The Best New Books Publishing in December 2025

A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction
by Elizabeth McCracken Ecco, 12/02/2025 Writing can feel like an endless series of decisions. How does one face the blank page? Move a character around a room? Deal with time? Undertake ...more

House of Day, House of Night: A Novel
by Olga Tokarczuk Riverhead Books, 12/02/2025 When the narrator of House of Day, House of Night arrives with her husband in a village in remote southwest Poland, she knows no one. Before long, ...more

Far from the A-List: A Novel
by Stephanie Burns MIRA, 12/09/2025 Former child star Michaela Turner is ready for her next big role—she just doesn't know what it is yet. As someone whose days were once filled ...more

The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age
by Alex Wellerstein Harper, 12/09/2025 In the eight decades since the United States deployed the most destructive weapon ever used, conventional wisdom has held that American leaders were ...more

Three Stories of Forgetting
by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida FSG Originals, 12/09/2025 The discrete yet overlapping tales in Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida's Three Stories of Forgetting explore the lives of three men―perhaps already ...more