It’s that time of year when the heat and humidity make me despair fall will ever arrive … but it sure helps to have autumnal events to look forward to. They remind me cooler temperatures and fall leaves are on their way, along with other means of seasonal delight.
And we have so many delightful things in store for you these next few months! I hope you’ll mark your calendars, prep your To Be Read lists, and join us for any or all of the following festivities.
2025 Fall Book Preview: coming September 18!
Join us for our seventh annual Fall Book Preview, where I’ll share a curated selection of both the season’s hottest new titles and amazing niche titles with much smaller marketing budgets, plus the info you need to decide which belong on your TBR.
This year’s Fall Book Preview is set for September 18 at 8:00 pm EDT. In this 90+ minute live event, I’ll share 35 titles, including books I’ve read and loved, the much-anticipated titles I’m most looking forward to reading, and noteworthy fall titles the industry is buzzing about, all publishing between late August and year’s end. (This event is very much in the style of our Summer Reading Guide Unboxing party.)
Fall Book Preview includes event access and an accompanying 12-page digital PDF booklet that lays out every title in our preview, spotlight titles, and more features to help you make the most of your fall reading life.
Our Fall Book Preview event is an included perk for members of our Modern Mrs Darcy Book Club community and What Should I Read Next Patreon “Book Lover” supporters. It’s a steal of a deal! For those who don’t have the time or inclination to join a community, we’ve got you covered with our ever-popular a la carte access.
CLICK HERE TO GET IN ON FALL BOOK PREVIEW
We hope you’ll join us to get more out of your reading life this fall.
More about that Fall Book Preview SNAIL MAIL booklet
Our members and a la carte purchasers receive a digital PDF of our beautiful Fall Book Preview booklet to thoughtfully peruse and hang onto for reference throughout the season (and in the seasons to come). We love hearing how you like to keep your digital booklet handy, referring to it again and again.
Our Fall Book Preview booklet is beautiful, it’s useful, it’s the best email day ever when it arrives—or, perhaps, best mail day as well? We’re also offering a printed version of our Fall Book Preview booklet! If you would like to add a printed booklet to your Fall Book Preview experience, preorder your printed booklet and we’ll ship it out on September 18th.
This fall in Modern Mrs Darcy Book Club
We’re reading books that will provide ample fodder for discussion, insight, and readerly growth. Our fall lineup of book selections is sooo good! We’re reading This Motherless Land by Nikki May in September (with author chat!), The Correspondent by Virginia Evans in October (with author chat!), and Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton in November. Plus good stuff like classes on setting your reading intentions and Great Books programs, Join Us for Journaling sessions, a fun new “study haul” get together, and more!
What’s the difference between Book Club and Patreon?
Great question! If you’d like to listen to MMD community manager Ginger Horton and I talk about the difference, we made this patreon bonus episode publicly available to all: By popular request: Anne and Ginger talk Patreon vs Book Club. It’s a fun and information conversation.
Our communities have different scope and emphases: we think of our Patreon offerings as being bite-sized, while MMD Book Club is more like a buffet. We encourage you to choose the one that best works for you and your reading life. (20% of our readers are members of both communities.)
Our WSIRN Patreon community is an extension of the What Should I Read Next podcast, and offers Friday bonus episodes (e.g., One Great Book, Mini Matchmaking, Industry Insights), peeks behind the scenes, and additional curated book recommendations to our readers in that space. Patreon is audio-first, which means you can mostly participate when it’s convenient for you. Our patrons also influence the show by offering input on future episode themes and guests and voting on our episode titles.
Our slate of MMD Book Club offerings is more robust, which is why we call it a buffet: we seek to offer lots of great literary content in this space, and don’t expect you to put everything on your plate! We host many live events in this space, including monthly book and author discussions, regular classes on literature and the reading life, and community events like our Readers’ Weekend, Best Book of Summer, Reading Life Rehab, Readalongs, Join Us for Journaling, and more. Our live events are video-driven, but you don’t need to attend live to participate: we record our events so you can watch on your schedule. Our custom-built member site also sets Book Club apart: our 24/7 forums makes it easy to enjoy all the book talk your heart desires, and connect with other readers who love books as much as you do.
Prefer a la carte access? Get your ticket right here.
I can’t wait to read with you this season. Happy reading, friends!
Anne