October 2025 list by Nanette Alderman |
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The Academy
by Elin Hilderbrand
When a surprise national ranking thrusts underachieving Tiffin Academy into the spotlight, a viral gossip app begins exposing students' and staff's secrets, unraveling reputations and relationships as the boarding school's carefully curated image gives way to chaos, scandal and unexpected alliances.
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Among the Burning Flowers
by Samantha Shannon
Yscalin, land of sunshine and lavender, will soon be ablaze. It has been centuries since the Draconic Army took wing, almost extinguishing humankind.
Marosa Vetalda is a prisoner in her own home, controlled by her cold father, King Sigoso. Over the mountains, her betrothed, Aubrecht Lievelyn, rules Mentendon in all but name. Together, they intend to usher in a better world.
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The Deepest Cut
by P. J. Tracy
After escaping from a rural Minnesota mental hospital with help from his ruthless mother, convicted killer Wolfgang Mauer pursues a deadly vendetta against the detectives and cyber-sleuths who caught him, sparking a frantic multi-agency manhunt led by a young sheriff unprepared for such carnage.
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Denied Access
by Vince Flynn
As the CIA faces political scrutiny and a devastating Moscow intel failure, newly minted assassin Mitch Rapp is pulled into a deadly clash with Russian operatives.
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Dinner at the Night Library
by Hika Harada
Otoha Higuchi finds solace and community working at The Night Library, a mysterious Tokyo institution housing rare books, where she and other literary misfits bond nightly over meals inspired by literature, until strange occurrences threaten their sanctuary.
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The Elements
by John Boyne
An epic saga that weaves together four interconnected narratives, each representing a different perspective on crime: the enabler, the accomplice, the perpetrator, and the victim. Follows a mother on the run from her past, a young soccer star facing a trial, a successful surgeon grappling with childhood trauma, and a father on a transformative journey with his son.
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End Game
by Jeffrey Archer
As London prepares for the 2012 Olympics, Commander William Warwick races against time to dismantle a shadowy international conspiracy planning a devastating attack.
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Exiles
by Mason Coile
When a Mars colony mission arrives to find its setup crew of robots fractured and one missing, the astronauts must unravel conflicting accounts of what happened.
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The Girl with Ice in Her Veins
by Karin Smirnoff
As unrest simmers in the snowbound town of Gasskas, Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist are drawn into a web of violence and buried histories involving a murdered journalist, a missing hacker, and Lisbeth's vanished niece, forcing them to confront dangers both personal and political.
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Holiday Ever After
by Hannah Grace
The Davenport company was accused of stealing a doll design from an independent toy maker, creating a flurry of bad publicity. Clara is tasked with charming the locals of the small town to solve the PR nightmare. Jack Kelly would be happy to never hear the name Davenport ever again. The company that once falsely claimed they wanted to sign him to their small business program has copied his design.
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The Honeycrisp Orchard Inn
by Valerie Bowman
Ellie Lawson's city life was treating her just fine until a sour turn of events knocks her out in one fell swoop. Dumped by her boyfriend and fired from her event planning job, she is left with no choice but to return to her parents' idyllic inn, nestled within a picturesque Honeycrisp orchard on Long Island.
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How to Break My Heart
by Kat T. Masen
Forced to team up with her billionaire ex for her best friend's wedding, a small-town café owner finds old sparks reigniting as competition turns to chemistry, putting her heart on the line once again.
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The Impossible Fortune
by Richard Osman
As wedding plans unfold and personal struggles linger, the Thursday Murder Club reunites when a guest vanishes and a suspicious partner hints at something valuable—and deadly—leading Joyce, Elizabeth, Ron and Ibrahim into a tangled case of coded secrets and high-stakes deception.
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Land So Wide
by Erin A. Craig
Trapped in the prosperous but cursed settlement of Mistaken, mapmaker Greer Mackenzie defies the Warding Stones to rescue her beloved from monstrous creatures, uncovering dark secrets about her town and her own origins.
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The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
by Kiran Desai
When Sonia and Sunny meet again by chance on an overnight train, their rekindled connection propels them through a journey shaped by family expectations, artistic disillusionment and personal upheaval as they seek meaning, love and belonging across continents and generations.
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A Matter of Pedigree
by Leslie Meier
Armed with a pampered spaniel and designer shoes, Carole Capobianco must clear her husband's name and uncover the truth after a wealthy venture capitalist is found bludgeoned to death.
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Murder at Somerset House
by Andrea Penrose
When Lord Wrexford's old friend's brother-in-law is accused of murdering a fellow member of the Royal Society at their London headquarters, Somerset House, Wrexford investigates with help from three young boys in his and Charlotte's care and discovers a technical innovation threatening to ignite a crisis throughout Europe.
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Road Trip with a Vampire
by Jenna Levine
A gorgeous vampire who can't remember his past and reformed bad witch Grizelda "Zelda" Watson -- with secrets of her own -- hit the road for answers only to find what they're looking for in each other.
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Saltcrop
by Yume Kitasei
In Earth's not too distant future, seas consume coastal cities, highways disintegrate underwater, and mutant fish lurk in pirate-controlled depths. Skipper, a skilled sailor and the youngest of three sisters, earns money skimming and reselling plastic from the ocean to care for her ailing grandmother. But then her eldest sister, Nora, goes missing.
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Terminal Velocity
by M. P. Woodward
A string of savage murders in the United States seems unrelated until the FBI makes a shocking discovery: a decade ago, all of the murder victims were involved in a raid to eliminate the Umayyad Revolutionary Council, a vicious terror group. Now it appears they're back, with a next-generation leader hell-bent on revenge.
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What We Can Know
by Ian McEwan
In a future drowned by climate disaster, solitary scholar Thomas Metcalfe uncovers a trail to a lost 2014 poem that once stirred scandal, unraveling a century-old mystery of love, betrayal and artistic legacy in a world longing for what it has lost.
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