New Book Releases in 2025: Our top fiction picks by month
If you are a book lover seeking out the upcoming new book releases in 2025, this is the book recommendations list for you! With an incredible array of 2025 fiction book releases on offer across all genres, the year promises something memorable for every reader.
So, what books are coming out in 2025?
There is never a shortage of shiny new novels to consider, but we cannot read every new book released in 2025. Our leisure reading time is scarce so you want to quickly zero in on only the very best new books.
From highly anticipated books from bestselling authors to must-read debut novelists, I will be compiling a bi-monthly selection of the top new fiction releases. Whether you are into fantasy book releases in 2025, heartfelt romance, eclectic sci-fi or enigmatic mystery thrillers, you’ll find plenty of inspiration for your 2025 reading pile here.
Read on to explore the best of 2025 in fiction and discover your next great read!
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Top 2025 Book Releases by Month
January & February 2025 New Fiction
The Stolen Queen, the first 2025 book release from bestseller Fiona Davis involves two evocative historical settings. Egypt 1936, anthropology student Charlotte joins an archaeological dig, but tragedy strikes. Now, 42 years later, she is a Met curator, researching a lesser-known female pharaoh. Annie, 19, is the assistant to the organiser of the iconic Met Gala. During that event, a priceless Egyptian artifact vanishes, seemingly tied to that pharaoh’s curse. Charlotte and Annie team up, travel to Egypt to recover it and confront Charlotte’s haunting past. Find out more >>
Genre mashup meta fiction alert! Nnedi Okorafor‘s highly anticipated new release, Death of the Author, is a book-within-a-book that blends the line between writing and being written. After losing her job, a disabled Nigerian American woman pens a wildly successful Sci-Fi novel, but as her fame rises, she loses control of the narrative. Described as ‘surprisingly funny and deeply poignant’ this is a story of a woman on the margins risking everything to be heard and a testament to the power of storytelling to shape the world as we know it. Find out more >>
In Samantha Sotto Yambao‘s new cozy fantasy novel Water Moon, a woman inherits a pawnshop where you can sell your regrets, and then embarks on a magical quest when a charming young physicist wanders into the shop and offers to help her find her missing father. It is highly recommended by many critics, including Library Journal who describe this as mix of magical realism, fantasy mystery, and star-crossed romance. Read my review >>
The first title in John McMahon‘s new crime series. Head Cases stars FBI Agent Gardner Camden, an analytical genius with an affinity for puzzles, but a blind spot on the human side of investigations and his own family. Gardner and his squad of brilliant yet quirky agents make up the FBI’s Patterns and Recognition (PAR) unit, brought in for cases that no one else can solve… Like when DNA links a murder victim to a serial killer long presumed dead. Find out more >>
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In January 2025, bestselling author Carter Wilson (The Dead Girl in 2A, The New Neighbor) releases a new thriller that forces the question: are murderers always the bad guys? In Tell Me What You Did, Poe Webb, host of a popular true crime podcast, gets people to confess their crimes for a living. But when a strange and oddly familiar man claims to be her mother’s murderer from years ago, she realises he knows she’s hiding a terrible secret. It’s time for the truth to come out… Find out more >>
Allegra Goodman’s new historical fiction novel Isola was inspired by the real life of a sixteenth-century heroine. Orphaned heiress Marguerite loses her fortune to a volatile guardian who takes her to New France. Isolated and afraid, she bonds with his servant, but his discovery of their forbidden love leads to a brutal punishment. They are abandoned on a remote island with no hope for rescue. Once a child of privilege, Marguerite finds herself at the mercy of nature. Find out more >>
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Pam Jenoff‘s February 2025 fiction release Last Twilight in Paris was inspired by the true story of Lévitan–a department store that served as a Nazi prison. In London 1953, Louise is still adjusting to her postwar role as a housewife when she finds a necklace in a box (marked with the name of a Parisian department store) at a secondhand shop. She has seen the necklace before, while working with the Red Cross in Nazi-occupied Europe, and is certain it holds the key to the mysterious death of her friend Franny during the war. A gripping new historical mystery about sacrifice, resistance and the power of love. Find out more >>
B K Borison‘s Sleepless-in-Seattle style new romcom book release First-Time Caller, is just in time for Valentine’s Day. Aiden, the jaded host of a radio romance hotline, is thrust into the limelight when a young girl calls in to the station asking for dating advice for her mom, and the interview goes viral. Everyone wants her mom Lucie to find her happy ending… even the handsome, temperamental man calling the shots. But when sparks start to fly behind the scenes, Lucie must make the final decision between the radio-sponsored happily ever after or the man in the headphones next to her. Find out more >>
