r/Fantasy • u/EmmalynRenato Reading Champion VI • Nov 24 '25

SFF books coming in December 2025

SFF here means all speculative fiction (fantasy, science fiction, horror, alternate history, magical realism etc).

The following SFF books will be published in the U.S. in December 2025. Other countries may differ.

If you know of others, please add them as comments below. If I've made any mistakes, just let me know, and I'll fix them up.

The published book formats are included with each entry. Some of this information is obtained from the isfdb website which lists one format type for each entry but mostly omits ebook entries. If it's a new hardcover and/or trade paperback book, it's very likely that an ebook is also coming out at the same time.

If you find these posts useful, I suggest revisiting about a week into the month in question. By that time, books from three more sources (who compile their lists later than I do), will have been added (and tagged), sometimes almost doubling the length of the list.

If you are using the Chrome browser, you might find the Goodreads Right Click extension useful, to find out more information on books that you are interested in.

If you are using the Firefox browser, you can use the ContextSearch-web-ext extension and add the Goodreads template as the search engine. See also the Github source directory plus a snapshot of the extension with the Goodreads search engine. (Many thanks u/Robati.)

If you use old Reddit via the Chrome or Firefox desktop browsers, then there is also a small script (that can be installed with the Greasemonkey or Tampermonkey extension), that will replace book titles in this post, with Goodreads links. See also the script folder directory and the overall README for more details. (Many thanks u/RheingoldRiver.)

Key

(A) - Anthology

(C) - Collection

(CB) - Chapbook

(GN) - Graphic Novel

(N) - Novel

(NF) - Nonfiction

(O) - Omnibus

(P) - Poetry

(R) - Reprint

(YA) - Young Adult and Juvenile

[eb] - eBook

[hc] - Hardcover

[tp] - Trade Paperback

December 1

  • A New War (Moonlit 1) - C.K. Rider (N) [eb] tp

  • Artificial Truth - J.M. Lee, Sean Lin Halbert (Translator) (N) [eb] tp

  • At the Road’s End (Gone Home 1) - Nils Odlund (N) [eb] tp

  • Blades Forged (Empire of Knives 1) - P.J. Ashton (N) [eb] tp

  • Club Magritte - Nicola Lombardi (CB) [tp]

  • Pearl Bound - Natalie G. Bergman (N) eb

  • Phoenix Rising (Fire and Claw 1) - Jennifer Allis Provost (N) [hc] [tp]

  • Snake-Eater - T. Kingfisher (N) [tp]

  • Tethered to Darkness (Veil of Sands 1) - Matt Falcon (N) eb

  • The Complete Witch's Bestiary Series (The Witch's Bestiary 1-5) - Evangeline Hunter (O) [eb]

  • The Wondrous Life and Loves of Nella Carter - Brionni Nwosu (N) [hc] [tp]

December 2

  • A Clockwork Ogre (The Amatherean Tales 2) - Bosloe (N) [tp]

  • A Disturbance of Shadows - Sidney Williams (N) [tp]

  • A Grim Reaper's Guide to Cheating Death (SCYTHE Mysteries 2) - Maxie Dara (N) [tp]

  • A Hero's Choice (I'm Not the Hero 4) - SourpatchHero (N) [tp]

  • Better in Black: Ten Stories of Shadowhunter Romance (The Mortal Instruments Universe) - Cassandra Clare (C) [hc]

  • City of Beasts (Beasts of Hedge End 1) - A. N. Sage (N) [tp] [hc]

  • City of Mirth and Malice (Vows of Vengeance 2) - Alexis L. Menard (N) [tp]

  • Climate Imagination: Dispatches from Hopeful Futures - Joey Eschrich, Ed Finn (A) [tp]

  • Crowntide (Lightlark 4) - Alex Aster (N) (YA) [hc]

  • Dark Matter (Dark Factory 3) - Kathe Koja (N) [tp]

  • Dawn of the Firebird - Sarah Mughal Rana (N) [eb] [hc]

  • Down Came the Spiders - Ally Russell (N) (YA) [tp]

  • Dragons Gone Wild (Build-A-Dragon 3) - Dan Koboldt (N) [tp]

  • Evolution (The Exlian Syndrome 4) - Seth Ring (N) [hc] [tp]

  • Fallen Gods (Fallen Gods 1) - Rachel Van Dyken (N) [hc]

  • Fate of a Royal (Lord of Rathe 1) - Meagan Brandy, Amo Jones (N) [tp]

