Check out our Most Anticipated Books for 2025

Our Most Anticipated Books for 2025

Most Anticipated Books for 2025

It's never too early to start getting excited about next year's books. So why not plan your reading alongside our most anticipated books for 2025? Our selections range from work by famous and beloved authors to promising debuts, and can give you a sneak peek of titles we may cover at BookBrowse — including some appearing in our First Impressions program or book club. We hope you discover future favorites on this list and join us next year as we continue to bring you the best new books. If you haven’t already, be sure to also check out our Best Books for Book Clubs in 2025, and if you'd like to see all of our 2025 books we've shortlisted so far, you can do so here.

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The Best Books for Book Clubs in 2025

The best book club books in 2025

How are your book club picks looking for 2025? To help book clubs choose their reads for next year, we've compiled a big list of favorites that we think would make great discussion selections. Almost all these books are paired with reading guides and have been featured (or will be featured) on BookBrowse, and all are either recent or upcoming hardcover or paperback releases. Some are even tried-and-tested titles from our own online book club, and we've included the discussion links below for inspiration. If you'd like to see even more titles publishing in 2025, you can check out our Most Anticipated Books for 2025. Happy reading!

Please note that discussions may contain spoilers.

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Examples of Good Book Reviews

Pen and PaperWhat makes a good book review? With the growth of reader reviews like those on Amazon or Goodreads alongside dedicated book review sites (like BookBrowse), there are more book reviewers and would-be book reviewers than ever. Maybe you're one of them, contributing your opinions on your own blog, on a consensus site, or to a publication. Maybe you want to support the reading community, enjoy reviewing books in exchange for receiving them gratis, or have aspirations to review professionally. Or maybe, as an invested reader of books and book reviews, you just like thinking about aspects of criticism and analysis. No matter your level of interest in reviews or the reasons behind it, you may find it enriching to consider good examples of book reviews written by others. With this in mind, we've put together some excerpts from our own reviewers' work that demonstrate what certain worthwhile elements of a review can look like. We hope you find them helpful.

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How to Write a Good Book Review: The BookBrowse Guide for Book Reviewers

BookBrowse Guide to Writing Book Reviews

BookBrowse reviewers have written thousands of book reviews in the 20+ years we've been around, and we receive thousands of applications each year from would-be reviewers. However, the review samples in these applications vary widely—in terms of length, summary vs. analyses, quality, etc.—and we thought both reviewers and readers might be interested in our perspective on writing reviews. So for the first time, we've taken our internal guidelines for BookBrowse reviewers and amended them for the general public.

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9 New Books to Read This Fall

Books to Cozy Up with this Fall

With longer nights, cooler days, and sweater-appropriate weather, the final months of the year are a great time to crack open some books and get reading.

To help you curate your fall TBR list, we've selected 9 titles that are either newly released or being published this fall, all of which are or will be reviewed by our readers and reviewers — read on for the full list!

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How Anyone Can Fight Book Bans

How Anyone Can Fight Book Bans

As book bans continue to surge across the country, there is heightened national concern about censorship and the limitations imposed on young people’s education and enrichment. At the same time, organizations, individuals, and communities are invested in fighting bans, supporting authors, and taking action on behalf of targeted books and those who benefit from them. Booksellers and libraries, for example, can give visibility to the titles most frequently affected, many of which are written by and for LGBTQ+ people and BIPOC. But anyone can get involved in fighting book bans, and there’s never been a better time to do so. 

In conjunction with Banned Books Week (September 22-28, 2024), an annual event established in 1982 to draw attention to problems of censorship, we share a few ways you can support efforts to fight book bans in your community, and on a larger scale, too.

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