The Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2025

John Green tells the story of Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John be­came fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. Harry’s story is woven with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world—and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis.

Publishing March 18th

The newest Hunger Games installment follows Haymitch as he competes in the 50th Hunger Games. The Quarter Quell means twice as many tributes will compete, and when Haymitch Abernathy’s name is among those called, he’s ripped away from his dream of being with the girl he loves. As the Games begin, Haymitch understands he’s been set up to fail. But there’s something in him that wants to fight . . . and have that fight reverberate far beyond the deadly arena.

Publishing March 18th

If you love horror and historical fiction, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter needs to be on your shelf immediately. It’s a chilling historical horror novel tracing the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice. A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar life over a series of confessional visits.

Publishing March 18th

In the heart of the Maine woods, an experienced Appalachian Trail hiker goes missing. Forty-two-year-old Valerie Gillis vanished 200 miles from her final destination. She pours her thoughts into fractured, poetic letters to her mother as she battles the elements. Beverly, the Maine State Game Warden tasked with finding Valerie, leads the search on the ground. Meanwhile, Lena, a seventy-six-year-old birdwatcher in a retirement community, becomes an unexpected armchair detective. A puzzle emerges, intensifying the frantic search, as Valerie’s disappearance may not be accidental.

Publishing April 1st

There’s no such thing as a perfect guy, but Xavier Rush comes close. That is until Xavier opens his mouth and proves that even sculpted gods can say the wrong thing. There’s nothing Samantha loves more than proving an asshole wrong . . . unless he can admit he made a mistake. But after one incredible and seemingly endless date, Samantha is forced to admit the truth, that her family is in crisis and a relationship is impossible. Samantha begs Xavier to forget her. Only no amount of distance or time is enough to forget what’s between them.

Publishing April 1st

For the first, Oxford University admits female students. Burning with dreams of equality, four young women move into neighboring rooms. Beatrice, Dora, Marianne, and Otto—collectively known as The Eights—come from all walks of life, each driven by their own motives, and are thrown into an unlikely friendship. Among the historic campus, the four women must navigate and support one another in a world in which misogyny is rife, influenza is still a threat, and the ghosts of the Great War don’t always remain dead.

Publishing April 15th

Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. They’re both on Little Crescent Island to write the biography of Margaret Ives. Tragic heiress, former tabloid princess, and daughter of one of the most storied families of the 20th century. Margaret invites them both for a one-month trial period, after which she’ll choose who’ll tell her story. Margaret is only giving each of them pieces of her story. Pieces they can’t put together because of an ironclad NDA and an inconvenient yearning pulsing between them.

Publishing April 22nd

In November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist. For several months, Didion recorded conversations with the psychiatrist in meticulous detail, describing the sessions in a journal she created for her husband, John Gregory Dunne. Didion’s journal was crafted with the singular intelligence, precision, and elegance that characterize all of her writing. It is an unprecedently intimate account that reveals sides of her that were unknown, but the voice is unmistakably hers—questioning, courageous, and clear in the face of a wrenchingly painful journey.

Publishing April 22nd

Cora Zeng is a crime scene cleaner, washing away the remains of murders and suicides in Chinatown. But none of that seems so terrible when she’s already witnessed her sister, Delilah, being pushed in front of a train. Before fleeing the scene, the murderer shouted two words: bat eater. Ever since Delilah was killed, Cora can’t be sure what’s real and what’s in her head. But she can’t ignore the dread in her stomach as she keeps finding bats at crime scenes or that all her recent cleanups have been East Asian women.

Publishing April 29th

Most people don’t notice the three tiny figures in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. But Louisa is determined to find the story behind them. Twenty-five years earlier, in a distant seaside town, a group of teenagers find refuge from their homes on an abandoned pier, telling silly jokes and sharing secrets. Out of that summer emerges a painting that will unexpectedly be placed into Louisa’s care. She embarks on a cross-country journey to learn how the painting came to be. The closer she gets to the painting’s birthplace, the more nervous she becomes about what she’ll find.

Publishing May 6th

One late summer evening, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia, who convinces him to take another path. He quickly becomes her caretaker. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond, built on empathy, spiritual reckoning, and heartbreak, with the power to transform Hai’s relationship to himself, his family, and a community on the brink.

Publishing May 13th

Konstantin Duhovny’s father died when he was ten, and ghosts have been hovering around him ever since. Kostya can’t exactly see the ghosts, but he can taste their favorite foods. He discovers that he can reunite people with their deceased loved ones for the length of time it takes them to eat a dish that he’s prepared. To offer closure to grieving strangers, he enters a particularly fiery ring of Hell: the New York culinary scene. But catastrophe looms in the Afterlife. And the one person who knows Kostya must be stopped also happens to be falling in love with him.

Publishing May 20th

Is a River Alive? is a joyful, mind-expanding exploration of an ancient, urgent idea: that rivers are living beings who should be recognized as such in imagination and law. Macfarlane takes readers on three unforgettable journeys teeming with extraordinary people, stories, and places: to the miraculous cloud-forests and mountain streams of Ecuador, to the wounded creeks and lagoons of India, and to the spectacular wild rivers of Canada. Braiding these journeys is the life story of the fragile chalk stream a mile from Macfarlane’s house.

Publishing May 20th

Sybil Delling is a Diviner. In her dreams she receives visions from six unearthly figures known as Omens. People travel across the kingdom to learn their futures. Just as she and her sister Diviners near the end of their service, a mysterious knight arrives at the cathedral. The knight, Rodrick, has no respect for Sybil’s visions. But when Sybil’s fellow Diviners begin to vanish, she has no choice but to seek his help. Only the gods have the answers she is seeking, and as much as she’d rather avoid Rodrick’s dark eyes and sharp tongue, only a heretic can defeat a god.

Publishing May 20th

Maya Killgore is twenty-three and still in the process of figuring out her life. Conor Harkness is thirty-eight, a successful biotech guy and her brother’s best friend. Any relationship between them would be problematic in too many ways to count. At Maya’s brother’s wedding, she and Conor end up stuck together in a romantic Sicilian villa for over a week. And as the destination wedding begins to erupt out of control, she decides that a problematic summer fling might be just what she needs.

Publishing May 27

Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 1532. London, 1827. Boston, 2019. Three young women, their bodies planted in the same soil, their stories tangling like roots. One grows high, and one grows deep, and one grows wild. And all of them grow teeth.

Publishing June 10

Under false pretenses, Anna has lured those responsible for her family’s downfall in 1942 onto a luxury train from Philadelphia to Chicago. 12 years after her family was destroyed, she wants to confront the people who’ve wronged her and deliver them into the hands of authorities waiting at the end of the line. But Anna’s plan is derailed by the murder of one of the passengers. Someone else on board is enacting their own form of revenge—and they won’t stop until everyone else is dead.

Publishing June 10