This week’s topic for Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) is: “Most Anticipated Books Releasing in the First Half of 2025”.
I’ve already listed some of my most anticipated historical fiction releases in a recent post, which you can see here. I’m listing below another ten books that I either found out about after putting that post together or that fall into other genres – so these are not necessarily my *most* anticipated books, but are still some that I would like to read.
The covers for the last two books haven’t been revealed yet.
1. Black Wood, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey (4th February 2025) – I’m pleased to see there’s a new Eowyn Ivey book on the way. I enjoyed her first two.
2. The Morrigan by Kim Curran (6th February 2025) – An Irish mythology retelling, which makes a change from the Greeks!
3. Woman in Blue by Douglas Bruton (20th February 2025) – A new novella from Bruton about a painting in the Rijksmuseum.
4. Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (4th March 2025) – It’s been such a long time since Adichie’s last novel!
5. The Other People by CB Everett (10th April 2025) – I have this one from NetGalley and it sounds intriguing.
6. Marble Hall Murders by Anthony Horowitz (10th April 2025) – A third Atticus Pünd book at last! This is definitely one of my most anticipated books of the year.
7. The Pretender by Jo Harkin (24th April 2025) – A new historical novel based on the story of the royal pretender, Lambert Simnel.
8. Air by John Boyne (8th May 2025) – The final book in Boyne’s Elements quartet. I enjoyed all of the first three.
9. Written on the Dark by Guy Gavriel Kay (27th May 2025) – I always enjoy Kay’s historical fantasy, so I’m looking forward to this.
10. The Jealous One by Celia Fremlin (5th June 2025) – An older book set to appear in a new edition from Faber & Faber.
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Do you want to read any of these? Which new releases are you anticipating in the first half of 2025?
She Reads Novels 
These are all new to me!
I hope some of them interest you!
The new Anthony Horowitz is on my TBR too. i hope you enjoy all of these when they come out.
I loved Magpie Murders and Moonflower Murders, so I can’t wait to read the new one!
Air looks interesting.
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I’m looking forward to reading Air. The others in the series, Water, Earth and Fire, were all great books.
I have a copy of Black Wood Blue Sky as well. Hoping to have time to read it as I’ve already got a massive tbr 😆
I hope you can fit it in. My tbr is out of control as well!
The Morrigan sounds really interesting!
It does! I’m looking forward to it.
The Morrigan looks amazing!
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It looks great! I can’t wait to read it.
The Morrigan sounds good, and I agree nice change from the Greeks! And Air, I haven’t read any of these but I promise myself I will!
I seem to have read a lot of Greek mythology books recently, so I’m looking forward to The Morrigan! The other three books in the John Boyne series were all fascinating, so I’m sure Air will be just as good.
Woman in Blue has such a pretty cover.
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Yes, it does!
Hi Helen, well done on creating two lists of new releases! I can’t put together even one, as I rarely know about new books, which is why I always have to skip there TTT prompts. 😅 The only new releases I know about are the couple of ARCs I have received, including The Queen and the Countess by Anne O’Brien and The Secret of the Rose by Nicola Cornick.
Thank you! I find out about new books mainly through NetGalley and by searching the names of my favourite authors on Amazon to see if there’s anything new coming out. I hope you enjoy The Queen and the Countess and The Secret of the Rose – I’m looking forward to reading both of those as well.
I’ve read The Morrigan and really enjoyed it. I also already had the first title on my TBR but the rest are new to me and I’m definitely going to check the full blurbs of a couple out. I hope you enjoy all of these and that the sequels end up being worth the wait.
I’m pleased to hear you enjoyed The Morrigan – I have a copy and am hoping to start reading it soon!
Ooh I hope you end up enjoying it too. It was lovely to read a mythological retelling that focused on something different (although I utterly adore Greek ones and will continue to pick those up constantly too 😂)
I’m happy that Eowyn Ivey has a new one coming out, too. I really liked her book The Snow Child. 😀
Yes, The Snow Child was a great book. I hope the new book will be another good one!
None of these are really what I read, but I do love historical fiction so I’m going to go check that list out! I hope you enjoy all your anticipated reads.
Happy TTT!
Susan
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Thank you Susan!
I’m ridiculously excited about the new Eowyn Ivey!
It’s been such a long wait since her last book!
I’m also excited for Black Woods Blue Sky. I put it on this list: https://franlaniado.wordpress.com/2024/12/17/top-ten-tuesday-2024-2025-winter-tbr/
I didn’t know there was a new Atticus Pund out soon. I guess this will motivate me to finally read Moonflower Murders!
Here’s my list for this week:
I hope we both enjoy Black Woods Blue Sky! Moonflower Murders is great – I’ve loved everything I’ve read by Anthony Horowitz.
Same!
I also still discover new releases coming up that I didn’t know about. I haven’t heard of any of the books of your list yet, but I hope you’ll get to them some day and like them.
Thank you! I’m looking forward to all of them, but not sure when I’ll have time to actually read them.