Best books of 2025: A preview of the year’s most exciting reads

A new year is an opportunity for a clean slate – and, perhaps more importantly, a good excuse to restock your TBR pile with some shiny new additions.  

Perhaps this will be the year you make a significant dent in your list of must-read classics, or maybe you’re keeping an eye out for the next big book that everyone will be talking about. If it’s the latter, we’ve got you covered with our essential round-up of the new releases coming out in 2025, from escapist romances to page-turning crime novels, modern literary masterpieces and memoirs that are sure to make history. 

In no particular order, the below are the 29 books we are most excited to read in 2025. 

Fiction

Non-fiction