2025 - New Books I Am Excited About

(EDIT: The books, on this page, all came out in 2025, here is everything I am tracking that gets released in 2026.)

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!

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
The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time by Keith Houston
The Book Cover: 150 Years of Batsford Design by Paul Dimond
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
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
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
The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting by Lee Gutkind
A First-Class Fool by Susan Jaffe Tane
Foghorn by Vicki DeArmon
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
Henry James Comes Home: Rediscovering America in the Gilded Age by Peter Brooks
How Books Can Save Democracy by Michael Fischer
The Idea Machine: How Books Built Our World and Shape Our Future by Joel J. Miller
Imprinted : A Social History of Caribbean Reading by Schuyler Esprit
The Insider: Malcolm Cowley and the Triumph of American Literature by Gerald Howard
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
The Magic Books: A History of Enchantment in 20 Medieval Manuscripts by Anne Lawrence-Mathers
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
The People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England by Adam James Smith, et. al.
Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores by Katie Mitchell
Reading Together by Katarzyna Bartoszynska
Remarkable Renaissance Books by John Boardley
The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews by Adam Biles
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
The Strange History of Samuel Pepys's Diary by Kate Loveman
That Book Is Dangerous!: How Moral Panic, Social Media, and the Culture Wars Are Remaking Publishing by Adam Szetela
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 by Alexandra Ault
Writers Revealed: Treasures from the British Library and the National Portrait Gallery, London by Alexandra Ault and Catharine MacLeod