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As we look ahead to 2025, the literary world is buzzing with excitement over a remarkable slate of upcoming releases that promise to captivate readers across genres. From highly anticipated sequels to fresh voices debuting their first novels, the year is shaping up to be a thrilling one for book lovers.
These releases reflect the diverse range of stories that continue to captivate readers, whether you’re a fan of sweeping historical fiction, innovative science fiction or poignant memoirs that delve deep into the human experience. In this guide, we’ll highlight some of the most-anticipated books of 2025, offering a sneak peek into the works that are poised to dominate best-seller lists and spark book club discussions around the world.
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Below, find a curated list of the most anticipated 2025 book releases, according to two bookworms who have these titles circulating in their heads. Oh, and you’ll want to sign up for Audible to listen to most of these titles on the go.
“His Girl Hollywood” by Maureen Lee Lenker
AmazonExpected release date: January 14, 2025
About the book: Arlene “Lena” Morgan has always dreamed of directing films — a rarity for women in 1930s Hollywood. She’s finally given her shot, only to find out that the leading man in her feature will be Don Lamont, who was quite literally Lena’s boy-next-door growing up. They were two kids with big dreams and he’s the only man she’s ever loved until he left to pursue a dance career in New York. But Don, despite his Broadway success, has been caught under the thumb of his gangster manager Frankie Martino for the last eight years, unable to come home. When he gets offered a role in a Hollywood picture, he leaps at the chance to free himself once and for all and finds that Lena may be the girl he’s loved all along.
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“The Broposal” by Sonora Reyes
AmazonExpected release date: January 21, 2024
About the book: Sweet, sensitive Kenny is newly single, and what better distraction from his soul-sucking relationship than proposing marriage to Alejandro? Kenny can’t think of anything more fun than spending his life with his best friend, even if it’s just for a Green Card. But as Kenny keeps up the charade, he’s soon struggling to resist their sizzling chemistry.
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“Onyx Storm” by Rebecca Yarros
AmazonExpected release date: January 21, 2025
About the book: The third book in Rebecca Yarros’ Empyrean series, “Onyx Storm” reunites readers with Violet Sorrengail 18 months after starting at Basgiath War College, just as a big battle is beginning.
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“First-Time Caller” by B.K. Borison
AmazonExpected release date: February 11, 2025
About the book: Inspired by “Sleepless in Seattle,” welcome to Heartstrings, Baltimore’s romance hotline. Aiden Valentine, the host of Heartstrings, has a secret: he’s fallen out of love with love. When a young girl calls into the station asking for dating advice for her single mom, Aiden and the show — and Lucie Stone, the single mom — are thrust into a viral spotlight. Everyone wants Lucie to find a happy ending, even Aiden, and that’s when sparks start to fly behind the scenes.
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“Sunrise on the Reaping” by Suzanne Collins
AmazonExpected release date: March 18, 2025
About the book: The fifth book in “The Hunger Games” series takes readers back to a highly anticipated period of Panem’s history: the 50th Hunger Games, also known as the Quarter Quell. Twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes for the momentous Games; the book focuses on one of District 12’s four tributes, Haymitch Abernathy, who readers will already know from mentoring Katniss and Peeta in the original trilogy. The new novel will ask the question, “When you’ve been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for?”
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“Say You’ll Remember Me” by Abby Jimenez
AmazonExpected release date: April 1, 2025
About the book: When veterinarian Xavier Rush comes into the picture, Samantha can’t stay away. But, when she admits that her family is in crisis and a relationship would be impossible, she tells him to forget about her. However, no amount of distance or time is enough to forget that something between them…
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“The Maid’s Secret” by Nita Prose
AmazonExpected release date: April 8, 2025
About the book: Part three in “The Maid” series is about to release — and we’re highly excited. When a daring art heist takes place at the Regency Grand, Molly’s life is threatened. The question is who’s out to get her, and why?
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“Futbolista” by Jonny Garza Villa
AmazonExpected release date: April 15, 2025
About the book: Described as “a sports romance for those who keep rewatching ‘Bend It Like Beckham’ and rereading ‘Red, White & Royal Blue,'” “Futbolista” follows Gabriel during his first semester as a student athlete. He starts college knowing who he is — a college goalkeeper, a future Liga MX or MLS star, and definitely straight — until his classmate Vale, who Gabi kissed once, offers to tutor him in philosophy. Gabi starts to realize those things he thought to be true about himself — namely the straight thing — may not actually be true. Throughout the course of the novel, Gabi has to navigate who he is, who he’s allowed to be, and who he wants to be.
“Great Big Beautiful Life” by Emily Henry
AmazonExpected release date: April 22, 2025
About the book: Two writers, Alice Scott and Hayden Anderson, are on a 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. The problem? Ives is only giving each of them pieces of her story, of which they can’t swap because an NDA is involved. But, their story may be a love of their own.
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“One Golden Summer” by Carley Fortune
AmazonExpected release date: May 6, 2025
About the book: Alice has fond childhood memories of summers by her Nan’s lake cottage, Barry’s Bay, and, when her grandmother breaks her hip, she craves another summer there. A photographer, Alice has last taken a picture of Charlie Florek when he was 19-years-old, and now he’s all grown up and not what she anticipated.
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“Maine Characters” by Hannah Orenstein
AmazonExpected release date: May 16, 2025
About the book: Every summer, Vivian Levy and Lucy Webster spend a month with their father at his lake house — separately. They’ve never met. While Lucy envied her half-sister from afar, their father kept Vivian in the dark. When Vivian arrives at the lake to spread his ashes and sell his cabin, she’s shocked to find Lucy there, and there are secrets and growth waiting for them.
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“The Love Haters” by Katherine Center
AmazonExpected release date: May 20, 2025
About the book: Katie Vaughn has been burned by love in the past. She can either wait to get laid off from her lackluster job as a video producer or, at her coworker Cole’s request, take a career-making gig profiling Tom “Hutch” Hutcheson, a Coast Guard rescue swimmer in Key West. The kicker? Hutch is Cole’s brother, and she learns what it takes to tell the truth about their entanglement, face old fears and be truly brave.
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“It’s a Love Story” by Annabel Monaghan
AmazonExpected release date: May 27, 2025
About the book: Jane Jackson knows everything about “faking it till you make it.” She claimed that Jack Quinlan, hottest popstar of the moment, has promised to write an original song for the soundtrack. Jack may have been her first kiss — and greatest source of shame — but she hasn’t spoken to him in twenty years. Now, she has to turn to Dan, someone from her past, and what she finds out may surprise her.
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“Atmosphere” by Taylor Jenkins Reid
AmazonExpected release date: June 3, 2025
About the book: Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember So, when she receives an invitation from NASA to join its Space Shuttle Program, she begins training in the summer of 1980. From there, she becomes entwined with pilots, engineers and other space professionals — and then in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, everything changes in an instant.
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“Super Visible: The Story of the Women of Marvel” by Margaret Stohl with Jeanine Schaefer and Judith Stephens
AmazonExpected release date: June 24, 2025
About the book: Based on “The Women of Marvel” podcast, this new book intends to highlight the historically invisible work of the women who built Marvel Comics from 1939 into what it is today. Throughout the book, read excerpts from historic comics and exclusive interviews with MCU actors, directors, producers, writers, and other behind-the-scenes women.
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“Nice Girls Don’t Win: How I Burned It All Down to Claim My Power” by Parvati Shallow
AmazonExpected release date: July 8, 2025
About the book: In “Nice Girls Don’t Win,” “Survivor” winner Parvati Shallow shares the stories that allowed her to transform her most difficult moments into powerful catalysts for empowerment. From her childhood growing up in a Florida commune run by a tyrannical female guru, to her journey out of the South and inside the L.A. casting rooms that would eventually drop her into the lush but brutal landscapes of “Survivor,” Shallow shows readers what it took to build herself into the ultimate survivor—for better, and more often, for worse. And then she reveals what it took rebuild herself into something much greater.
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“Totally and Completely Fine” by Elissa Sussman
AmazonExpected release date: July 8, 2025
About the book: Lauren Parker has assumed a few different roles over the years. Among them, sister of superstar Gabe Parker (who you may remember from Sussman’s “Funny You Should Ask”), and most recently, tragically widowed single mother. Adrift in her own life, Lauren meets the handsome young actor Ben Walsh on the set of her brother’s newest movie and the two have instant chemistry. The unexpected fling grows more complicated, thanks to small-town rumors, Ben’s fame, and her daughter’s unpredictable moods.
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