My Most Anticipated Books 2025

+ Fire Support Update

Preamble + Fire Update

I had this whole newsletter and Most Anticipated list drafted before the LA fires. In fact, I spent hours and hours putting it together over the holiday break, all of which I spent at our home in the Palisades. But after the fire, I couldn’t think of anything else.

I’m still working full-time on efforts to help our community out there like the clothing drive at our “pop-up” for those who have lost their homes or are indefinitely displaced. We’re also giving away books at Zibby’s Bookshop in Santa Monica to anyone affected.

But I thought it was time to share this list that I so lovingly made as books have started to come out and authors I adore have their pub days.

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2025 Most Anticipated List

Okay. It might seem like a long list, but trust me. It’s extremely curated! I’ve pared this list down from thousands and thousands of books that are coming out. You'll find titles I’m excited about by month and category. Some are books I already love. (Fredrik Backman’s My Friends is incredible.) There’s a huge range.

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You can order all of the books below online from Zibby’s Bookshop here.

Authors, here are visuals I made for you to post.

(I think I may be missing a few.)

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You’ll be hearing from many of these authors on my podcast, now called Totally Booked with Zibby, in the coming months. Ready? Dive in! And please share this post with your book-loving friends or your whole book club!

January

In Someone Else’s Shoes:

Brooke Shields, Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old

Neko Case, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You

Sarah Hoover, The Motherload: Episodes from the Brink of Motherhood

Bonny Reichert, How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty

Amy Wilson, Happy to Help: Adventures of a People Pleaser (Essays)

Josh Gad, In Gad We Trust: A Tell-Some

Lisa Cheek, Sit Cinderella Sit: A Mostly True Memoir

Markus Zusak, Three Wild Dogs (And the Truth): A Memoir

Novels That Make You… (Insert Emotion)

Cynthia Weiner, A Gorgeous Excitement

Sash Bischoff, Sweet Fury

Elizabeth Harris, How to Sleep at Night

Tracey Lange, What Happened to the McCrary’s

Daniel Black, Isaac’s Song

Taylor Hutton, Strike and Burn

Taking Us Back

Fiona Davis, The Stolen Queen

Bernhard Schlink, The Granddaughter

Renee Rosen, Let’s Call Her Barbie

Thrilling

Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly

Alafair Burke, The Note

Scott Turow, Presumed Guilty

Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch, The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy and Why it Failed

Help for the Body, Brain and Soul

Naomi Watts, Dare I Say It: Everything I Wish I’d Known About Menopause

Lindsay Jill Roth, Romances & Practicalities

Janice Kaplan, What Your Body Knows About Happiness: How to Use Your Body to Change Your Mind

Alexandra Sowa, MD, The Ozempic Revolution

Alison Wood Brooks, Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves

Martha Beck, Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life’s Purpose

Tom Rosshirt, Chasing Peace: A Story of Breakdowns, Breaththroughs, and the Spiritual Power of Neuroscience

Henry Alford, I Dream of Joni

Parenting is No Joke

Jenny Anderson and Rebecca Winthrop, The Disengaged Teen: Helping Kids Learn Better, Feel Better, and Live Better

Nancy Reddy, The Good Mother Myth: Unlearning Our Bad Ideas About How to Be a Good Mom

Neha Ruch, The Power Pause: How to Plan a Career Break After Kids — and Come Back Stronger Than Ever

February

In Someone Else’s Shoes

Chelsea Handler, I’ll Have What She’s Having

Bill Gates, Source Code

Hanif Kureishi, Shattered: A Memoir

Geraldine Brooks, Memorial Days

Keeonna Harris, Mainline Mama

Kareem Rosser, When You’re Ready: A Love Story

Jennifer Finney Boyle, Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us

Novels That Make You… (Insert Emotion)

Jane Costello, It’s Getting Hot in Here

Jessica Soffer, This is A Love Story

Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt

Sonya Walger, Lion

Jojo Moyes, We All Live Here

Ada Calhoun, Crush

Angelica Baker, When We Grow Up

Daniel D’Addario, The Talent

Tova Mirvis, We Would Never

Sonali Dev, There’s Something About Mira

Rochelle Weinstein, We Are Made of Stars

Angela Brown, Some Other Time

Christina Clancy, The Snowbirds

Anne Tyler, Three Days in June

Nancy Johnson, People of Means

Brigitte Giraud, Live Fast

Lindsay Hameroff, Never Planned on You

Short and Sweet

Curtis Sittenfeld, Show Don’t Tell: Stories

Rupert Everett, The American No: Stories

Taking Us Back

Pam Jenoff, Last Twilight in Paris

Marie Benedict, The Queens of Crime

Shara Moon, Let Us March On

Allegra Goodman, Isola

Camille de Maio, Come Fly With Me

Victoria Christopher Murray, Harlem Rhapsody

Or Forward…

Josh Plasse, Dust

Help for the Body, Brain and Soul

Lydia Sohn, Here: A Spirituality of Staying in a Culture of Leaving

Jess Johnston, Perfect is Boring (and it Tastes Like Kale)

