Anticipated Literary Fiction 2025

1.
We Do Not Part
We Do Not Part
by: Han Kang
3.88 avg rating — 19,125 ratings
2.
My Friends
My Friends 4.49 avg rating — 95,256 ratings
3.
The Emperor of Gladness
The Emperor of Gladness 4.05 avg rating — 19,962 ratings
4.
Fox
Fox 3.95 avg rating — 1,460 ratings
5.
The Antidote
The Antidote 3.96 avg rating — 6,272 ratings
6.
Mothers and Sons
Mothers and Sons 3.75 avg rating — 3,052 ratings
7.
Wild Dark Shore
Wild Dark Shore 4.19 avg rating — 116,211 ratings
8.
The Imagined Life
The Imagined Life 4.12 avg rating — 815 ratings
9.
The Original Daughter
The Original Daughter 3.73 avg rating — 2,970 ratings
10.
Isola
Isola 4.02 avg rating — 40,590 ratings
11.
Open, Heaven
Open, Heaven 3.98 avg rating — 2,864 ratings
12.
Noetic Gravity
Noetic Gravity
by: R.P. Gage
4.37 avg rating — 43 ratings
13.
Atomic Hearts
Atomic Hearts 4.48 avg rating — 40 ratings
14.
Good Dirt
Good Dirt 4.03 avg rating — 36,804 ratings
15.
Dream Count
Dream Count 3.86 avg rating — 23,568 ratings
16.
Blob: A Love Story
Blob: A Love Story
by: Maggie Su
3.35 avg rating — 7,352 ratings
17.
The Dream Hotel
The Dream Hotel 3.62 avg rating — 18,128 ratings
18.
The Hounding
The Hounding 4.05 avg rating — 550 ratings
19.
The Lamb
The Lamb
by: Lucy Rose
3.84 avg rating — 14,019 ratings
20.
The Names
The Names 4.16 avg rating — 41,107 ratings
21.
The Devil Is a Southpaw
The Devil Is a Southpaw 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
22.
We Could Be Rats
We Could Be Rats really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11,724 ratings
23.
When the Harvest Comes
When the Harvest Comes 3.83 avg rating — 493 ratings
24.
The Girls Who Grew Big
The Girls Who Grew Big 4.12 avg rating — 3,006 ratings
25.
Hungerstone
Hungerstone
by: Kat Dunn
3.96 avg rating — 13,977 ratings
26.
The Unworthy
The Unworthy 3.68 avg rating — 26,838 ratings
27.
Slanting Towards the Sea
Slanting Towards the Sea 4.38 avg rating — 445 ratings
28.
Girls with Long Shadows
Girls with Long Shadows 3.53 avg rating — 296 ratings
29.
MY DAUGHTER NATASHA: Discovering Life’s Hard Truths One Street At A Time
MY DAUGHTER NATASHA: Discovering Life’s Hard Truths One Street At A Time 4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
30.
Here Beside the Rising Tide
Here Beside the Rising Tide 3.51 avg rating — 656 ratings
30.
The Other March Sisters
The Other March Sisters 3.45 avg rating — 1,345 ratings
30.
Animal Instinct
Animal Instinct 3.48 avg rating — 385 ratings
33.
Finding Grace
Finding Grace 3.98 avg rating — 3,607 ratings
34.
The Lotus Shoes
The Lotus Shoes
by: Jane Yang
4.26 avg rating — 10,235 ratings
34.
Homeseeking
Homeseeking 4.22 avg rating — 15,091 ratings
36.
A Gorgeous Excitement
A Gorgeous Excitement 3.68 avg rating — 2,401 ratings
37.
Fireweed
Fireweed 2.67 avg rating — 153 ratings
37.
Mazeltov
Mazeltov 3.14 avg rating — 406 ratings
39.
Plum
Plum 4.17 avg rating — 140 ratings
40.
In the Family Way
In the Family Way 4.26 avg rating — 457 ratings
41.
Playworld
Playworld
by: Adam Ross
3.78 avg rating — 4,101 ratings
42.
Minor Black Figures
Minor Black Figures 4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings
43.
Gulf
Gulf 4.15 avg rating — 151 ratings
44.
The Phoenix Pencil Company
The Phoenix Pencil Company 3.53 avg rating — 3,687 ratings
45.
The Sunflower Boys
The Sunflower Boys 4.75 avg rating — 20 ratings
46.
Dominion
Dominion 4.29 avg rating — 45 ratings
47.
Great Black Hope
Great Black Hope 3.63 avg rating — 1,014 ratings
48.
The City Changes Its Face
The City Changes Its Face 3.65 avg rating — 319 ratings
49.
Mayra
Mayra 3.47 avg rating — 459 ratings
49.
