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7NEWS
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- 7NEWS
Top 7 books of 2025 so far: Viral series to New York Times best-selling authors
Whether you're catching a flight to a European destination, or simply cosying up on the couch, there's no better feeling than delving into a new book. And if you're in the market for a newly released read to sink your teeth into, we've got you sorted. Here at Best Picks, we've rounded up 7 of the best new books so far in 2025, and there's plenty of different genres to choose from. Think fantasy triologies, personal memoirs or heart-racing thrillers, we've listed the best of the bunch. 1. A Different Kind of Power by Jacinda Ardern It's topped the charts for a reason. This personal memoir gives a behind-the-scenes look at leadership, parenting, and politics from the Former Prime Minister of New Zealand. It's surprisingly funny, deeply human and inspiring. $39 at Amazon Australia. 2. Onyx Storm: The Empyrean Bk 3 by Rebecca Yarros This romantic fantasy novel is the third book in the viral Empyrean series (think dragons, danger, and romance). A great read for fantasty-newbies, it delves into plenty of adventures, plot twists and spicy scenes. 3. Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins Set during the 50th annual Hunger Games, it's packed with twists and political drama. With over 60,000 reviews at Amazon Australia, this purple paperback is a hit with teens and adults alike. $15.97 at Amazon Australia. 4. The Catch by Yrsa Daley-Ward A debut novel from the award-winning British author, this beautiful book is set in London and centered around two twin sisters with a past that creeps up on them. Exploring heartbreak and self-discovery, it's the perfect holiday read. 5. Unfinished Business by Shankari Chandran Love a thriller? This one will tick all your boxes. From the Miles Franklin award-winning author, this fast-paced mystery involves corruption, law and power. $24.98 at Amazon Australia. 6. Cheesecake by Mark Kurlansky Determined to save his grandmother's cheesecake recipe, this light-hearted novel is more than just about food. Quirky and charming, it takes you back to New York in the 80s. 7. The House That Joy Built by Holly Ringland Upflighting and inspiring, this practical guide is all about finding creativity and courage in everyday life. Part memoir, part motivation, this book offers a 'jump-start for anyone whose desire to create is flattened by fear'.
Associated Press
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Associated Press
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HARDCOVER FICTION 1. 'Atmosphere' by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine) 2. 'Edge of Honor' by Brad Thor (Atria/Bestler) 3. 'Never Flinch' by Stephen King (Scribner) 4. 'Tusk Love' by Thea Guanzon (Random House Worlds) 5. 'Don't Let Him In' by Lisa Jewell (Atria) 6. 'Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil' by V.E. Schwab (Tor) 7. 'Great Big Beautiful Life' by Emily Henry (Berkley) 8. 'A Forbidden Alchemy' by Stacey McEwan (Saga) 9. 'My Friends' by Fredrik Backman (Atria) 10. 'The First Gentleman' by Patterson/Clinton (Little, Brown and Knopf) 11. 'The Knight and the Moth' by Rachel Gillig (Orbit) 12. 'Broken Country' by Clare Leslie Hall (Simon & Schuster) 13. 'A Mother's Love' by Danielle Steel (Delacorte) 14. 'Onyx Storm' by Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) 15. 'The Wedding People' by Alison Espach (Holt) _____ HARDCOVER NON-FICTION 1. 'The Let Them Theory' by Mel Robbins (Hay House) 2. 'Don't Believe Everything You Think (expanded ed.)' by Joseph Nguyen (Authors Equity) 3. 'Unruly' by Lauren Wittenberg Weiner (BenBella/Holt) 4. 'Super Agers' by Eric Topol (Simon & Schuster) 5. 'Behind the Badge' by Johnny Joey Jones (Harper Influence) 6. 'The Simple Path to Wealth (revised & expanded ed.)' by JL Collins (Authors Equity) 7. 'Abundance' by Ezra Klein (Avid Reader) 8. 'The Wishbone Kitchen Cookbook' by Meredith Hayden (Ten Speed) 9. 'Everything Is Tuberculosis' by John Green (Crash Course) 10. 'Mark Twain' by Ron Chernow (Penguin Press) 11. 'We Can Do Hard Things' by Doyle/Wambach/Doyle (Dial) 12. 'Uncommon Favor' by Dawn Staley (Black Privilege) 13. 'The Book of Alchemy' by Suleika Jaouad (Random House) 14. 'Big Dumb Eyes' by Nate Bargatze (Grand Central) 15. 'The Next Conversation' by Jefferson Fisher (Tarcher) _____ TRADE PAPERBACK BESTSELLERS 1. 