The Best New Books Publishing in February 2025

Harlem Rhapsody
by Victoria Christopher Murray Berkley Books, 02/04/2025 In 1919, as civil unrest grips the county, in a flourishing part of New York City called Harlem, something special is stirring. Here, the New Negro is...more

Oromay
by Baalu Girma Soho Press, 02/04/2025 December 1981, Ethiopia. Tsegaye Hailemaryam, a well-known journalist for the state-run media, has just landed in Asmara. He is on assignment as the ...more

The Dark Fable
by Katherine Harbour Bloomsbury YA, 02/04/2025 The Dark Fable is an urban legend come to life. The notorious crew of thieves with magical abilities are known for secreting away obscure and occult ...more

Beauty in the Blood: A Novel
by Charlotte Carter Vintage, 02/11/2025 Sarah Toomey is a successful young black lawyer, lovely but straitlaced– and afraid that she is losing her mind. Since the death of her mother, ...more

Loca
by Alejandro Heredia Simon & Schuster, 02/11/2025 It's 1999, and best friends Sal and Charo are striving to hold on to their dreams in a New York determined to grind them down. Sal is a book-loving ...more

Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood's First Stuntwoman
by Mallory O'Meara Hanover Square Press, 02/18/2025 Helen Gibson was a woman willing to do anything to give audiences a thrill. Advertised as "The Most Daring Actress in Pictures," Helen emerged in the ...more

Fagin the Thief: A Novel
by Allison Epstein Doubleday, 02/25/2025 Long before Oliver Twist stumbled onto the scene, Jacob Fagin was scratching out a life for himself in the dark alleys of nineteenth-century London. ...more