Life, and Death, and Giants
Life, and Death, and Giants
by: Ron Rindo
4.52 avg rating — 114 ratings
51.
Let's Call Her Barbie
Let's Call Her Barbie 4.06 avg rating — 6,744 ratings
51.
Ordinary Saints
Ordinary Saints 4.31 avg rating — 1,087 ratings
53.
Flesh
Flesh 3.90 avg rating — 2,270 ratings
53.
Atmosphere
Atmosphere 4.41 avg rating — 188,200 ratings
55.
Shy Girl
Shy Girl 3.88 avg rating — 2,122 ratings
56.
Good Girl
Good Girl
by: Aria Aber
3.66 avg rating — 5,234 ratings
56.
Elegy, Southwest
Elegy, Southwest 3.75 avg rating — 366 ratings
58.
Florida Palms
Florida Palms
by: Joe Pan
4.19 avg rating — 52 ratings
59.
Eat the Ones You Love
Eat the Ones You Love 3.53 avg rating — 3,314 ratings
60.
Foreclosure Gothic
Foreclosure Gothic 3.72 avg rating — 71 ratings
61.
Idle Grounds
Idle Grounds 3.25 avg rating — 962 ratings
62.
Before We Hit the Ground
Before We Hit the Ground 4.12 avg rating — 163 ratings
62.
Old Soul
Old Soul 3.75 avg rating — 2,787 ratings
62.
We Pretty Pieces of Flesh
We Pretty Pieces of Flesh 4.16 avg rating — 571 ratings
65.
Call Her Freedom
Call Her Freedom 3.84 avg rating — 122 ratings
66.
Exit Zero
Exit Zero 3.79 avg rating — 452 ratings
67.
The Jackal's Mistress
The Jackal's Mistress 4.14 avg rating — 10,003 ratings
68.
State Champ
State Champ 3.84 avg rating — 137 ratings
68.
Come Round Right
Come Round Right 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
70.
The American No: Stories
The American No: Stories 3.25 avg rating — 154 ratings
71.
A Sharp Endless Need
A Sharp Endless Need 3.85 avg rating — 1,144 ratings
71.
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny 4.33 avg rating — 33 ratings
73.
The South
The South
by: Tash Aw
3.75 avg rating — 756 ratings
74.
Crown
Crown 3.71 avg rating — 107 ratings
74.
Intemperance
Intemperance 4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings
76.
Stop Me If You've Heard This One
Stop Me If You've Heard This One 3.41 avg rating — 2,507 ratings
77.
Midnight at the Cinema Palace
Midnight at the Cinema Palace 3.72 avg rating — 46 ratings
78.
Julius Julius
Julius Julius 3.99 avg rating — 118 ratings
79.
Liquid: A Love Story
Liquid: A Love Story 2.92 avg rating — 2,802 ratings
79.
The Elements
The Elements 4.75 avg rating — 126 ratings
81.
Dogs
Dogs
by: C. Mallon
3.81 avg rating — 43 ratings
82.
Walk Softly on This Heart of Mine
Walk Softly on This Heart of Mine 3.49 avg rating — 109 ratings
83.
The Compound
The Compound 3.74 avg rating — 13,244 ratings
84.
Ripeness
Ripeness 4.01 avg rating — 497 ratings
85.
Luminous
Luminous 3.69 avg rating — 973 ratings
86.
Rabbit Moon
Rabbit Moon 3.78 avg rating — 3,430 ratings
87.
Isaac's Song
Isaac's Song 4.28 avg rating — 4,836 ratings
88.
The Agonies
The Agonies 3.62 avg rating — 16 ratings
88.
The Art of Vanishing
The Art of Vanishing 3.41 avg rating — 619 ratings
88.
Amanda
Amanda 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
91.
Nobody Asked for This
Nobody Asked for This 3.34 avg rating — 322 ratings
92.
Weepers
Weepers 3.12 avg rating — 57 ratings
92.
Be Gay, Do Crime: Sixteen Stories of Queer Chaos
Be Gay, Do Crime: Sixteen Stories of Queer Chaos 3.49 avg rating — 440 ratings
94.
Endling
Endling 4.02 avg rating — 801 ratings
95.
Oddbody: Stories
Oddbody: Stories 3.61 avg rating — 254 ratings
95.
No Names
No Names 4.10 avg rating — 39 ratings
95.
The Garden
The Garden 3.69 avg rating — 1,814 ratings
98.
Meet Me at the Crossroads
Meet Me at the Crossroads 3.51 avg rating — 393 ratings
98.
The Violet Hour
The Violet Hour 3.61 avg rating — 84 ratings
100.
O Sinners!
O Sinners! 3.53 avg rating — 872 ratings
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