Australia's Best New Reads of 2025

The phenomenal fifth book in the Hunger Games series!Acclaimed actor Jefferson White, who starred in Paramount Network's Yellowstone as Jimmy Hurdstrom, brings his talent to the worldwide best-sell... Read more

"Welcome to the family," Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can preten... Read more

The phenomenal fifth book in the Hunger Games series!When you've been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for?As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear ... Read more

"Don't go in the guest bedroom." A shadow falls on Douglas Garrick's face as he touches the door with his fingertips. "My wife... she's very ill." As he continues showing me their incredible pentho... Read more

After nearly eighteen months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail knows there's no more time for lessons. No more time for uncertainty. Because the battle has truly begun, and with enemies cl... Read more

"You must be our new neighbors!" Mrs Lowell gushes and waves across the picket fence. I clutch my daughter's hand and smile back: but the second Mrs Lowell sees my husband a strange expression cros... Read more

Tegan is eight months pregnant, alone, and desperately wants to put her crumbling life in the rearview mirror. So she hits the road, planning to stay with her brother until she can figure out her n... Read more

There's someone at your front door—should you let them in? Find out in a riveting new thriller from global sensation and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid, Freida McFadden... Read more

A new, jaw-dropping thriller from the instant #1 New York Times bestseller of The Boyfriend and The Housemaid!There's no place like home...Blake Porter is riding high, until he's not. Fired abruptl... Read more

Today is supposed to be the happiest day of my life.I'm engaged to the man of my dreams, and in a few short hours, I'm going to stand before a judge, who will declare us husband and wife, till deat... Read more

A Baby-sitters Club graphic novel adapted by New York Times bestselling cartoonist Arley Nopra!Mallory knows she's a good baby-sitter. She's been looking after her seven younger brothers and sister... Read more

REWARD OFFERED: Apprentice to The Villain wanted for treason (light), magical property damage (alleged), and one incident involving a weaponized scone (accurate). Frequently seen with a grumpy frog... Read more

After nearly eighteen months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail knows there's no more time for lessons. No more time for uncertainty.Because the battle has truly begun, and with enemies clo... Read more

After nearly eighteen months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail knows there's no more time for lessons. No more time for uncertainty.Because the battle has truly begun, and with enemies clo... Read more

"The answer to your question will be revealed on the Lunar Eclipse. But when discovering the truth, do not let the shadows take you."Hell Week has begun.Senior students have been tasked with making... Read more

"The answer to your question will be revealed on the Lunar Eclipse. But when discovering the truth, do not let the shadows take you."Hell Week has begun.Senior students have been tasked with making... Read more

REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK FOR NOVEMBER 2025!'At once a gripping mystery, an exquisitely written ode to the natural world, and a taut, psychological thriller, Wild Dark Shore is a triumph. Ch... Read more

Dirk De Graaf has kept his deadly secret for twenty-three years. Not one person on the planet knows.Until today.A chance encounter in the street threatens to expose everything and topple an empire ... Read more

Shield of Sparrows is a slow-burn, high-stakes romantasy, where enemies become lovers, monsters roam a cursed realm, and a forgotten princess finds the power to burn a kingdom down.Long ago, the go... Read more

OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD. THE SIZZLING FINALE TO THE NO 1 BESTSELLING ROMANTASY PHENOMENON! ​Praise for Powerless: 'Nothing short of epic' Rosie Talbot, bestselling author of Sixteen Souls ... Read more

'Her best book yet' – Harlan Coben, author of Fool Me OnceThe million-copy bestselling Queen of Twists, Alice Feeney, returns with a gripping and deliciously dark thriller about marriage . . ... Read more

'Her best book yet' – Harlan Coben, author of Fool Me OnceThe million-copy bestselling Queen of Twists, Alice Feeney, returns with a gripping and deliciously dark thriller about marriage . . ... Read more

#1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly introduces a new cop relentlessly following his mission in the seemingly idyllic setting of Catalina island.Los Angeles County Sheriff's Detect... Read more

Every grave has a story ... The much-anticipated new novel in the Cormac Reilly series, from the no.1 bestselling author of The Ruin and What Happened to Nina.Shortlisted for General Fiction Book o... Read more

Lyrebirds were mimics. They didn't create the sounds they made, only repeated what they had heard. Had the bird actually listened to some poor woman begging for her life? Jessica looked around unea... Read more

They Messed with the Wrong WomenBest mates Teddy and Alice are hired hands with flexible moral boundaries. Whatever the mess, they can be relied upon to fix it with no questions asked. But sometime... Read more

