7 New & Notable Books Coming in December 2025

Updated and rereleased, House of Day, House of Night follows an unnamed narrator as she moves with her husband to a remote village in Southwest Poland. 

Longing to understand where she lives and how she might belong, she works to uncover the hidden stories of everyone and everything surrounding her. 

In a series of interconnected stories—from the town's founding to the lives of the people who currently reside there—she learns that the village has more than a history: it’s a cosmology.

Despite working for a wellness company, Cricket Campbell is not well. She’s barely recovered from a tragedy that tore apart her world ten years ago, and now she faces a new bomb in the form of her father’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis. 

She moves back home to take care of him, hoping that they can repair not only their relationship but that this change might finally jolt her out of the inertia her life has fallen into. But even though her father is losing the past, more and more, he can predict the future. 

The problem is, for his predictions to help Cricket, she has to face the most painful parts of her history. As her father forgets who he was, Cricket starts to remember. And it changes everything.

On the brink of her fiftieth birthday, Moira Allyson is forced to admit that her life didn’t turn out the way she once hoped. Her husband is dead, her two sons are away, and while she’s financially stable, there’s no denying that she is also incredibly lonely. 

When she invites her four closest friends to spend the weekend in her opulent waterfront mansion, she envisions a perfect getaway weekend among friends. But each woman brings her own struggles. All of them came prepared to keep up appearances. None of them expected that their enduring friendship might just be the thing that heals them.

David Trent wants nothing more than to write a successful novel. Living above a Very Famous Author doesn’t help. Especially because Silas Hale refuses to even make eye contact with David. 

But when David wins a prestigious award, everything changes. Suddenly, Silas notices David. Before he can decide whether that’s a good thing, the award administrator brings David an alarming update. 

Now, faced with nothing but desperate options, David is surprised once again when fate intervenes. But no one can predict the consequences.

As social media and streaming change the culture of Hollywood, three people struggle to find their footing in this new landscape. An aging, A-list celebrity wants to go out with a bang. 

So, he decides to hold a lottery, giving away his entire megamillion-dollar salary to one lucky fan, and move in with a much younger model. His best friend and sometimes lover watches him undo his career as she ponders their twenty-year-long, unlikely relationship. 

Meanwhile, an aspiring filmmaker who doesn’t know either of them works on a script about best friends and lovers that he hopes will make enough money so that he can be free to make great art.

In 1814, two explorers went into the jungles of Brazil. Three years later, they emerged with two indigenous children, Iñe-e and Juri. No one blinked an eye at the kidnapping. 

It was common practice to obtain “living specimens” for the sake of science. The children didn’t survive long after arriving in Europe. Many know the explorers' accounts. Now, it’s time for Iñe-e and Juri to tell theirs. 

Felicity Wild was once a promising graduate student who turned her back on her education to become a high-priced escort. Someone like that can’t be trusted. That’s what the prosecution says when she is convicted of a double murder. 

Despite maintaining her innocence, she said not a word in her defense. A fact that journalist Reenie Bigelow can’t let go of. She knew Felicity when they were younger, and while people can change, Reenie’s instinct tells her to dive deeper. 

The more she digs, the more she believes the prosecution got the story wrong. It’s obvious Felicity is hiding the truth. The only questions are who she is protecting and why.