Best Bets for Your 2025 Book Clubs
It’s 2025—a new year of reads for your book club(s)—and Borrow. Read. Repeat. is here to help take the guesswork out of planning your next pick (or two, or three). Featuring an iconic memoir, historical fiction, crime fiction, and more—there’s a little something on this list for every kind of book club.
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The Favorites: A Novel by Layne Fargo
*A LibraryReads Pick*
To the world, they were a scandal. To each other, an obsession.
An epic love story set in the sparkling, savage sphere of elite figure skating, starring a woman determined to carve her own path on and off the ice.
“Part Wuthering Heights and part Daisy Jones & The Six, this novel is as brilliantly choreographed as a gold medal performance and will keep you guessing until its last page.”—Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of Wish You Were Here
Available in Hardcover, eBook, Audio, and Large Print Editions.
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Good Dirt: A Novel by Charmaine Wilkerson
*A LibraryReads Top Pick*
The daughter of an affluent Black family pieces together the connection between a childhood tragedy and a beloved heirloom in this moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake, a Read with Jenna Book Club Pick.
“Wilkerson’s prose is succinct yet richly evocative, masterfully delving into the minds and motivations of her characters and delivering a narrative that lingers long after the final page . . . This novel solidifies Wilkerson’s place as one of the great multi-generational storytellers of our time.”—Abi Daré, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl with the Louding Voice
Available January 28th in Hardcover, eBook, Audio, and Large Print Editions.
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Black Woods, Blue Sky: A Novel by Eowyn Ivey
Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author of The Snow Child Eowyn Ivey returns to the mythical landscapes of Alaska with an unforgettable dark fairy tale that asks the question: Can love save us from ourselves?
“What a book—I am still enthralled and haunted . . . It will draw you along like a fast-moving stream, and you will find yourself in places you have never been.”—Louise Erdrich, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Night Watchman and National Book Award–winning author of The Round House
“No one writes like Eowyn Ivey. Her voice is as enchanting as it is original and Black Woods, Blue Sky may be her best novel yet.”—Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize winning author of March, and New York Times bestselling author of Horse
Available February 4th in Hardcover, eBook, Audio, and Large Print Editions.
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Fearless and Free: A Memoir by Josephine Baker; Foreword by Ijeoma Oluo; Translated by Anam Zafar
*A LibraryReads Notable Nonfiction Pick*
Published in the US for the first time, Fearless and Free is the memoir of the fabulous, rule-breaking, one-of-a-kind Josephine Baker, the iconic dancer, singer, spy, and Civil Rights activist.
“In Fearless and Free, Josephine Baker—groundbreaking performer, audacious spy, and unflinching Civil Rights activist—shares intimate details of her life and times, proving she’s as enthralling on the page as she was on the stage. This gorgeous, captivating gem of a memoir will both introduce Baker to a new generation of readers, and cement her legacy as an enduring international icon.”—Abbott Kahler, New York Times bestselling author of Eden Undone and Sin in the Second City
Available February 4th in Hardcover, eBook, and Audio Editions.
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Isola: A Novel by Allegra Goodman
*A LibraryReads Pick*
A young woman and her lover are marooned on an island in this “lushly painted” (People) epic saga of love, faith, and defiance from the bestselling author of Sam.
“A feminist castaway tale about love, faith, and self-actualization.”—Time, “Most Anticipated Books of 2025”
“A new generation of survival story . . . an extraordinary book that reads like a thriller, written with the care of the most delicate psychological and historical fiction.”—Vogue, “Best of 2025 Preview”
Available February 4th in Hardcover, eBook, Audio, and Large Print Editions.
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Three Days in June: A Novel by Anne Tyler
*A LibraryReads Hall of Fame Pick*
A new Anne Tyler novel destined to be an instant classic: a socially awkward mother of the bride navigates the days before and after her daughter’s wedding.
“Anne Tyler remains my favourite author in the world. I’ve adored everything she’s ever written. Three Days in June is, of course, simply exquisite.”—Liane Moriarty
Available February 11th in Hardcover, eBook, Audio, and Large Print Editions.
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The Dream Hotel: A Novel by Laila Lalami
From Laila Lalami—the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist and a “maestra of literary fiction” (NPR)—comes a riveting and utterly original novel about one woman’s fight for freedom, set in a near future where even dreams are under surveillance.
“A gripping, Kafkaesque foray into an all-too-plausible future where data collection penetrates interior life, The Dream Hotel is also an elegant meditation on identity and what we sacrifice, unthinkingly, for the sake of convenience.”—Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Candy House
Available March 4th in Hardcover, eBook, Audio, and Large Print Editions.
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Goddess Complex: A Novel by Sanjena Sathian
From the author of Gold Diggers, a biting examination of millennial adulthood, the often fraught conversations around fertility and reproduction, and the painful quest to forge an identity.
“Buckle up, readers: Goddess Complex, an heir to the best of Kafka or Roth in both its savage comic brilliance and its depth of meaning, is the wildest of rides. I can’t remember the last time I read a book that was simultaneously so serious in its ambition—this is a novel, ultimately, about female power and agency—and such a perfectly plotted page-turner. I could not put it down.” —Vauhini Vara, author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Immortal King Rao and This is Salvaged
Available March 11th in Hardcover, eBook, Audio, and Large Print Editions.
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The Jackal’s Mistress: A Novel by Chris Bohjalian
In this Civil War love story, inspired by a real-life friendship across enemy lines, the wife of a missing Confederate soldier discovers a wounded Yankee officer and must decide what she’s willing to risk for the life of a stranger, from the New York Times bestselling author of such acclaimed historical fiction as Hour of the Witch and The Sandcastle Girls.
