In 2024, I read more books in one year than he ever did before. In 2025, I’m scaling back and focusing on creating better coverage for emerging writers. We’ll have excerpts, cover reveals, more web Q&As, in-person and virtual events, and more top-secret ideas I can’t reveal now. The first step to 2025 is always revealing the debut books that have caught my eye. As of Thanksgiving 2024, I’ve been sent almost 100 physical and digital galleys for debut books coming out in 2025. I tried to read 20-50 pages of them all.
Here are the ones I finished and can’t wait to return to.
I highly recommend preordering them because preordering books will help support these writers more than anything else right now. Preorders will drive stores to stock their books, convince event managers to book them for events, and so many more intangible benefits. If you preorder through our Bookshop.org links below, Debutiful will also get a small sliver of the sale, which will help pay for website and podcast hosting fees.
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