'Do Not Disturb' by Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen) 2. 'One Golden Summer' by Carley Fortune (Berkley) 3. 'The Tenant' by Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen) 4. 'Caught Up' by Navessa Allen (Slowburn) 5. Remarkably Bright Creatures' by Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco) 6. 'Lights Out' by Navessa Allen (Slowburn) 7. 'Problematic Summer Romance' by Ali Hazelwood (Berkley) 8. 'Till Summer Do Us Part' by Meghan Quinn (Bloom) 9. 'All the Colors of the Dark' by Chris Whitaker (Crown) 10. 'Fourth Wing' by Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) 11. 'Iron Flame' by Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) 12. 'Sandwich' by Catherine Newman (Harper Perennial) 13. 'The Boyfriend' by Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen) 14. 'Here One Moment' by Liane Moriarty (Crown) 15. 'The Crash' by Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen) _____
Daily Mail
12-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Why Gen Z is obsessed with reading dragon porn
Daily Mail journalists select and curate the products that feature on our site. If you make a purchase via links on this page we will earn commission - learn more Gen Z: Keep it down, I'm reading my book. Boomer: You've actually put down your phone? My new romantasy read – Onyx Storm by 44-year-old Rebecca Yarros – has me in a chokehold. Romantasy? Like Aragorn and Arwen's love story in The Lord Of The Rings? Nah, it's 527 pages of hot dragon-rider sex that topped both The Sunday Times and The New York Times bestseller lists. You're reading dragon porn? Everyone is. #Romantasy has more than a billion tagged posts on TikTok. So long, J K Rowling; hello, randy reptiles. It's not just dragons – sales of 75 million steamy fairy novels made Sarah J Maas, 39, the world's top-selling author of 2024. I saw that she was on The Times' bestselling authors list last year, and agreed with the commenter who wrote: 'Horny Hobbits! What on Middle Earth?' Laugh away, but romance sales have more than doubled since 2020. It's now the world's most popular genre. We all enjoy a good love story. It's about spice, not love. A literary agent told The Guardian: 'The steamier the sex, the better a book does.' I read Jilly Cooper's Rivals. Never seen the word c**k so often in one book. Lame. Bookfluencer Tierney Page would give it three at best on the spice-ometer. Isn't that the flavour scale at Nando's? It's a ranking of a book's smuttiness. So five chillies means full-on bonking? Five chillies is for books that are 'cooked', 'unhinged' and 'taboo', Page says. Dare I ask what qualifies? Dream lovers: romance (and romantasy) books are huge among Gen Z Try Taming Seraphine by Gigi Styx. It has a two-page list of triggers, from BDSM and bondage to knife play and exhibitionism. What would Jilly think? Makes Rupert Campbell-Black and his, erm, 'baseball bat' seem ideal boyfriend material. The hitman love interest is described as 'sexy as hell' and 'pant-melting'. The latter sounds more like an iron setting than a character description. One of the book's most popular quotes shared on TikTok is: 'I've killed two of the most important people in my life for you… Because I love you…' My idea of romance is more 'flowers and chocolates' than 'I'll take out my entire family to prove my devotion.' Fair. Maybe have a browse of West London's Saucy Books instead. Let me guess: Hugh Grant's store from Notting Hill has been turned into a sex shop? It's London's first romance-only bookshop, launched last month by 38-year-old Sarah Maxwell. They should have called it Randy Elf On A Shelf. TikTok sisters Avie and Jazzi's tour of the store hit 200,000 views, with shoppers loving its 'Smut Hut'. I imagine that'll cause some issues when people search it on Google Maps. It's a section for the store's most erotic titles, BBC News reported, arranged into sub-sections like 'Enemies To Lovers'. Aren't you lot embarrassed to read this stuff in public? Obvs not. Saucy Books is so popular it sells tickets with customer time slots. I was so mortified reading Fifty Shades at the beach I hid it under Orwell's 1984. Surveillance, submission, a guy obsessed with control: TBH they're not that different. If everyone's reading porn in public, maybe I'll cash in. In fact, a spicy rewrite of a classic novel is already simmering. Jane Eyrotic?
