Ers 2025 Fiction 2025. Five freshly released and hotly anticipated new novels that you should have on your reading list in the fall of 2025: Jessie thompson shares our guide to the year’s unmissable fiction

This list of the best new and anticipated 2025 literary fiction books is based on early reviews and buzz, and of course what i’ve read. Fiction the precipitating event in this novel of covid and comeuppance takes place on a hike, when a married couple—who have fled brooklyn for a cottage upstate—have an argument.