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top 10 anticipated books of 2025 (by genre)
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items Dive into my curated list of the most anticipated books of 2025, spanning a variety of genres to satisfy every type of reader. From thrilling mysteries to heartwarming romances, mind-bending sci-fi, and inspiring nonfiction, discover the titles every...
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top 10 romance reads of 2025
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top 10 romantasy reads of 2025
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top 10 romance reads of 2025
Get ready to swoon with my list of the top romance books set to steal hearts in 2025. Featuring beloved authors like Elsie Silver, Emily Henry, Ana Huang, and more, these stories promise unforgettable characters, sizzling chemistry, and all the feels...
Emily Henry’s signature wit and heart return in this contemporary romance about rediscovery and personal transformation. Two ex-lovers meet again at a seaside retreat, each grappling with decisions that shaped their paths. A story of healing, forgive...
1) Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry - 22nd April 2025
A deeply moving tale of love lost and found, this novel explores the enduring bonds of a romance that was never meant to last. Abby Jimenez combines humor, heartbreak, and hope in a beautifully written journey about cherishing the moments that define...
2) Say You'll Remember Me - Abby Jimenez - April 1st 2025
In this highly anticipated novel, Kennedy Ryan delivers a heart-searing, sensual, and life-affirming story that explores the complexities of love, ambition, and personal growth. With her signature emotional depth and compelling characters, Ryan craft...
3) Can't Get Enough - Kennedy Ryan - May 13th 2025
College senior Charlotte juggles her perfect sorority life and secret nights with two anonymous hockey players, but as their messy secrets unravel, lust starts to feel like love.
4) The Charlie Method - Elle Kennedy - February 25th 2025
Scarlett, a diver focused on med school, who has big goals and is ambitious, starts a secret fling with swim captain Lukas, but it quickly becomes more complicated.
5) Deep End - Ali Hazelwood - February 4th 2025
Billionaire Vuk is obsessed with Ayana, who’s in a business engagement with someone else. As her wedding nears, their connection deepens, but his past threatens everything.
6) King of Envy - Ana Huang - April 29th 2025
Hazel impulsively buys a house in a struggling small town to reignite her writing career, finding unexpected inspiration from a grumpy contractor and his close-knit family.
7) Story Of My Life - Lucy Score - March 11th 2025
A woman must marry the man who betrayed her to protect her nephew, but as she gets to know him, love becomes harder to resist.
8) Wild Side - Elsie Silver - May 4th 2025
After her wedding falls apart, Camille Ashwood moves next door to her first love, Dusty Tucker, and they must face whether their past love can become their future.
9) Wild and Wrangled - Lyla Sage - April 15th
Alice returns to Barry’s Bay for the summer, hoping to reconnect with her grandmother, only to find her past—and Charlie Florek—waiting to disrupt her peaceful life.
10) One Golden Summer - Carley Fortune - May 6th 2025
top 10 science fiction & fantasy reads of 2025
Embark on thrilling adventures and explore fantastical realms with my list of the most anticipated sci-fi and fantasy books of 2025. Featuring master storytellers like Corey O’Brien, Danielle L. Jensen, Jack Campbell, and more, these upcoming titles ...
In a mostly underwater near-future Los Angeles, aging combat-drone veteran Orr Vue now lives a simple and small life, trading snippets of what’s become the most valuable currency: Information. So when the cops show up at his door looking for data on ...
1) Two Truths and a Lie -Cory O'Brien - March 4th 2025
A shield maiden fights to break the shackles of prophecy — and to overcome the betrayal of the man who broke her heart — in this searing conclusion to the Norse-inspired fantasy romance duology that began with the bestselling
2) A Curse Carved in Bone - Danielle L. Jenson - May 13th 2025
The only place small-town outcast Alex Lawson fits in is the online fan forum she built for The Arcane Files, a long-running werewolf detective show. Her dedication to archiving fictional supernatural lore made her Internet-famous, even if she harbor...
