Books that will be released in 2025

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The most anticipated books of 2025

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Here’s a prediction: It’s a good year to be a bookworm. Sure, many of us still have a mountain of a TBR list leftover from all of the great books in 2024, but the turn of the calendar brings a clean slate, a fresh start, and upcoming books bursting with promise.

In this preview guide, we’re highlighting 100 buzzworthy books headed our way this year, guaranteed to help you smash your reading goals. So, bring on the books! And do your future self a favor by keeping track of everything you want to read or listen to in the Libby app.

Here are a couple tips to stay organized in Libby:

1. Place a hold on the title and following the release date, you’ll be notified when it’s your turn to read.

2. Create a “Want to read” tag and keep track of all your future conquests there.

Whatever you add to your list (no shame if it’s all of them), wishing you a happy year in reading! For more book recommendations to keep your motivation high all year long, subscribe to Libby Life.


January

The Three Lives of Cate KayThe Three Lives of Cate Kay by Kate Fagan
🎧 Audiobook
Release date: Jan. 7

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo meets First Lie Wins in this electric, voice-driven debut novel about an elusive bestselling author who decides to finally confess her true identity after years of hiding from her past.


Witchcraft for Wayward GirlsWitchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
🎧 Audiobook
Release date: Jan. 14

The author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support Group delivers another searing, completely original novel and further cements his status as a “horror master” (NPR).


Onyx StormOnyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
🎧 Audiobook
Release date: Jan. 21

For dragon rider Violet Sorrengail, the stakes have never been higher in this third book in the Empyrean series. For more in the series, check out Fourth Wing and Iron Flame.


February

All Better NowAll Better Now by Neal Shusterman
🎧 Audiobook
Release date: Feb. 4

From the bestselling author of Scythe comes a young adult thriller about a world where happiness is contagious, but the risks of catching it may be just as dangerous as the cure.


The Blanket CatsThe Blanket Cats by Kiyoshi Shigematsu
🎧 Audiobook
Release date: Feb. 25

Seven struggling customers are given the unique opportunity to take home a "blanket cat," but only for three days, the time it’ll take to change their lives.


Show Don't TellShow Don’t Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld
🎧 Audiobook
Release date: Feb. 25

A funny, fiercely intelligent, and moving collection exploring marriage, friendship, fame, and artistic ambition—including a story that revisits the main character from Curtis Sittenfeld’s iconic novel Prep.


March

The AntidoteThe Antidote by Karen Russell
🎧 Audiobook
Release date: Mar. 11

From Pulitzer finalist, MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and the bestselling author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove comes a gripping dust bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraskan town.


Sunrise on the ReapingSunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
🎧 Audiobook
Release date: Mar. 18

When you've been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for? The phenomenal fifth book in the Hunger Games series!


When the Moon Hits Your EyeWhen the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi
Release date:
Mar. 25

The New York Times bestselling author of Starter Villain flies you to the moon with his most fantastic tale to date.


April

Say You'll Remember MeSay You’ll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez
🎧 Audiobook
Release date: Apr. 1

From the bestselling author of Just for the Summer comes a funny and poignant, relatable and aspirational, heart-tugging and satisfying contemporary romance.


Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man)Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man) by Jesse Q. Sutanto
🎧 Audiobook
Release date: Apr. 1

Vera Wong is back and as meddling as ever in this follow-up to the hit Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers.


The Next DayThe Next Day by Melinda French Gates
🎧 Audiobook
Release date: Apr. 15

In a rare window into some of her life's pivotal moments, Melinda French Gates draws from previously untold stories to offer a new perspective on encountering transitions.


Great Big Beautiful LifeGreat Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
🎧 Audiobook
Release date: Apr. 22

Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping new novel from the author of Funny Story.


MatriarchMatriarch by Tina Knowles
🎧 Audiobook
Release date: Apr. 22

A revealing personal life story like no other—enlightening, entertaining, surprising, empowering—and a testament to the world-making power of Black motherhood.


May

The Manor of DreamsThe Manor of Dreams by Christina Li
🎧 Audiobook
Release date: May 6

Mexican Gothic meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in this haunting novel about the secrets that lie in wait in the crumbling mansion of a former Hollywood starlet, and the intertwined fates of the two Chinese American families fighting to inherit it.


My Name is Emilia Del ValleMy Name Is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende
🎧 Audiobook
Release date: May 6

In this spellbinding historical novel from the author of A Long Petal of the Sea and The Wind Knows My Name, a young writer journeys to South America to uncover the truth about her father—and herself.


June

AtmosphereAtmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
🎧 Audiobook
Release date: June 3

From the author of Daisy Jones and the Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s Space Shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits.


Great Black HopeGreat Black Hope by Rob Franklin
🎧 Audiobook
Release date: June 10

A gripping, elegant debut novel about a young Black man caught between worlds of race and class, glamour and tragedy, a friend's mysterious death and his own arrest, from an electrifying new voice.


August

KatabasisKatabasis by R. F. Kuang
🎧 Audiobook
Release date: Aug. 26

Dante's Inferno meets Susanna Clarke's Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from the author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor's soul—perhaps at the cost of their own.


September

BuckeyeBuckeye by Patrick Ryan
🎧 Audiobook
Release date: Sept. 2

This captivating epic weaves the intimate lives of two Midwestern families across generations, from World War II to the late twentieth century.


Plus more! 👇

Check out the rest of the list and borrow through your local library in the Libby app.

*Title availability may vary by library & region.

Published Jan 13, 2025

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About the Author

Annie Suhy is the editor of Libby Life. When she’s not working, practicing yoga, or petting cats, she’s doing paint-by-numbers and buying more plants. An avid poetry fan, her favorite collection is "The Splinter Factory" by Jeffrey McDaniel. She is an Aries.

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