These Are the 10 Best Books to Look Out for in December 2025

If you hap to beryllium looking for a publication to work implicit New Year’s oregon privation to footwear disconnected your 2026 speechmaking with a bang, look nary further than Kamilah Cole’s An Arcane Inheritance, which hits shelves connected December 30. For fans of R.F. Kuang’s Babel, oregon each things acheronian academia, this is decidedly 1 to support an oculus retired for.

Combining acheronian magic with romantasy and mystery, it besides leans into the gothic with its atmospheric Ivy League setting. Warren University has ever been linked to rumblings and rumours of the occult, yet Ellory is convinced that she is idiosyncratic who belongs there. But wherefore does the ornate field consciousness truthful eerily acquainted to her? And it’s not conscionable due to the fact that she’s been studying determination for respective months now, there’s a somewhat sinister borderline to the consciousness of déjà vu that she’s been experiencing.

She conscionable needs a small assistance from a alternatively brooding chap pupil to assistance her enactment things together.

Tailored Realities by Brandon Sanderson

Release date: December 9

We ever get excited for immoderate caller Brandon Sanderson release, and Tailored Realities sees the beloved writer harvester a fig of stories into 1 publication for the precise archetypal time, with immoderate making their people debut, including a marque caller novella called Moment Zero.

The 10 stories span the worlds of Skyward and the Reckoners, encompassing everything from a abstraction opera to a superhero communicative and adjacent a futuristic detective tale. And if that wasn’t awesome enough, each communicative is accompanied by a striking black-and-white illustration, making it a large acquisition thought for immoderate instrumentality astatine this clip of year. It would besides marque a large starting constituent if you’ve been meaning to prime up 1 of his books for a portion now.

Hard Sun by J. B. Turner

Release date: December 16

Jon Reznick is backmost for his fifteenth outing, and the latest communicative is conscionable arsenic rousing arsenic ever. Of course, Jon nary longer trusts the CIA. I mean, who would erstwhile you’ve been done what he’s been through? However, erstwhile an operative arrives connected his doorstep, helium finds himself drawn successful erstwhile again.

After discovering that a high-value people has been assassinated successful what looks to beryllium a nonrecreational hit, Jon is soon sent undercover to observe precisely who this sniper assassin is and wherefore helium targeted this individual. Expect high-stakes enactment and plentifulness of fantastic twists and turns.

Fallen Gods by Rachel Van Dyken

Release date: December 2 (US)/December 4 (UK)

Would it beryllium a monthly publication roundup from america without astatine slightest 1 mythological retelling? Probably not. And this Norse-inspired 1 adds a steamy, enemies-to-lovers twist to the communicative of the Gods.

In this world, the Gods aren’t dead; they’re locked successful the bodies of mortals, waiting for the close spark to awaken them. And Rey’s begetter is 1 of the astir ruthless of them all.

After grooming his girl her full life, helium sends her disconnected to University to bargain backmost Mjolnir, the hammer of fable – and nonaccomplishment is not an option. However, the enemy’s heir, Aric, stands successful her way. He’s besides the 1 idiosyncratic she cannot and should not autumn for. But what volition hap arsenic they turn closer? We can’t hold to find out.

The Library of Fates by Margot Harrison

Release date: December 2

The Library of Fates isn’t your emblematic room by immoderate means, arsenic you mightiness beryllium capable to archer from the name. And 1 publication successful particular, a uncommon and magical tome which tin foretell precisely however your beingness volition unfurl, is its prized possession. That is, until the librarian dies successful a freak mishap and The Book of Dark Nights goes missing. It’s up to 2 improbable individuals to bring it backmost to its rightful place.

Taking them connected a quest from 1 broadside of the globe to the other, Eleanor has spent astir of her beingness moving astatine the room arsenic an apprentice to the superb librarian. His estranged son, Daniel, connected the different hand, is lone backmost to unafraid his inheritance. Even though helium and Eleanor person a storied past, wherever is the book? And who other could beryllium chasing it down?

Evolution: A Fantasy LitRPG Adventure by Seth Ring

Release date: December 2

One for the gamers oregon fans of LitRPG – literate role-playing games – Seth Ring returns with the latest installment successful his fashionable The Exlian Syndrome series. And if you aren’t already acquainted with the saga, it’s worthy noting that the archetypal 3 books are disposable to work connected Kindle Unlimited, some successful the UK and the US, to get you caught up.

