Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2025

There’s no season like summer reading season and it is upon us! Pack your bags with these can’t-miss books ranging from heart-stopping romances, to pulse-pounding thrillers, dark academia and contemporary instant-classics. These are the most anticipated books of summer 2025!

Wild Side by Elsie Silver (3/4)

When a contested guardianship brings to rivals into a marriage of convenience, the small town drama is bound to heat up. Tabitha and Rhys are begrudgingly brought together and the tension is palpable. But his broody attitude and mysterious bruises are not enough to keep the feelings at bay as they learn more about each other Tabitha starts to feel herself falling for her fake husband.

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King of Envy by Ana Huang (4/29)

In book five of the Kings of Sin series, Vuk is lusting after his best friend’s fiancée, Ayana. He wants her and his desire might exceed his loyalty. What he doesn’t know is that this marriage is one of convenience, not love as she attempts to use his inheritance to escape her abusive modeling agency. Her plan to set her life on a new path is only being interrupted by one thing: Vuk.

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I Will Blossom Anyway by Disha Bose (5/6)

Durga was born the third of four children in Calcutta. Though she’s doesn’t believe she is as sweet or smart as her siblings, she surprises everyone by being the first to leave behind her overly involved Indian family. When she finds freedom, her life begins to blossom and leads her to love. This brings friendship and an enriched life until the relationship comes to a heavy hearted end. Now she must decide whether to go back, continue forward or start all over once again.

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Audre & Bash Are Just Friends by Tia Williams (5/6)

In her debut YA novel, Tia Williams returns to the beloved world of Seven Days in June with Audre’s story. The spunky 12-year-old we knew is now sixteen and moonlighting as a high school therapist. When newcomer, Bash, comes into the picture, she decides to hire him so she can actually start having some fun. They are not dating, it’s just a mutually beneficial business arrangement, right?

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What Happens in Amsterdam by Rachel Lynn Solomon (5/6)

Dani doesn’t have a lot of direction, so when an office romance goes poorly and costs her her job, she’s rather untethered. On a whim, she applies for a job in Amsterdam and gets it. When she arrives, she’s hit with another surprise: her ex-boyfriend Wouter. He was a foreign exchange student in high school. Now there’s a marriage of convenience on the table and sparks flying in this forced proximity romance set abroad.

We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life’s 20 Questions by Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach and Amanda Doyle (5/6)

From award-winning podcasters and New York Times bestsellers, comes a book meant to guide anyone through the largest events in life. Despite success, Glennon Doyle still wakes up every day questioning her purpose and her abilities. When the three authors hit a highly difficult patch of life simultaneously, they were forced to seek out wise people all around them. They collected advice on everything from marriage to grief and composed it in a book that can help anyone navigate rough waters.

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Can’t Get Enough by Kennedy Ryan (5/13)

In book three of the Skyland series we meet Hendrix, whose life is pretty much perfect. Amidst a thriving career and caring for aging parents, she doesn’t have time for relationships. But tech mogul Maverick has gotten under her skin. She knows he could derail her whole plan, but the forbidden makes it that much more tempting.

Courtroom Drama by Neely Tubati Alexander (5/20)

Sydney Parks just got the opportunity of a lifetime to sit on a jury where her favorite reality TV star is being tried for murder. But this courtroom just got a lot more dramatic as her childhood best friend is also on the sequestered jury. As sparks begin to fly, Sydney must manage her feelings, the rules against relationships forming between jurors and her past.

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The Last Ferry Out by Andrea Bartz (5/20)

When Abby suffers the devastating loss of her fiancée Eszter, she’s determined to visit the island where she died. Once a hotspot for tourists, Isla Colel is now home to mostly residents after a hurricane devastated the destination. As she befriends some expats, a man offers her insight into the possibility that Eszter’s death was no accident and now, he’s missing as well. As Abby uncovers secrets, she begins to suspect that her love’s murderer is one of her new friends.

