New Books for the New Year | January 2025 Starred Reviews

Titles not to miss across fiction, nonfiction, and audio.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AUDIO

McQuiston, Casey. The Pairing. Macmillan Audio

Paul, Gill. Scandalous Women. HarperAudio

MYSTERY & SUSPENSE

Currie, Ron. The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne. Putnam

McCluskey, Laura. The Wolf Tree. Putnam

Rendon, Marcie R. Broken Fields. Soho Crime

Thielman, Mark. The Devil’s Kitchen: A Murder in Yellowstone. Severn River

Winstead, Ashley. This Book Will Bury Me. Sourcebooks Landmark

SF/FANTASY

Addison, Katherine. The Tomb of Dragons. Tor

Binge, Nicholas. Dissolution. Riverhead

El-Mohtar, Amal. The River Has Roots. Tor.com

Kennington, Alexandra. Blood Beneath the Snow. Ace: Berkley

O’Neill, Molly. Greenteeth. Orbit

Osworth, A.E. Awakened. Grand Central

Qin, Emily Yu-Xuan. Aunt Tigress. DAW

Waite, Olivia. Murder by Memory. Tor.com

HORROR

Bazterrica, Agustina. The Unworthy. Scribner

Cassidy, Nat. When the Wolf Comes Home. Tor Nightfire

Rebelein, Sam. The Poorly Made and Other Things: A Story Collection. Morrow Paperbacks

ROMANCE

James, Eloisa. Hardly a Gentleman. Avon

Lavine, Victoria. Any Trope but You. Atria

Ruggle, Katie. Crossing Paths. Sourcebooks Casablanca

Stein, Charlotte. My Big Fat Fake Marriage. St. Martin’s Griffin

Walker, Carlie. Code Word Romance. Berkley

FICTION

Anthony, Laura. The Women on Platform Two. Gallery

Dallas, Sandra. Tough Luck. St. Martin’s

Mallery, Susan. Beach Vibes. Canary Street

McConaghy, Charlotte. Wild Dark Shore. Flatiron

Probst, Jennifer. To Sicily with Love. Berkley

Reddy, Nanda. A Girl Within a Girl Within a Girl. Zibby

Rudnick, Paul. What Is Wrong with You? Atria

Sittenfeld, Curtis. Show Don’t Tell: Stories. Random

CHRISTIAN FICTION

Sundin, Sarah. Midnight on the Scottish Shore. Revell

ARTS & HUMANITIES

The Anthology of Black Mountain College Poetry. Univ. of North Carolina

Denoël, Yvonnick. Vatican Spies: From the Second World War to Pope Francis. Hurst

Hunting, Mary Anne & Kevin D. Murphy. Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism. Princeton Univ.

Lamb, Ben. The Wire: A Cultural History. Rowman & Littlefield

Savage, Jon. The Secret Public: How Music Moved Queer Culture from the Margins to the Mainstream. Liveright: Norton

Shenon, Philip. Jesus Wept: Seven Popes and the Battle for the Soul of the Catholic Church. Knopf

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Brown, Willa Hammitt. Gentlemen of the Woods: Manhood, Myth, and the American Lumberjack. Univ. of Minnesota

Chihaya, Sarah. Bibliophobia: A Memoir. Random

Ewing, Eve L. Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism. One World

Giesberg, Judith. Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People To Find Their Lost Families. S. & S.

Maass, John R. From Trenton to Yorktown: Turning Points of the Revolutionary War. Osprey

Maynial, Philippe. Band of Sisters: Madeleine Pauliac, the Women of the Blue Squadron, and Their Daring Rescue Missions in the Last Days of World War II. Rowman & Littlefield

The Portable Feminist Reader. Penguin Classics

Renner, James. Scout Camp: Sex, Death, and Secret Societies Inside the Boy Scouts of America. Citadel

Rosenfeld, Sophia. The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life. Princeton Univ.

Ross, Loretta J. Calling In: How To Start Making Change with Those You’d Rather Cancel. S. & S.

Sarantakes, Nicholas Evan. The Battle of Manila: Poisoned Victory in the Pacific War. Oxford Univ.

Scott, Wayne. The Maps They Gave Us: One Marriage, Reimagined. Black Lawrence

Sung, Joan. Kinda Korean: Stories from an American Life. She Writes

The Witch Studies Reader. Duke Univ.

Yuknavitch, Lidia. Reading the Waves: A Memoir. Riverhead

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