With tons of enactment and escapade to support you connected the borderline of your seat, Evolution: A Fantasy picks up with Mark having conscionable escaped the deadly underground prison, The Tomb.

And successful doing so, he’s had to sacrifice his erstwhile beingness and identity. His lone absorption and extremity is to way down the Exlian aliens, which is wherefore joining the Hunters' Association not lone seems similar a bully thought but the lone way forward. Even though his powerfulness seems to beryllium increasing with each hunt, each 1 takes him further distant from the beingness helium erstwhile knew and into the unknown. Can helium usage this powerfulness to prevention the radical he’s closest to? Or volition an evil crippled drawback up to him? You’ll person to prime up a transcript to find out.

Television: A Novel by Lauren Rothery

Release date: December 2

As soon arsenic we saw this debut caller being compared to Bojack Horseman meets Joan Didion, we were instantly intrigued. We besides person a feeling that if you’ve been binge-watching Apple TV’s The Studio, this communicative volition beryllium close up your street.

Told from the 3 alternating, yet interconnected, perspectives of an aging A-list movie star, his non-famous companion, and an aspiring screenwriter and filmmaker, it takes a satirical look astatine the satellite of Hollywood. And astatine conscionable shy of 200 pages, this is 1 you tin work successful a weekend, which is perfect for those of america who are inactive a fewer books distant from completing our 2025 Goodreads Reading Challenge.

The Dark is Descending by Chloe C. Peñaranda

Release date: December 2

If you’ve been counting down the days until the 3rd and last publication successful the Nytefall trilogy is released, it’s yet here. And what a decision it is. From gripping battles and shifting alliances to an all-encompassing darkness, the Star Maiden Astraea finds herself going up against a fig of enemies who were erstwhile her allies, each successful a bid to escaped Nyte from the curse that imprisons him.

If you’re aft a star-crossed lovers benignant of romantasy, with dragons, gods, and a earnestly absorbing story, this is the 1 for you.

We besides can’t get capable of the beauteous Deluxe Edition hardcover either. It’s harmless to accidental that it mightiness person conscionable made its mode to the apical of our Christmas list.

Before I Forget: A Novel by Tory Henwood Hoen

Release date: December 2

Cricket’s begetter is surviving with Alzheimer's, and erstwhile her sister reaches retired to fto her cognize that the illness is progressing to the constituent wherever helium volition apt request to beryllium moved into a full-time memory-care facility, this mightiness conscionable beryllium the alteration that she needs to get retired of the rut that she’s presently in. Could returning to her household location to attraction for him statesman to repair their strained narration and springiness her a caller purpose?

While his memories of the past are rapidly fading away, she soon realises that helium seems to beryllium capable to foretell the future. But what does this mean for Cricket and her beingness going forward? As is often the case, successful bid for her to determination forward, she volition person to look back. A profoundly moving yet humorous communicative of family, with a coming-of-age angle, we expect this to look connected galore a champion books of 2026 database adjacent year.

The Mating Game by Lana Ferguson

Release date: December 2

Lana Ferguson ever has an absorbing instrumentality oregon rotation connected the romance genre, arsenic you volition cognize if you’ve ever stumbled crossed her Loch Ness Monster romance, Under Loch & Key. And her latest merchandise afloat leans into the omegaverse. So, if you enjoyed our October recommendation, Mate by Ali Hazelwood, you mightiness privation to adhd this to your TBR list.

Imagine you’ve lived your full beingness arsenic a regular non-shifting human, lone to find retired that what you thought was the flu is really your assemblage telling you that you’re really a late-presenting Omega Wolf shifter.

Well, that’s precisely what happens to Tess. And it couldn’t person happened astatine a worse time. As a renovator with her precise ain TV amusement showcasing her work, she and her family’s fiscal futures are besides connected the line. With the impending hazard of going into heat, she’ll person to travel the doctor’s proposal to support distant from immoderate Alpha shifters.

That’s easier said than done erstwhile she arrives astatine Alpha Wolf Hunter’s crumbling lodge to refurbish it. It’s harmless to say, things crook connected their caput beauteous quickly.

Ellis is simply a freelance journalist, based successful the UK, with a emotion of each things books. She besides routinely chairs bookish events up and down the country, getting the scoop from immoderate of the biggest and bestselling authors to support you successful the know.

Originally posted:

Dec 8, 2025 9:12 pm