Wondering what to read now? Here are all the hot new February 2025 book releases for you. I’ll let you know what I’ve read, what I can’t wait to read, and what’s getting all the attention this month.
In case you’re new to Booklist Queen, every month I cover all the hottest new book releases. I try to read as many new book releases as I can to give you an honest perspective on what to read and what to skip.
However, I realize that my to-read list might not exactly match yours. That’s why I’ve also included some of the most popular February 2025 book releases from your favorite authors.
Enough from me. Let’s get on to the February 2025 book releases so you can fill up your to-read list.
Top February 2025 Book Releases
We All Live Here
Jojo Moyes
Lila Kennedy already feels her stress levels maxed out. If a broken marriage, two wayward daughters, and a crumbling house weren’t enough, her stepfather seems to have managed to move in permanently. Plus her love life and career are becoming increasingly complicated. But when Lila’s estranged father shows up, Lila has really reached her limit. Yet it turns out she might have some lessons to learn from the man whom she’s not sure she can ever forgive. Jojo Moyes is always a solid choice when you are looking for intriguing contemporary fiction books.
Publication Date: 11 February 2025
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A Killing Cold
Kate Alice Marshall
Theo fell in love with Connor in a whirlwind romance six months ago. Despite anonymous texts telling her to stay away from Connor, Theo knows it’s her chance to win over his wealthy family when she visits Idlewood, the family’s remote winter retreat. But at the family cabin, Theo finds a photo of herself as a child and begins to recall long-repressed memories that someone in Connor’s family will do anything to keep buried. I love Kate Alice Marshall’s domestic thrillers so I think this will be a great thriller book among the February 2025 book releases.
Publication Date: 4 February 2025
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Black Woods, Blue Sky
Eowyn Ivey
Single mom Birdie is doing the best she can to raise her daughter Emaleen in Alaska. When Emaleen gets lost in the woods, Arthur, the scarred local recluse, brings her home safely. Soon Birdie falls in love with Arthur and his existence in the isolated mountains. Moving in with him, Birdie soon learns that the Alaskan wilderness, and Arthur himself, have darker sides than she realized.
Publication Date: 11 February 2025
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Memorial Days
Geraldine Brooks
As war correspondents, Geraldine Brooks and Tony Horwitz fell in love and settled down to raise two boys on Martha’s Vineyard. Three decades later on Memorial Day, Geraldine received a shocking phone call: a seemingly healthy Tony had suddenly collapsed and died on a DC sidewalk. Three years after his death, Brooks took a trip to a remote Australian island to finally grieve Tony’s death and to ponder the various ways different cultures express grief.
Publication Date: 4 February 2025
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Close Your Eyes and Count to 10
Lisa Unger
Charismatic daredevil influencer Maverick Dillan invites a group of players to the remote Falcao Island to play the ultimate game of hide-and-seek. When a storm hits the island, the social media stunt quickly goes awry. Suddenly caught in a deadly game of survival, single mother Adele must risk everything to return home to her children.
Publication Date: 18 February 2025
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Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales
Heather Fawcett
Emily Wilde has spent a lifetime studying faeries and compiling her Encyclopedia. Now she gets an intimate look at the faerie realm as its new queen in the third installment of the series. Engaged to her former academic rival Wendell, Emily must navigate the political intrigues of the faerie kingdom when Wendell’s evil stepmother casts a curse upon the land. Can Wendell’s magic and Emily’s knowledge of stories save the kingdom or is Emily just as unsuited to being fae as she was to being human?
Publication Date: 11 February 2025
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Famous Last Words
Gillian McAllister
After months on maternity leave, Camilla is excited and nervous to drop her new baby off at daycare and return to her job as a literary agent. When she awakes, she finds her husband, Luke, is gone with only a note left behind. The police arrive and tell her that Luke is the gunman in a hostage situation in downtown London. Now Camilla must decide how well she actually knows her husband, considering she is the only one who knows what’s on the note.
