My (Tentative) 2025 TBR

Here are a few titles I hope to prioritize reading this year!

I am running to catch up with all the content I need to get out and I almost missed my window to get my (tentative) 2025 TBR out into the world before January ended. Send up an extra “thank you” to whatever god you serve for allowing my seasonal depression to temporarily lift so I could get this out to you.

UPCOMING RELEASES

Hungerstone by Kat Dunn (2/2)

Sapphic feminist retelling of Carmilla. Vampires… what else can i say? It publishes in February 13, GALENTINE’S DAY. How lush. I have already started reading this and so far, I am loving the vibes, the narrative, the themes that are parallel to the original story but made new with fresh spins. I can’t wait to see where it goes and how everything unfolds.

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins (3/18)

Does this one really need an explanation?! March 18, 2025. This is a prequel to the hunger games series and it is set during what would be Haymitch’s games so I am SAT. I was also recently commissioned to read and review the entire series so this works out perfectly.

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab

June 10th. cannot wait. I am shocked to tell you that it is another vampire book. Hold your gasps, I know. It follows the stories of 3 women through time.

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.

I read Vicious and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by this author and enjoyed them both so I can’t wait to sink my teeth into this one.

The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

This is another arc I got approved for and when the notification came through… the sound that came out of me. This publishes July 15th and its another multigenerational story featuring the lives of 3 women except this time, we’re dealing with witches instead of vampires. I love witches so I’m down for this too and I’m down bad for anything written by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.

OUT ALREADY

The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

I am told this is heavy and haunting and will hurt me to my core and now that I’ve read the synopsis, I know I am in for a world of hurt. This is a story set in Jim Crow era 1950’s Florida and follow a young Black boy who can see ghosts which was never really a problem before until he is sent to this all boys, segregated reform school where all the ghosts of young boys who lived and died there are showing him the unspeakable things that happened to them during their time there. With it being inspired by true events, being a resident of the south and just a mom of 2 boys… I just know this is going to destroy me but I am ready. I think.

Gay the Pray Away by Natalie Naudus

Someone in my discord mentioned this book as something they’d like to hear me and my bestie Rachel review and discuss one day and after I googled the synopsis, I knew I ad to read it. Whether I read it with Rach or not, I will be reading this, it sounds like a very familiar tale to me. It’s a queer YA about a young girl being raised in the cult that is conservative christianity who finds her world turned upside down when the cutest girl she’s ever seen walks into her bible study one day. I feel like this one is going to make me cry but in a good way, a way that makes me feel held and seen and maybe nourishes the queer child that was displaced by my mother so long ago.

Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan

I have had this book on my shelf for a couple years now and its time. I need it, i have heard only great things and I’m ready to enter the world of Kennedy Ryan. I’m told this is a second chance romance that just HITS and I am so ready to find out if that’s the case for me. I have a soft spot for second chance romances so I can’t wait. They’re grown, they’re split up, they are coparenting together but their love is like a magnet constantly pulling them back together. UGH im so hype.

Kindred by Octavia Butler

Another author i have wanted to read and just never got around to. It is really hard having ADHD and being a mood reader with no self discipline. A modern woman is celebrating her 26th birthday when she is suddenly and inexplicably launched through time and smack dab in the middle of the antebellum south! I’m excited for this because I have been wanting to read Butler for a long time and I’ve been wanting to explore more of the sci fi genre and this sounds like a great place to start.

Your Blood, My Bones by Kelly Andrew (2/13)

Rachel has been begging me night and day to read this so that is also happening this year. I already borrowed it for the library, I will be enjoying it on audiobook and I have already started and it’s going pretty well actually. I say that like I’m surprised, she knows me pretty well by now. It’s YA fantasy/horror where a young girl returns to her childhood home with the intention to burn it all down but when she finds her childhood friend who is immortal, strung up in the basement and needing to kill her so he stops dying over and over… that changes the plans a bit.

Never Whistle at Night

So I know that in the past I have said that I don’t like short story collections and I meant it when I said it. I also know that I have said that I should stop picking them up thinking I will enjoy them because time has taught me that is usually untrue. However, you can’t tell me what to do and neither can I. I have heard great things about Never Whistle at Night, an Indigenous, dark fiction anthology, so I want to read it, what’s the worst that could happen?

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So there you go. 10 titles, 10 opportunities to find my new favorite book. I am excited. Were any of these on your radars or your TBRs? What are you trying to be sure to read this year? Tell me everything. Leave it in the comments, join the Discord and chat with me about it there.