The Book of the Month September 2024 selections are here! Decide which of these books you want to add to your subscription box.
Book of the Month is my favorite subscription box. Every month, I choose between their curated book selections, and voila! A blue box arrives at my door carrying one (or two or three) new books for me to read.
Each month, Book of the Month chooses between five and seven hardcover books you can choose from. Rather listen to an audiobook? Book of the Month has those, too! Now you can opt for audiobooks as your monthly pick or add them on at any time during the month.
Every month, I will highlight the books chosen and let you know my thoughts on the chosen titles.Â
Even if you don’t have a Book of the Month subscription (yet), I think you’ll find value in looking at a curated list of new releases.
Keep scrolling to see all the details about the Book of the Month September 2024 selections and to find out which one I’m adding to my subscription box.
What is Book of the Month?
Book of the Month is a monthly subscription book service highly popular among the book community. Trust me, once you try it, you’ll be hooked.
How it Works
Each month, a panel of judges chooses at least five books for you to choose from. The Book of the Month selections cover different genres and are always special edition hardcovers. Often, the chosen books haven’t been published yet, so you get to be one of the first people to read them.
At the beginning of the month, you choose one book to add to your box and shortly thereafter the little blue box arrives at your door. If you aren’t loving any of the selected books, you just skip that month and your credits will just roll over to the next month. Or, after your third box, you can choose from five member favorite books for your month’s selection instead.
On the other hand, if you want more than one book, once you’ve chosen your initial book, you can add-on up to four additional books at a discounted rate. These add-ons can be from the current month’s selection, be favorites from previous months, or be new releases specially included in the add-on catalog.
Pricing
Book of the Month runs two different pricing plans. On the monthly plan, you get one credit a month for $17. If you are willing to pay upfront, the yearly plan gives you 12 credits for $168, which averages out to $14 a book. For a hardcover new release, both prices are a steal.
Even better, when you include additional books into your box, they are only $10 each!Â
Book of the Month also offers 3, 6, and 9-month gift cards if you are considering purchasing it as a gift.
For new subscribers, Book of the Month’s homepage almost always has a special offer to get your first book for $10. But I can do you one better. If you are interested in joining, you can use this Book of the Month Club referral link to get your first book for $5 right now!
Bonus Features
But wait, there’s more! Once you’ve chosen your 12th book from Book of the Month, you join the BFF club and get a special Book of the Month tote.
After that, you’ll get a free add-on every year for your birthday month. Plus, when the end of the year rolls around, you get one of the top 5 Book of the Month selections from the year for free. (Note: They didn’t do the Book of the Year in 2023 so I’m not sure if they are still doing this bonus, though it is listed as a benefit on the website.) That’s an additional two books each year for no additional cost.
What are you waiting for? Join Book of the Month and get your first book at a discounted price!
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September 2024 Book of the Month Selections
A Song to Drown Rivers
Ann Liang
Possessing a rare beauty, Xishi knows her only lot in life is to marry well so she jumps at the opportunity when the young military advisor Fanli offers her a mission. Fanli trains Xishi to be the perfect weapon and tasks her with seducing the neighboring king to bring his empire down from within. But if she is unmasked as a traitor, Xishi could bring both kingdoms down in this novel based on a Chinese legend.
 
The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern
Lynda Cohen Loigman
Growing up in 1920s Brooklyn, Augusta Stern loved working at her father’s pharmacy shop. When her Great Aunt Esther moves in, Augusta becomes enchanted with Esther’s unconventional home remedies. As Augusta strikes up a relationship with Irving, the pharmacy delivery boy, she tries to make one of Esther’s most powerful elixirs with disastrous results. Sixty years later, Esther retires to Florida where she runs into Irving once again, dragging up old memories.
 
Sleep Tight
J. H. Markert
Decades ago, the serial killer Father Silence terrorized a small town by disguising as a priest and murdering residents. The day after his execution, the primary detective of the case is found murdered by someone called The Outcast. Tess Claiborne, the murdered detective’s daughter, is a detective in her own right. When Tess’s daughter is kidnapped by The Outcast, Tess’s only hope might lie in the only witness to Father Silence’s murders who has spent the last few decades in a hospital for the criminally insane.
 
Blue Sisters
Coco Mellors
The three Blue sisters are each exceptional in her own way: Avery, a former heroin addict turned London lawyer; Bonnie, a former boxer turned bouncer in LA; Lucky, a former party girl turned model in Paris. But the death of their sister Nicky left the family reeling. A year after Nicky’s death, the estranged sisters gather to stop the sale of the apartment they grew up in and are forced to reckon with their childhood disappointments and their grief.
 
Phantasma
Kaylie Smith
In a new horror fantasy romance, Ophelia must enter a deadly competition named Phantasma to save her sister. Ophelia, a necromancer, enters the haunted house in New Orleans were she must defeat nine challenges and the only survivor is granted one wish. When a charming stranger offers her aid in exchange for ten years of her life, Ophelia knows she shouldn’t trust him but just can’t seem to resist him.
 
Madwoman
Chelsea Bieker
Clove has a perfectly settled life with her husband and two children in Portland, Oregon. But a call from a women’s prison shatters threatens to shatter the life she’s built for herself. Before she was named Clove, she was a young girl growing up in a violent household in Hawaii. Switching between Clove’s present and past, Madwoman tells the story of a woman finally facing the worst day of her life, which will set her free or undo her.
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Want an Audiobook Instead?
Recently, Book of the Month has started including audiobooks as another option for your monthly picks. Instead of choosing a hardcover copy, you can choose one of these audiobooks as your main selection this month.
September’s Audiobooks:
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Not Feeling the September Books?
Sometimes, it happens. If none of the September 2024 Book of the Month selections are calling your name, don’t despair. After your third box, you now have another option!
Previously, if you didn’t love the five choices, you would have to skip the whole month. Now if you have BFF status, you can choose a member fave hardcover for your monthly box and then add-on up to four more books if you choose.
Member Faves:
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September’s New Add-Ons
Book of the Month also includes a few extra releases on top of their monthly selections. Once you have picked your main selection, you can choose to add-on these new books (or any past release) to your box.Â
September’s New Books:
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My September 2024 Picks
I’m not sure when I’ll have time to actually read this books, but I couldn’t resist the allure of adding some highly-anticipated new releases to my bookshelf.
I wasn’t particularly keen on any of the six primary selections but I chose Coco Mellor’s Blue Sisters. I generally like family dramas and I have a sneaky suspicion that one of the celebrity book clubs will choose Blue Sisters for their September pick.
Next up, I couldn’t pass up a copy of Matt Haig’s newest book. The Midnight Library was such a big bestseller a few years ago, so I feel like I ought to review his newest book for my audience.
Normally, I would have chosen Liane Moriarty’s Here One Moment. However, I already have an advance copy on my Kindle. Instead, I went with Laura Dave’s new release. I rather enjoyed the slowburn mystery, The Last Thing He Told Me, and am intrigued to see what Dave has up her sleeve this time.
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Which of the Book of the Month September 2024 Selections Are You Going to Pick?
What books can you not wait to get your hands on this month? Or are you skipping this month’s selections? As always, let me know in the comments!
More New Book Releases:
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The Most-Anticipated Upcoming Book Releases
The New York Times Fiction Bestseller List
The Latest Celebrity Book Club Picks
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