2025 - New Books I Am Excited About

This page is where I track all the upcoming titles that most interest me and that I hope to read. The list is alphabetized for easy lookup. I also keep a linked list organized buy release date (also including publisher name, ISBN, price, etc.) to help out with planning and book buying. To view that list you simply have to register for the site here. It's free to join!

I focus mainly on books about publishing, authors, printing, book selling, bookstores, book collecting, book design, bibliophilia, book history, etc. Each book I read is a contender for the annual Books About Books Awards. If you would like to see all of the books about books I tracked last year, you can find that list here.

Do you know of a book related book that I have missed? If so, please drop me a line info [at] booksaboutbooks.com and I’ll check it out to see if I’d like to add it to my to-be-read pile. Thanks!

"A First-Class Fool" by Susan Jaffe Tane
"Afterlife: The Strange Fate of Literary Remains" by David Wyatt
"Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds" by Patty Krawec
"Bibliophobia: A Memoir" by Sarah Chihaya
"Black-Owned : The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore " by Char Adams
"Book Curses" by Eleanor Baker
"Bookish Words & Their Surprising Stories" by David Crystal
"Books, Readers and Libraries in Fiction" by Karen Attar
"Bookstore Romance: Love Speaks Volumes" by Judith Rosen
"Bookstores of the World: The Ultimate Around-the-World Tour for Bibliophiles and Bookshop Lovers" by Jean-Yves Mollier and Patricia Sorel
"Cartographies of Empire" by Myka Tucker-Abramson
"Children of the Book: A Memoir of Reading Together" by Ilana Kurshan
"Conversations with Jesmyn Ward" by Kemeshia Randle Swanson
"Cooler Than Cool" by C. M. Kushins
"Creative Book Design" by SP, SendPoints
"Cryptic: From Voynich to the Angel Diaries, the Story of the World's Mysterious Manuscripts" by Garry Shaw
"Dangerous Learning: The South's Long War on Black Literacy" by Derek W Black
"Decorated Bookbindings in Renaissance Italy Outside Rome and Venice: A Catalogue" by Anthony Hobson
"Dickens the Enchanter" by Peter Conrad
"Difficult Lives Hitching Rides" by James Sallis
"Digital Social Reading" by Federico Pianzola
"Dorothy L Sayers' Britain" by Eric Sandberg
"Dust and Light: On the Art of Fact in Fiction" by Andrea Barrett
"Edgar Allan Poe" by Richard Kopley
"Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books" by Hwang Bo-reum
"Feral and Hysterical: Mother Horror’s Ultimate Reading Guide to Dark and Disturbing Fiction by Women" by Sadie Hartmann
"Foghorn" by Vicki DeArmon
"Henry James Comes Home: Rediscovering America in the Gilded Age" by Peter Brooks
"How Books Can Save Democracy" by Michael Fischer
"Imprinted : A Social History of Caribbean Reading" by Schuyler Esprit
"Jane Austen's Bookshelf" by Rebecca Romney
"Jane Was Here: An Illustrated Guide to Jane Austen's England" by Nicole Jacobsen, Devynn MacLennan, Lexi K. Nilson
"Johannes Gutenberg: A Biography in Books" by Eric Marshall White
"Jorge Luis Borges" by Ilan Stavans
"King Noir" by Tony Magistrale
"Libraries of the Mind" by William Marx
"Library of Artistic Print on Demand" by Annette Gilbert
"Literary Gardens: The imaginary gardens of writers and poets" by Sandra Lawrence and Lucille Clerc
"Literary Landscapes: New York: A book-lover's tour of the city that never sleeps" by Evan Joseph, Amy Evans
"Literature for the People" by Sarah Harkness
"Looking After Your Books" by Francesca Galligan
"Lost and Found : An A-Z of Neglected Writers of the Anglophone Caribbean" by Alison Donnell
"Marginalia" by Naomi Washer
"Mark Twain" by Ron Chernow
"Noble Fragments" by Michael Visontay
"On Book Banning" by Ira Wells
"Oxford Libraries Architecture" by Geoffrey Tyack
"Pen Names" by Kirsty McHugh and Ian Scott
"Penny Dreadfuls: The Circulation Patterns of a Victorian Popular Literature" by Manon Burz-Labrande
"Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores" by Katie Mitchell
"Reading Together" by Katarzyna Bartoszynska
"Remarkable Renaissance Books" by John Boardley
"Shadow Work" by Emily Hodgson Anderson
"Shelf Life: A Journey Through the Past, Present & Future of Bookselling and Publishing in Britain" by Michael Robb
"Small Town Author" by John R. Erickson
"So Many Books, 2nd Edition: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance" by Gabriel Zaid
"Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods!" by Richard Wolinsky
"That Book Is Dangerous!: How Moral Panic, Social Media, and the Culture Wars Are Remaking Publishing" by Adam Szetela
"The Author Who Outsold Dickens" by Stephen Carver
"The Book Cover: 150 Years of Batsford Design" byPaul Dimond
"The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time" by Keith Houston
"The CIA Book Club : The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature " by Charlie English
"The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir" by Ramachandra Guha
"The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting" by Lee Gutkind
"The Future of the Novel" by Simon Okotie
"The Genius of Judy" by Rachelle Bergstein
"The Gifts of Reading for the Next Generation" by Jennie Orchard
"The Golden Age of Murder" by Martin Edwards
"The Idea Machine: How Books Built Our World and Shape Our Future" by Joel J. Miller
"The Magic Books: A History of Enchantment in 20 Medieval Manuscripts" by Anne Lawrence-Mathers
"The People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England" by Adam James Smith, et. al.
"The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews" by Adam Biles
"This Craft of Verse" by Jorge Luis Borges
"Toni at Random" by Dana A. Williams
"Type Designers of the 20th Century" by David Jury
"Unpacking My Father's Bookstore" by Laurence Roth
"Voices and Visions" by Nancy Dixon
"Worlds of Wonder: Celebrating the Great Classics of Children's Literature" by Daniel Hahn
"Writers Revealed: Treasures from the British Library and the National Portrait Gallery, London" by Alexandra Ault and Catharine MacLeod
"Writers Revealed" by Alexandra Ault