Here are some of the newest book recommendations of 2025! These books and their information, plus pictures, were found on Goodreads. Happy reading!
Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry.
Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author, also wrote Funny Story, Happy Place, Beach Read, Book Lovers, and more. One of her more recent books was Great Big Beautiful Life, published April 22nd, 2025. It follows our FMC, Alice Scott, going head-to-head with our MMC Hayden Anderson, who is a Pulitzer-Prize winning author. They are both challenged to write a biography of a woman no one has seen in years, or the octogenarian who claims to be Margaret Ives, who’s from a scandalous family. Margaret has to choose between Alice and Hayden. Alice believes she is ready for the job, that people like her and Hayden Anderson shouldn’t see her as competition. Margaret only gives each author a piece of her story, but they can’t quite seem to put it together due to the ironclad NDA and a yearning pulsing between them. Showing how this story is similar to Margaret’s tale, which could be tragic or love-binding.
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid: – coming June 3rd!
Joan Goodwin is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University, while also being an aunt to Frances. She has always loved the stars, and comes with access and advertisement to seek the first women scientists to join NASA’s Space Shuttle program. In the summer of 1980, she got accepted! and beings training at Houston’s Johnson Space Center along with Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond and Scientists John Griffin, who are kind specialists like Lydia Danes, who works way too hard, and warm-hearted Donna Fitzegerald, who has secrets of her own, and lastly Vanessa Ford, who is a mysterious aeronautical engineer. As these astronauts become unlikely friends, our FMC Joan discovers passion and love she has never seen before. She brings into question everything she thinks in this universe.
All of a sudden, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, everything went wrong.
The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life by Suleika Jaouad:
Suleika Jaouad keeps a journal, she uses it to mark her biggest occasions throughout her life, from illness, heartbreak, uncertainty, and her toughest storms. She isn’t the only one; for many people, journaling is a way to navigate the personal peaks and valleys along with the challenges of life. In The Book of Alchemy, Suleika explores the art of journaling and shares everything she has learned about how this can help people tap into a trait that everyone has: creativity. She has gathered essays and writing prompts from one hundred writers, artists, thinkers, and authors. The Book of Alchemy is broken down into themes of loss, love, rebuilding, and more. The book gives you tools, a guide, and encouragement to deal with whatever may be happening in your life. It also gives the ability to ask questions, dream daringly, peel back the layers, and uncover your TRUEST self. It’s also a great way to learn the brutal and beautiful facts of life in its truest form.
The Tenant by Freida McFadden :
Perfect for fans of The Housemaid and a gripping story of revenge, privilege, and secrets.
Blake Porter was fired from his job as a VP of marketing and was unable to make mortgage payments on the brownstone he shares with his fiance, desperate to make ends meet. Whitney, beautiful, witty, and charming, is looking for a room to rent. She’s just what Blake is looking for…or is she? Something isn’t right…the neighbors treat Blake differently, smell of decay is in his home no matter how hard he tries to scrub. Strange noises wake him up in the middle of the night, and soon…Blake fears someone knows his darkest secrets. Danger lives at the home, before Blake can realize it, it’ll be too late. The trap is set.
Bury our bones in the midnight soil by V.E Schwab: – coming out June 10th!
For fans of the Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E Schwab has written Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil. It shows three perspectives of time from 1532,1827, and 2019 about hunger, love, and rage. Each point of view is told by a different woman and her struggles.
1532 – Hunger, Santo Domingo de la Calzada, a young girl, grows up wild and free, but her beauty is what drives her out of an escape. Maria is stuck as a pawn in the games of men when a stranger takes her on an escape. In desperate times, she makes a choice.
1827 – Love, London, a young woman lives a more idealized life on her family’s estate. That is, until she suddenly gets shipped off to London. Charlotte, who has a tender heart, and her impossible wishes swept into an invitation from a beautiful yet mysterious widow. Is freedom at a higher price than she imagined?