Publication Date: 25 February 2025
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The Most Anticipated February 2025 Book Releases
Isola
Allegra Goodman
Based on a true story, in the sixteenth century, Marguerite seems destined for a life of ease until she becomes orphaned. Soon her guardian has spent her fortune and insists she accompany him to New France. When Marguerite falls in love with her guardian’s servant, the two are abandoned on a remote island with only her faith to help them through.
Publication Date: 4 February 2025
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Back After This
Linda Holmes
Podcast producer Cecily Foster leaps at the chance to host her own show. Except her boss wants her to write about her dating life as she follows the relationship advice of upbeat influencer Eliza Cassidy. Agreeing to twenty blind dates set up by Eliza, Cecily finds herself constantly thinking about a dashing photographer. Struggling to find balance in her life as her dating life is on full display, Cecily must decide what life she wants for herself as Eliza tries to craft a perfect life for her.
Publication Date: 25 February 2025
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Show Don’t Tell
Curtis Sittenfeld
In a collection of short stories, including a return to the world of her novel Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld showcases what happens when your long-held beliefs are wrong. Whether a woman is visiting two friends she hasn’t seen since her divorce or a married artist tries to prove a man and woman can spend time alone without lusting after each other, Show Don’t Tell highlights the multilayered inner lives we all have.
Publication Date: 25 February 2025
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Deep End
Ali Hazelwood
In a steamy college romance book, Scarlett Vandermeer has no time for relationships. She just wants to keep her head down and focus on recovery from an injury that almost derailed her diving career. Lukas Blomqvist is Stanford’s golden boy, the swim captain who has been breaking world records. As the two train for the Olympics, a temporary fling turns out to be something that neither of them can seem to let go of.
Publication Date: 4 February 2025
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Three Days in June
Anne Tyler
In Three Days in June, socially awkward Gail Baines must navigate the days before and after her daughter’s wedding. In the days before the wedding, Gail is already feeling unmoored after she quits her job when her ex-husband randomly shows up at her doorstep. Reminiscing on her life choices and her failed marriage, Gail is stunned when her daughter shares an intimate secret that makes Gail wonder if the wedding should even happen.
Publication Date: 11 February 2025
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Rebel Witch
Kristen Ciccarelli
In the sequel to Heartless Hunter, Rune and Gideon find themselves on opposite sides. With her secret identity revealed, Rune finds herself a hesitant ally with Cressida Roseblood who wants to take back the Republic and reinstate a Reign of Witches. Gideon will stop at nothing to keep the cruel Cressida from seizing power. When Rune and Gideon are forced to work together again, Gideon realizes his feelings for Rune aren’t so cold. But what will he do when forced to choose between saving Rune’s life and stopping Cressida’s reign?
Publication Date: 18 February 2025
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The Queens of Crime
Marie Benedict
In 1930, the five great female crime writers of the time band together to solve a real murder case. Tired of being second-class to male authors, Dorothy Sayers, Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham and Baroness Emma Orczy dive into a locked room mystery. May Daniels, a young English nurse, seemingly vanished from a busy train station only to be found strangled in the nearby woods. Together, the Queens of Crime find clues leading to the highest levels of British society until the killer threatens to expose one of Dorothy Sayers’s darkest secrets.
Publication Date: 11 February 2025
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UPCOMING FEBRUARY 2025 BOOK RELEASES BY DATE
February 4th Book Releases
Andrea Dunlop and Mike Weber
Jen Besser and Shana Feste
February 11th Book Releases
James Patterson and James O. Born
February 18th Book Releases
February 25th Book Releases
Linda Epstein, Ally Malinenko, and Liz Parker
What February 2025 Book Releases are You Most Excited to Read?
What books can you not wait to get your hands on this month? Did I miss any February 2025 book releases that you are anticipating? As always, let me know in the comments!
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