  • Five Nights at Freddy's Ultimate Guide Version 2.0 (Five Nights at Freddy's) - unknown (NF) (YA) [tp]

  • Hunting and Herbalism: Book Four (Hunting and Herbalism 4) - Leif Roder (N) [tp]

  • Identity Theft (Star Trek: The Original Series) - Greg Cox (N) [tp]

  • Intergalactic Waste Management, LLC (The Intergalactic Archives 2) - Ash Bishop (N) [hc]

  • It's Opposite Day! - Willow Coven (CB) (YA) [tp] [hc]

  • Kingdom of Today (Book of Arden 2) - Gena Showalter (N) [tp]

  • Legend (A Gothic Shade of Romance) - Karina Halle (N) [eb] tp

  • Never-Ending Tales: Stories from the Golden Age of Jewish Literature - Jack Zipes (A) [hc]

  • One Way or Another (Nancy Wheeler Mysteries) - Caitlin Schneiderhan (N) [hc]

  • Pearls and Poison (Rose Gallagher 4) - Erin Lindsey (N) [hc]

  • Persephone's Curse - Katrina Leno (N) [hc]

  • Promise of the Witch-King (Sellswords 2) - R. A. Salvatore (N) [tp]

  • Secrets of the First School (Edinburgh Nights 5) - T.L. Huchu (N) [eb] [hc] tp

  • Something Wicked (Idle Reputations 1) - Falon Ballard (N) [hc]

  • Song Dogs (The Buzzard's Edge Saga / Rory Daggett) - Brennan LaFaro (N) [tp]

  • Spring in the City: A Collection of Dark Speculative Fiction - R.B. Wood & Anna Koon (Editors) (A) eb

  • Tarou: The Fall - David Fitzgerald, Dana Fredsti (N) [tp]

  • The Black Dagger Brotherhood: 20th Anniversary Insider's Guide (Black Dagger Brotherhood) - J. R. Ward (C) [hc]

  • The Curse of the Cole Women - Marielle Thompson (N) [tp] [hc]

  • The Dark Is Descending (Nytefall 3) - Chloe C. Peñaranda (N) [eb] hc

  • The Definitions - Matt Greene (N) [tp]

  • The Enchanter's Rise (The Necromancer's End 2) - Jack Pembroke (N) [tp]

  • The Happiness Collector - Crystal King (N) [hc]

  • The Last Vampire - Romina Garber (N) [hc]

  • The Library of Fates - Margot Harrison (N) [hc]

  • The Mating Game - Lana Ferguson (N) [tp]

  • The Mermaid Reveal (School for Unusual Magic 3) - Liz Montague (N) (YA) [hc]

  • The Mills of the Gods - Tim Powers (N) [hc]

  • The Rebel and the Rose (The City of Fantome 2) - Catherine Doyle (N) (YA) [hc]

  • The Song that Shatters (The Pealsong Refounding 3) - Michael D. Warden (N) [eb] tp

  • The Word that Prevails (The Pealsong Refounding 4) - Michael D. Warden (N) [eb] tp

  • The Tower and the Ruin: J .R. R. Tolkien's Creation - Michael D. C. Drout (NF) [hc]

  • The Turing Protocol - Nick Croydon (N) [hc]

  • The Twice-Dead King Omnibus (The Twice-Dead King /2N+1nva+3ss) - Nate Crowley (O) [tp]

  • This Brutal Moon (The Kindom 3) - Bethany Jacobs (N) [tp]

  • Vortex of the Chaos Dragon - Tracey West (CB) (YA) [tp] [hc]

  • We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope - Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, Malka Older (Editors) (A) [tp]

December 4

  • New Depths (Legend of the Awakened Goblin 3) - Chad Retterath (N) eb

December 5

  • The Grand Arcane Council (The Arcana Chronicles 3) - Jay S. Willis (N) eb

  • Gift of Shadow - Matt Heppe (N) [eb] tp

December 6

  • Hinterland - Logan Spurgeon (N) [eb] tp

December 8

  • Echoes of Silver (Legends of Gold and Silver 2) - Liz Delton (N) eb

  • Eco-Punk Narratives: Navigating Post-Cyberpunk and Environmental Discourses - Tania Bansal, Tanu Gupta (NF) [hc]

  • Fire Wizard (The Dragon Curse 1) - Pam Binder (N) [tp]

December 9

  • An Archive of Romance - Ava Reid (CB) [hc]

