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30 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2025

In uncertain times, we look to our sharpest writers.

If inntinnsic, venin, and ward activation mean anything to you, lock in vacation time for the end of January now: The third installment in Rebecca Yarros’s Empyrean novels returns to Basgiath War College with a steamy tail guaranteed to stoke the flames of passion and fury between its students, dragon riders learning to wield the magic derived from their beastly bonds to protect the kingdom of Navarre. Insecurity, jealousy, and sexual desire permeate these narratives, which span a boarding-school romance, a psychological horror involving a young crossdresser seduced by the opportunity to live out an internet fantasy, and the origins of an apocalyptic pandemic that strips humans of their natural ability to create hormones. Six years after his critically acclaimed debut novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, the patron saint of Big Feelings is back with this sophomore effort about a suicidal 19-year-old Vietnamese man who finds a sort of chosen family, first by looking after a widow with dementia and then by working at a fast-casual restaurant in rural Connecticut.

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