Best Fiction of 2025
2025 is shaping up to be one of the best years in fiction yet! With many exciting debut authors, lost novels and some of our favourite authors releasing new books, it can be hard to keep track. Here you will find every book we can't wait to get our hands on!


An imperfect mother of the bride attempts to navigate her daughter's wedding in this funny, touching, hopeful gem of a novel. The happily ever after is only part of the story...A funny, touching, hopeful gem about love, marriage and second chances

We Do Not Part is a hymn to friendship, a eulogy to the imagination, and above all a powerful indictment against forgetting. These beautiful pages form much more than a novel - they illuminate a traumatic memory, buried for decades, that still resonates today.

In Dream Count, Adichie trains her fierce eye on these women in a sparkling, transcendent novel that takes up the very nature of love itself. Is true happiness ever attainable or is it just a fleeting state?

Swept Away is the epic new romance from the million-copy bestselling author of The Flatshare and The No-Show about your one-night stand becoming your one and only lifeline. Sharp, funny and breathtakingly intense, this standout novel is set to capture readers' hearts next spring.

Calling himself the go-between, Ayumi lays down strict rules around the meetings between the living and the dead- the deceased cannot have been summoned by anyone else; they may refuse; and they must meet under a full moon.

In these twelve dazzling stories, Sittenfeld skewers our assumptions about fame, marriage and celebrity. Laying bare on the page what we're all thinking but hesitate to say, she explores women's lives at the intersection of sex, love, ambition and the entangled pursuit of a fulfilling life.

Atmosphereis Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best- transporting readers to iconic times and places, with complex protagonists, telling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love, this time among the stars