FROM THE GLOBALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRINGVenice, 1486. Across the lagoon lies Murano. Time flows differently here – like the glass the island's maestros spend their live... Read more

Charlie Matters' life has always been a fight for survival. Orphaned with no prospects, Charlie steals what he needs, living day-to-day until he can enlist in the battle against the Germans. He mir... Read more

From the intriguing Echo Lake, Rose McHugh, curious historian-turned-detective, returns to solve her next compelling mystery in the moody Southern Highlands.A missing violinist. A rising flood. A r... Read more

Jam is sweet but it can also burn.Tasmania, 1874. Growing up in the impoverished tenements along the Hobart Rivulet, Harriet Brown is used to doing whatever it takes to survive. Including, at just ... Read more

One ordinary extraordinary woman living through a century of massive change, from the bestselling author of The Family Doctor.Meet Betty: storyteller, feminist, eternally curious and phenomenally o... Read more

A razor-sharp, mind-bendingly clever whodunnit from award-winning playwright and actor, Toby Schmitz.Everyone is in peril. Everyone is a suspect.It's 1925 and the Empress of Australia is making her... Read more

Alfie's mum, Emilia, has been lying to him forever.It's only ever been the two of them in Ireland, but when Emilia's appendix explodes, she drops a second bombshell: she has a family back in Austra... Read more

Prince of spin and life of the party, Baz King, is dead. Ten years ago, at an innocent summer barbecue in Melbourne, everything imploded. For the Kings and the four other young families there that ... Read more

An engrossing and provocative exploration of privilege, hypocrisy and justice by the bestselling author of The Cane.Leah has a good life. She lives on The Drove, an inner-city cul-de-sac, with her ... Read more

QVB FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTHBOOKTOPIA BOOK OF THE MONTHAs the long summer holiday stretches ahead, with her older sister more interested in boys, her mother disappearing on long walks and her fath... Read more

Meet Fleck Parker: Mother, Crafter and Amateur Detective.Fleck loves a good puzzle. She spends most of her time feeling invisible, caring for three small children and that's fine, really. But it do... Read more

One ordinary extraordinary woman living through a century of massive change, from the bestselling author of The Family Doctor.Meet Betty: storyteller, feminist, eternally curious and phenomenally o... Read more

From the intriguing Echo Lake, Rose McHugh, curious historian-turned-detective, returns to solve her next compelling mystery in the moody Southern Highlands.After nearly being murdered last year, R... Read more

Love, friendship and dangerous secrets in the early years of Cadbury's Tasmanian factory.It's 1921, and after years of working for Cadbury's at Bournville, Dorothy Adwell is on her way to a new adv... Read more

From the bestselling author of How to Kill a Client comes a page-turning rural thriller of loyalties and lies, murder and greed.People like Dash didn't die. He was only what? Mid-thirties? Well off... Read more

SHORTLISTED FOR AGE BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN AWARDAmy, Jin and Lucie are leading isolated lives in their partially renovated, inner city home. They are not happy, but they ... Read more

WINNER OF THE STELLA PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN AWARD86, and 'beautiful, radical ideas' are in the air. A young woman arrives in Melbourne to research the novels of Virginia Woolf. In b... Read more

Lyrebirds are brilliant mimics, so if they mimic a woman screaming in terror and begging for her life, they have witnessed a crime. But how does a young, hung over PHD student and a wet behind the ... Read more

An unputdownable Australian thriller from the bestselling author of Black River.A late-night phone call is never good news for Homicide Detective Sergeant Rose Riley. This time she's being sent up ... Read more

The first of a funny, fast-paced, Regency-set duet from Julia Quinn, the bestselling author of the global phenomenon BridgertonWhen Caroline Trent is kidnapped by Blake Ravenscroft, she doesn't eve... Read more

It was as if the present and the past were linked: a spider's web, wherein a shock to one strand could make the whole structure shake. The Kelly family's idyllic holiday in the south of France is d... Read more

From the bestselling author of How to Kill a Client comes a page-turning rural thriller of loyalties and lies, murder and greed.People like Dash didn't die. He was only what? Mid-thirties? Well off... Read more

An engrossing and provocative exploration of privilege, hypocrisy and justice by the bestselling author of The Cane.Leah has a good life. She lives on The Drove, an inner-city cul-de-sac, with her ... Read more

A woman's midlife reinvention and a beach village of eccentric Aussies collide with stupendous results in this witty, razor-sharp and immensely enjoyable debut from author Catherine Greer.Audrey Sw... Read more