New books launching in 2025 I cannot wait to read
Just as I am doing with my beauty apothecary - first I have to use a product until the end before purchasing a new one - I am trying to go through my reading list by reading the 50 books (!) that I already own. I must confess that some might have been collecting dust whilst I purchase a new one here and there.
Alas, here are a few book launches I cannot wait to dive into as soon as I finish with the books I already have. I will also keep you posted on the ones I end up purchasing and reading along the way...
All synopsis were found on Goodreads
The Favorites - Layne Fargo
She might not have a famous name, funding, or her family’s support, but Katarina Shaw has always known that she was destined to become an Olympic skater. When she meets Heath Rocha, a lonely kid stuck in the foster care system, their instant connection makes them a formidable duo on the ice. Clinging to skating—and each other—to escape their turbulent lives, Kat and Heath go from childhood sweethearts to champion ice dancers, captivating the world with their scorching chemistry, rebellious style, and roller-coaster relationship. Until a shocking incident at the Olympic Games brings their partnership to a sudden end.
Release date: January 14
Dream Count - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything until — betrayed and brokenhearted — she must turn to the person she thought she needed least. Omelogor, Chiamaka’s bold, outspoken cousin, is a financial powerhouse in Nigeria who begins to question how well she knows herself. And Kadiatou, Chiamaka’s housekeeper, is proudly raising her daughter in America – but faces an unthinkable hardship that threatens all she has worked to achieve.
In Dream Count, Adichie trains her fierce eye on these women in a sparkling, transcendent novel that takes up the very nature of love itself. Is true happiness ever attainable or is it just a fleeting state? And how honest must we be with ourselves in order to love, and to be loved?
Release date: March 4
Jess
Swept Away - Beth O'Leary
What if you were lost at sea…with your one-night stand?
Zeke and Lexi thought it would just be a night of fun. They had no intentions of seeing each other again. Zeke is only in town for the weekend to buy back his late father’s houseboat. Lexi has no time for dating when she needs to help take care of her best friend's daughter.
Going back home with a stranger seems like a perfect escape from their problems. But a miscommunication in the dark, foggy night means no one tied the houseboat to the dock. The next morning, Zeke and Lexi realize all they can see is miles and miles of water.
With just a few provisions on the idle boat, Zeke and Lexi must figure out how to get back home. But aside from their survival, they’re facing another challenge. Because when you’re stuck together for days on end, it gives you a lot of time to get to know someone—and to fall in love with them.
Release date: April 1
The Names - Florence Knapp
In the wake of a catastrophic storm, Cora sets off with her nine-year-old daughter, Maia, to register her son's birth. Her husband, Gordon, a local doctor, respected in the community but a terrifying and controlling presence at home, intends for her to name the infant after him. But when the registrar asks what she'd like to call the child, Cora hesitates...
Release date: May 6
Bitter Sweet - Hattie Williams
Set in London, when a young book publicist finds herself in an all-consuming workplace affair with her literary idol, she learns that the things you love most can sometimes be the very things that tear you apart in this intoxicating and moving debut novel.
Release date: July 8
Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar - Katie Yee
A man and a woman walk into a restaurant. The woman expects a lovely night filled with endless plates of samosas. Instead, she finds out her husband is having an affair with a woman named Maggie.
A short while after, her chest starts to ache. She walks into an examination room, where she finds out the pain in her breast isn’t just heartbreak—it’s cancer. She decides to call the tumor Maggie.
Release date: July 22
She Didn't See It Coming - Shari Lapena
When a beloved wife and mother disappears, a luxurious condo building transforms into a potential crime scene, and the investigation begins: can the detectives find her before it's too late?
Release date: July 29
Jess
Too Old for This - Samantha Downing
A retired serial killer’s quiet life is upended by an unexpected visitor. To protect her secret, there’s only one option left—what’s another murder?
Lottie Jones thought her crimes were behind her. But getting away with murder is hard enough when you’re young. And when Lottie receives another annoying knock on the door, she realizes this crime might just be the death of her…
Release date: August 12
The Wilderness - Angela Flournoy
The wilderness cited in this new novel from author Angela Flournoy (The Turner House) refers to that fraught and consequential period between young adulthood and midlife plateau. The book follows five American Black women as they navigate this tricky terrain—and fight to preserve their friendship—in the first wobbly years of the new millennium.
Release date: September 16
Jess
Mad Mabel - Sally Hepworth
Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick is eighty-one years old. She's lived on her idyllic street for sixty years—longer than anyone else. Aside from being a curmudgeon who minds everyone else's business, few would suspect that Elsie has a past she's worked exceedingly hard at concealing—because when it comes to murder, no one ever suspects little girls or old ladies. And Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick, once a little girl and now an old lady, has a strange history of people in her life coming to a foul end.
Release date: October 1
Cursed Daughters - Oyinkan Braithwaite
So far as her family is concerned, young Eniiyi is the reincarnation of her dead Auntie Mo, doomed to repeat her tragic life thanks to an ancient family curse. But Eniiyi is a modern Nigerian woman, with her own life to live. As with her breakthrough 2018 novel, My Sister, the Serial Killer, author Oyinkan Braithwaite blends romance and wicked humor into warm family drama.
Release date: November 4
Jess
Did any of these catch you attention? Or have you read any 2025 published book already?
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