New Books to Look Out 2025: Imprint Releases from Top Publishers
The Emperor of Gladness: A Novel
Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive
Friends and Liars: A Novel
From “edge-of-your-seat suspense” (Booklist) author Kit Frick comes an insidious thriller about four estranged friends trapped in a powerful family’s deadly games at a luxe estate in the Italian countryside.
Audition: A Novel
Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’s an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He’s attractive, troubling, young—young enough to be her son.
Conform: A Novel
In the far future, one young woman finds herself torn between two loves—and two sides of a rebellion boiling under the surface—in the first novel of a sweeping dystopian romance series.
The Season: A Fan's Story
From the beloved master of Australian letters Helen Garner comes a brand new work of nonfiction, exploring boyhood, football, and the quotidian joys of being a grandparent.
Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis
An urgent exploration of a world in constant crisis, where every regional disaster threatens to become a global conflict, with lessons from history that can stop the spiral—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography
Is a River Alive?
A Guardian "Nonfiction to Look Forward To in 2025" Recommendation • A Washington Post "Book to Watch For" in 2025 • A Financial Times "What to Read in 2025" Recommendation • A Goodreads Most Anticipated Book of 2025
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