3) Fan Service - Rosie Danan - March 11th 2025
Earth was destroyed on June 12, 2180. Lieutenant Selene Genji watched it happen. And only she can prevent it. Thrown 40 years into the past, into a time before the Universal War began, Genji can only guess what to do to change the events that led to ...
4) The Doomed Earth: Destiny's Way - Jack Campbell - February 25th 2025
Professor Elodie Tarrant is an expert in magic disasters. Nothing fazes her — except her own personal disaster, that is: Professor Gabriel Tarrant, the grumpy, unfriendly man she married for convenience a year ago, whom she secretly loves. In this sw...
5) The Geographer's Map to Romance - India Holton - April 8th 2025
A year after her child is born, Jane suffers a series of strange episodes: amnesia, premonitions, hallucinations, and an inexplicable sense of dread. Three days after her first visit to a psychiatrist, Jane suddenly goes missing. A day later she is f...
6) The Strange Case of Jane O. - Karen Thompson Walker - February 25th 2025
Dorothy Valentine is close to getting her PhD in wildlife biology when she’s attacked by a lion. On the bright side, she’s saved! On the not-so-bright side, it’s because they’re abducted by aliens. In her scramble to escape, Dory and the lion command...
7) I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com- Kimberly Lemming - February 18th 2025
Surviving in a multilevel dungeon that also happens to be the set of the galaxy’s most-watched game show has taught Coast Guard vet Carl and his ex-girlfriend’s cat, Princess Donut, that there’s only one thing they can count on apart from each other:...
8) The Gate of the Feral Gods - Matt Dinniman - March 11th 2025
A young witch cursed with sacrificing memories to cast spells must decide how much she’s willing to lose to save her town in this thrilling tale of magic, love, and self-discovery.
9) Spells, Strings and Forgotten Things - Breanne Randall - March 4th 2025
Blisteringly smart, thought-provoking, and shocking, Immaculate Conception deftly navigates big questions of art, technology, authorship, and what makes us human. Ling Ling Huang offers us a portrait of close friendship — achingly tender and twisted ...
10) Immaculate Conception - Ling Ling Huang - May 13th 2025
top 10 romantasy reads of 2025
Lose yourself in the enchanting blend of romance and fantasy with my top romantasy picks for 2025. Featuring acclaimed authors like Rebecca Yarros, Lauren Roberts, Amalie Howard, and more, these stories weave spellbinding magic, sweeping romances, an...
The adult fantasy romance debut from popular author Amalie Howard—her Bridgerton-esque Regency tale for young adults is in our YA version of this list—-The Starlight Heir is inspired by Persian and Indian mythology. The achingly romantic story of a y...
1) The Starlight Heir - Amalie Howard - January 7th 2025
Anyone who reads any sort of fantasy—or, heck, has entered a bookstore in the last year—is undoubtedly aware of the phenomenon that is Fourth Wing, a high stakes romantasy about students at a war college for dragon riders. The second installment Iron...
2) Onyx Storm - Rebecca Yarros - January 21st 2025
The debut with potentially the most gruesome premise of the year has to be D.L. Taylor’s The Beasts We Bury, a story whose uniquely dark magical system involves summoning animals—but only after they’ve been ritualistically killed first. It’s not for ...
3) The Beasts We Bury - D. L. Taylor - February 4th 2025
This highly anticipated sequel to the (excellent) Heartless Hunter, brings Kristen Ciccarelli’s Crimson Moth duology to a thrilling conclusion. Two months after the dramatic betrayals and world-changing revelations at the end of the first book, witch...
4) The Rebel Witch (The Crimson Moth Book 2) - Kristen Ciccarelli - February 18th 2025
This propulsive story about a flawed heroine desperate to avenge her brother’s death who must become a servant of one of the very beings that she believes killed him is full of surprises and twists you really won’t expect.
5) Nightweaver - R.M. Gray - March 4th 2025
A romantasy debut that mixes thrilling political intrigue, deadly competition, and a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance, this story of a rebellious princess born without magic in a kingdom obsessed with power, is full of the sort of classic tropes t...
