For those whose New Year’s resolution is to read more, here’s a list that will get you excited to actually stick to your goal.
The 39 most anticipated books of 2025 include Susan Choi’s long-awaited follow-up to Trust Exercise, an essay collection from environmental justice activist Catherine Coleman Flowers, and the latest installment in Rebecca Yarros’ best-selling Empyrean series, which she calls “her favorite” entry in the romantasy trilogy.
[time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”]The slate for this new year also features memoirs from Top Chef’s Kristen Kish, activist and astronaut Amanda Nguyen, philanthropist Melinda French Gates, celebrated author Arundhati Roy, and Tina Knowles, whose daughter Beyoncé hopes won’t spill too much “Mama Tea” with her debut. Other notable 2025 releases include a Taylor Jenkins Reid romance for the space ages, journalist Amanda Hess’s guide to parenting in the digital age, and Torrey Peters’ much-anticipated follow-up to her best-selling debut, Detransition, Baby.From R. F. Kuang’s dark-academia love story to Imani Perry’s ode to the color blue and its connection to Black culture, these are the new books coming in 2025 that you’re going to want to read.
The Three Lives of Cate Kay, Kate Fagan (Jan. 7)
Best-selling author and sports journalist Kate Fagan’s debut novel is framed as an unreleased memoir from a pseudonymous queer writer who has spent her life running from her complicated past. After Cate Kay’s successful book series is optioned for film, she realizes she can no longer hide her true identity. With help from her former friends and lovers, she tells the unvarnished story of her rise to the top and what she sacrificed to get there.
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How to Sleep at Night, Elizabeth Harris (Jan. 7)
In journalist Elizabeth Harris’ debut, Ethan and Gabe are a loving New Jersey couple who find themselves slowly drifting apart due to their growing political differences. When Ethan decides to run for Congress as a Republican, his progressive partner is forced to choose between his leftist ideals and his upwardly mobile spouse. Across town, Nicole, a free-spirited artist turned suburban mom, is facing a similar conundrum in her marriage. It’s only when a former flame—Ethan’s journalist sister—reenters Nicole’s life that she begins to reconsider her desires in this domestic drama about love, marriage, and ambition.
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Onyx Storm, Rebecca Yarros (Jan. 21)
Onyx Storm, the third book in Rebecca Yarros’ wildly popular Empyrean series, picks up as Violet Sorrengail, a small but mighty dragon rider, prepares for war against the Venin, a species of human who have sacrificed their souls to steal power from the land.After more than a year at Basgiath War College, Violet realizes that support for the Venin, a.k.a. the Dark Wielders, does not only lie beyond the walls of the competitive military school, but also within its ranks. Unsure of who to trust, Violet embarks on a fantastical journey to find allies who can help her hone her emerging powers, which may ultimately be the key to winning this battle for supremacy.
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We Do Not Part, Han Kang (Jan. 21)
Nobel Prize-winner Han Kang’s We Do Not Part, newly translated from the original Korean by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris, delves into a tragic chapter of modern Korean history. After an injury lands Inseon in the hospital, she asks her friend Kyungha to do what seems like a simple favor: go to her home on Jeju Island and care for her beloved pet bird. But once Kyungha gets there, she is forced to grapple with the devastating effects of the Jeju Uprising on her country and its people. Kang’s novel is a haunting exploration of friendship amid historical trauma.
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Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People, Imani Perry (Jan. 28)
Black in Blues is an intimate meditation on the color blue and its connection to Black history and culture. Beginning with the production of indigo dye in the 16th century, a product that was often traded for an enslaved person, National Book Award winner Imani Perry traces the history of the hue while ruminating on how its many shades (cobalt, periwinkle, navy) became intertwined with Black identity.
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Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope, Catherine Coleman Flowers (Jan. 28)
Holy Ground, Catherine Coleman Flowers’ follow-up to her 2020 memoir, Waste, is an essay collection that explores the personal and political aspects of her work as an environmental activist. Across 10 essays, the founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, who was one of TIME’s Most Influential People of 2023, tackles racism, reproductive rights, and rural poverty through the lens of environmental injustice, offering insightful analysis on how to address these issues on both a local and global scale.
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Isola, Allegra Goodman (Feb. 4)
When a 16th-century French noblewoman and her lover are left stranded on a small island by her volatile guardian, they must find a way to survive the winter cold with next to nothing. Inspired by the true story of Marguerite de La Rocque, Allegra Goodman’s latest novel is a feminist castaway tale about love, faith, and self-actualization.
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Three Days in June, Anne Tyler (Feb. 11)
Nothing seems to be going right for Gail Baines at the start of Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Tyler’s 25th novel, Three Days in June. The day before her daughter’s wedding, Gail loses her job, discovers she didn’t get an invite to festivities organized by the groom’s mom, and gets stuck rooming with her ex-husband and a depressed cat. But that’s not the worst of it: her daughter just discovered a shocking secret about the man she is about to marry, putting their big day in jeopardy. In this charming marriage story, the revelation throws Gail back to the unresolved issues surrounding her divorce—and she’s finally forced to reckon with its repercussions.
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Crush, Ada Calhoun (Feb. 25)
Taking a page from Nora Ephron’s Heartburn, writer Ada Calhoun’s debut novel, Crush, inspired by her own experience, looks at a marriage on the verge of collapse. After her husband suggests they open up their relationship, a happily married middle-aged wife and mother finds herself pursuing an emotional affair with a friend from college. As things heat up, she is forced to interrogate what it is she wants and needs from a romantic partner.
