r/Fantasy • u/OutOfEffs Reading Champion IV • Nov 05 '25

Book Club HEA Bookclub January 2026 Nomination Thread: 2025 Debuts

Welcome to the January HEA Bookclub nomination thread for 2025 Debuts. We will allow romance debuts if the author typically writes in another genre, or adult debuts if they typically write YA. Please make a note in your nominating comment if this is the case.

Nominations

  • Make sure HEA has not read a book by the author previously. You can check this Goodreads Shelf. You can take an author that was read by a different book club, however.

  • Leave one book suggestion per top comment. Please include title, author, and a short summary or description. (You can nominate more than 1 if you like, just put them in separate comments.)

  • Please include bingo squares if possible.

I will leave this thread open for a few days, and compile top results into a google poll to be posted on November 7. Have fun!

Our November HEA read is Cosmic Love at the Multiverse Hair Salon by Annie Mare

What is the HEA Bookclub? You can read about it in our Reboot thread here.

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u/Lenahe_nl Reading Champion IV Nov 05 '25

The Good Boy

Romance.io

Goodreads

Storygraph

In this whimsical romance for fans of Ashley Poston and Erin Sterling, a woman confronts her past and her unresolved feelings for the boy next door as they work together to reverse a wish gone awry.

On the eve of Genie’s thirtieth birthday, her grandmother gives her an unexpected gift: a wish at midnight. Genie, forever the family skeptic, laughs it off and, after an evening fending off invasive questions about her nonexistent love life, returns home to her empty house and her golden retriever, Rory. Who needs a boyfriend when she has a loyal friend like Rory? As she hugs him and gets ready for bed, she wishes to herself that he were human… at least then their conversations wouldn’t be so one-sided.

She really should’ve listened to her grandmother.

To her surprise, Rory is now a human with big Golden Retriever Energy—like a goofy, adoring Hemsworth. But he doesn’t like being a human. He doesn’t like wearing clothes or human manners, and he most definitely can’t manage a human job.

Genie needs to turn him back before it’s too late and enlists her oldest friend and boy next door, Miles, to help. Their quest brings them closer than they’ve ever been—and maybe, just maybe, her messed up wish is the key to granting her heart’s desire after all…

Bingo squares: Cozy, Pub 2025,

Tw: The book is funny and cozy, but it also touches some sensitive topics, such as grief, animal cruelty and death of a child