New Book Releases: November 4, 2025
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Armstrong, Jess: The Devil in Oxford (St. Martin’s/Minotaur 978-1250374653, $28.00, 336pp, formats: hardcover, paperback, ebook, audiobook, 11/04/2025)
Historical mystery novel with fantasy elements, third in the Ruby Vaughn series. Ruby and her elderly employer Mr. Owen attend an exhibition of artifacts collected by disgraced — and now, dead — scholar Julius Harker. Simultaneous with the UK Allison & Busby edition.
Ashing-Giwa, Kemi: The King Must Die (Simon & Schuster/Saga Press 978-1668061015, $20.00, 496pp, formats: paperback, ebook, audiobook, 11/04/2025)
Science fantasy novel. On a planet in collapse after terraforming fails, mercenary bodyguard Fen escapes execution at the hands of the tyrannical Sovereign, and joins insurgents aided by the Sovereign’s brutal son.
Bova, Ben & Johnson, Les: Pluto (Tor 978-1250296658, $32.99, 288pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, 11/04/2025)
SF novel, final in the Outer Planets trilogy, and 28th in the Ground Tour series. Major Randall travels to Pluto, where Dr. Aaron Mikelson — once human, now fused to AI — has detected a mysterious alien artifact.
Braithwaite, Oyinkan: Cursed Daughters (Penguin Random House/Doubleday 978-0385551472, $28.00, 384pp, formats: hardcover, paperback, ebook, audiobook, 11/04/2025)
Fantasy/magical realism novel. Eniiyi was born on the day her cousin, Monife, died. Her family believes her to be Monife reincarnated (and cursed), and she seeks spiritual answers in the old, dark parts of Lagos.
Cook, Glen: Lies Weeping (Tor 978-1250397997, $29.99, 384pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 11/04/2025)
Fantasy novel, 12th in the Chronicles of the Black Company series, and volume one in a new story arc, A Pitiless Rain. The Black Company retreats to Hsien in the Land of Unknown Shadows, but uncanny occurrences lead them to mysteries.
Costa, Sheldon: The Great Work (Quirk Books 978-1683695059, $18.99, 336pp, formats: paperback, ebook, audiobook, 11/04/2025)
Fantasy novel. Gentle Montgomery and his nephew brave the Pacific Northwest wilderness to find a giant, madness-inducing salamander, pursued by bloodthirsty enemies also intent on finding the powerful creature. A first novel.
Dennard, Susan: Witchlight (Tor Teen 978-1250194176, $21.99, 464pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 11/04/2025)
Young-adult fantasy novel, fifth and final in the Witchlands series. Safi and Iseult must journey far and call on every ally to heal the final Origin Well, before the Raider King can destroy their chances. Simultaneous with the Tor UK edition.
DeRose, Kim: Hear Her Howl (Hachette/Union Square & Co. 978-1454960645, $19.99, 352pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 11/04/2025)
Young-adult fantasy romance novel. Rue, sent to Catholic boarding school when she’s caught kissing a girl, falls for the school’s outcast Charlotte, who claims all women can become werewolves if they unleash their true selves. A first novel.
Elliott, Kate: The Nameless Land (Tor 978-1250338648, $32.99, 416pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 11/04/2025)
Fantasy novel, second in The Witch Roads duology. The royal party has ended up in a new world, and Prince Gevulin’s diplomacy skills are put to the test while Elen mourns her lost love and childhood.
Ester, R.T.: The Ganymedan (Rebellion/Solaris UK 978-1837863365, $16.99, 432pp, formats: paperback, ebook, audiobook, 11/04/2025)
SF novel. Verden Dotnet (V-Dot) is a mixologist for the tyrannical creator of the galaxy’s sentient tech, until he murders his employer and flees on an old ship. The ship starts to suspect something is amiss. International edition with US and UK prices.
Foody, Amanda & Herman, C.L.: A Fate So Cold (Tor Teen 978-1250873156, $21.99, 432pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 11/04/2025)
Young-adult fantasy novel, the first in a duology. In a land where Summer magicians fend off a deadly winter, mage Domenic is chosen by a particularly powerful Summer wand, while Ellery accidentally creates the first Winter wand. Simultaneous with the UK Gollancz edition.
Gabel, Aja: Lightbreakers (Penguin Random House/Riverhead 978-0593329702, $30.00, 352pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 11/04/2025)
SF novel. Maya, an artist, grapples with her astrophysicist husband’s latest project: dangerous time-travel experiments that could give him a chance to see his deceased four-year-old daughter from a previous marriage.
Geissinger, J.T.: Blackthorn (Macmillan/Tor Bramble UK 978-1250379139, $32.99, 368pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 11/06/2025)
Dark fantasy gothic romance. Maven returns home for her grandmother’s funeral, but the body has vanished. Prime suspects are the Crofts, the family that has feuded against Maven’s forever, and whose scion Maven has a secret passion for.
Girma, Tigest: Eternal Ruin (Little, Brown 978-0316570411, $21.99, 544pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 11/04/2025)
Dark fantasy romance novel, second in the Immortal Dark trilogy. Kidan, after embracing violence and letting vampires into Uxlay University, tries to master her domain with a dangerous new book.
Greathouse, J.T.: The Tower of the Tyrant (JAB Books 978-1625678034, $25.99, 488pp, formats: paperback, ebook, 11/06/2025)
Dark fantasy novel. Fola, whose powers lay at the boundary of the living and wraiths, is cast out of the City of the Wise and tries to help the cursed realm of Parwys. Simultaneous with the Orion UK/Gollancz edition.
Hall, Sarah: Helm (HarperCollins/Mariner 978-0063439948, $30.00, 368pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 11/04/2025)
Literary fantasy novel. From the Neolithic to the Victorians to a scientist in the present day, the people of Northern England have been fascinated by the godlike wind entity Helm. First US edition (published by Faber & Faber in August 2025).
Hamilton, Amber: Seven Deadly Thorns (Bloomsbury USA 978-1547616596, $24.99, 400pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 11/04/2025)
Fantasy romance novel. Academy student Viola reveals herself to possess forbidden magic; the Queen sends Roze, an assassin, to hunter her down, and he has seven days to do so before the queen’s curse kills him instead. A first novel.
Hawkins, Finbar: Ghost (Bloomsbury UK/Head of Zeus/Zephyr 978-1837933051, $10.79, 240pp, formats: ebook, 11/06/2025)
Young-adult fantasy novel. A supernatural force in a British cave weaves through the lives of Aine, a slave girl in Roman times, 18th-century witch Sarah, and present-day college dropout Marie.
Henry, Christina: The Place Where They Buried Your Heart (Penguin Random House/Berkley 978-0593953952, $30.00, 320pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 11/04/2025)
Supernatural horror novel. As a child, Jessie dared her brother to go into their street’s haunted house, and he disappeared afterward, with friends saying it “ate him.” As an adult, she lives on the same street, fearing its evils will return. Simultaneous with the Titan Books UK edition.
Hightower, Laurel: The Long, Low Whistle (Shortwave 978-1959565666, $17.99, 220pp, formats: paperback, ebook, 11/04/2025)
Horror novel, seventh in the publisher’s Killer VHS series. Bent on finding the truth behind her dad’s unexplained death, Patricia breaks into mausoleums and falls in with a group of local cryptid hunters exploring local tunnels.
Jacka, Benedict: A Judgment of Powers (Ace 978-0593956106, $19.00, 352pp, formats: paperback, ebook, audiobook, 11/04/2025)
Contemporary fantasy novel, third in the Inheritance of Magic series. Stephen is trying to find his father and practice magic, but the mysterious Winged group is trying to recruit him, and the magical world’s corporations are struggling with one another.
Joyce, Samantha: Not Today, Satan (Entangled Teen 978-1649378767, $14.99, 400pp, formats: paperback, ebook, audiobook, 11/04/2025)
Young-adult fantasy romance novel. The Devil’s daughter, fed up with her boring life as princess of Hell, risks everything to help Nathan, a wrongly-condemned boy.
Kelly, Michael, ed.: Best Weird Fiction of the Year (Undertow 978-1988964522, $20.99, 330pp, formats: paperback, ebook, 10/23/2025)
Collection of weird fiction published in 2024. Authors include Kay Chronister, Thomas Ha, Rachael K. Jones, Uchechukwu Nwaka, Natalia Theodoridou, and more.
