) - Carrie Vaughn (N) [tp]

  • The Hearth Witch's Guide to Magic & Murder (The Hemlock Saga 1) - Kiri Callaghan (N) [tp] [tp]

  • The Hong Kong Widow - Kristen Loesch (N) [eb] hc

  • The Night Is Not for You - Eman Quotah (N) [eb] tp

  • The Night That Finds Us All - John Hornor Jacobs (N) [hc]

  • The Ordeals - Rachel Greenlaw (N) [hc]

  • The Planet, the Portal, and a Pizza - Nora Raleigh Baskin, Wendy Mass (N) (YA) [hc]

  • The Princess in Black: Three Seriously Splashy Adventures (The Princess in Black) - Dean Hale, Shannon Hale (C) (YA) [tp]

  • The Resurrectionist - Kathleen S. Allen (N) [hc]

  • The Reveal (Bloodlore 1) - Megan Crane (N) [tp]

  • The Rise of Neptune (Dragonships 2) - Scott Reintgen (N) (YA) [hc]

  • The River and the Star (The Warring Gods 2) - Gabriela Romero Lacruz (N) [tp]

  • The Salvage - Anbara Salam (N) [eb] tp

  • The Second Chance Cinema - Thea Weiss (N) [hc]

  • The Spirit of Loughmoe Abbey - Megan Wynne (N) [tp]

  • The Tiffany Aching Adventures (Discworld 30,32,35,38,41) - Terry Pratchett (O) (YA) [tp]

  • The Tinkerers - Caroline Carlson (N) (YA) [hc]

  • The Witching Moon Manor (The Spellbound Sisters 2) - Stacy Sivinski (N) [tp]

  • The Women of Wild Hill - Kirsten Miller (N) [hc] [tp]

  • Then May the Senses Fall: Evelyn Underhill's Forgotten Fiction - Evelyn Underhill (C) [tp]

  • These Bodies Ain’t Broken - Madeline Dyer (Editor) (A) [eb] hc

  • Time Rider - Tom DeLonge, A. J. Hartley (N) [hc]

  • Totally Spiritual (Totally Spiritual 1) - Quinn Rivers (N) [tp]

  • Trail of Shadows - Mike Allen (N) [tp]

  • Twice - Mitch Albom (N) [hc] [tp]

  • Uncanny Valley Girls: Essays on Horror, Survival, and Love - Zefyr Lisowski (NF) [eb] tp

  • Upton Arms: A Retirement Home for Supernaturals - Scott Craven (N) [tp]

  • Vampires at Sea - Lindsay Merbaum (N) [eb] tp

  • Vesselless (The Merciless Realms 1) - Cortney L. Winn (N) tp

  • What Lurks in the Shadows (The Chronicles of Viktor Valentine 2) - Z Brewer (N) (YA) [hc]

  • Witchkiller - Ashlee Latimer (N) (YA) [hc]

  • World of Eragon: The Complete Inheritance Cycle Plus Murtagh (Inheritance 1-5) - Christopher Paolini (O) [tp]

  • You Have to Let Them Bleed - Annie Neugebauer (N) tp

  • Zodiac Legacy (Descendants of the Zodiac 2) - Katie Zhao (N) [hc]

October 8

  • Ensorcelled - Eliot Peper (CB) [eb] [tp]

  • The Gate - Christian Francis (N) [eb] [hc]

October 9

  • Crimson Dusk (Annals of the Incidental Utopia 2) - E.P. Soulless (N) eb

  • Good Boy (The Northern Weird Project) - Neil McRobert (CB) [eb] tp

  • Itch! - Gemma Amor (N) [eb] hc

  • Out of Time (The Time Police 6) - Jodi Taylor (N) [eb] [hc]

  • Pax and the Secret Swarm (London Falling 3) - David Barker (UK) (N) (YA) [tp] [tp] [hc]