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The Girls of Good Fortune by Kristina McMorris (5/20)

When Celia finds herself in an underground cell, drugged and being held captive, she realizes that she has been kidnapped with he intent to send her into forced labor. Caught in the infamous Shanghai Tunnels beneath Portland in 1888, she retraces the steps that led her here while planning her escape.

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Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid (6/3)

Joan Goodwin has been chosen by NASA to be a part of a space mission in 1980. Collaborating with with crew mates who are equally ambitious, they prep for a mission in 1984. In her found family she finds friendship, love and passion she couldn’t have imagined. When mission STS-LR9 embarks, all of their lives will be changed forever.

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Clam Down: A Metamorphosis by Anelise Chen (6/3)

In a genre-bending memoir on divorce, Anelise Chen dives into history, biology and emotional transformation in a book that defies comparison. When her marriage comes undone and her mother sends her a typo-infused command to “clam down” it spirals the writer into an exploration of what “clam down” might actually mean. She not only explores famous recluses, but also her father who disappeared into his work for a decade as well as the creatures who hide behind shells in an exploratory and enrapturing study of life after divorce.

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King of Ashes by S.A. Cosby (6/10)

Roman Carruthers is forced to return home when his father ends up in a coma after a car accident. His brother Dante is involved with dangerous criminals and his sister Neveah is exhausted from holding the family together. Soon, Roman discovers that the only thing he can do to help is offer his financial skills up to gangsters, but he’s no pushover. As he plugs into the criminal world his sister hunts for the truth about their mother’s death in this Godfather-esque Southern crime story.

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Beach Reads and Deadly Deeds by Allison Brennan (6/17)

Mia isn’t adventurous like the women in her favorite novels. In an effort to shake up her highly routined life, she travels to a luxurious private island with a plan to reinvent herself. When she ends up falling right back into books, she finds mysterious notes written in the margins. These awaken her inner sleuth, sending her on an investigation she couldn’t have imagined.

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Don’t Let Him In by Lisa Jewell (6/24)

Nina thought Nick was a dream come true when she came into her life after her husband’s unexpected death. Her daughter Ash isn’t so convinced and starts doing some digging. Martha lives in a neighboring town with her new baby and her husband seems to be traveling more than usual. Soon, these three women’s lives will begin to intertwine and the truth about Nick is even darker than they can imagine.

Bitter Sweet by Hattie Williams (7/8)

A young publishing publicist enters into an illicit affair with her literary idol. He’s thirty years her senior and married, but the torrid entanglement soon becomes all-encompassing. Forced to hide the relationship from everyone closest to her, the secret has the potential to completely unravel her.

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The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (7/15)

In this exploration of witchcraft across three generations, Minerva has moved by her great-grandmother’s tales of witches. Pursuing an academic career in horror literature, she’s now obsessively pouring over Beatrice Tremblay’s famous novel, The Vanishing. As she pieces together the real life events that inspired Tremblay and reflects on her familial history, she begins to suspect the same threat has entered her own life in 1990s Massachusetts.

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I Know How This Ends by Holly Smale (8/12)

Margot’s life is tumbling delightfully out of control. When her long-term relationship ends, she decides the rest of her life can come crashing down with it. Her career and her serial dating app exploits are just a part of the decent. Then, she has a vision of a man she’s never met. When he comes into her life and she’s able to foresee every event as it unfolds, she must come to terms with how she will live her life fully while knowing exactly where it’s headed.

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A New New Me by Helen Oyeyemi (8/26)

There are seven versions of Kinga, one for every day of the week. Each one living their own variation of a shared life. A few of them toxic to their core. But when Kinga-A discovers a man tied up in their home, it’s clear one version might be out to destroy them all.

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Katabasis by R.F. Kuang (8/26)

In a return to dark academia, R.F. Kuang is exploring Hell. Alice has dreamt of becoming a top magician and has cast everything else aside to achieve it. As he sits on the precipice of achievement, the man who might hold her future in his hands is killed and sent to Hell. Now Alice intends to go get him. Accompanied by her rival Peter who has the same plan, they use Magick and Dante as a guide to dive into the depths and retrieve their professor.

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