Kristoff, Jay: Empire of the Dawn (St. Martin’s 978-1250245373, $35.00, 800pp, formats: hardcover, paperback, ebook, audiobook, 11/04/2025)
Horror fantasy novel, third and final in the Empire of the Vampire series. Gabriel de León has lost everything but a desire for vengeance and sets out to kill the Forever King in the battle-torn Augustin Empire. Simultaneous with the Harper Voyager UK edition.
Lacelle, Pascale: Stranger Skies (Simon & Schuster/McElderry 978-1665939300, $21.99, 608pp, formats: hardcover, paperback, ebook, audiobook, 11/05/2025)
Reprint young-adult fantasy novel, second in the Drowned Gods trilogy after Curious Tides. After following a door that appeared in their dreams, Emory and Romie find themselves in a new, green world from a book they’ve read. First printing McElderry 2024.
Logan, James: The Blackfire Blade (Tor 978-1250350657, $19.99, 496pp, formats: paperback, ebook, audiobook, 11/04/2025)
Fantasy novel, second in the Last Legacy series. Lukan seeks a secret that his father left in the bank of Korslakov, alchemical city of spires — but a thief steals the key. This is a pen name for Orbit UK editor James Long. A first novel. Simultaneous with the Quercus UK/Arcadia edition.
Lueddecke, Lisa: The Moss (Simon & Schuster 978-1916747296, $16.21, 330pp, formats: paperback, ebook, audiobook, 11/07/2025)
Horror novel. Seventeen-year-old Emma, reeling after the disappearance of her sister, returns home to Maine and the family farmhouse next to a shadowy, haunted bog called the Moss. Previously published in September by Simon and Schuster Young Readers.
Mitchell, Emily: The Church of Divine Electricity (University of Wisconsin Press 978-0299354343, $17.95, 168pp, formats: paperback, ebook, 11/04/2025)
Collection of nine literary speculative stories. Themes of technology and humankind’s relationship to machines weave throughout stories of micro-drones that constantly record, bionic hands, and more.
Mulford, A.K.: A Heart of Crimson Flames (Harper Voyager US 978-0063291539, $30.00, 320pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 11/04/2025)
Fantasy romance novel, third and final in The Golden Court trilogy. As war rages between humans and Wolves, Marriel is imprisoned and unsure if she can trust her former lover Maez, now a dark sorceress, to free her.
Pratchett, Rhianna: Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch (Penguin Random House UK/Penguin UK 978-0241651995, $35.50, 208pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 11/09/2025)
Illustrated guide to being a witch in Discworld. The character Tiffany Aching compiles notes from other witches and one of the Wee Free Men. Illustrated by Paul Kidby. First UK edition; was published by Clarion in September 2025.
Presby, Joelle: Ringer (Baen 978-1668072974, $17.99, 304pp, formats: paperback, ebook, 11/04/2025)
SF novel, first in the Sadou’s Rings series and part of the Dabare Snake Launcher universe. Calypso Sadou, heir to a powerful family that influenced humanity’s expansion into space, is left alone to manage affairs on a Saturn ring station.
Ravn, Olga: The Wax Child (Penguin Random House UK/Viking UK 978-0811238830, $19.95, 176pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, 09/30/2025)
Horror novel. In 17th-century Denmark, Christenze, an unwed noblewoman is accused of being possessed by the Devil and faces burning at the stake; the story is told by a wax doll she has created. Translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken.
Reid, Kalie: The Sacred Space Between (Little, Brown 978-0316596138, $19.99, 432pp, formats: paperback, ebook, audiobook, 11/04/2025)
Gothic romantic fantasy novel. In a land controlled by a totalitarian Abbey, iconographer Maeve sent to paint Jude, a saint exiled to the moors for his dangerous magic. Simultaneous with the Harper Voyager UK edition.
Rushdie, Salman: The Eleventh Hour (Penguin Random House/Random House 979-8217154197, $29.00, 272pp, formats: hardcover, paperback, ebook, audiobook, 11/04/2025)
Collection of five stories with speculative elements. In locales from Mumbai to Cambridge, weird happenings occur: a musical prodigy uses her magic to punish her wealthy in-laws, a writer wonders if his mentor faked his death, and a ghost compels a lonely uni student to avenge him. Simultaneous with the PRH UK/Jonathan Cape edition.