6) Blood Beneath the Snow - Alexandra Kennington - March 11th 2025
This standalone story set in author Carissa Broadbent’s wildly popular Crowns of Nyaxia universe follows the story of Sylina, an Arachessen sister sworn to ill in service of her goddess. Her latest mission: infiltrate his court and kill the Atrius, t...
7) Slaying the Vampire Conqueror - Carissa Broadbent - March 25th 2025
The highly anticipated conclusion to Lauren Roberts’s wildly popular Powerless trilogy sees Paedyn and Kai return to the kingdom of Ilya. Kitt is newly king, grieving the death of his father, and planning to marry Paedyn despite his brother’s obvious...
8) Fearless - Lauren Roberts - April 8th 2025
The first installment of the debut romantasy series from contemporary romance writer Julie Johnson, The Wind Weaver is inspired by Welsh mythology and follows the story of a halfing who reignites the embers of an ancient prophecy, unleashing a storm ...
9) The Wind Weaver - Julie Johnson - April 8th 2025
Even if I knew absolutely nothing about this book, that cover would make me scoop it up immediately. (Wow!) But The Knight and the Moth is the highly anticipated new novel from Rachel Gillig, author of the popular Shepherd King duology, and promises ...
10) The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig - May 20th 2025
top 10 horor reads of 2025
Step into the shadows with my list of the most chilling horror books set to haunt your shelves in 2025. Featuring spine-tingling tales from authors like Eric LaRocca, Virginia Feito, Nat Cassidy, and more, these upcoming releases promise to terrify, ...
Noah has been losing his polite Southern parents to far-right cable news for years, so when his mother leaves him a voicemail warning him that the “Great Reawakening” is here, he assumes it’s related to one of her many conspiracy theories. But when h...
1) Wake Up and Open Your Eyes - Clay McLeod - January 7th 2025
After tackling demons, ghosts, vampires, evil puppets, slashers, and more, Grady Hendrix turns to witches with his latest novel, a period piece that marks his continued growth as a novelist deeply interested in the emotional truths beneath his premis...
2) Witchcraft for Wayward Girls - Grady Hendrix - January 14th 2025
“If you’re reading this, you’ve likely thought that the world would be a better place without you.” A single line of text, glowing in the darkness of the internet. Written by Ashley Lutin, who has often thought the same–and worse–in the years since h...
3) At Dark, I Become Loathsome - Eric LaRocca - January 28th
Grim Wolds, England: Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect governess–she’ll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children. But long, listless days spent w...
4) Victorian Psycho - Virginia Feito - February 4th 2025
Twenty-five-year-old Calla Williams is struggling since becoming guardian to her brother, Jamie. Calla is overwhelmed and tired of being the one who makes sacrifices to keep the family together. Jamie, full of good-natured sixteen-year-old recklessne...
5) Listen to Your Sister - Neena Viel - February 4th 2025
A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who shares...
6) The Buffalo Hunter Hunter - Stephen Graham Jones - March 18th 2025
Olivia Becente was never supposed to have the gift. The ability to commune with the dead was the specialty of her sister, Naiche. But when Naiche dies unexpectedly and under strange circumstances, somehow Olivia suddenly can’t stop seeing and hearing...
7) The Haunting of Room 904 - Erika T. Wurth - March 18th 2025
One night, Jess, a struggling actress, finds a five-year-old runaway hiding in the bushes outside her apartment. After a violent, bloody encounter with the boy’s father, she and the boy find themselves running for their lives. As they attempt to evad...
8) When the Wolf Comes Home - Nat Cassidy - April 22nd 2025
Five high school friends are bonded by an oath to protect one another no matter what. Then, on a camping trip in the middle of the forest, they find something extraordinary: a mysterious staircase to nowhere. One friend walks up–and never comes back ...
9) The Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig - April 29th 2025
The Hellebore Technical Institute for the Gifted is the premier academy for the dangerously powerful: the Anti-Christs and Ragnaroks, the world-eaters and apocalypse-makers. Hellebore promises redemption, acceptance, and a normal life after graduatio...
10) The Library at Hellebore - Cassandra Khaw - July 22nd 2025