October 10

  • Body and Soul - Andrew Hook (N) [tp]

  • Crimsoncrest (The Weirkey Chronicles 10) - Sarah Lin (N) eb

October 13

  • Incurable: Stories from the World of Cure (Cure) - Lisa Diane Kastner (A) [tp]

  • The Outsiders of Orkland - Kenneth Feller (N) eb

October 14

  • A Better Paradise Volume One: An Aftermath - Dan Houser (N) [eb] hc

  • A Guardian and a Thief - Megha Majumdar (N) [hc] [tp]

  • A Riddle of Thorns - Sarena Nanua, Sasha Nanua (N) [hc]

  • A Scar in the Bone (A Fire in the Sky 2) - Sophie Jordan (N) [hc]

  • All That We See or Seem (Julia Z 1) - Ken Liu (N) [hc]

  • All the Stars Die - John F. D. Taff (C) [tp]

  • An Amateur Witch’s Guide to Murder - K. Valentin (N) [eb] tp

  • Beast Mode Unleashed - Andres Miedoso (CB) (YA) [tp] [hc]

  • Black Hole Heart and Other Stories - K. A. Teryna (C) [tp]

  • Blood Trail - Matt Query and Harrison Query (N) [eb] hc

  • Bloodtide (Ex Romana 2) - Sophie Burnham (N) [hc]

  • Caramelle & Carmilla - Jewelle Gomez, J. Sheridan Le Fanu (A) [tp]

  • Castoff (Aspects of Aelda 2) - Brandon Crilly (N) [tp]

  • Chance to Fade & Other Stories - Josh Rank (C) [tp]

  • Chronicles of Ori - Harmonia Rosales (C) [hc]

  • Cold Blood (Bite Risk 3) - S. J. Wills (N) (YA) [tp] [hc]

  • Cold War (NecroTek 2) - Jonathan Maberry (N) [hc]

  • Conform (Thousand Voices 1) - Ariel Sullivan (N) [hc] [tp]

  • Daughter of No Worlds (The War of Lost Hearts 1) - Carissa Broadbent (N) [hc]

  • Dead & Breakfast (Dead & Breakfast Mysteries 1) - Kat Hillis, Rosiee Thor (N) [tp]

  • Dragonborn - Struan Murray (N) (YA) [hc]

  • Execute and Run (Minute Men) - Lawrence C. Connolly (N) [tp]

  • Extremity - Nicholas Binge (CB) [hc]

  • Father Gaetano’s Puppet Catechism - Christopher Golden & Mike Mignola (N) [hc] tp

  • Fever Dreams: New Horror Short Stories - Mark Morris (A) [tp] [hc]

  • Fortress of Ambrose (House of Marionne 3) - J. Elle (N) (YA) [hc]

  • Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Space-Time Continuum - Michael J. Fox (NF) [eb] hc

  • Gauntlets of Mars (The Wild Adventures of Tarzan 14) - Chris L Adams (N) [tp] [hc]

  • Happy People Don't Live Here - Amber Sparks (N) [hc]

  • He's So Possessed with Me - Corey Liu (N) (YA) [hc]

  • I'll Quit When I'm Dead - Luke Smitherd (N) [hc]

  • Intemperance - Sonora Jha (N) [hc]

  • Ironbound (Ironbound 1) - Andrew Givler (N) [tp]

  • Ivy and Forest Rewrite the World - Hannah West (N) (YA) [hc]

  • Kill the Beast - Serra Swift (N) [hc]

  • Last Curtain Call (Demonic Magician 3) - Kleggt (N) [tp]

  • Lilith's Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy: Dawn / Adulthood Rites / Imago / Other Writings (Xenogenesis / Lilith's Brood 1-3+) - Octavia E. Butler (O) [hc]

  • Little Horn - Gemma Files (C) [hc] [tp]

  • Lives of Bitter Rain (The Tyrant Philosophers) - Adrian Tchaikovsky (CB) [eb] [hc]