Ethan Kross, Shift: Managing Your Emotions So They Don’t Manage You

Kelsey McKinney, You Didn’t Hear This from Me

Brian Kelly, How to Win at Travel

Ashley Graber and Maria Evans, Raising Calm Kids in a World of Worry: Tools to Ease Anxiety and Overwhelm

Shauna Brittenham Reiter, You Are The Boss of You: Cultivate the Mindset and Tools to Live Life on Your Terms

Michelle Jungmin Bang, Sun & Ssukgat: The Korean Art of Self-Care, Wellness, and Longevity

March

In Someone Else’s Shoes

Amy Griffin, The Tell

Joshua Miele, Connecting Dots: A Blind Life

Samina Ali, Pieces You’ll Never Get Back

Shelley Fraser Mickle, Itching to Love: The Story of a Dog

Bernice L. McFadden, Firstborn Girls

Graydon Carter, When the Going Was Good

Jeffrey Self, Self-Sabotage: And Other Ways I’ve Spent My Time

Ione Skye, Say Everything: A Memoir

Nicole Graev Lipson, Mothers and Other Fictional Characters, Essays

Laurie Woolever, Care and Feeding: A Memoir

Parenting is No Joke

Mary Catherine Starr, Mama Needs a Minute: A Candid, Funny, All-Too-Relatable Comic Memoir About Surviving Motherhood

Novels That Make You… (Insert Emotion)

Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore

Nanda Reddy, A Girl Within a Girl Within a Girl

Clare Leslie Hall, Broken Country

Madeleine Henry, Name Not Taken

Colum McCann, Twist

Jacqueline Friedland, Counting Backwards

Julie Hatcher, Not Quite By the Book

Jill Santopolo, The Love We Lost

Colleen Oakley, Jane and Dan at the End of the World

Ali Rosen, Unlikely Story

Karen Russell, The Antidote

Marcy Dermansky, Hot Air

Sanjeena Sathian, Goddess Complex

Celia Laskey, Cover Story

Alex Aster, Summer in the City

Lucy Score, Story of My Life

Deanna Raybourne, Kills Well With Others

Sarah Harman, All the Other Mothers Hate Me

Kim Fay, Kate & Frida: A Novel of Friendship, Food and Books

Taking Us Back

Lauren Willig, The Girl from Greenwich Street: a Novel of Hamilton, Burr, and America’s First Murder Trial

Chris Bohjalian, The Jackal’s Mistress

Georgia Hunter, One Good Thing

Patti Callahan Henry, The Story She Left Behind

Help for the Body, Brain and Soul

Tamsen Fadal, How to Menopause

Charles Schumer, Antisemitism in America: A Warning

Olga Khazan, Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change

Jenny Fielding, Venture Everywhere: Travel, Entrepreneurship, and a Roadmap for Life

Elissa Altman, Permission: The New Memoirist and the Courage to Create

Allison Kosik, What’s Up with Women and Money?

Parenting is No Joke

Carson Meyer, Growing Together: Doula Wisdom & Holistic Practices for Pregnancy, Birth & Early Motherhood

Thrilling

Harlan Coben, Nobody’s Fool

April

In Someone Else’s Shoes

Maria Shriver, I Am Maria: My Reflections and Poems on Heartbreak, Healing and Finding Your Way Home

Jessica N. Turner, I Thought it Would Be Better Than This

Anne Berest and Claire Berest, Gabriele

Tess Sanchez, We’ve Decided to Go in a Different Direction: Essays

The Dogist (Elias Weiss Friedman), This Dog Will Change Your Life

Daria Burke, Of My Own Making

Laura Munson, The Wild Why

E.A. Hanks, The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road

Judith Viorst, Making the Best of What’s Left: When You’re Too Old to Get The Chairs Reupholstered

Vicky Nguyễn, Boat Baby

Novels That Make You… (Insert Emotion)

