This email is a list of all the new science fiction, fantasy, and other genre books coming out in December 2025. We hope you find your next favorite read!
Whether you prefer epic political battles, haunting dark academia, or folkloric time travel, here's your choice of all the new fantasy books of December 2025!
There's only four science fiction books coming out in December... so between This Brutal Moon, Artificial Truth, Sunset at Zero Point, and Intergalactic Waste Management, LLC, which are you reading?
Kamilah Cole's long-awaited step into dark academia adult fiction finally comes out December 30th! You may already know her work from So Let Them Burn, and we're intrigued by a dark academia tale that teases a science fiction (??) twist...
NONFICTION
This Year
JOHN DARNIELLE
Okay, so it's not technically SFF...but in our defense, the guy behind The Mountain Goats is no stranger to horror fiction. This Year is a collection of 365 song lyrics paired with personal reflections and odes to authorial inspirations.
You can expect to journey with Avatar Roku, descend into the Underworld, and unearth the romance between A Study in Drowning's Effy and Preston with all the new young adult fantasy books this month!
Has anyone convinced you to pick up The Kindom Trilogy yet?? These Burning Stars quickly became an in-house favorite, and the space opera's series finale lands this month. Together, we can make this the first book to sell one gazillion copies.
ROMANTASY
Something Wicked
FALON BALLARD
What a great time for big, sexy, CAMPY romantasy! The synopsis for Something Wicked is a bit, well...risqué. We won't spoil it for you, but we love a big swing, especially paired with a gorgeous cover.
Cursed lighthouse keepers. Immortal bargains. And of course, new Brandon Sanderson! Our final new release list of the year covers all the SFF crossover books coming out in December 2025!
Justine Champine's new thriller follows a girl obsessed with her cool, older cousin, even when that fascination starts to run up against lurking suspicions...
HORROR
Dark Sisters
KRISTI DEMEESTER
Three women across three generations. A gothic curse. A preacher's daughter. Witchcraft!! Kristi DeMeester's Dark Sisters promises to be a perfectly unsettling horror novel to read by the fire.
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