Best Books 2025 Summer. The 75 hottest books of 2025 so far from cosy crime to moving memoirs, our critics pick the perfect holiday reading, whatever your tastes Here are a curated selection of the best new novels and nonfiction titles in summer 2025, featuring authors including jodi picoult, christina lauren, essie chambers, and more.

The hot books of summer 2025 as chosen by the editors of publishers weekly. Npr staffers recommend five of this year’s new novels for summer reading: