From the highly anticipated follow-up to 'Iron Flame' to Emily Henry’s next rom-com and more.
10 Exciting Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2025
From the highly anticipated follow-up to 'Iron Flame' to Emily Henry’s next rom-com and more.
Prepare your cosy reading nook – there are some stellar books coming out in 2025.
Having done the research to create the ultimate New Year TBR list for you (you’re welcome), we dare say you’re going to want to curl up for quite some time. And much like 2024’s best book releases, there’s plenty of variety to keep things interesting.
From the long-awaited follow-up to Iron Flame to Emily Henry’s next rom-com and so much more, scroll on to discover 10 highly anticipated books launching next year.
1. Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
Out: 21 January 2025
Fourth Wing fans, rejoice! The third instalment of Rebecca Yarros’ bestselling The Empyrean series drops in January 2025. Following Iron Flame’s cliffhanger finale (no spoilers!), Violet Sorrengail has been at Basgiath War College for almost eighteen months, and the battle outside has truly begun. Enemies are everywhere – including within their ranks – and she must seek allies beyond the wards who will stand with Navarre. Violet will do anything to save those she loves – even if it means keeping a secret so big, it could destroy everything.
2. We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes
Out: 11 February 2025
From the bestselling author of Me Before You, We All Live Here is a humorous and heartfelt tale about family in all its forms. Between a broken marriage, two rebellious daughters, a disintegrating house, an elderly stepdad who’s quietly moved in, a career in free fall and a complicated love life: Lila Kennedy’s world is a mess. So, when her real father – who abandoned her for Hollywood thirty-five years ago – appears on her doorstep, it feels like more than she can take. However, it turns out that even the relatives she thought she’d never forgive might have something to teach about love – and what it actually means to be family.
3. Deep End by Ali Hazelwood
Out: 4 February 2025
Famous for her spicy reads, Ali Hazelwood’s next release is a sports romance that ticks all the boxes. Stanford junior Scarlett Vandermeer is a competitive college diver focused on getting into med school and recovering from an injury that almost ended her career. She has no time for dating – or so she tells herself. World swim champion Lukas Blomqvist is a disciplined record-breaker. The pair seem to have nothing in common – until a closely kept secret slips out and everything changes. So, they start an ongoing – but temporary – fling in the lead-up to the Olympics. Or it was supposed to be temporary, but the deeper Scarlett gets with Lukas, the more dangerous the water...
4. Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Out: 4 March 2025
Ten years in the making, this long-awaited read from the award-winning author of Americanah is a powerful tale of four interconnected women and their loves, longings and desires. There’s Chiamaka, a Nigerian travel writer residing in the USA. Alone amid the pandemic, she reminisces on her past lovers and questions her choices. Her betrayed and broken-hearted best friend Zikora is a lawyer who’s always found success – until she must turn to the person she never thought she’d need. Back in Nigeria, Chiamaka’s outspoken cousin Omelogor is a financial highflier who is starting to wonder how well she knows herself. Lastly, Kadiatou, Chiamaka’s housekeeper, is proudly raising her daughter in America while facing an unimaginable hardship that could unravel everything she has worked for.
5. Say You’ll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez
Out: April 1 2025
Abby Jimenez knows her way around a read-in-one-sitting rom-com and Say You’ll Remember Me is already getting hype for being exactly that. When Samantha meets Xavier Rush, a cat-cuddling veterinarian and veritable Adonis, it’s an instant ‘yes’ for her – until opens his mouth and says the worst thing possible. However, she’s willing to forgive if he can own up to his mistake. One magical and seemingly endless date later, Samantha’s forced to admit that her family is mid-crisis and a relationship would be impossible. But while she begs Xavier to forget that magical night, no amount of time or distance could suppress that ‘something’ they shared – and maybe the only thing better than a perfect memory is to live a life of love worth remembering.
6. Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
Out: 22 April 2025
One for fans of the ‘grumpy/sunshine’ trope, rom-com queen Emily Henry returns in 2025 with her eighth novel, Great Big Beautiful Life. Writer Alice Scott is an eternal optimist, dreaming of her big break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize-winner and “human thundercloud” – and they are both competing to write the biography of Margaret Ives, the elusive octogenarian and tragic heiress. Margaret invites them both for a one-month trial period, after which she will pick one of them to write it. But Margaret’s only unveiling her story in pieces and thanks to an airtight NDA – and an inconvenient magnetism that flares whenever they’re in the same room – Alice and Hayden can’t share those pieces to connect the dots. Her story – and theirs – could take any turn, depending on who’s telling it.
7. The Missing Half by Ashley Flowers
Out: 5 May 2025
Ashley Flowers is not only a #1 New York Times bestselling author, but she’s also the host of the top true crime podcast Crime Junkie – so you know this thriller will have some legs to it. Set in small-town Indiana, it’s the story of two women who, haunted by their sisters’ unsolved disappearances, band together to find their missing halves, even if it means destroying everything they’ve ever known. Early reviews from publisher’s readers already have people enthralled by its finale, with many saying they thought they’d figured out the ending several times, only for the final 50 pages to serve as an (excellent) shock. The suspense!
8. Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Out: 3 June 2025
New from the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid’s next novel already has the internet abuzz. Beginning in the summer of 1980, the story revolves around Joan Goodwin, a physics and astronomy professor who is content with her life – until she discovers the opportunity to be among the first women scientists to join NASA’s Space Shuttle Program. Selected from a pool of thousands, she joins an exceptional group of candidates and as they prepare for their first flights, finds a love never she imagined, forcing her to question all she knows about the universe. But come December 1984, on mission STS-LR9, everything changes in an instant.
9. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
Out: 10 June 2025
The next release from the author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, this highly awaited queer dark fantasy novel is V.E Schwab’s ode to Interview With a Vampire’s Anne Rice – with an added layer of inspiration from Florence & The Machine. Per the official synopsis: “Three young women, their bodies planted in the same soil, their stories tangling like roots. One grows high, and one grows deep, and one grows wild. And all of them grow teeth.” Consider us intrigued…
10. Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
Out: 28 August 2025
A ‘dark academia’ meets ‘enemies-to-lovers’ tale? With a journey to hell? Colour us interested. According to the official teaser blurb, it’s a story of “two academic rivals from Cambridge” who “must travel to hell to rescue the soul of their advisor”. Getting there? Easy. Surviving it – and each other – maybe not so much. Sold.
