by Damla
In honor of International Women’s History Month in March, here is a list of some of our most anticipated books of 2025 by women authors. From literary fiction to fantasy, horror to sci-fi, romance to nonfiction titles, there is something for everyone. So take a look at our roundup to stay updated on the newest eye-catching releases or to discover new titles!
MARCH
The start of March has already been abundant in some fantastic new fiction by notable women authors, particularly due to Amamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dream Count and Agustine Bazterrica’s The Unworthy. However, there are more exciting new titles to look forward to this month.
Hunchback – Saou Ichikawa
Release date: March 18
Genre: Fiction
Born with a congenital muscle disorder, Shaka Isawa lives her life online within the confines of her care home: she studies, she tweets indignantly, she posts outrageous stories on an erotica website. One day, a new male carer reveals he has read it all – the sex, the provocation, the dirt. Her response? An indecent proposal…
Written by the first disabled author to win Japan’s most prestigious literary award and acclaimed instantly as one of the most important Japanese novels of the 21st century, Hunchback is an extraordinary, thrilling glimpse into the desire and darkness of a woman placed at humanity’s edge.
The Portable Feminist Reader – Roxanne Gay
Release date: March 25
Genre: Nonfiction
An expansive rather than definitive look at the state of American feminism through selected writings by ancient, historic, and more recent feminist voices, Roxanne Gay adds to the feminist canon to examine its successes and failures, and what feminism looks like in practice, as a complex, contradictory, personal and political, and ever-growing legacy of feminist thought.
APRIL
Gifted & Talented – Olivie Blake
Release date: April 1
Genre: Fantasy
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six comes the story of three (telepathically and electrokinetically gifted) siblings who, upon the death of their father, are forced to reckon with their long-festering rivalries, dangerous abilities, and the crushing weight of all their unrealized adolescent potential.
Sour Cherry – Natalia Theodoridou
Release date: April 1
Genre: Horror
A stunning reimagining of Bluebeard—one of the most mythologized serial killers—twisted into a modern tale of toxic masculinity, a feminist sermon, and a folktale for the twenty-first century that confronts age-old systems of gender and power, long-held excuses made for bad men, and the complicated reasons we stay captive to the monsters we love.
Authority: Essays – Andrea Long Chu
Release date: April 8
Genre: Nonfiction
A bold, provocative collection of essays on one of the most urgent questions of our time: What is authority when everyone has an opinion on everything?
With devastating wit and polemical clarity, the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Andrea Long Chu defies the imperative to leave politics out of art, instead modeling how the left might brave the culture wars without throwing in with the cynics and doomsayers.
Great Big Beautiful Life – Emily Henry
Release date: April 22
Genre: Romance
Alice is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they’re both face to face with the chance to be the one to tell the larger-than-life story of the legendary octogenarian, Margaret Ives. Yet with every plot twist that appears on the road ahead, it’s becoming abundantly clear that their own story—just like the tale Margaret’s spinning—could be a mystery, tragedy, or love ballad…depending on who’s telling it.
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng – Kylie Lee Baker
Release date: April 29
Genre: Horror
Cora Zeng is a crime scene cleaner, washing away the remains of brutal murders and suicides in Chinatown. But she’s already witnessed the most horrific thing possible: her sister, Delilah, being pushed in front of a train. Before fleeing the scene, the murderer shouted two words: bat eater.
In this explosive horror novel, a woman is haunted by inner trauma, hungry ghosts, and a serial killer as she confronts the brutal violence experienced by East Asians during the pandemic.
MAY
The Names – Florence Knapp
Release date: May 6
Genre: Fiction
Tomorrow, Cora will register the name of her son. Or perhaps, and this is her real concern, she’ll formalise who he will become. Bear, Julian, or Gordon. This is the story of three names, three versions of a life and the infinite possibilities that a single decision can spark. It is the story of one family and how love endures, no matter what fate has in store.
The Memory Collectors – Dete Meserve
Release date: May 20
Genre: Science-Fiction
What would you do if you could spend an hour in your past?
Four strangers time travel to the past and find themselves stuck on the day all their lives were changed in this stunning speculative mystery from award-winning film and television producer Dete Meserve. Perfect for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Wrong Place Wrong Time and The Paradox Hotel, The Memory Collectors is a heart-wrenching, genre-bending novel brimming with hope, grief and second chances.
The Original Daughter – Jemimah Wei
Release date: May 6
Genre: Fiction
In this dazzling debut rife with emotional clarity and searing social insight, Jemimah Wei explores the formation and dissolution of family bonds in turn-of-the-millennium Singapore, as sisters Arin and Genevieve navigate the intricacies of cultural heritage and societal expectations amidst betrayal, contention, and familial pressures.
JUNE
Atmosphere – Taylor Reid Jenkins
Release date: June 3
Genre: Fiction
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s Space Shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits. Fast-paced, thrilling, and emotional, Atmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best: transporting readers to iconic times and places, with complex protagonists, telling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love, this time among the stars.
Bury Our Bones In Midnight Soil – V.E. Schwab
Release date: June 10
Genre: Fantasy
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab comes a new genre-defying, unforgettable novel to sink your teeth into.
Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 1532.
London, 1837.
Boston, 2019.
Three young women, their bodies planted in the same soil, their stories tangling like roots. One grows high, and one grows deep, and one grows wild. And all of them grow teeth.
JULY
Hot Girls with Balls – Benedict Nguyễn
Release date: July 1
Genre: Fiction
In this outrageous and deeply serious satire, two star indoor volleyball players juggle unspoken jealousies in their off-court romance ahead of their rival teams’ first rematch in a year. As Six and Green go where no Asian American trans woman has gone before (the men’s pro indoor volleyball league), this eye-catching debut just might be for volleyball what Challengers was for tennis.
AUGUST
Katabasis – R.F. Kuang
Release date: August 26
Genre: Fantasy
Dante’s Inferno meets Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul—perhaps at the cost of their own.