Jeremy Gordon, See Friendship

Meredith Turits, Just Want You Here

Lynn Steger Strong, The Float Test

John Kenney, I See You’ve Called in Dead

Austin Kelley, The Fact Checker

Jennifer E. Smith, Fun for the Whole Family

Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Climbing in Heels

Sarah Damoff, The Bright Years

Saumya Dave, The Guilt Pill

Paige Toon, What if I Never Get Over You

Amity Gaige, Heartwood

Amelia Ireland, The Seven O’Clock Club

Emily Henry, Great Big Beautiful Life

Jennifer Haigh, Rabbit Moon

Abby Jimenez, Say You’ll Remember Me

Viola Shipman, The Page Turner

Lucy Caldwell, These Days

Sanibel, To Have and to Have More

Ellen Meister, Joyride

Morgan Dick, Favorite Daughter

Taking Us Back:

Sarah Penner, The Amalfi Curse

Alka Joshi, Six Days in Bombay

Thrilling

Julia Bartz, The Last Session

Nita Prose, The Maid’s Secret

Casey Sherman, Blood in the Water: The Untold Story of a Family Tragedy

Help For the Body, Brain, and Soul

Suleika Jaouad, The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life

Ed Helms, Snafu: The Definitive Guide to History’s Greatest Screwups

Bonnie Tsui, On Muscle: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters

Melinda French Gates, The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward

Annie B. Jones, Ordinary Time: Lessons Learned While Staying Put

Gretchen Rubin, Secrets of Adulthood: Simple Truths for Our Complex Lives

Michael Gross, Flight of the WASP: The Rise, Fall, and Future of America’s Original Ruling Class

Maggie Smith, Dear Writer: Pep Talks and Practical Advice for the Creative Life

Melissa Wirt, I Was Told There’d Be a Village: Transforming Motherhood through the Power of Connection

Sheinelle Jones, Through Mom’s Eyes: Simple Wisdom from Mothers Who Raised Extraordinary Humans

May

Novels That Make You… (Insert Emotion)

Fredrik Backman, My Friends

Maud Ventura, Make Me Famous

Nicola Kraus, The Best We Could Hope For

Tinx, Hotter in the Hamptons

Kristy Woodson Harvey, Beach House Rules

Leslie Grey Streeter, Family and Other Calamaties

Jessie Rosen, All the Signs

Lian Dolan, Abigail and Alexa Save the Wedding

Brendan Slocumb, Dark Maestro

Carley Fortune, One Golden Summer

Annabel Monaghan, It’s a Love Story

Jeanine Cummins, Speak to Me of Home

Wendy Francis, Betting on Good

Melissa de la Cruz, When Stars Align

Emily Itami, Kakigori Summer

Jennifer Weiner, The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits

Wally Lamb, The River is Waiting

Jordan Roter, Moms Like Us

Richard Russo, Life and Art

Florence Knapp, The Names

Mary Morris, The Red House

Jane L. Rosen, Songs of Summer

Honor Jones, Sleep

Rachel Lynn Solomon, What Happens in Amsterdam

Lori Gold, Romantic Friction

Kevin Wilson, Run for the Hills

Allison Larkin, Home of the American Circus

Disha Bose, I Will Blossom Anyway

Betty Cayouette, Tell Me How You Really Feel

Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words

Catherine Mack, No One Was Supposed to Die at This Wedding (May)

Anna Todd, The Last Sunrise

Neely Tubato Alexander, Courtroom Drama

Katherine Center, Love Haters

In Someone Else’s Shoes

Ruthie Ackerman, The Mother Code: My Story of Love, Loss, and the Myths that Shape Us

Tommy Dorfman, Maybe This Will Save Me: A Memoir of Art, Addiction, and Transformation

Barry Diller, Who Knew

Besha Rodell, Hunger Like a Thirst: From Food Stamps to Fine Dining, a Restaurant Critic Finds Her Place at the Table

Michele Filgate, What My Father and I Don’t Talk About

Sarah Ruhl, Lessons from My Teachers: From Preschool to the Present

Josie Balka, I Hope You Remember: Poems on Loving, Longing and Living

Keith McNally, I Regret Almost Everything

Jill Bialosky, The End is the Beginning: A Personal History of My Mother

Nina Stibbe, Went to London. Took the Dog: Diary of a 60-Year-Old Runaway

Thrilling

Chris Pavone, The Doorman

Elizabeth Rose Quinn, Follow Me

Help for the Body, Mind and Soul

Christopher Clarey, The Warrior: Rafael Nadal and His Kingdom of Clay

Parenting is No Joke

James Patterson, The #1 Dad Guide: Be The Best Dad You Can Be in One Hour

Melinda Wenner Moyer, Hello, Cruel World! Science-Based Strategies for Raising Terrific Kids in Terrifying Times

