The 2025 book release calendar is brimming with promise. Bestselling authors are returning with new installments of beloved series, while fresh voices are poised to redefine genres and spark new conversations. Here are 19 of this year’s most anticipated books that are sure to ignite your imagination and leave you counting the days until their release. All titles are already available to be placed on hold, so click the buttons below to save your copy. And if you really want to dive into reading in the coming weeks, be sure to also sign up for our exciting Winter Reading Challenges for all ages starting Monday, January 13!
Homeseeking by Karissa Chen
Release Date: January 7
An epic and intimate tale of one couple across 60 years as world events pull them together and apart, illuminating the Chinese diaspora and exploring what it means to find home far from your homeland.
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
Release Date: January 14
Life has thrown Zelu some curveballs over the years, but when she’s suddenly dropped from her university job and her latest novel is rejected, all in the middle of her sister’s wedding, her life is upended. Disabled, unemployed and from a nosy, high-achieving, judgmental family, she’s not sure what comes next.
Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
Release Date: January 21
After nearly eighteen months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail knows there’s no more time for lessons. No more time for uncertainty. Because the battle has truly begun, and with enemies closing in from outside their walls and within their ranks, it’s impossible to know who to trust.
Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People by Imani Perry
Release Date: January 28
Throughout history, the concept of Blackness has been remarkably intertwined with another color: blue. In daily life, it is evoked in countless ways. Blue skies and blue water offer hope for that which lies beyond the current conditions. But blue is also the color of deep melancholy and heartache, echoing Louis Armstrong’s question, “What did I do to be so Black and blue?” Celebrated author Imani Perry uses the world’s favorite color as a springboard for a riveting emotional, cultural and spiritual journey—examining race and Blackness that transcends politics or ideology.
Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson
Release Date: January 28, 2025
When 10-year-old Ebby Freeman heard the gunshot, time stopped. And when she saw her brother, Baz, lying on the floor surrounded by the shattered pieces of a centuries-old jar, life as Ebby knew it shattered as well. The crime was never solved—and because the Freemans were one of the only Black families in a particularly well-to-do enclave of New England—the case has had an enduring, voyeuristic pull on the public. The last thing the Freemans want is another media frenzy splashing their family across the papers, but when Ebby’s high-profile romance falls apart without any explanation, that’s exactly what they get.
Deep End by Ali Hazelwood
Release Date: February 4
Scarlett Vandermeer is a junior at Stanford and a student-athlete who specializes in platform diving. She prefers to keep her head down, concentrating on getting into med school and recovering from the injury that almost ended her career. Swim captain, world champion and all-around aquatics golden boy Lukas Blomqvist thrives on discipline—it’s how he wins gold medals and breaks records. On the surface, Lukas and Scarlett have nothing in common. Until a well-guarded secret slips out, and everything changes.
Isola by Allegra Goodman
Release Date: February 4
Heir to a chateau with its own village and lands, Marguerite is destined for a life of prosperity and gentility. Then she is orphaned, and Jean Francois de la Rocque de Roberval—an enigmatic and volatile older man she has never met—becomes her guardian, controlling her future. He sells her property to pay his debts, leaving her destitute, and insists she accompany him on an expedition to New France. Isolated and afraid, Marguerite befriends Roberval’s servant, and the two begin secretly meeting aboard the ship. But when Roberval discovers Marguerite’s deception, he maroons her and her lover on a small island, condemning them to certain death.
Three Days in June by Anne Tyler
Release Date: February 11
Gail Baines is having a bad day. To start, she loses her job—or quits, depending on whom you ask. Tomorrow her daughter, Debbie, is getting married, and she hasn’t even been invited to the spa day organized by the mother of the groom. Then, Gail’s ex-husband, Max, arrives unannounced on her doorstep, carrying a cat, without a place to stay, and without even a suit. But the true crisis lands when Debbie shares with her parents a secret she has just learned about her husband-to-be. It will not only throw the wedding into question but also stir up Gail and Max’s past.
Hungerstone by Kat Dunn
Release Date: February 18
Lenore is the wife of steel magnate Henry, but 10 years into their marriage, the relationship has soured and no child has arrived to fill the distance growing between them. Preparations for Henry’s upcoming hunt with society’s finest take a turn when a carriage accident near their remote home brings the mysterious Carmilla into Lenore’s life. Carmilla who is weak and pale during the day but vibrant at night; Carmilla who stirs up a hunger deep within Lenore. Soon girls from local villages begin to fall sick before being consumed by a bloody hunger. Torn between regaining her husband’s affection and Carmilla’s ever-growing presence, Lenore begins to unravel her past and in doing so, uncovers a darkness in her household that will place her at terrible risk.
