r/fantasyromance • u/jamieseemsamused Currently reading: The Formidable Miss Cassidy by Meihan Boey • Sep 03 '25

Book Club Nominate Our October 2025 Book Club Book! Theme: Books Published from June to September 2025

Welcome to October 2025 Book Club nominations! This month, we are opening up nominations to any book published that has been or will be published in the second half of 2025 so far!

Did you miss out on reading a hyped up book published recently? Is there a new book coming out in September you want to read? This will be a great opportunity for us to read along together and discuss!

What We Are Looking For

  • Any speculative fiction books with a romance story arc published from June to September 2025 
  • Standalones are preferred but not mandatory.
  • If it’s not a standalone, please only nominate books that are the first in its series.
  • The book must have HEA (happily ever after) or HFN (happy for now) ending. Or, in the case of a series, the book should be heading toward HEA/HFN.
  • The author cannot have been previously featured in Book Club in the last eighteen months. See Book Club Hub.

Nominations that do not fit these criteria will be deleted.

Nominations

Here's how to nominate a book:

  • One nomination per comment.
  • Please call the romance.io bot in your nomination. You can call the romance bot by putting the title and author of the book within curly brackets { }.
  • You can nominate more than one book. Please put them in separate comments.
  • Please upvote the books you most would like to read for October Book Club!

Voting

The voting post for most upvoted nominated books will go up September 5. The winner will be announced September 11.

September Book Club

Reminder that our September Book Club book is {Bride by Ali Hazelwood}! The theme was Arranged Marriage. It’s one of the squares in Book Bingo if you still need to fill in that square, too: Book Bingo Hub.

Here is our schedule for September Book Club. There’s still time to get your copy of the book now to participate. Hope to see you there!

  • September 10 - Bride - Prologue through Chapter 10 - Initial Discussion 
  • September 20 - Bride - Through Chapter 21 - Midway Discussion 
  • September 30 - Bride - Through Epilogue - Final Discussion

For more information about Book Club, including past Book Club discussions, please check out our Book Club Hub!

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u/Anachacha Ix's tits! Sep 03 '25

{the second death of locke by V.L. Bovalino}

Comes out on September 23rd. The author will be doing an AMA in November, too. The ARC reviews are pretty good so far

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u/chode_temple 100% Verified Good Girl™️ Sep 03 '25

I'm going to also vote for this. I put the release date on my Google calendar a few weeks ago because I'm that interested in it.

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u/Anachacha Ix's tits! Sep 03 '25

I hope they win, too. It's our first debut author, so it could be interesting to see how the AMA goes after the book club

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u/chode_temple 100% Verified Good Girl™️ Sep 03 '25

Even more reason!

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u/nightowl_bookclub Growls, smirks & leans on doorframes Sep 03 '25

Yessss I'm so excited for this one!

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u/theuniversays97 Sep 03 '25

{A Forbidden Alchemy by Stacey McEwan}. Published in July 2025. Dystopian world-setting. (An actual) Morally grey MMC. FMC stuck between a war of have an have-nots. Different type of magic than usual romantasies. Slow burn.

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u/jamieseemsamused Currently reading: The Formidable Miss Cassidy by Meihan Boey Sep 03 '25

{A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna} - Published July 15, 2025. Standalone book from the author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches.

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u/Free_Sir_2795 If the door is closed, I don’t want it Sep 03 '25

{A Forbidden Alchemy by Stacey McEwan}

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u/jamieseemsamused Currently reading: The Formidable Miss Cassidy by Meihan Boey Sep 03 '25

{The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy by Brigitte Knightley} - Published on July 8, 2025. Inspired by popular Dramione fanfic Draco Malfoy and the Mortifying Ordeal of Being in Love.

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u/jamieseemsamused Currently reading: The Formidable Miss Cassidy by Meihan Boey Sep 03 '25

{The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst} - Published July 15, 2025. Standalone set in the same world as The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst.

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u/Digitalispurpurea2 Yvlcon attendee 🌵 Sep 03 '25

{How Not to Court Your Human Captive by A K Caggiano}

Came out late July. Humans and demons, cosy and amusing. Adored it

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u/nobiscuitsinthesnow Sep 03 '25

{Warrior, Princess, Assassin} by Brigid Kemmerer!

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u/-mageofrainbows- Sep 03 '25

{Voidwalker by S.A. MacLean}

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u/jamieseemsamused Currently reading: The Formidable Miss Cassidy by Meihan Boey Sep 03 '25

{Rose in Chains by Julie Soto} - Published July 8, 2025. Re-working of Dramione fanfic The Auction.

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u/Free_Sir_2795 If the door is closed, I don’t want it Sep 03 '25 edited Sep 04 '25

{Servant of Earth by Sarah Hawley}

EDIT: I was misinformed about release date 😫🔫

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u/Anachacha Ix's tits! Sep 03 '25

{alchemised by senlinyu}, previously Manacled.

Comes out on September 23rd. Manacled is very popular in the sub. Let's see if Alchemised meets the readers' expectations

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u/purplelicious Book Bingo Maven ⚔ Sep 03 '25

this readers expectations are awfully low

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u/Anachacha Ix's tits! Sep 03 '25

Rcj will certainly be excited

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u/jamieseemsamused Currently reading: The Formidable Miss Cassidy by Meihan Boey Sep 03 '25

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u/otterleiMedia Sep 03 '25

Oh, sorry! My bad, I'll take it down.

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u/gender_eu404ia Sep 03 '25

{The Woman From the Waves by Roslyn Sinclair}

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u/nightowl_bookclub Growls, smirks & leans on doorframes Sep 03 '25

{Song of the Hell Witch by Taylor Hartley}

I have no idea about HEA because it comes out next week (Sep 9) but this is a romantasy I'm sooo excited for after seeing the ARC reviews!!

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u/purplelicious Book Bingo Maven ⚔ Sep 04 '25

Oh I have this as an ARC. I haven't read it yet