Looking for your next book obssession?<\/p>\n
Still need help to hit your reading goal for 2025? Well don\u2019t stress as if you need something fresh or new then 2025 has released many hit new novels that might just be what you\u2019re after. We\u2019ve listed a few of our favourite books that have released in 2025 so far this year!<\/p>\n
Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros \u2013 Book 3 of The Empyrean Series<\/p>\n
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After nearly eighteen months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail knows there\u2019s no more time for lessons. No more time for uncertainty. Because the battle has truly begun, and with enemies closing in from outside their walls and within their ranks, it\u2019s impossible to know who to trust.<\/p>\n
Now Violet must journey beyond the failing Aretian wards to seek allies from unfamiliar lands to stand with Navarre. The trip will test every bit of her wit, luck, and strength, but she will do anything to save what she loves\u2014her dragons, her family, her home, and him.<\/p>\n
Even if it means keeping a secret so big, it could destroy everything. They need an army. They need power. They need magic. And they need the one thing only Violet can find\u2014the truth. But a storm is coming\u2026and not everyone can survive its wrath.<\/p>\n
Sunrise of the Reaping by Suzanne Collins \u2013 (The Hunger Games)<\/p>\n
As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes.<\/p>\n
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Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard about his chances. All he cares about is making it through the day and being with the girl he loves.<\/p>\n
When Haymitch\u2019s name is called, he can feel all his dreams break. He\u2019s torn from his family and his love, shuttled to the Capitol with the three other District 12 tributes: a young friend who\u2019s nearly a sister to him, a compulsive oddsmaker, and the most stuck-up girl in town. As the Games begin, Haymitch understands he\u2019s been set up to fail. But there\u2019s something in him that wants to fight . . . and have that fight reverberate far beyond the deadly arena.<\/p>\n
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid<\/p>\n
Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA\u2019s Space Shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space.<\/p>\n
Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston\u2019s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond and scientist John Griffin, who are kind and easy-going even when the stakes are highest; mission specialist Lydia Danes, who has worked too hard to play nice; warm-hearted Donna Fitzgerald, who is navigating her own secrets; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer, who can fix any engine and fly any plane.<\/p>\n
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As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined. In this new light, Joan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe.<\/p>\n
Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, everything changes in an instant.<\/p>\n
My Friends by Fredrik Backman<\/p>\n
Most people don\u2019t even notice them\u2014three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. Most people think it\u2019s just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an aspiring artist herself, knows otherwise, and she is determined to find out the story of these three enigmatic figures.<\/p>\n
Twenty-five years earlier, in a distant seaside town, a group of teenagers find refuge from their bruising home lives by spending long summer days on an abandoned pier, telling silly jokes, sharing secrets, and committing small acts of rebellion. These lost souls find in each other a reason to get up each morning, a reason to dream, a reason to love.<\/p>\n
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Out of that summer emerges a transcendent work of art, a painting that will unexpectedly be placed into eighteen-year-old Louisa\u2019s care. She embarks on a surprise-filled cross-country journey to learn how the painting came to be and to decide what to do with it. The closer she gets to the painting\u2019s birthplace, the more nervous she becomes about what she\u2019ll find. Louisa is proof that happy endings don\u2019t always take the form we expect in this stunning testament to the transformative, timeless power of friendship and art.<\/p>\n
The House of my Mother: A Daughter\u2019s Quest for Freedom<\/p>\n
Shari Franke\u2019s childhood was a constant battle for survival. Her mother, Ruby Franke, enforced a severe moral code while maintaining a fa\u00e7ade of a picture-perfect family for their wildly popular YouTube channel 8 Passengers, which documented the day-to-day life of raising six children for a staggering 2.5 million subscribers. But a darker truth lurked beneath the surface\u2014Ruby\u2019s wholesome online persona masked a more tyrannical parenting style than anyone could have imagined.<\/p>\n
As the family\u2019s YouTube notoriety grew, so too did Ruby\u2019s delusions of righteousness. Fueled by the sadistic influence of relationship coach Jodi Hildebrandt, together they implemented an inhumane and merciless disciplinary regime.<\/p>\n
Ruby and Jodi were arrested in Utah in 2023 on multiple charges of aggravated child abuse. On that fateful day, Shari shared a photo online of a police car outside their home. Her caption had one word: \u201cFinally.\u201d<\/p>\n
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For the first time, Shari will reveal the disturbing truth behind 8 Passengers and her family\u2019s devastating involvement with Jodi Hildebrandt\u2019s cultish life coaching program, \u201cConneXions.\u201d No stone is left unturned as Shari exposes the perils of influencer culture and shares for the first time her battle for truth and survival in the face of her mother\u2019s cruelty.<\/p>\n
Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall<\/p>\n
\u201cThe farmer is dead. He is dead, and all anyone wants to know is who killed him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, but their relationship relies on the past staying buried. But when Beth\u2019s brother-in-law shoots a dog going after their sheep, Beth doesn\u2019t realize that the gunshot will alter the course of their lives. For the dog belonged to none other than Gabriel Wolfe, the man Beth loved as a teenager\u2014the man who broke her heart years ago. Gabriel has returned to the village with his young son Leo, a boy who reminds Beth very much of her own son, who died in a tragic accident.<\/p>\n
As Beth is pulled back into Gabriel\u2019s life, tensions around the village rise and dangerous secrets and jealousies from the past resurface, this time with deadly consequences. Beth is forced to make a choice between the woman she once was, and the woman she has become.<\/p>\n
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The Crash by Freida McFadden<\/p>\n
The nightmare she\u2019s running from is nothing compared to where she\u2019s headed.<\/p>\n
Tegan is\u00a0eight months pregnant, alone, and desperately wants to put her crumbling life in the rearview mirror. So she hits the road, planning to stay with her brother until she can figure out her next move. But she doesn\u2019t realize\u00a0she\u2019s heading straight into a blizzard.<\/p>\n
She never arrives at her destination.<\/p>\n
Stranded in rural Maine with a\u00a0dead car and broken ankle, Tegan worries she\u2019s made a terrible mistake. Then a miracle she is rescued by a couple who offers her a room in their warm cabin until the snow clears.<\/p>\n
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But something isn\u2019t right. Tegan believed she was waiting out the storm, but as time ticks by, she comes to realize\u00a0she is in grave danger. This safe haven isn\u2019t what she thought it was, and staying here may have been her most deadly mistake yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And now she must do whatever it takes to save herself\u2014and her unborn child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Looking for your next book obssession? Still need help to hit your reading goal for 2025? Well don\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[64,63,457,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-24466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-books","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}