Proving that I don’t actually care about my never-really-shrinking-TBR-list is this list of new releases that are on my radar for 2025.
From authors I’ve read (and loved) before:
Girl, 1983 by Linn Ullmann
Show Don’t Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld
Audition by Katie Kitamura
The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey
A Particularly Nasty Case by Adam Kay
The Housekeeper by Rose Tremain
For the superb covers alone…
Bad Archive by Flora Feltham
Wanting by Claire Jia
Isola by Allegra Goodman
Lion by Sonya Walger
Sleep by Honor Jones
Universality by Natasha Brown
For something light/ funny/ thrilling:
This Immaculate Body by Emma van Straaten
Sister Europe by Nell Zink
Disappoint Me by Nicola Dinan
All the Other Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harman
Albion by Anna Hope
Sweat by Emma Healey
I Make My Own Fun by Hannah Beer
And also…
Television for Women by Danit Brown
These Days by Lucy Caldwell
The Names by Florence Knapp
Playworld by Adam Ross
Dark Like Under by Alice Chadwick
The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine
The City Changes Its Face by Eimear McBride
Nonfiction/ Memoir:
You’ll Never Believe Me by Kari Ferrell
Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks
The Dry Season by Melissa Febos
Tart, Misadventures of an Anonymous Chef by Slutty Chef
How to Lose Your Mother by Molly Jong-Fast
Hark: How Women Listen by Alice Vincent
Not my usual thing but I’m curious:
Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito
On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle
The Violet Hour by James Cahill
What’s on your radar? What have I missed?
Virginia Feito did such a good job with Mrs. March that her new book is bound to be good.
It sounds excellent, doesn’t it?
Several of these on my list too. I’ve read The Book of Guilt which grew on me. Another great year’s reading ahead.
Ooh, I did not know that Catherine Chidgey has a new one coming!
I think you put me onto her in the first place! (with your review of Pet)
I have a review copy of the Ullmann, and I can vouch for the Brooks memoir and the Sittenfeld stories. We overlap on one pick, the Feito (my list is publishing tomorrow) and I will certainly look out for the Febos as well. I didn’t realize These Days wasn’t coming out in Australia until now; it’s great.