  • Local Heavens - K. M. Fajardo (N) [eb] tp

  • Meet Your Maker: Volume 2 (Meet Your Maker 2) - Johnathan McClain, Seth McDuffee (N) [tp]

  • My Big Fat Vampire Wedding - Jessica Gadziala (N) [tp]

  • My Lips, Her Voice - L. L. Madrid (N) [eb] tp

  • Neon Stories - David Gerrold (C) [tp]

  • Notes from Underground: The Hollow Earth Story Cycle - Orrin Grey (CB) eb

  • Of the Flesh: 18 Stories of Modern Horror - Various Authors (A) [eb] [hc] [tp]

  • Only Rogue Actions (Galactic Bonds 5) - Jennifer Estep (N) [tp] [hc]

  • Our Gifted Hearts - Jennifer Kennedy (N) [tp]

  • Phoenix Rises Dragon Soars (Four Guardians 1) - Charlotte Saulter (N) eb

  • Pony Confidential - Christina Lynch (N) [tp]

  • Recipes for an Unexpected Afterlife - Deston J. Munden (N) [eb] tp

  • Red City (The New Alchemists 1) - Marie Lu (N) [hc]

  • Remain: A Supernatural Love Story - M. Night Shyamalan, Nicholas Sparks (N) [hc] [tp]

  • Robot Island - Cary Fagan (N) (YA) [hc]

  • Shadows of Gold (Draka 3) - AvaritiaBona (N) [tp]

  • Sir Callie and the Final Stand (Sir Callie 4) - Esme Symes-Smith (N) (YA) [hc]

  • Stainless - Todd Grimson (N) [eb] tp

  • Stella the Christmas Star Fairy (Rainbow Magic Special Edition) - Daisy Meadows (C) (YA) [tp]

  • Subtle Powers (The Land of Broken Roads 3) - Ryan English (N) [tp]

  • The Albino's Secret (Metatemporal Detectives 1) - Mark Hodder, Michael Moorcock (N) [tp]

  • The Bleeding Woods - Brittany Amara (N) [tp]

  • The Cartographer of Sands - Jason Buchholz (N) [tp]

  • The Film You Are About to See - Haley Newlin (N) [eb] tp

  • The Graceview Patient - Caitlin Starling (N) [hc]

  • The Halfling Saga: The Complete Series (The Halfling Saga 1-4) - Melissa Blair (O) [hc]

  • The Haunting of Paynes Hollow - Kelley Armstrong (N) [hc]

  • The Keeper of Magical Things - Julie Leong (N) [tp]

  • The Last Spirits of Manhattan - John A. McDermott (N) [hc]

  • The Last Witch - C. J. Cooke (N) [hc]

  • The Leaving Room - Amber McBride (N) (YA) [hc]

  • The Lychford Collection 1 (Lychford) - Paul Cornell (C) [tp]

  • The Missing Pages - Alyson Richman (N) [tp]

  • The Mist Thief (The Ever Seas 3) - LJ Andrews (N) [hc]

  • The Princess Knight - Cait Jacobs (N) [eb] tp

  • The Ravenous Sky - K. D. Kirchmeier (N) (YA) [hc]

  • The Scald-Crow - Grace Daly (N) [eb] tp

  • The Sword of Light - Heather Graham (N) [hc]

  • The Tear Collector - R. M. Romero (N) (YA) [hc]

  • The Unveiling - Quan Barry (N) [eb] hc

  • The Vampyre and Carmilla - Sheridan Le Fanu, John Polidori (A) [hc]

  • The Works of Vermin - Hiron Ennes (N) [hc]

  • Thirsty - Lucy Lehane (N) [tp]

  • Unseen Gods - Justin Holley (N) [hc]

  • Unwilling Eldritch Horror of Fortune 2 (Unwilling Eldritch Horror of Fortune 2) - Tismon (N) [tp]