A vivid and sweeping story of two people navigating the boundaries of love and humanity in a landscape of brutal violence, The Jackal’s Mistress is a heart-stopping new novel, based on a largely unknown piece of American history, from one of our greatest storytellers.
Available March 11th in Hardcover, eBook, Audio, and Large Print Editions.
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Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted: A Novel by Ben Okri
In this modern fable with the impish magic of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a masked ball makes two upper-class British couples see each other in a new light. A wise, enchanting novel about love, power, and our many selves—past and future, public and private—from the Booker Prize–winning author.
“The dialogue here grants a shimmery surface to the allegorical underpinning. It helps, too, that the novel’s conundrum couldn’t be realer: Can we ever avoid unhappiness? This beautifully written book is riveting in its attempt to answer that question, from first page to last.”—Literary Hub
Available March 11th in Hardcover.
Barbara: A Novel by Joni Murphy
Like Nolan’s Oppenheimer by way of Lucia Berlin, a radiant novel tracking the lifecycle of a silver screen starlet rising against the backdrop of the Atomic Age.
“An entrancing novel of contrapuntal virtuosity. Its time signatures—the present tense of cinema, the radioactive half-lives of geopolitics and memory, the ticking time-bomb by which a woman comes to know herself—reflect the twentieth century as we have never really known it . . . Uncannily alive, Barbara gets under your skin.”—Ariana Reines, author of A Sand Book
Available March 25th in Hardcover and eBook Editions.
Counting Backwards: A Novel by Binnie Kirshenbaum
A middle-aged couple struggles with the husband’s descent into early onset Lewy Body dementia in this profound and deeply moving novel shot through with Kirshenbaum’s lacerating humor.
“A novel about the end of life that somehow brims with life, with generosity, humanity, honesty, and, unsurprisingly given the author, bouts of first-class humor. I read all 392 pages in one ten-hour span, unable to stop.”—Gary Shteyngart, author of Our Country Friends
Available March 25th in Hardcover and eBook Editions.
Lucky Night: A Novel by Eliza Kennedy
They’re married to other people. But tonight, after six years of casual sex, a couple is trapped in a hotel room. As a fire rages below them, they are forced to confront the lies they’ve told their spouses, each other—and themselves—in this edge-of-your-seat, witty, sharply observed novel.
“An electrifying love story that defies all expectations. Lucky Night alternates between profound intimacy and terror, between claustrophobia and pleasure, and illuminates our conflicting desires for safety and the sort of exquisite connection that makes us feel alive. A dazzling novel.”—Jenny Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Pineapple Street
Available March 25th in Hardcover, eBook, and Audio Editions.
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The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne: A Novel by Ron Currie
A mythic, propulsive novel about the tangled fates of a matriarchal crime family in Maine.
“Darkly funny, shocking, and unblinking, The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne is a tour de force with a palpable rendering of place and time and unforgettable characters. Who would guess that there’s another Godfather saga, but this one exists in northern Maine and the principal in charge is named Babs Dionne?”—C.J. Box, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Three-Inch Teeth
“Literary thrillers just don’t come any better than Ron Currie’s The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne. It’s profoundly serious and terrifying in equal measure.”—Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Somebody’s Fool
Available March 25th in Hardcover, eBook, and Audio Editions.
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The Correspondent: A Novel by Virginia Evans
A woman tries to heal old wounds and make sense of the world the only way she knows how—through letters—in this charming, laugh-out-loud debut novel about a life fully lived.
“Subtly told and finely made, The Correspondent is a portrait of a small life expanding. Virginia Evans shows how one woman changes at a point when change had seemed impossible. That change, like this novel, turns out to be a cause for celebration.”—Ann Patchett
“I was wowed by this deliciously brilliant book! Thank you, Virginia Evans, for a life beautifully told in letters, for creating a character whose mind struggles with her heart in a most intriguing, sympathetic, witty, and binge-worthy way. . . . Author friends—please forgive me for proclaiming The Correspondent my new favorite book.”—Elinor Lipman, author of Ms. Demeanor
Available April 29th in Hardcover, eBook, and Audio Editions.
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Happy Land: A Novel by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
A woman learns the astonishing truth of her family’s ties to a vanished American Kingdom in this riveting new novel from the New York Times bestselling, NAACP Image Award-winning author of Take My Hand.
“Dolen Perkins-Valdez has the range, depth, and vision to capture the dreams of a people on the pages of a novel. Happy Land is exactly the novel we need right here, right now. Accompanied by the musical speech of the American south, Perkins-Valdez sings a song to remind us that freedom is worth fighting for.”—Tayari Jones, New York Times bestselling author of An American Marriage
Available April 8th in Hardcover, eBook, and Audio Editions.
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The Names: A Novel by Florence Knapp
The extraordinary novel that asks: Can a name change the course of a life?
With exceptional sensitivity and depth, Knapp draws us into the story of one family, told through a prism of what-ifs, causing us to consider the “one . . . precious life” we are given.
“The Names is a truly gorgeous, heart-opening novel. I couldn’t put it down, and I’m grateful to have Cora and her children living inside my heart now. What a wonderful book!”—Ann Napolitano, New York Times bestselling author of Hello Beautiful
“Magnificent. A stunning, hopeful, bitterly beautiful novel . . . Read it. It’s very special.”—Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of All the Colors of the Dark
Available May 6th in Hardcover, eBook, Audio, and Large Print Editions.
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