Amanda Hess, Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age (May)

Taking Us Back

Ron Chernow, Mark Twain

June

Novels That Make You… Insert Emotion

Fran Littlewood, The Accidental Favorite

Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

Nikki Erlick, The Poppy Fields

Amy Bloom, I’ll Be Right Here

Janelle Brown, What Kind of Paradise

Audrey Ingram, The Summer We Ran

Josie Silver, Slow Burn Summer

Jennifer Trevelyan, A Beautiful Family

Claire Lynch, A Family Matter

Joyce Carol Oates, Fox

Christina Hillsberg, Agents of Change

Susan Choi, Flashlight

Jeneva Rose, The Girl I Was

James Frey, Next to Heaven

Amy Poeppel, Far and Away

Hal Ebbott, Among Friends

Katelyn Doyle, Total Dreamboat

Thrilling

Liv Constantine, Don’t Open Your Eyes

Bill Clinton and James Patterson, The First Gentleman

Karen Dukess, Welcome to Murder Week

Julie Clark, The Ghostwriter

Kaira Rouda, Jill is Not Happy

Andrea Bartz, The Last Ferry Out

In Someone Else’s Shoes

Tiffany Jenkins, A Clean Mess: A Memoir of Sobriety after a Lifetime of Being Numb

Melissa Febos, The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex

Sarah Spain & Demand McCullough, Runs in the Family: An Incredible True Story of Football, Fatherhood and Belonging

Bonnie Comfort, Staying Married is the Hardest Part: A Memoir of Passion, Secrets and Sacrifice

Elyce Arons, We Might Just Make it After All: My Best Friendship with Kate Spade

Molly Jong-Fast, How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter’s Memoir

Bridget Crocker, The River’s Daughter

Short and Sweet

Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays

Dina Alvarez & Dina Aronson, Midlife Private Parts: Revealing Essays That Will Change the Way You Think About Age

Taking Us Back

Serena Burdick, A Promise to Arlette

Shirley Russak Wachtel, The Baker of Lost Memories

Help for the Body, Brain, and Soul

Jennifer Pastiloff, Proof of Life

Kelly Ramsey, Wildfire Days: A Woman, A Hotshot Crew, and the Burning West

July

Novels That Make You…

Adriana Trigiani, The View from Lake Como

Gary Shtengart, Vera, or Faith

Elissa Sussman, Totally and Completely Fine

Hattie Williams, Bitter Sweet

Claire Adam, Love Forms

Esther Chehebar, Sisters of Fortune

Kate Hash, Gracie Harris is Under Construction

Kate Broad, Greenwich

Amy Blumenfeld, Such Good People

Esther Freud, My Sister and Other Lovers: A Novel

Christine Pride, All the Men I’ve Loved Again

Morgan Pager, The Art of Vanishing

Susan Wiggs, Wayward Girls

Emma Rosenblum, Mean Moms

Thrilling

Jo Piazza, Everyone is Lying to You

Katie Sise, You Must Be New Here

Help for the Body, Brain and Soul

Mark Hodgkinson, Searching for Novak

Taking Us Back

Meg Waite Clayton, Typewriter Beach

Brooke Lea Foster, Our Last Vineyard Summer

In Someone Else’s Shoes

Abby Rosmarin, The Year of Dating Myself: How My Solo Tour Healed More Than Just My Heartbreak

August

Novels That Make You… Insert Emotion

Ella Berman, L.A. Women

Holly Smale, I Know How This Ends

Lauren Grodstein, A Dog in Georgia

Alisha Fernandez Miranda, Someone’s Gotta Give

Katie Bishop, High Season

Victoria Benton Frank, The Violet Hour

Caroline Palmer, Work Horse

Thrilling

Sarah Pekkanen, The Locked Ward

Stacy Willingham, Forget Me Not

In Someone Else’s Shoes

Alyson Stoner, Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything

Mallary Tenore Tarpley, Slip: Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Recovery

Ilana Kurshan, Children of the Book: A Memoir of Reading Together

Taking Us Back

Sharon Kurtzman, The Lost Baker of Vienna

What’d you think?! What are you excited for? Let me know! And please share the list with other book lovers!