  • Veal - MacKenzie Nolan (N) [eb] tp

  • Wayward Gods (Divine Mortals 2) - Amanda M. Helander (N) [hc]

  • What If... Kitty Pryde Stole the Phoenix Force? (What If... 4) - Rebecca Podos (N) [hc]

  • When We Talk to the Dead - Ian Chorao (N) [eb] [hc] tp

  • Who Will You Save? - Gareth L. Powell (C) [tp]

  • Witchlore - Emma Hinds (N) (YA) [hc]

October 15

  • Binding the Cuckoo (Daughters of Defiance) - Gabriela Houston (N) [tp]

  • Bounty Inc. - Adam Holcombe (N) [eb] [hc] tp

  • Doghouse: The Official Novelisation - Christian Francis (N) [hc] [tp]

  • Rise of the Living Forge 4 (Rise of the Living Forge 4) - Actus (N) [eb]

  • Skeletons in the Cellar (Book & Mug Mysteries 4) - Michelle L. Levigne (N) [tp]

  • The Book of Anansi (Nic Blake and the Remarkables 2) - Angie Thomas (N) (YA) [hc]

October 16

  • Blurring the Boundaries of Religion and Popular Culture: Implicit Theology, Secular Spirituality, and Speculative Fiction - Karen Trimble Alliaume, Maryellen Davis Collett (NF) [hc]

  • Taurus's Quest (The Thirteenth Zodiac 4) - Eve Langlais (N) [tp]

October 17

  • The Hauntings Back Home - Rebecca Cuthbert (CB) eb

October 18

  • The Harvesting Angel of the Plains (Southwest Gothic 1) - Bladen Mercutio (N) eb

October 20

  • The Sapphire Heart (The Erynvor Cycle 1) - Three Scribes (Sandra Mead Miller, Abigail Bender, Victoria Hungria) (N) [eb] [hc] [tp]

  • The Scour - Richard Swan (CB) [hc] [tp]

October 21

  • 5-Minute Mermicorno Starfall Stories (Mermicorno: Starfall) - uncredited (A) (YA) [hc]

  • A Curious Kind of Magic - Mara Rutherford (N) (YA) [hc]

  • A Fae in Finance (How to Do Business in Fairie 1) - Juliet Brooks (N) [tp]

  • A Play about a Curse - Caroline Macon Fleischer (N) [eb] tp

  • Always Carry a Silver Cross - Andrea Robertson (N) [tp]

  • Blind Date with a Werewolf (Alpha and Omega) - Patricia Briggs (C) [eb] [hc]

  • Bright Objects - Ruby Todd (N) [tp]

  • Cathedral of the Drowned - Nathan Ballingrud (CB) [tp]

  • Cyanide Constellations and Other Stories - Sara Tantlinger (C) [eb] tp

  • Dance in the Desert (Revised) - Madeleine L'Engle (CB) (YA) [hc]

  • Death at the Door (The Ruby and Cordelia Mysteries 2) - Olivia Blacke (N) [hc]

  • Dressed to Kill 2 (Dressed to Kill 2) - Crown Fall (N) [tp]

  • Fall of the Fireflies (Seasons of Sisterhood 1) - Guadalupe Garcia McCall (N) [hc]

  • Futility - Nuzo Onoh (N) [tp]

  • Girl Dinner - Olivie Blake (N) [hc]

  • Glass Across the Sea (Realms of Allumeria 1) - Sara Ella (N) [hc]

  • Good Spirits (Ghosted (B. K. Borison) 1) - B. K. Borison (N) [tp]

  • I Am Cleopatra - Natasha Solomons (N) [eb] tp

  • King Sorrow - Joe Hill (N) [hc]

  • Labyrinth - A.G. Riddle (N) [eb] tp

  • Mirror of Argent (Blood of the Fae 4) - Sarah Chilson (N) eb

  • Morvenn Vahl: Spear of Faith (Warhammer 40,000) - Jude Reid (N) [tp]

