Explore some of the best young adult books publishing in 2025, including mysteries, romances, thrillers and more.

Ahead, we list 28 of our most-anticipated reads of 2025 so far. Keep scrolling to see them all, and make sure to watch this space for updates throughout the year.

In the literary world, this year is shaping up to be a good one for fans of cultural criticism: There are new books about Better Call Saul and biographies of James Gandolfini and Lorne Michaels on the way.

New year, new mysteries to solve! Such is our M.O. as devout mystery-thriller book lovers (and pseudo-detectives) in 2025. It’s a particularly fitting one, too, since as it turns out, there’ll be no shortage of new suspenseful titles to devour throughout the year.