The Book of the Month February 2025 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 to 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.
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 February 2025 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!
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!
February 2025 Book of the Month Selections
Black Woods, Blue Sky
Eowyn Ivey
Single mom Birdie is doing the best she can to raise her daughter Emaleen in Alaska. When Emaleen gets lost in the woods, Arthur, the scarred local recluse, brings her home safely. Soon Birdie falls in love with Arthur, craving his existence in the isolated mountains. Moving in with him, Birdie soon learns that the Alaskan wilderness, and Arthur himself, have darker sides than she realized.
Black Woods, Blue Sky was an odd book. A naive and misguided Birdie makes careless decisions to move in with a man who barely talks. I understood Birdie’s desire to be independent but the connection with Arthur wasn’t there, mostly because he’s barely present in the story. It wasn’t until after I finished that I saw the book being marketed as a Beauty and the Beast retelling, which I don’t see. Magical realism has never been my thing but, other than beautiful descriptions of the Alaska wilderness, I didn’t see the appeal of this tale.
I received a complimentary copy of this book from Random House through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.
My Rating:
Publication Date: 4 February 2025
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Penitence
Kristin Koval
When their daughter shoots her brother, Angie and David Sheehan turn to Martine, a small-town lawyer to defend her. To make matters complicated, Martine is the mother of Angie’s ex-boyfriend Julian who is now a high-powered defense attorney. As Angie and Julie overcome long buried feelings of guilt from a tragic accident that killed Angie’s little sister, they each must discover the power of true forgiveness for themselves but also for Nora as every tries to figure out why she did it.
Good Dirt
Charmaine Wilkerson
Famous Last Words
Gillian McAllister
After months on maternity leave, Camilla is excited and nervous to drop her new baby off at daycare and return to her job as a literary agent. When she awakes, she finds her husband, Luke, is gone with only a note left behind. The police arrive and tell her that Luke is the gunman in a hostage situation in downtown London. Now Camilla must decide how well she actually knows her husband, considering she is the only one who knows what’s on the note.
First-Time Caller
B. K. Borison
As the host of a popular Baltimore radio romance hotline, Aiden Thomas has a problem: he’s become disenchanted with love. When Maya calls in for dating advice for her mom, the interview goes viral. Suddenly Lucie Stone finds her love life thrust into the center of a media firestorm. When the radio show decides to help Lucie find her match, she finds sparks flying with Aiden instead.
The Bones Beneath My Skin
TJ Klune
After the death of his parents and being fired from his job as a reporter, Nate Cartwright moves back home to Roseland, Oregon. At his family’s summer cabin, Nate discovers that a man named Alex has been living their with a 10-year-old girl named Artemis Darth Vader. Instead of living in memories of the past, Nate is forced to stay present to protect Artemis from forces that want to control her extraordinary abilities.
A Season of Light
Julie Iromuanya
When hundreds of schoolgirls are abducted in Nigeria, Fidelis Ewerike goes mad, obsessing over memories of his little sister who was similarly kidnapped. To protect his teenage daughter Amara, Fidelis locks her in their Florida home with no explanation. Suddenly Amara’s mother and brother are thrown into chaos deciding how to handle Fidelis’s action. Meanwhile, Amara takes her first chance at freedom to fall in love with the son of the two drunk and plot an escape in this look at multigenerational trauma.
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.
February’s Audiobooks:
Not Feeling the February Books?
Sometimes, it happens. If none of the February 2025 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:
February’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.
February’s New Books:
My February 2025 Picks
Apparently I’m on top of all the recent reads because I have already read two of the February picks (Good Dirt and Black Woods, Blue Sky) and am in the middle of Penitence by Kristin Koval.
Luckily Book of the Month has plenty of options because I was able to snag three books I had been requested advanced copies of, without success.
Last year, I was impressed with Gillian McAllister’s Wrong Place, Wrong Time unique use of a reverse timeline so I’m interested to see what she will do with her latest thriller. Jojo Moyes (Me Before You, The Giver of Stars, Someone Else’s Shoes) is always a book club favorite so I feel obligated to stay on top of all her books.
Lastly, I added The Last One at the Wedding by Jason Rekulak to my box. I’m trying to limit how many books I buy. But at the same time, I’ve been trying to catch up on some of the “best books of 2024” that I missed and this is the last one on my list that’s in Book of the Month’s vast inventory of books.
Which of the Book of the Month February 2025 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!
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