Most Anticipated 2025 Reads

Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a relaxing and joyful holiday. For 2024, my goals were to track my reading better and to read more historical fiction and more narrative nonfiction. While I definitely tracked my reading better, I did not read as much historical fiction as I had hoped but did read a fair amount of narrative nonfiction. For 2025, I plan to listen to more audiobooks. I am decently new to the audiobook arena but do enjoy them when I listen.

2024 was a fabulous reading year for me, and I read so many wonderful books. 2025 started off a lot rockier, but lately I have found some titles that I have really enjoyed. Today I am highlighting some titles coming out in January through March about which I am most excited. I have read some of these books already (I starred those and only included those that I really liked), and the rest look like they should be interesting reads.

Fiction:

• *The Heart of Winter by Jonathan Evison (Jan. 7) 
• *What Happened to the McCrays? by Tracey Lange (Jan. 14) (A January 2025 Buzz Reads pick)
• *Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson (Jan. 28) 
• *Penitence by Kristin Koval (Jan. 28)
• We Rip the World Apart by Charlene Carr (Jan. 28)
• Snowbirds by Christina Clancey (Feb. 4)
• *Beartooth by Callan Wick (Feb. 11)
• People of Means by Nancy Johnson (Feb. 11)
• Three Days in June by Anne Tyler (Feb. 11)
• Waiting for the Long Night Moon: Stories by Amanda Peters (Feb. 11)
• We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes (Feb. 11)
• *Nesting by Roisin O’Donnell (Feb. 18)
• Back After This by Linda Holmes (Feb. 25)
• *Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall (Mar. 4)
• *Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McDonaghy (Mar. 4)
• *Dissolution by Nicholas Binge (Mar. 25)

Historical Fiction:

• *Homeseeking by Karissa Chen (Jan. 7)
• *The Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis (Jan. 7) (A January 2025 Buzz Reads pick)
• *The Unexpected Diva by Tiffany L. Warren (Jan. 7) (A January 2025 Buzz Reads pick)
• *Ace, Marvel, Spy by Jenni L. Walsh (Jan. 14)
• *Let’s Call Her Barbie by Renee Rosen (Jan. 21)
• *Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray (Feb. 4)
• *Let Us March On by Shara Moon (Feb. 4) 
• The Dressmakers of London by Julia Kelly (Feb. 18)
• *Follow Me to Africa by Penny Haw (Feb. 25)
• The Girl From Greenwich Street by Lauren Willig (Mar. 4)
• *The Story She Left Behind by Patti Callahan Henry (Mar. 18)

Mystery/Thriller:

• Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney (Jan. 14) 
• Cross My Heart by Megan Collins (Jan. 14)
• *Head Cases by John McMahon (Jan. 28) (A January 2025 Buzz Reads pick)
• *Dead Money by Jakob Kerr (Jan. 28)
• You Are Fatally Invited by Ande Pliego (Feb. 11)
• *Kills Well With Others by Deanna Raybourn (Feb. 11)
• *Famous Last Words by Gillian McAllister (Feb. 25)
• The Four Queens of Crime by Rosanne Limoncelli (Mar. 11)
• *The Writer by James Patterson and J.D. Barker (Mar. 18) 
• *The Splinter Effect by Andrew Ludington (Mar. 18)

What books are you excited for in 2025?

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