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Happy New Year Friends! With 2024 having drawn to an end, it is time to look forward to what 2025 has in store for avid book lovers! Similar to past years (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024), I’ve compiled a list of the top books in 2025 that I’m looking forward to being released. Quite a few books on the following list might better be classified as wishful thinking, i.e., Winds of Winter and Doors of Stone. Ever the optimist, I couldn’t help but group them in with the rest, along with a few on the radar for 2026. Here’s to a fantastic reading year for all!

Let me know what you think of the titles on my lineup. Have I missed any key books that are on your list?

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Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett – January 12, 2025

The Woman Who Knew Everyone by Meryl Gordon – January 7, 2025

Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros – January 21, 2025

I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I’m Trapped in a Rom-Com by Kimberly Lemming – February 18, 2025

Air-Borne by Carl Zimmer – February 25, 2025

All the OTher Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harman – March 11, 2025

How to Love Better by Yung Pueblo – March 11, 2025

Faithbreaker by Hannah Kaner – March 13, 2025

Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green – March 18, 2025

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins – March 18, 2025

Audition by Katie Kitamura – April 8, 2025

The Book that Held her Heart by Mark Lawrence – April 8, 2025

Strangers in the Land by Michael Luo – April 29, 2025

Mark Twain by Ron Chernow – May 13, 2025

The Devils by Joe Abercrombie – May 13, 2025

The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig – May 20, 2025

Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid – June 3, 2025

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab – June 10, 2025

The Jasad Crown by Sara Hashem – July 15, 2025

Katabasis by R.F. Kuang – August 26, 2025

Isles of Emberdark by Brandon Sanderson – May 1, 2025

Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree – November 11, 2025

Books Without Set Release Dates:

Red God by Pierce Brown – Optimistically 2025

The Seven Sisters (Neverwhere, #2) by Neil Gaiman – Expected 2025

Alecto the Ninth (The Locked Tomb #4) by Tamsyn Muir – Optimistically 2025

Winds of Winter (A Song of Ice and Fire #6) by George R. R. Martin – Optimistically 2025

The Doors of Stone (The Kingkiller Chronicle #3) by Patrick Rothfuss – Optimistically 2025

Laniel’s Tale (The Kingkiller Chronicle) by Patrick Rothfuss – Optimistically 2025

The Mad Baron’s Mechanical Attic (The Gentleman Bastard Sequence) by Scott Lynch – Optimistically 2025

Fractured Fables #3 by Alix E. Harrow – Optimistically 2025

The Thorn of Emberlain by Scott Lynch – Optimistically 2025

Nightblood (Warbreaker #2) by Brandon Sanderson – Optimistically sometime

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