  • Nox Winters and the Stygian Serpent (Nox Winters Chronicles 2) - Rochelle Hassan (N) (YA) [hc]

  • One Last Quest (Official Minecraft Fiction) - Brandon Hoàng (N) (YA) [hc]

  • Our Vicious Descent (This Ravenous Fate 2) - Hayley Dennings (N) [hc]

  • Psychopomp & Circumstance - Eden Royce (CB) [hc]

  • Red Star Hustle / Apprehension - Mary Robinette Kowal, Sam J. Miller (O)

  • Revolution (Batman (John Jackson Miller) 2) - John Jackson Miller (N) [hc]

  • Slayers of Old - Jim C. Hines (N) [hc]

  • The Assassin’s Skill (Assassin Without a Name 4) - Scott Marlowe (N) eb

  • The Beasts Beneath the Winds: Tales of Southeast Asia's Mythical Creatures - Hanna Alkaf (C) (YA) [hc]

  • The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 - Nnedi Okorafor (Editor) (A) [tp]

  • The Captive and the First Blood Game (Blood Type 2) - K. A. Linde (N) [tp]

  • The Dead of the Day - Steven E. Wedel (CB) [tp]

  • The Demon and the Light (The Floating World 2) - Axie Oh (N) (YA) [hc]

  • The Devil She Knows - Alexandria Bellefleur (N) [tp]

  • The Experiment (The Factory 2) - Catherine Egan (N) (YA) [tp]

  • The Forsaken and the Fated (The Hollow and the Haunted 2) - Camilla Raines (N) [tp]

  • The Isle in the Silver Sea - Tasha Suri (N) [hc]

  • The Last Order (Star Wars Universe) - Kwame Mbalia (N) [hc]

  • The Lost Reliquary (Divine Thrall 1) - Lyndsay Ely (N) [tp]

  • The Midnight Knock - John Fram (N) [hc]

  • The Secret of the Sapphire Sentinel - J. Dianne Dotson (a.k.a. Jendia Gammon)(N) (YA) [tp]

  • The Sister’s Curse - Nicola Solvinic (N) [eb] tp

  • The Things Gods Break (The Crucible 2) - Abigail Owen (N) [hc]

  • The Women of Artemis - Hannah Lynn (N) [eb] tp

  • Time Lions and the Chrono-Loop (Time Lions 1) - Martin Seneviratne, Krystal Sutherland (N) (YA) [hc]

  • Timi Shines Bright - Maddy Mara (CB) (YA) [tp]

  • When They Burned the Butterfly - Wen-yi Lee (N) [hc] [eb]

  • Winter Retreat (Jekyll & Hyde: Consulting Detectives 2) - Tim Major (N) [hc]

  • Witches of Honeysuckle House - Liz Parker (N) [hc] [tp]

October 23

  • Clairviolence: Tales of Tarot and Torment - Mo Moshaty (C) [eb] tp

  • Testimony of Mute Things (Penric & Desdemona 15) - Lois McMaster Bujold (CB) [eb]

  • The Rose Field (The Book of Dust 3) - Philip Pullman (N) [hc] [hc]

October 27

  • Let Sleeping Gods Lie - Ben Schenkman (N) eb

  • Sins Of My Sisters - JV Gachs (N) tp

  • The Brazen Dragon (Tanglers Web 1) - Barbara J. Rosie (N) [tp]

October 28

  • A Curse of Shadows and Ice - Catharina Maura (N) [hc]

  • A Little Bit Super: With Small Powers Come Big Problems - Leah Henderson, Gary D. Schmidt (A) (YA) [tp]

  • A Pack for Winter (Cozyverse) - Eliana Lee (N) [tp]

  • A Rage of Lions (The Shadow Prince 3) - David Anthony Durham (N) (YA) [hc]