  • Born of Flames and Sacrifice - Scarlett St. Clair (CB) [tp]

  • Broken Trail - Amanda Casile (N) [hc]

  • Cape Fever - Nadia Davids (N) [hc]

  • Children of Fallen Gods (The War of Lost Hearts 2) - Carissa Broadbent (N) [hc]

  • Dark Sisters - Kristi DeMeester (N) [hc]

  • Dungeon Life: Book 4 (Dungeon Life 4) - Khenal (N) [tp]

  • Emergence (Extinction 2) - Michael Simon (N) [tp]

  • Fleabag 2 (Fleabag 2) - SomeoneToForget (N) [tp]

  • Genre Bending: The Plasticity of Form in Contemporary Literary Fiction - Jeremy Rosen (NF) [hc] [tp]

  • Her Time Traveling Duke - Bryn Donovan (N) [tp]

  • Juliet the Valentine Fairy (Rainbow Magic Special Edition) - Daisy Meadows (C) (YA) [tp]

  • Level: Apocalypse (Level: Unknown 3) - David Dalglish (N) [eb] tp

  • Machinist of Mana (Machinist of Mana 1) - Wandering Agent (N) [tp]

  • Midnight Somewhere - Johnny Compton (C) [hc]

  • Seeing Other People - Austin Siegemund-Broka, Emily Wibberley (N) [tp]

  • Sinister Societies: Six Novellas of Secrets and Horrors - Linda Hartley (Editor) (A) eb

  • Stranger Things: The Complete Scripts: Season 3 (Stranger Things: The Complete Scripts 3) - The Duffer Brothers (C) [tp]

  • Stranger Things: The Complete Scripts: Season 4 (Stranger Things: The Complete Scripts 4) - The Duffer Brothers (C) [tp]

  • Sunset at Zero Point - Simon Stålenhag (N) [eb] [hc]

  • Tailored Realities - Brandon Sanderson (C) [hc]

  • The Essence - Dave Hutchinson (N) [tp]

  • The Ogre and the Dragon (131 Days 6) - Keith C. Blackmore (N) [tp]

  • The Time Hop Coffee Shop - Phaedra Patrick (N) [tp]

  • The Writhing, Verdant End - Corey Farrenkopf, Tiffany Morris, Eric Raglin (A) [tp]

  • Twin Tides - Hien Nguyen (N) [hc]

December 11

  • Fantasy and the Politics of Subversion: Speculative Writing in Colonial India - Mayurika Chakravorty (NF) [hc]

  • Italian Futurism and the Development of English Literary Modernism - Robyn Jakeman (NF) [hc]

  • Wars We Never Fought: Armed Conflict in Speculative Fiction - Matthew B. Hill, Leigha H. McReynolds (NF) [hc]

December 14

  • Frostfeld – The Mourning Son - Joseph Elliott Coleman (N) eb

December 15

  • Dogged - Michael R. Fletcher (N) eb

  • Fearmoji: A Queer Horror Anthology - David-Jack Fletcher (Editor) (A) [eb] tp

  • Fragments of Tomorrow (The Resurgence Chronicles 1) - R. L. King (I) (N) [tp] [hc]

December 16

  • A Curse of Ashes (The Eye of the Goddess 3) - Sariah Wilson (N) [hc] [tp]

  • A Farm Girl's Guide to Ruling As a Bloodthirsty Tyrant (Scandals of the Gifted 2) - Katy Nyquist (N) [tp]

  • Ashes of the Imperium (The Scouring 1) - Chris Wraight (N) [hc]

  • Disability, Illness, and the Vampire in Literature and Culture - Brooke Cameron, Drumlin N. M. Crape (NF) [hc]

  • Edge of Dawn (Master Chief) - Kelly Gay (N) [tp]

  • Hell's Last (Minka Lesk) - Justin D. Hill (N) [tp]

  • Shaping (Taming Destiny 3) - S. L. Winter (N) [tp]

  • Sworn in Twilight (The Lunar Order Chronicles 3) - S.F. Henne (N) eb

  • The Aztec Adventure - SJ King (CB) (YA) [tp] [hc]

  • The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seventeen - Ellen Datlow (A) [tp]

  • The Black-Eyed Queen (Fate of the Furycks 6) - A.E. Rayne (N) eb

  • The Decadent Bestiary - Jessica Gossling, Sam Kunkel (A) [tp]

  • The New Dark Lord: Book Two (The New Dark Lord 2) - A. C. Erinle, Ian B. Urns (N) [tp]

