Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Most Anticipated Reads of 2025 (So Far)

Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted here to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they’re books that have yet to be released. Find out more here.

To kick off the new year in style, here is everything I’m waiting on, begging for, and eagerly anticipating – with the caveat that I’m sure to add more as I find them

January

Lightfall by Ed Crocker
St. Martin’s Press | Fantasy – Epic | January 14, 2025

All for Her: Forbidden Romance Novellas by Gun Brooke, J. J. Hale, and Aurora Rey
Bold Strokes Books | Romance – LGBT | January 14, 2025

Seducing the Widow by Jane Walsh
Bold Strokes Books | Romance – LGBT | January 14, 2025

Tarnished by Erica Rose Eberhart
Creative James Media | Fantasy – Romantic| January 21, 2025

February

Sanctum of the Soul by Kel Kade
Tor Books | Fantasy – Epic | February 11, 2025

Wooing the Witch Queen by Stephanie Burgis
Bramble| Fantasy – Romance | February 18, 2025

March

The Warbler by Sarah Beth Durst
Lake Union Publishing | Fantasy | March 1, 2025

Emberclaw by L. R. Lam
DAW Books | Fantasy – Epic | March 4, 2025

Idolfire by Grace Curtis
DAW Books | Fantasy – Romance | March 11, 2025

Exquisite Ruin by Adrianne May
Gallery Books | Fantasy – Romance | March 25, 2025

April

A/S/L by Jeanne Thornton
Soho Press | LGBT – Transgender | April 1, 2025

Direct Descendant by Tanya Huff
DAW Books | Horror – Cozy | April 1, 2025

May

Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame by Neon Yang
Tordotcom | Fantasy – Epic | May 6, 2025

Daughter of Tides by Kit Rocha
Montlake| Fantasy – Romance | May 6, 2025

The Vengeance by Emma Newman
Solaris| Fantasy – Action & Adventure| May 6, 2025

Anji Kills a King by Evan Leikam
Tor Books| Fantasy – Epic | May 13, 2025

To Please Her by Elena Abbott
Bold Strokes Books | Romance – LGBT | May 13, 2025

Written on the Dark by Guy Gavriel Kay
Ace Books| Fantasy – Historical | May 27, 2025

Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity by Lee Mandelo
Erewhon Books| Fantasy – LGBT | May 27, 2025

Deliverance of Dragons by Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory
Tor Books| Fantasy – Epic | May 27, 2025

June

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
Tor Books| Fantasy – Epic | June 10, 2025

If I Told You, I’d Have to Kiss You by Mae Marvel
St. Martin’s Griffin| Romance – LGBT | June 10, 2025

Six Wild Crowns by Holly Race
Orbit | Fantasy – Historical | June 10, 2025

The Witch Roads by Kate Elliott
Tor Books| Fantasy – Epic | June 10, 2025

I Think I’m in Love with an Alien by Ann Aguirre
Sourcebooks Casablanca| Romance – Science Fiction| June 17, 2025

The Mercy Makers by Tessa Gratton
Orbit | Fantasy – Epic | June 17, 2025

The Last Vigilant by Mark A. Latham
Orbit | Fantasy – Epic | June 24, 2025

The Secret Romantic’s Book of Magic edited by Marie O’Regan & Paul Kane
Titan Books | Fantasy – Romance| June 24, 2025

July

The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst
Bramble| Fantasy – Romance | July 15, 2025

A Shift of Time by Julie E. Czerneda
DAW Books | Fantasy – Epic | July 22, 2025