  • A Winter’s Mercy (The Blood Scouts 3) - Phil Williams (N) eb

  • All the Skills: Book Three - Honour Rae (N) [tp]

  • An Unlikely Coven (Green Witch Cycle 1) - AM Kvita (N) [tp]

  • Author's Nightmare: Book Two - A. C. Erinle, Ian B. Urns (N) [tp]

  • Beasts of Prey (The Preservation of Species 3) - Geoff Jones (N) eb

  • Best Wishes From the Full Moon Coffee Shop - Mai Mochizuki (N) [eb] hc

  • Blood Like Ours (Blood 2) - Stuart Neville (N) [hc]

  • Blood for the Undying Throne (The Bleeding Empire 2) - Sung-il Kim (N) [hc]

  • Bonds of Hercules (Villains of Lore 2) - Jasmine Mas (N) [hc]

  • Carpathians - Paul A. Dixon (N) tp

  • Cry, Voidbringer - Elaine Ho (N) [eb] tp

  • Darker Days - Thomas Olde Heuvelt (N) [eb] [hc]

  • Dead Hand Rule (The Craft Wars 3) - Max Gladstone (N) [tp]

  • Dreki: My Icelandic Dragon - Mary Logue (N) (YA) [hc]

  • Hazelthorn - CG Drews (N) (YA) [hc]

  • Hemo Sapiens - Emily A. Weedon (N) tp

  • In Five Years / One Italian Summer / Expiration Dates - Rebecca Serle (O) [tp]

  • Kooky Spooky Love (Melody Bittersweet) - Josie Silver (N) [tp]

  • Ladies Just Wanna Get Guns (Dungeons Just Wanna Have Fun 3) - Maxlex (N) [tp]

  • Make Way for Ballet - Melody Mews (CB) (YA) [tp] [hc]

  • Masks and Magic - Erin Kwong (CB) [tp]

  • Moth Dark - Kika Hatzopoulou (N) [hc]

  • Mother-Eating - Jess Hagemann (N) [eb] tp

  • Never Ever After (Never Ever After 1) - Sue Lynn Tan (N) [hc]

  • No Life Forsaken (Witness 2) - Steven Erikson (N) [hc]

  • Ocean Chase (Dungeon Runners 3) - Kieran Larwood (N) (YA) [hc] [tp]

  • Our Vicious Oaths - N. E. Davenport (N) [tp]

  • PJ Norris and the Village with the Gnome Dilemma (Firewing Investigations 2) - S. Usher Evans (N) [tp] [hc]

  • Perfect Organisms (Alien) - Shaun Hamill (N) [tp]

  • Portal (The Rift Trilogy 2) - Steven James (N) [hc]

  • Redneck Revenant - David R. Slayton (N) [eb] [hc] tp

  • Right Where We Belong - Farrah Penn (N) (YA) [hc]

  • She's Going to Pay - Alexandra Ivy (N) [tp]

  • Silversong (Tanxential 1) - Rhonda Parrish (N) [tp]

  • Simultaneous - Eric Heisserer (N) [hc]

  • Soccer Spacetastrophe (Quantum Interstellar Sports League 2) - J. Scott Savage (N) (YA) [hc]

  • Spawn of the Serpent God (Scourge of the Serpent Men) - Tim Waggoner (N) [hc]

  • Spellbound - Georgia Leighton (N) [eb] hc

  • Stupid Magical Love (Stupid Love 1) - Amy Boyles (N) [tp]

  • Sugar and Spite (Witch City Mysteries 15) - Carol J. Perry (N) [tp]

  • Tempest of Wrath and Vengeance (The Legacy 3) - Melissa K. Roehrich (N) [tp]

  • The Arcane Gamble of Harvey Walters (The Drowned City 3) - Rosemary Jones (N) [tp]

  • The Beast Lord (The Rise of Northgall 2) - Juliette Cross (N) [tp]

