Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted here to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they're books that have yet to be released. Find out more here.
To kick off the new year in style, here is everything I'm waiting on, begging for, and eagerly anticipating - with the caveat that I'm sure to add more as I find them
January
Lightfall by Ed Crocker
St. Martin's Press | Fantasy - Epic | January 14, 2025
Sadly, this was a DNF - too many unnecessary POVs and too much info-dumping made for a slow, boring read.
All for Her: Forbidden Romance Novellas by Gun Brooke, J. J. Hale, and Aurora Rey
Bold Strokes Books | Romance - LGBT | January 14, 2025
Seducing the Widow by Jane Walsh
Bold Strokes Books | Romance - LGBT | January 14, 2025
Tarnished by Erica Rose Eberhart
Creative James Media | Fantasy - Romantic| January 21, 2025
February
Chasers by Mariah Darling & Eve Harms
Unnerving | Horror - LGBT | February 11, 2025
Sanctum of the Soul by Kel Kade
Tor Books | Fantasy - Epic | February 11, 2025
Wooing the Witch Queen by Stephanie Burgis
Bramble| Fantasy - Romance | February 18, 2025
Greenteeth by Molly O'Neill
Orbit | Fantasy - Romance | February 25, 2025
March
The Warbler by Sarah Beth Durst
Lake Union Publishing | Fantasy | March 1, 2025
Emberclaw by L. R. Lam
DAW Books | Fantasy - Epic | March 4, 2025
Idolfire by Grace Curtis
DAW Books | Fantasy - Romance | March 11, 2025
Exquisite Ruin by Adrianne May
Gallery Books | Fantasy - Romance | March 25, 2025
April
A/S/L by Jeanne Thornton
Soho Press | LGBT - Transgender | April 1, 2025
Direct Descendant by Tanya Huff
DAW Books | Horror - Cozy | April 1, 2025
May
Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame by Neon Yang
Tordotcom | Fantasy - Epic | May 6, 2025
Daughter of Tides by Kit Rocha
Montlake| Fantasy - Romance | May 6, 2025
The Vengeance by Emma Newman
Solaris| Fantasy - Action & Adventure| May 6, 2025
Anji Kills a King by Evan Leikam
Tor Books| Fantasy - Epic | May 13, 2025
To Please Her by Elena Abbott
Bold Strokes Books | Romance - LGBT | May 13, 2025
Written on the Dark by Guy Gavriel Kay
Ace Books| Fantasy - Historical | May 27, 2025
Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity by Lee Mandelo
Erewhon Books| Fantasy - LGBT | May 27, 2025
Deliverance of Dragons by Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory
Tor Books| Fantasy - Epic | May 27, 2025
Another DNF for me - flat characters, way more tell than show, poor pacing, and so little emotion.
June
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
Tor Books| Fantasy - Epic | June 10, 2025
If I Told You, I'd Have to Kiss You by Mae Marvel
St. Martin's Griffin| Romance - LGBT | June 10, 2025
Six Wild Crowns by Holly Race
Orbit | Fantasy - Historical | June 10, 2025
A Rare Find by Joanna Lowell
Berkley Books| Romance - Historical | June 10, 2025
I Think I'm in Love with an Alien by Ann Aguirre
Sourcebooks Casablanca| Romance - Science Fiction| June 17, 2025
The Mercy Makers by Tessa Gratton
Orbit | Fantasy - Epic | June 17, 2025
The Last Vigilant by Mark A. Latham
Orbit | Fantasy - Epic | June 24, 2025
The Secret Romantic's Book of Magic edited by Marie O'Regan & Paul Kane
Titan Books | Fantasy - Romance| June 24, 2025
July
Human Rites by Juno Dawson
Penguin| Fantasy - Contemporary | July 1, 2025
Hot Girls with Balls by Benedict Nguyễn
Catapult | LGBT - Transgender | July 1, 2025
The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst
Bramble| Fantasy - Romance | July 15, 2025
A Shift of Time by Julie E. Czerneda
DAW Books | Fantasy - Epic | July 22, 2025
August
Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin
Tor Nightfire | Horror - LGBT | Aug 5, 2025
Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders
Tor Books | Fantasy - Contemporary | Aug 19, 2025
By The Numbers
7 titles from Tor Books
4 titles from DAW Books
4 titles from Bold Strokes Books
4 titles from Orbit
2 titles from Bramble
2 titles from St. Martin's
28 women authors
7 male authors
6 non-binary/trans authors
23 titles with queer representation
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