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Death Takes Me, Cristina Rivera Garza (Feb. 25)
Death Takes Me puts a subversive twist on the traditional serial killer story. Cristina Rivera Garza’s 2007 novel, newly translated from the original Spanish by Robin Myers and Sarah Booker, begins with a literature professor also named Cristina finding the body of a castrated man while jogging. After looking through the crime scene photos, she discovers a message written in coral-colored nail polish next to the corpse, lines of poetry from the late Argentine poet Alejandra Pizarnik, who Cristina has studied for years. When Pizarnik’s work starts showing up at similar crime scenes, Cristina is enlisted to help catch the murderer before the mysterious killer catches her first.
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, Omar El Akkad (Feb. 25)
Award-winning novelist Omar El Akkad’s nonfiction debut, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, reckons with what it really means to be an American right now. After 20 years of working as a journalist, covering the War on Terror, the Black Lives Matter protests, and the growing death toll in Gaza, the Egyptian-Canadian writer, who now lives in the U.S., has been disheartened by the lack of compassion and empathy he’s seen from his adopted country. With his new book, he tries to make sense of how the promise of the American dream has become such a nightmare.
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The Talent, Daniel D’Addario (Feb. 25)
With his debut novel, Variety’s chief correspondent and former TIME TV critic Daniel D’Addario shows why it’s not always an honor just to be nominated. The Talent follows a group of actresses on the awards-show trail during an especially fraught season. The five women—the grande dame, the ingénue, the great thespian, the long shot, and the former child star—must confront their rivalries, anxieties, and insecurities if they wish to take home a little gold man on Hollywood’s biggest night.
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The Dream Hotel, Laila Lalami (March 4)
Laila Lalami’s fifth novel, The Dream Hotel, is set in a near future where everything, including one’s dreams, is under surveillance. When museum archivist Sara returns to Los Angeles after a conference abroad, she is detained for a crime that, based on data from her dreams, she will commit in the future against her husband. To stop this from ever happening, she is taken to a retention center where she finds other women who are being held captive for crimes they have yet to commit. In this paranoid techno–thriller, Sara must prove her dreams are not a reality in order to escape.
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Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope, Amanda Nguyen (March 4)
Amanda Nguyen, one of TIME’s 2022 Women of the Year, tells her life story with help from her younger selves. The activist and astronaut’s memoir, Saving Five, incorporates her point of view at the ages of five, 15, 22, and 30 in magical interludes to help her make sense of her difficult childhood, campus sexual assault, and subsequent fight for justice, which led to the passage of the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Rights Act in 2016.
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All the Other Mothers Hate Me, Sarah Harman (March 11)
Former broadcast journalist Sarah Harman’s debut thriller, All the Other Mothers Hate Me, looks at the mysterious case of a missing boy who happens to be the heir to a frozen food empire. When 10-year-old Alfie Risby goes missing during a class trip, everyone starts pointing fingers. The boy’s rich parents land on former party girl and disgraced girl-band member Florence Grimes’ son, Dylan, who was mercilessly bullied by Alfie. Now Florence must do the unthinkable: make nice with the other school moms in order to clear her kid’s name. Another reason to get excited about this book? It’s being adapted for TV by The Bear creator Christopher Storer.
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The Antidote, Karen Russell (March 11)
Karen Russell, the best-selling author of Swamplandia!, returns with her long-awaited second novel, The Antidote, a historical epic set during the Dust Bowl era. After a severe dust storm ravages a small Nebraska town in 1939, five locals—a Polish wheat farmer, his orphan niece, an enchanted New Deal photographer, a chatty scarecrow, and a “Prairie Witch,” whose body stores the memories the settlers wish to forget—find themselves struggling to rebuild. What the community soon realizes is that in order to create a more sustainable future, they must first reckon with the mistakes of their violent past.
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Goddess Complex, Sanjena Sathian (March 11)
To have a baby or not to have a baby, that is the question at the centerof Sanjena Sathian’s satirical second novel, Goddess Complex. After leaving her struggling actor husband over a disagreement about whether or not they should have children, Sanjana Satyananda is looking to move forward with her life and the anthropology dissertation she abandoned years earlier. But first, she must finalize their divorce. When her ex suddenly goes missing, Sanjana embarks on a phantasmagoric journey to find him that offers her a glimpse of what her life would be like if she did become a parent.
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Stag Dance: A Novel & Stories, Torrey Peters (March 11)
Stag Dance, Torrey Peters’ follow-up to her best-selling 2021 debut, Detransition, Baby, is a collection of one novel and three stories that offers a provocative look at gender rediscovery and indecision. The titular novel focuses on a group of male lumberjacks who decide to throw a dance party in which some of the workers volunteer to attend as women, leading to an unlikely rivalry. The short stories look at a secret romance between a junior and his femme roommate at a Quaker boarding school, a hormonal apocalypse brought on by a vengeful ex-girlfriend, and a young person’s dark night of the soul while partying in Las Vegas.
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Tilt, Emma Pattee (March 25)
Climate journalist Emma Pattee’s debut novel, Tilt, is a natural disaster adventure set over the course of 24 hours. After a massive earthquake leaves a nine-months pregnant woman stranded at an IKEA in the middle of Portland, Ore., she decides to walk back to her home, which is located on the other side of the disaster zone. Along the way, she witnesses a grocery store riot, makes friends with a young mother, and reflects on her struggling marriage, disappointing career, and anxieties surrounding impending motherhood.
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Audition, Katie Kitamura (April 8)
Intimacies author Katie Kitamura’s tense new novel, Audition, begins with a Manhattan lunch date between an accomplished theater actor and a troubled man who is young enough to be her son. The twists and turns of this destabilizing novel, which unspools the competing narratives of the aforementioned characters, will leave readers wondering what is real and what is performance.
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Authority, Andrea Long Chu (April 8)
With her essay collection, Authority, Andrea Long Chu interrogates what makes a true ...
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