Cancel your plans for the foreseeable future—besides book club meet-ups—and make sure your library card is in good working order, because 2025 was an incredible year for books. Beloved and award-winning writers like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Suzanne Collins, Fredrik Backman, and Taylor Jenkins Reid all put out new novels. You’re also likely to find some new favorites in the bevy of debut works out this year from promising up-and-coming authors, some of whom have already made deals to bring their first books to the screen.
To fill out your TBR list with some new releases, we’ve rounded up the best novels of 2025. Though they span nearly every fiction genre—from lit fic to suspense to speculative sci-fi to romance, and everything in between—they barely scratch the surface of this year’s seemingly endless docket of page-turners. You can expect to be booked and busy. (Get it?)
