Epic List of Fantasy Books 2025!

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29 Dec

Best Fantasy Books 2025: The Ultimate List!

2025 promises to be an exciting year for fantasy books.

Whether you enjoy epic fantasy, urban fantasy, cozy fantasy, romantasy, historical fantasy, magical realism, fairy tale retellings, sword and sorcery, or high fantasy, we’ve got you covered!
Some of the new releases I’m most looking forward to include Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros, Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales (Emily Wilde #3) by Heather Fawcett, and Accomplice to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain #3) by Hannah Nicole Maehrer.

I hope you discover some amazing fantasy reads to add to your TBR this year!

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January 2025

January 2025 is packed with exciting new fantasy books! Don’t miss Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros, the eagerly awaited sequel to Fourth Wing, The Baby Dragon Café by A.T. Qureshi, a delightful cozy fantasy, and Carving Shadows into Gold by Brigid Kemmerer, the captivating sequel to Forging Silver into Stars. These are must-reads to start your year with magic!

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Check out the full list of Incredible New Release Fantasy Books in January 2025!

February 2025

February 2025 is another big month for fantasy releases. I am most excited about the release of Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales, the sequel to Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries, which was my favourite read of 2024.

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March 2025

March 4th is shaping up to be one of the biggest publishing days of the year, with a lineup of incredible new releases hitting shelves! Don’t miss these exciting titles: The Ragpicker King by Cassandra Clare, Oathbound by Tracy Deonn, and Tea You at the Altar by Rebecca Thorne.

Plus, mark your calendars for March 18th—the new Hunger Games book, Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins, is coming your way!

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April 2025

April has a stack of must-read fantasy releases, starting with the much-awaited sequel The Tainted Cup: A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett, arriving on April 1st. Other exciting titles to look forward to include Faith Breaker by Hannah Kaner, Fearless by Lauren Roberts, and The Book That Held Her Heart by Mark Lawrence.

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May 2025

May delivers another exciting secret project from Brandon Sanderson, set to release on the 25th! Also on the horizon are The Devils by Joe Abercrombie and The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig, author of One Dark Window.

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June 2025

June brings a new book, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, from one of my favourite fantasy authors, V.E. Schwab. Other exciting releases to look forward to include The Primal of Blood and Bone by Jennifer Armentrout, Far Better Thing by H.G. Perry, and A Forgery of Fate by Elizabeth Lim.

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July 2025

July is a big month for cozy fantasy releases, with two highly anticipated books: The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst and A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna (hopefully the release date won’t change again!). Another fantasy read to look forward to is Arcana Academy, the first book in a new series by Elise Kova.

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August 2025

Some wonderful fantasy reads to look forward to in August include A Theory in Dreaming by Ava Reid, Alchemy and a Cup of Tea by Rebecca Thorne, Hemlock and Silver by T. Kingfisher, and Katabasis by R.F. Kuang. Keep an eye out for even more exciting titles to come!