Oathbound by Tracy Deonn
Release Date: March 4
In book three of The Legendborn Cycle, Bree Matthews is alone. She exiled herself from the Legendborn Order, cut her ancestral connections, and turned away from her friends who couldn’t understand the impossible cost of her powers. This is the only way to keep herself—and those she loves—safe. But Bree’s decision comes at a terrible price: an unbreakable bargain with the Shadow King himself, a shapeshifter who can move between humanity, the demon underworld and the Legendborn secret society. In exchange for training to wield her unprecedented abilities, Bree has put her future in the Shadow King’s hands and unwittingly bound herself to do his bidding as his new protégé.
Stag Dance by Torrey Peters
Release Date: March 11
In this collection of one novel and three novellas, the bestselling author of Detransition, Baby pushes trans-genre to its limits to explore who is included—and excluded—from the possibilities of gender. Radical, witty, and gripping, these four narratives coalesce to form a portrait of identity in crisis that unsettles and delights.
Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One by Kristen Arnett
Release Date: March 18
Cherry Hendricks might be down on her luck, but she can write the book on what makes something funny: she’s a professional clown who creates raucous, zany fun at gigs all over Orlando. Between her clowning and her shifts at an aquarium store for extra cash, she’s always hustling. Not to mention balancing her judgmental mother, her messy love life, and her equally messy community of fellow performers. Things start looking up when Cherry meets Margot the Magnificent—a much older lesbian magician—who seems to have worked out the lines between art, business, and life. It’s not long before Cherry must decide how much she’s willing to risk for Margot and for her own explosive new act—and what kind of clown she wants to be under her suit.
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
Release Date: March 18
In this prequel to the beloved Hunger Games series, the day dawns on the 50th-annual Hunger Games, the Quarter Quell, where twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes. In District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard about his chances. All he cares about is making it through the day and being with the girl he loves. When his name is called, he can feel all his dreams break. He’s torn from his family and his love, shuttled to the Capitol and begins to understand he’s been set up to fail. But there’s something in him that wants to fight… and have that fight reverberate far beyond the deadly arena.
Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
Release Date: April 22
Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-Prize-winning human thundercloud. And they’re both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: to write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years—or at least to meet with the octogenarian who claims to be the Margaret Ives: tragic heiress, former tabloid princess and daughter of one of the most storied (and scandalous) families of the 20th Century.
Matriarch: A Memoir by Tina Knowles
Release Date: April 22
Tina Knowles, the mother of iconic singer-songwriters Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Solange Knowles and bonus daughter Kelly Rowland, is known the world over as a Matriarch with a capital M: a determined, self-possessed, self-aware and wise woman who raised and inspired some of the great artists of our time. But this story is about so much more than that. It’s a glorious chronicle of a life like none other—enlightening, entertaining, surprising, empowering—and a testament to the world-changing power of Black motherhood.
My Name Is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende
Release Date: May 6
In San Francisco 1866, an Irish nun, left pregnant and abandoned following a torrid relationship with a Chilean aristocrat, gives birth to a daughter named Emilia del Valle. She grows into an independent thinker and a self-sufficient young woman with a passion for writing. She becomes a journalist after convincing an editor at the San Francisco Examiner to hire her. There she is paired with another talented reporter, Eric Whelan. As she proves herself, an opportunity arises to cover a brewing civil war in Chile. She seizes it, along with Eric, and while there, begins to uncover the truth about her father and the country that represents her roots. But as the war escalates, Emilia finds herself in danger and at a crossroads, questioning both her identity and her destiny.
Can’t Get Enough by Kennedy Ryan
Release Date: May 13
Hendrix Barry lives a fabulous life. She has phenomenal friends, a loving family, and a thriving business that places her in the entertainment industry’s rarefied air. And in the midst of everything, she’s facing her toughest challenge: caring for an aging parent. Tech mogul Maverick Bell is a dilemma wrapped in an exquisitely tailored suit and knee-melting charm. Maverick may be the first to make Hendrix feel this seen, desired and appreciated, but he is off-limits if she plans to stay the course she’s set for herself. But when he gives chase—pursuing her, spoiling her, understanding her—is it time to let herself have something more?
Along Came Amor by Alexis Daria
Release Date: May 27
After Ava Rodriguez’s now ex-husband declares he wants to “follow his dreams”—which no longer include her—she’s left questioning everything she thought she wanted. So when a handsome hotelier flirts with her, Ava vows to stop overthinking and embrace the opportunity for an epic one-night stand complete with a penthouse suite, rooftop pool and buckets of champagne. Roman is the perfect fling until Ava sees him at her cousin’s engagement party… as the groom’s best man! Suddenly, maintaining her boundaries becomes a lot more complicated as she tries to hide the truth of their relationship from her family. Book three of the Primas of Power series.
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab
Release Date: June 10
Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 1532. London, 1837. Boston, 2019. Three young women, their bodies planted in the same soil, their stories tangling like roots. One grows high, and one grows deep, and one grows wild. And all of them grow teeth.