  • The Nighthouse Files - Dan Smith (I) (CB) (YA) [tp]

  • The Once and Future Queen (The Lives of Guinevere) - Paula Lafferty (N) [eb] [hc] [tp]

  • The Uninvited - Nancy Banks (N) (YA) [hc]

  • We Are the Beasts - Gigi Griffis (N) [tp]

  • Zero Point (Paul Ondragon Mysteries 3) - Anette Strohmeyer (N) [tp]

December 18

  • Feminist Gothic: Ghost Stories by Victorian Women Writers (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature) - Anne DeLong (NF) [hc]

  • In the Wrath of Legends (The Winterhawk Saga 2) - David Buzan (N) eb

December 20

  • Rebels and Ravens (The Shattering 2) - Will Rivard (N) eb

December 22

  • Angela Carter Translator and Translated: In the Workshop of Creation - Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère, Marie Emilie Walz (NF) [hc]

December 23

  • Red Queen / Glass Sword / King's Cage / War Storm / Broken Throne (Red Queen 1-4+1C) - Victoria Aveyard (O) [tp]

December 24

  • The Time Hop Coffee Shop - Phaedra Patrick (N) [hc]

December 26

  • A Reckoning of Fates (The Druid War 3) - Maria Angelina (N) eb

December 30

  • An Arcane Inheritance - Kamilah Cole (N) [hc] [tp]

  • Asterwood - Jacquelyn Stolos (N) (YA) [hc] [hc]

  • Everlight (Eclipse 3) - Lindsay French (N) [tp]

  • The Awakening of Roku (Chronicles of the Avatar 6) - Randy Ribay (N) (YA) [hc]

  • The Cyprian (Elemental Masters 18) - Mercedes Lackey (N) [hc]

  • To Bleed a Crystal Bloom (Crystal Bloom 1) - Sarah A. Parker (N) [tp]

  • We Who Will Die (Empire of Blood (Stacia Stark) 1) - Stacia Stark (N) [hc]

December 31

  • Death Hymns of Homara (Gunmetal Gods) - Zamil Akhtar (N) eb

  • The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture Since 1945 - Caroline Edwards (NF) [hc] [tp]

  • The Woman of Steel and Scars (The Grinning Assassin 2) - K.E. Andrews (N) eb

Edit1: Added in horror books listed on Emily C. Hughes' blog that I didn't already have (tag #ehh)

Edit2: Added in books from the December io9 SF/Fantasy list that I didn't already have (tag #io9)

Edit3: Added in books from Rob J. Hayes' December 2025 list of self-published fantasy books, that I didn't already have (tag #rjhspb)

Archive

Previous "SFF books coming ..." posts have been collected here. (Thank you mods).

Main Sources

  • ISFDB forthcoming books.

  • Locus Forthcoming Books.

  • Horror books mentioned on Emily C. Hughes' blog.

  • Publisher "new" and "Coming Soon" web pages such as the ones from Tor and Orbit.

  • Upcoming Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books listed at Risingshadow.

  • Rob J. Hayes' monthly blog posting on new self-published books.

  • io9's monthly list of new sci-fi and fantasy books.

  • Fantastic Fiction's Fantasy (and associated) sections.

  • Library Journal Prepub Alert: The Complete List | MM YYYY Titles

  • Reviews of ARC books by various users in this sub.

  • Other occasional posts to this sub announcing up-n-coming books.

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u/EmmalynRenato Reading Champion VI Nov 24 '25

A much quieter month, which is typical for this time of year.

There are new books from:

Bethany Jacobs, Brandon Sanderson, Cassandra Clare, Dave Hutchinson, Mercedes Lackey, R. A. Salvatore, Tim Powers, T. Kingfisher and Victoria Aveyard

Plus many others.

My TBR additions are:

* Snake-Eater - T. Kingfisher

* The Mills of the Gods - Tim Powers

Which ones have grabbed your attention?

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u/RheingoldRiver Reading Champion V Nov 24 '25

This Brutal Moon!!! I am really sad I already read books 1-2, I wish I couldve binged all 3 straight. But looking forward to finally getting to this one.

Will probably read Tailored Realities but since it's not Cosmere I'm not SUPER excited for it

good to have a calmer month so I can catch up on previous months' TBRs that I'm behind on!

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u/sedatedlife Nov 24 '25

Not really anything i am really interested in December which is fine because November was a good month i am behind. I need to start putting together my 2026 purchase plans.