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2025 BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
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items A collection of books released in 2025 that everyone should be reading
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For readers who crave character-driven, emotionally agile fiction that balances wry humor with tender reflection while tracing the ache to invent one’s own belonging.
From the acclaimed author of Vagabonds!: an audacious and eye-opening exploration o...
Necessary Fiction by Eloghosa Osunde
* A creeping story of sapphic obsession with a delicious mid-twentieth century feel and Gothic undertones, from the author of Sunburn **
Chloe Michelle Howarth - Heap Earth Upon It
For readers drawn to dark, sensual historical fantasy centered on the eternal hunger that drives women to claim power through dangerous bargains and each other. Ideal if you crave emotionally intense, sapphic-leaning narratives that braid three centu...
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
For readers drawn to lyrical, melancholic literary fiction exploring how love and caretaking can bloom between strangers at life's precipice. Ideal if you savor slow, reflective narratives with syntactically inventive prose, emotional vulnerability, ...
The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
For readers drawn to lyrical, emotionally resonant fiction exploring the fierce hunger to transcend earthly limits and claim one's rightful place in the cosmos. Perfect if you crave character-driven narratives with measured pacing, intimate interiori...
Atmosphere: A Love Story; The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller
OTHERS
The Secret Of Secrets is Dan Brown’s first novel for over eight years and sees the stunning return of Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, this time pitting his wits against a conspiracy which will test even his considerable brainpower and take him to...
Thriller from bestselling author of DA VINCI CODE
The new novel from the bestselling author of If We Were Villains and Graveyard Shift—a vivid and immersive tale of one woman’s reckless mission to make sense of the events that shattered her childhood, and made her who she is
Drenched in knock-down d...
Hot Wax by M.L. Rio
A raw and deeply moving memoir from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness that traces the complex relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, a fierce and formidable force who shaped Arundhati’s life both as...
Mother Mary Comes To Me
What We Can Know is a masterpiece, a fictional tour de force, a love story about both people and the words they leave behind, a literary detective story which reclaims the present from our sense of looming catastrophe and imagines a future world wher...
What We Can Know: the breathtaking and immersive new novel from ...
FANTASY
Dante’s Inferno meets Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell ...
Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
For readers drawn to dark, fast-paced dystopian fiction centered on the brutal calculus of survival when the odds are engineered against you. Ideal if you crave relentless tension, emotional intensity, and sharp psychological edges over leisurely wor...
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5) by Suzanne Collins
For readers who crave romantic fantasy centered on the brutal cost of loyalty when love and duty collide—tense, emotional, and dangerously addictive. Ideal if you like between-fast-and-slow pacing, high-stakes adventure, and immersive battles woven w...
Onyx Storm: DISCOVER THE FOLLOW-UP TO THE GLOBAL ...