Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Books on My Fall 2025 to-Read List.
Once again, summer whooshed by! I read 8 out of 10 books on my summer TBR list, and I’m including one of the two remaining on my TBR for fall. (I do still want to read the other one… eventually.) Looking ahead now that fall is here, I have a new set of books to prioritize — and hope to do a decent job balancing commitment books (ARCs, book group books) with books that I just feel like reading!
In the interest of not repeating myself, I’m not including any of the books already featured in my list of anticipated new releases for the 2nd half of 2025… but yes, I still intend to read the five remaining from that list too!
My top 10 for fall are:
- Green Rider by Kristen Britain: I swore I’d start this series in 2025, and the clock is ticking!
- Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree: These books are always so much fun.
- Alone in the Wild (Rockton, #5) by Kelley Armstrong: I’ve been loving this series, and I’m kinda, sorta hoping to get through the three books I have left by the end of the year.
- My Friends by Fredrik Backman: I’ve been waiting for the mood to strike to pick up this book, and I think it’s about time I make it happen.
- Swordheart by T. Kingfisher: My summer holdover. Again, I’ve just been waiting to be in the mood… which hasn’t happened yet, but I know I always end up loving this author’s books, so I think I just need to commit and get started.
- A Pirate’s Life for Tea by Rebecca Thorne: The first book in this cozy fantasy series was sweet and entertaining — just waiting for my library hold to come in for book #2.
- Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky: Another series that I swore I’d finally start, and since this book also checks a box on a reading challenge I’m trying to finish, I think it’s about time to read it.
- The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman: I think everyone has read these books but me!
- The Austen Affair by Madeline Bell: I apparently have an insatiable appetite for Austen retellings!
- A Town with Half the Lights On by Page Getz: I randomly grabbed a copy of this book when I saw I price drop, and I think it sounds like fun.
What books are you most excited to read this fall? Do we have any in common?
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This is a nice balance of different books. I still need to read Legends & Lattes, so I won’t be reading Brigands & Breadknives right away, but I hope you love it😁
Thanks! I’ve enjoyed Travis Baldree’s books so far, so I have high hopes for the new one!
Will Alone In The Wild be a creepy tale? The title gives that impression.
Here’s a link to my TTT post
It’s a mystery, part of a series — and I ended up reading it this past week, and loved it!
I love this list and we share Brigands and Breadk ives as that’s on my list too. I loved Swordheart and hope that you do too
Thanks! I’m really looking forward to starting Swordheart!
Happy fall reading! 🍁
Thank you! Same to you!
Fab list! Brigands and Breadknives is one on my list too!
It should be a good one!
Swordheart was great fun and I liked Children of Time a lot. Looking forward to Baldree’s latest.
I’ve been planning to read Children of Time for quite a while now… I think it’s time to finally make it happen!
I read My Friends this summer and this was my first introduction to Backman’s books. It was a decent read, but not the 5-star one I was expecting.
My TTT: https://laurieisreading.com/2025/09/23/top-ten-tuesday-books-on-my-fall-2025-tbr/
I’ve liked a bunch of his books (although I started a couple that didn’t quite work for me as well). I’m sorry this one didn’t meet your expectations!
Oh, it definitely wasn’t bad. Expecting an aiming for this to be a third five star book in a row is maybe a bit too much.
I loved both Alone in the Wild and Green Rider! They’re great books. And I hope you’re enjoying your vacation. 😀
I ended up reading both while I was away, and loved them!!
My Friends is one of my favorite books of the year, but there was little doubt it would be because… BACKMAN!
That’s great to hear! I’m hoping to start it within the next few weeks, and have very high hopes!
Great TBR! I’ve read The Thursday Murder Club of these, which I really enjoyed… This series only gets better with each sequel! I also hope to finally read My Friends soon.
I’ve been hearing such good things about the Thursday Murder Club books, and now that there’s a movie adaptation, I’m even more motivated to start them!
I know what you mean! Adaptations always make me want to pick up the books even more… It’s one I want to watch as well.
One of these days I really should read My Friends.
I’ll probably start it in the next few weeks! I do tend to enjoy his books.