2025 Round Up: Favourite Debut Fiction

Resolve to read new authors. In 2025, these authors debuted with their first novels.

Updated January 9, 2026
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2025 Round Up: Favourite Debut Fiction

Resolve to read new authors. In 2025, these authors debuted with their first novels.

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Austen, Alice
Old School Indian
Curtis, Aaron John
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * BUZZFEED BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "[An] entrancing new voice . . . Aaron John Curtis will be your new literary obsession." --Marion Winik, The Boston Globe "An inspired novel by an author whose voice absolutely sizzles on...
He's to die for : a novel
Dunn, Erin (Fiction writer)
Paper Book
"Sweet and sexy and satisfying enough to make me almost forget there were actual lives at stake." - Alicia Thompson, USA Today bestselling author of Love in the Time of Serial Killers Brooklyn 99 meets The Charm Offensive in this sparkling...
The three lives of Cate Kay
Fagan, Kate (Sports writer)
Paper Book
REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK | NATIONAL BESTSELLER Named a Best Book of 2025 by Time, NPR, Goodreads, and others. "[A] propulsive puzzle of a novel." --The New York Times Book Review "This story swept me away with its big...
Silver elite
Francis, Dani
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * In the first book of a sizzling dystopian romance series, psychic gifts are a death sentence and there are rules to survival: Trust no one. Lie to everyone. And whatever you do, don't fall for your greatest enemy.
Great Black Hope
Franklin, Rob
The List of Suspicious Things
Godfrey, Jennie
THE INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER! "A quietly moving and intimate tale about family mysteries in a small town." --People magazine "We'll make a list. A list of all the people and things we see that are suspicious. And then... we'll investigate them." Twelve-year-old Miv is...
The White Hot
Hudes, Quiara Alegria
The story of a runaway mother's ten days of freedom--and the pain, desire, longing, and wonder we find on the messy road to enlightenment--from Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegría Hudes. "The White Hot has the effect of pressing your hand to a barbed live wire. April's is one...
The names : a novel
Knapp, Florence,
READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY | AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! 2025 BOOK OF THE YEAR AS FEATURED IN THE INDEPENDENT, THE TIMES, THE SUNDAY TIMES, THE GUARDIAN, COSMOPOLITAN (UK), WOMEN'S HEALTH (UK), AND IRISH...
These Memories Do Not Belong to Us : A Novel
Ma, Yiming.
"Ma's brilliantly inventive These Memories Do Not Belong to Us weaves worlds around a central question: What happens when technology enables a totalitarian government to break into the last private frontiers of the internal mind? Chilling, poignant, and uncomfortably timely, Ma's braided memory...
The maiden and her monster
Martinez, Maddie
"A dark and endlessly enchanting fairy tale.... I adored every page."--#1 New York Times bestselling author Ava Reid An instant USA Today bestseller!Most Anticipated at Goodreads | Medium | LGBTQReads | Reactor | and more! ...
A killer wedding : a novel
O'Leary, Joan
*A NATIONAL BESTSELLER* "Fans of The White Lotus and Knives Out will gobble up this whip-smart whodunit... Good luck solving this especially twisty mystery before the big reveal--you'll need it."--Marie Claire  "The Riptons are American...
The Witch of Willow Sound : A Novel
Penney, Vanessa F.
To the Moon and Back : A Novel
Ramage, Eliana.
Food person : a novel
Roberts, Adam D.
Paper Book
For fans of Alison Espach's The Wedding People and Dolly Alderton's Good Material, a delectable comedy of manners about cooking, ambition, and friendship set in the food world as a young and socially awkward writer takes a job ghostwriting the cookbook for a famous (and...
Finding grace : a novel
Rothschild, Loretta
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A July Indie Next Pick * "A strikingly original and deeply moving debut." --People * "Begins with such a gasp-inducing twist that it's almost impossible to describe." --Real Simple * "The literary book of the summer." --Sarah Gelman, CBS...
The Guest Children : A Novel
Tarr, Patrick.
Maggie; or, a man and a woman walk into a bar
Yee, Katie
Julie Chan Is Dead: A Novel
Zhang, Liann
Paper Book
INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER One of NPR's Books We Love for 2025 For fans of Bunny and Yellowface, this razor-sharp debut thriller blends biting satire with chilling suspense, as a young woman steps into her deceased twin's influencer life--only to...
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