November & December 2025 Book Releases to Read Now

Wondering what to read now? Here are all the hot new November & December 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 November & December 2025 book releases from your favorite authors. 

Enough from me, let’s get on to the November & December 2025 book releases so you can fill up your to-read list.

In 2020, Kobe Bryant and his daughter Giana were tragically killed in a helicopter crash. In an outpouring of love, the public started putting up murals in seemingly every corner of Los Angeles. Vanessa Bryant provides a collection of the murals, with images and stories about them, to paint a picture of her husband and daughter.

Publication Date: 18 November 2025
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In a crumbling world, most people escape “upcountry” into virtual reality torn by a cold war between Medaluo and Atahua. Meanwhile the poor who cannot afford virtual reality live in the actual chaos of “downcountry.” After Eirale graduating from an Atahuan military academy, she joins a private security force downcountry. When she is framed for an assassination, she is forced to cooperate with a wanted anarchist. At the military academy, Lia is vying for valedictorian when she is assigned to infiltrate Medaluo and track down a traitor. As Eirale and Lia journey through different planes of reality, their collision will reveal a much larger conspiracy in this new dystopian fiction for young adults.

Publication Date: 4 November 2025
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After his estranged father’s funeral, Nash, a high level worker at an investment firm, is recruited by the FBI to investigate his company. Federal agents believe his firm is laundering vast sums of money for Victoria Steers, a wanted international criminal mastermind. But when Steers discovers Nash is an FBI informant, she turns the tables on him, forcing Nash to forgo his normal mild personality to survive and take revenge.

Publication Date: 11 November 2025
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Cynthia Erivo arose to global acclaim in the role of Elphaba in the movie musical Wicked. In her new memoir, Erivo writes to anyone who has felt like the world thinks they are “too much.” In a series of personal vignettes, Erivo ponders the way that physical and mental challenges in her life have pushed her to become more than she thought she was capable of.

Publication Date: 18 November 2025
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From a long line of witches, Mallory Fontaine’s only has the magical ability to see ghosts. With her sister, Mallory sells bogus spells to gullible buyers and gives tours about the bloody history of the Saphir mansion. When Mallory meets the heir of the Saphir estate, he offers her a vast sum of money to rid the mansion of ghosts. What seems like an easy scam becomes much more treacherous when people begin dying again at the mansion.

Publication Date: 4 November 2025
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On the day her cousin Monife tragically dies, Ebun gives birth to a daughter who looks strickingly like her cousin. Her whole life, Eniiyi’s family believes she is the reincarnation of Monife, fated to follow her exact footsteps to a similar end. Add to that, the family is cursed that no man will call the house his home, leaving three generations of brokenhearted women living in the same house in Lagos, Nigeria. When Eniiyi falls in love with a boy she saves from drowning, she struggles against the family’s superstition, determined to break the pattern of trauma.

Publication Date: 4 November 2025
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Furious that his mother often picked his troubled homophobic brother over him, the son moves from Houston to Japan to live as an English teacher. Spending his time drinking and in gay bars, he begins an affair with a married man. When his estranged mother, haunted by her own childhood in Jamaica, unexpectedly arrives in Tokyo, the son and his mother must learn to understand and forgive one another.

Publication Date: 4 November 2025
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Once voted “most likely to succeed,” life has not gone as expected for Chloe Fairway. Stuck in a production assistant job, she is now living with her parents again after a breakup. Chloe is particularly dreading her ten-year college reunion where she knows she will run into her former best friend Sean, a successful director and the one who got away. So Chloe turns to a dating service who sets her up with Rob, a handsome charming date who might be too good to be true.

Publication Date: 18 November 2025
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Living in a cramped apartment with her husband in DC, Margo Miyake is desperate to move into a home in the suburbs where they can expand their family. After eighteen months and almost a dozen failed bidding wars, Margo feels like it will never happen. When Margo gets a tempt about the perfect house that will go on the market soon, she begins obsessively stalking the homeowners, willing to do anything to guarantee she gets this house.

Publication Date: 25 November 2025
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Brandon Sanderson brings together a collection of nine of his short stories and one unpublished novella, “Moment Zero.” Featuring stories from his Skyward and Reckoners worlds, Tailored Realities also includes author’s notes and illustrated images to bring Sanderson’s imaginative works to life.

Publication Date: 9 December 2025
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In the final book of the Nytefall trilogy, Star Maiden Astraea must rush to break the curse that imprisons her lover, Nyte. With the loss of daylight, Astraea and her friends must find the Maiden’s broken key to kill the vengeful gods ruling the world. But how far is she willing to go to free her love in this star-crossed lovers romantic fantasy?

Publication Date: 2 December 2025
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In the third book of the We Were Liars series, Matilda receives an invitation from her father whom she has never met. Reclusive artist Kingsley Cello invites her to spend the summer on his family’s beach house. Yet with her father nowhere to be seen, Matilda instead bonds with her long lost brother, a former child star and a brooding teen who wants her to leave. Matilda must uncover the secrets of Hidden Beach if she wants to find the answers she is looking for.

Publication Date: 4 November 2025
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In a prequel to The Inheritance Games, discover the love story of the lost heir of the Hawthorne family – which can be read one way as Hannah’s story or flipped to the back and read as Toby’s version. In nursing school, Hannah is biding her time until her sister Kaylie turns eighteen and they can flee their criminal family. When an act of arson leaves Kaylie dead, Hannah finds herself keeping alive the culprit, Toby, the entitle heir of the Hawthorne family. When Toby awakens with amnesia, Kaylie finds herself falling for the one person she never should.

Publication Date: 4 November 2025
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What November & December 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 November & December 2025 book releases that you are anticipating? As always, let me know in the comments!

More New Book Releases:

• October 2025 Book Releases
• The Best Books of 2024
• Most-Anticipated Upcoming Releases
• Booklist Queen’s 2024 Reading Challenge

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