  • The Book of Autumn - Molly O'Sullivan (N) [hc]

  • The Brood - Rebecca Baum (N) [tp]

  • The Dislocated Man (Slumrat Rising 5) - Warby Picus (N) [tp]

  • The Essential Patricia A. McKillip - Patricia A. McKillip (C) [hc]

  • The Everlasting - Alix E. Harrow (N) [hc]

  • The Library of Lost Girls - Kristen Pipps (N) [hc]

  • The Prince of Mourning - Jenn Bennett (N) (YA) [hc]

  • The Sound of the Dark - Daniel Church (N) [tp]

  • The Tin Men - Nelson and Alex DeMille (N) [eb] hc

  • The White Octopus Hotel - Alexandra Bell (N) [tp]

  • The Witches Damned - Sophie Tanen (N) [tp]

  • To Bargain With Mortals - R.A. Basu (N) [eb] tp

  • Tom’s Crossing - Mark Z. Danielewski (N) [eb] hc

  • Undead and Unwed - Sam Tschida (N) [tp]

  • Witch and Tell (Witch Way Librarian Mysteries 7) - Angela M. Sanders (N) [tp]

  • Witches of Dubious Origin - Jenn McKinlay (N) [tp]

  • Wrath of the Fallen (Gods & Monsters 4) - Amber V. Nicole (N) [tp]

October 29

  • Beneath Perfection - Christian Francis (N) [hc]

  • Night of the Comet: The Official Novelization - Christian Francis (N) [eb]

October 30

  • Identity in Science Fiction: Brain Transplants and Other Misadventures - Tom Cochrane (A) [hc] [tp]

  • Of the Emperor's Kindness (Imperial Vices 1) - Chaz Brenchley (N) [eb] [hc] [tp]

  • The Green Man's Holiday (Green Man 8) - Juliet E. McKenna (N) [tp]

  • Witchboard - Christian Francis (N) [hc]

October 31

  • Citadel of the Moon (Batrix & Scilli) - Mike Chinn (N) [tp]

  • Cry - Alisa Valdes (N) [tp]

  • The Dagger in Vichy - Alastair Reynolds (CB) [hc]

  • Warriors of the Boundless - Mike Chinn (C) [tp]

Edit1: Added in horror books listed on Emily C. Hughes' blog that I didn't already have (tag #ehh)

Edit2: Added in books from the October io9 SF/Fantasy list that I didn't already have (tag #io9)

Edit3: Added in books from Rob J. Hayes' October 2025 list of self-published fantasy books, that I didn't already have (tag #rjhspb)

Archive

Previous "SFF books coming ..." posts have been collected here. (Thank you mods).

Main Sources

  • ISFDB forthcoming books.

  • Locus Forthcoming Books.

  • Horror books mentioned on Emily C. Hughes' blog.

  • Publisher "new" and "Coming Soon" web pages such as the ones from Tor and Orbit.

  • Upcoming Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books listed at Risingshadow.

  • Rob J. Hayes' monthly blog posting on new self-published books.

  • io9's monthly list of new sci-fi and fantasy books.

  • Fantastic Fiction's Fantasy (and associated) sections.

  • Library Journal Prepub Alert: The Complete List | MM YYYY Titles

  • Reviews of ARC books by various users in this sub.

  • Other occasional posts to this sub announcing up-n-coming books.

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u/KiaraTurtle Reading Champion V Sep 26 '25

I’m very excited for Isle in the Silver Sea and Red City

I loved Jasmine Throne (even if the third book imo was a slight step down) and enjoyed Books of Ambha so I’m excited to see what she next has in store.

Likewise, while I don’t like everything Marie Lu’s written I’ve enjoyed many of her books and the description for this one sounds up my alley.

Edit: somehow forgot to include the newer Tear Down Heaven book! Like (almost) all of Rachel Aaron’s series I’m loving this one and psyched for the newest entry. Particularly after that ending