Amazon's First Reads for August 2025

Amazon has released the choices for August 2025's First Reads.

First Reads, which is free to join, provides early access to editors' picks from Amazon Publishing.

It enables you to choose two Kindle books this month for $1.99 (or for free if you're a Prime member), plus a bonus short read for $1.99 (again, free for Prime members).

• Bad Date by Ellery Lloyd (suspense)

• Please Don't Lie by Christina Baker Kline and Anne Burt (psychological thriller) 

• The First Witch of Boston by Andrea Catalano (historical fiction)

• You'll Find It All Still Here by Lisa Greenwald (women's fiction)

• Kingdom of Tomorrow by Gena Showalter (romantasy)

• What Happened to Lucy Vale by Lauren Oliver (coming of age suspense)

• Both Things Are True by Kathleen Barber (women's fiction) 

• Cold Island by Peter Colt (police procedural) 

• Under a Greek Sky by Francesca Catlow (romance)