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The Independent
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
I've already read 30 books this year, but this is my standout favourite
Maybe it's the high calibre of new releases in 2025, or perhaps it's that I keep deleting TikTok, but I've already read more than 30 books this year – and there's one that I've been recommending to everyone. I've been sucked into the 'romantasy' genre with Rebecca Yarros' Fourth Wing series, enjoyed comedies including Alison Espach's The Wedding People and Sarah Harman's All The Other Mothers Hate Me, and been equal parts shocked and inspired by the real life stories of World War Two secret agent Pippa Lantour and former-Mormon Tara Westover in their beautiful memoirs, The Last Secret Agent and Educated. But it's Florence Knapp's new novel, The Names, that's a future classic. Curiously, her only other book is a non-fiction guide to English paper piecing, but her first foray into fiction is a masterclass. It's as devastating as it is life-affirming, which is a recipe for the perfect book. The novel is an utterly original take on the 'sliding doors' concept. Beginning on the day a mother sets off to name her baby son, it follows three versions of a boy's life as dictated by his given name. An exploration of how small decisions can echo down the decades, the novel is a gripping and moving family drama. I tore through the book in two sittings while on holiday. The story might not be the typical easy-breezy beach book, but the novel is hugely readable, with beautiful prose and compelling characters. Debuting at number two in The Sunday Times bestseller list and with an average rating of 4.18 on Goodreads, it's one of those rare mainstream novels that live up to the hype. Whether you're packing for a summer holiday or looking for your next weekend read, here's why I'm recommending The Names to everyone.
Yahoo
01-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Amazon's ‘Fourth Wing' Loses Showrunner Moira Walley-Beckett, Jac Schaeffer Eyed for Adaptation
Amazon MGM Studio's 'Fourth Wing' series lost its showrunner, according to multiple media reports. Moira Walley-Beckett, known for creating Netflix's 'Anne with an E' and for being one of the writers on 'Breaking Bad,' stepped away from the project after previously signing on last July. 'Agatha All Along' and 'WandaVision' creator Jac Schaeffer is now reportedly eyeing the project. The project doesn't currently have a series order from Amazon or a cast attached. More from TheWrap Lena Dunham 'Intentionally' Stepped Back From Acting, Public Life After 'Girls': 'All I Got Was This Lousy PTSD' Amazon's 'Fourth Wing' Loses Showrunner Moira Walley-Beckett, Jac Schaeffer Eyed for Adaptation 'Dexter: Resurrection' and 'The Sandman' Top the Most Anticipated TV Shows of July 2025 | Charts Quinta Brunson Weighs the End of 'Abbott Elementary,' Says Actors 'Would Love to Pursue Other Projects' Schaeffer's rumored involvement comes as she's reportedly signed a deal with the studio. She's also not the only one who's been added to the project. Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy's Amazon MGM Studios-based Kilter Films, which has been behind series like 'Fallout' and 'The Peripheral,' has joined the project alongside Michael B. Jordan's Outlier Society. Outlier has been part of the 'Fourth Wing' adaptation since Amazon MGM Studios scored the rights to the novels in 2023. Written by author Rebecca Yarros, 'Fourth Wing' is technically the first book in the 'Empyrean' series. The novel centers on Violet Sorrengail, who is forced by her mother to become a dragon rider. The series follows her as she endures deadly quests while being pursued by one of the most dangerous riders around, Xaden Riorson. 'Fourth Wing' was published in May of 2023 and quickly amassed a rabid following largely thanks to BookTok, the reading-focused subset of TikTok. The first three novels in the planned five-novel series have sold more than 12 million editions in the United States, according to the New York Times. The third book int he series, 'Onyx Storm,' sold 2.7 million copies in its first week alone, making it the fastest-selling adult novel in 20 years. Amazon MGM Studios currently has the rights to both 'Fourth Wing' and its sequel 'Iron Flame.' The post Amazon's 'Fourth Wing' Loses Showrunner Moira Walley-Beckett, Jac Schaeffer Eyed for Adaptation appeared first on TheWrap.
