The Literary Lookbook for January-May 2025 is live! This is a comprehensive but not exhaustive collection of 584 upcoming 2025 releases curated by @kellyhook.readsbooks and @thoughtsfromapage. The Lookbook includes titles releasing January-May 2025 from a variety of genres and features cover designs organized by publication date. Click on this link to purchase it.

Kelly Hooker - Our Favorite Books of January - March 2024

Kelly Hooker - Our Favorite Books of January - March 2024

In this episode, Kelly and I chat about our favorite books that published in January through March 2024.

Our shared top reads:

  1. First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston
  2. The Turtle House by Amanda Churchill


Kelly’s remaining top reads:

  1. Mercury by Amy Jo Burns
  2. Everyone But Myself by Julie Chavez
  3. Drinker of Ink by Shannon Castelon
  4. Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame by Oliva Ford 
  5. Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra
  6. Women of Good Fortune by Sophie Wan
  7. James by Percival Everett
  8. How To Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin


Cindy’s remaining top reads:

  1. Family, Family by Laurie Frankel
  2. Dixon, Descending by Karen Outen
  3. Everyone On This Train Is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson
  4. Whiskey Tender by Deborah Jackson Taffa
  5. Becoming Madam Secretary by Stephanie Perkins
  6. The Hunter by Tana French
  7. What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan
  8. The Underground Library by Jennifer Ryan


Want to know which new titles are publishing in May - October of 2024? Check out our second Literary Lookbook which contains a comprehensive but not exhaustive list all in one place so you can plan ahead.

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Kelly is an avid reader, reviewer and bookstagrammer. She works part-time as a speech pathologist in Michigan. She has two toddler boys and firmly believes that nap time is for novels. She is an audiobook enthusiast and loves hosting book club reads and author events. She creates seasonal reading guides to help readers pick up the right book at the right time.