Scheuerer, Helen: Silver & Smoke (Macmillan/Tor Bramble UK 978-1922903303, $27.99, 502pp, formats: hardcover, paperback, ebook, audiobook, 11/06/2025)
Epic fantasy romance novel, third in the Ashes of Thezmarr series. Wren is betrothed to Darian in an alliance to help save the kingdom from alchemist-usurper Silas, but her heart belongs to the Warsword Torj.
Schwabauer, Daniel: Maxine Justice: Public Offender (Enclave 979-8886052381, $26.99, 256pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 11/04/2025)
Near-future SF novel, second in the Maxine Justice series. Broke again, Maxine returns to night court as a public defender — for a Therapod murder suspect involved in the corrupt corporate-robotics industry.
Smith, Lyssa Mia: Gilded in Vengeance (HarperCollins/Storytide 978-0063239623, $19.99, 384pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 11/04/2025)
Young-adult fantasy novel. Emmy and Jack, both framed and imprisoned, vow to escape and reinvent themselves to get revenge on New York’s Society of the Charmed.
Stewart, Andrea: The War Beyond (Orbit US 978-0316564830, $30.00, 512pp, formats: hardcover, paperback, ebook, audiobook, 11/04/2025)
Fantasy novel, second in the Hollow Covenant series. Hakara has saved her sister Rasha, but Rasha is now a godkiller and serving the tyrannical deity Kluehnn. Simultaneous with the Orbit UK edition.
Takács, Bogi: Song of Spores (Broken Eye Books 978-1940372754, $20.99, 216pp, formats: paperback, 11/04/2025)
Weird space opera novel. A trio of eccentric operatives on a sentient spaceship seek out infiltrators in Alliance-held space, where there may be a giant space fungus. Originally published as a serial on the publisher’s Patreon.
Trent, Brian: Perdition’s Storm (Baen 978-1668072967, $17.99, 304pp, formats: paperback, ebook, 11/04/2025)
Zombie horror novel, 16th in John Ringo’s Black Tide Rising series. Mafia hit man Silvio has to protect his loved ones and organize survivors when the H7D3 zombie virus comes to Italy.
Verma, Aparna: The Burning Queen (Orbit US 978-0316523028, $19.99, 496pp, formats: paperback, ebook, audiobook, 11/04/2025)
Fantasy novel, the second in the Ravence trilogy. With the kingdom of Ravence fallen, Elena faces off against a new ruler rising amidst the destruction.
Weber, David, ed.: Worlds of Honor #8: Challenges (Baen 978-1668072950, $30.00, 272pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, 11/04/2025)
Original anthology of science fiction stories, the eighth anthology in the Worlds of Honor series in the Honor Harrington universe. These stories depict events early in the history of the Star Kingdom of Manticore. Authors include David Weber, Marisa Wolf, Dan Butler, and Jane Lindskold.
White, Karen: The Lady on Esplanade (Penguin Random House/Berkley 978-0593549490, $30.00, 416pp, formats: hardcover, paperback, ebook, audiobook, 11/04/2025)
Paranormal mystery novel, third in the Royal Street series, a spin-off from the Tradd Street series. Louisiana woman Nola teams up with a psychic house-flipper to renovate on old home where a woman was murdered and a family disappeared.
Williams, Cristin: The Whisper of Stars (Orion UK/Gollancz 978-1399621342, £20.00, 448pp, formats: paperback, 11/06/2025)
Alternate history novel. In Bolshevik Russia, anarchist poet Katya is imprisoned on Solovetsky Island, but finds a bloodstained book with a cipher from her deceased mother. Publisher notes that shipping to US may be delayed. A first novel.
Wilson, Lorraine: The Salt Oracle (Rebellion/Solaris UK 978-1837865741, £18.99, 400pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 11/06/2025)
SF novel. In a world after the Internet crashed, Auli lives in the floating Bellweather college with a girl known as the Oracle, who communes with ghosts and the past.
Young, Adrienne: Fallen City (St. Martin’s/Saturday Books 978-1250794192, $32.00, 416pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 11/04/2025)
Young-adult fantasy novel, first in the Fallen City duology. In Isara, a city inspired by ancient Rome, novice priestess Maris and patrician heir Luca find themselves first allies, then on opposite sides of a holy war. Simultaneous with the Titan Books UK edition.
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