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Awards, News & Buzzy Book Previews

Lit Hub releases the list of its most anticipated books of 2025. 

Electric Lit shares the most anticipated queer books for spring. 

BookRiot offers its most anticipated books list for 2025 and 13 new mysteries, thrillers, and true crime books for January. 

Vogue looks at the best books of 2025. 

T&C highlights 23 new books for the month. 

The World Fantasy Awards judges are announced. Locus has details. 

Meta announced it will end its third-party fact-checking program, WSJ reports. NYT and Reuters also have coverage.

Barnes & Noble announces plans to open 60 new stores in 2025, Publishers Lunch reports. 

Reviews

NYT reviews Mothers and Sons by Adam Haslett (Little, Brown): “Mothers and Sons is Haslett’s best novel. By limiting his area of inquiry, he achieves new levels of moral depth and narrative push” ; How to Sleep at Night by Elizabeth Harris (Morrow): “Harris’s lively writing and the fast-moving narrative accompany what’s ultimately a bleak view of comfort in difficult times: The way to sleep at night, these characters find, is to secure your own future and make peace in your relationships, and then to think about what’s happening to the rest of the world as little as possible”; The Lady of the Mine by Sergei Lebedev, tr. by Antonina W. Bouis (New Vessel): “The Lady of the Mine is the type of novel that gets called ‘atmospheric.’ Sometimes that can mean ‘nothing much happens.’ There is no action too minor to interrupt with endless smoke rings of reflection. I had to read the book twice to understand what was going on”; and Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age by James Chappel (Basic): “Golden Years is related in baked-potato, hold-the-butter-and-salt prose. While reading it I felt my life slipping away more rapidly than usual. But Chappel, an associate professor of history at Duke and a senior fellow at the Duke Aging Center, knows this material front to back and he gets some important things said.”

Washington Post reviews The Granddaughter by Bernhard Schlink, tr. by Charlotte Collins (HarperVia): “And yet, the book captures something important about contemporary Germany, lost amid countless news articles about the woes of a once-mighty economy and the swift rise of the far-right Alternative for Germany party, especially among the Ossis, as those from the East are called.”

Seattle Times reviews Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love by Marianne Cronin (Harper Perennial): “Goofy? A bit. Romantic? Sure. Implausible? Who cares? Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love is great fun for this darkest time of year.”

Briefly Noted

LitHub highlights 27 new books for the week. 

Salon presents a reading list to help make sense of 2024.

Reactor has “5 Underrated Books About Revolutions & Rebellions.”

PopSugar shares 11 road trip books. 

CrimeReads suggests “5 Great Spy Novels Set in Small Towns.”

Writers reflect on their favorite books of December at The Guardian. 

Autostraddle shares “11 Great Queer Novels About Sisters.”

NYT features Anita Desai and her new novella, Rosarita (Scribner; LJ starred review). 

The Atlantic’s “Books Briefing” considers “How ‘the End’ Helps Us Find New Beginnings.”

Diana Gabaldon shares a new Outlander excerpt on social media. Parade has the story.

Vox examines: “Are men’s reading habits truly a national crisis?”

Allison Holker talks with People about her forthcoming memoir, This Far: My Story of Love, Loss, and Embracing the Light by (Harper Select), due out February 4. 

At HipLatina, Dorsía Smith Silva discusses her debut poetry collection, In Inheritance of Drowning (CavanKerry), which centers on the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. 

People previews and shares an excerpt from Shari Leid’s forthcoming travel memoir, Table for 51: Lessons Learned from Sharing Meals Across America (S. & S.), due out Feb. 18.

Bestselling thriller author Andrew Pyper has died at the age of 56. CBC has an obituary. People also has a remembrance. 

Authors on Air

Emma Knight discusses her new book, the Read with Jenna pick The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus (Viking: Pamela Dorman), on B&N’s Poured Over podcast.

Lynne Peeples discusses her book The Inner Clock: Living in Sync with Our Circadian Rhythms (Riverhead) with NPR’s Fresh Air. 

People recaps all the 2025 Golden Globe–winning book adaptations. 

Deadline previews “30+ TV Show Book Adaptations Arriving This Year So Far.”

Shari Franke, author of The House of My Mother: A Daughter’s Quest for Freedom (Gallery), and Ian K. Smith, author of Eat Your Age: Feel Younger, Be Happier, Live Longer (Harvest), visit GMA today.

Martha Beck, Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life’s Purpose (The Open Field), will appear on Today.

Cher, author of Cher: The Memoir, Part One (Dey Street; LJ starred review), will chat with Jimmy Kimmel tonight.

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