A preview of the most anticipated books hitting shelves in the first half of 2025, featuring selections from acclaimed authors like Han Kang, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Geraldine Brooks.
The best part about starting a new year? Forgetting all the books you never got around to reading in the past 12 months and discovering all the ones you can look forward to during the next 12. There are plenty of heavy fiction hitters coming our way with novels from the likes of Han Kang and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, plus some already-hyped debuts from Australian authors.
Non-fiction has seen better sales days, but memoirs from Geraldine Brooks and Hannah Kent might help revive the genre – or surely, there will be some salvation in the first autobiography from a sitting pope. We’ve selected 15 non-fiction and 15 fiction titles set to hit shelves in the first half of 2025. We’ve tried to include something for everyone, so prepare to let your TBR pile crush you with the weight of possibility ... again. Hold on to your wings. The year gets off to a fiery start with the follow-up to the global publishing phenomena(and made “dragon sex” an acceptable phrase). Dragon rider Violet Sorrengail has learnt all she can at Basgiath War College, and now it’s time to test herself in the troubled world beyond the safety of the wards.), follows an overworked New York City immigration lawyer forced to reckon with his estranged mother – and the night of violence that tore them apart – after he takes on the case of a gay asylum seeker. The 2024 Nobel Prize winner’s new novel follows a woman on her journey through a snow storm from Seoul to the home of an old friend in the forests of Jeju Island. Expect the same haunting, dream-like (sometimes nightmare-like) quality that swept us away in Nothing tests lifelong friendships quite like shared bathrooms, different wake-up times and deciding who gets the good bedroom. But at least group holidays make great fodder for novels. Inforty-something Phil invites a group of old mates to stay with him at his late mother’s house on the coas
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