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After two months of few new book releases, we are finally getting a better selection in January 2025!
It was really hard to narrow down my January 2025 Aardvark Book Club predictions because there are so many new book releases this month! Aardvark Book Club also seems to be branching out to fantasy/romantasy, so that adds another genre to look at each month.
ICYMI, I just announced the 2025 Reading Challenge, so make sure you check out that post and join me and hundreds of other readers as we read a book per week in 2025!
As usual, if you want to see even more predictions, make sure you check out my January 2025 Book of the Month predictions post!
You can see all my Book of the Month January 2025 Predictions here.
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As usual, these are just my opinions and my Aardvark Book Club predictions. It is fine if you disagree or think the Aardvark Book Club January 2025 predictions are terrible-we all have different reading tastes. Please remember to be kind in comments or messages because we are all readers with different tastes!
Mystery/Thriller Aardvark Book Club Predictions
Cross My Heart by Megan Collins
Release Date: January 14, 2025
She has his wife’s heart; the one she wants is his. The author of The Family Plot brings her signature “taut, emotionally charged, and propulsive” (Jeneva Rose, New York Times bestselling author) prose to a twisty novel about a heart transplant patient who becomes romantically obsessed with her donor’s husband.
Vantage Point by Sara Sligar
Release Date: January 14, 2025
Succession meets Megan Abbott in this seductive, technological suspense about the dramatic downfall of one of America’s most affluent families. Brimming with palpable tension, Vantage Point carefully unravels a twisted web of family secrets and political ambition that raises questions about the nature of “truth” in our digital age.
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
Release Date: January 14, 2025
They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families.
Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, terrified and alone. Under the watchful eye of the stern Miss Wellwood, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament.
Everything the girls eat, every moment of their waking day, and everything they’re allowed to talk about is strictly controlled by adults who claim they know what’s best for them. Then Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult book about witchcraft, and power is in the hands of the girls for the first time in their lives. But power can destroy as easily as it creates, and it’s never given freely. There’s always a price to be paid…and it’s usually paid in blood.
Romance Aardvark Book Club Predictions
Beg, Borrow, or Steal by Sarah Adams
Release Date: January 7, 2025
Repeat Author
Two feuding second-grade teachers (and neighbors) find themselves teaming up in this new rivals-to-lovers romance set in Rome, Kentucky—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Rule Book and Practice Makes Perfect.
Flirting With Disaster by Naina Kumar
Release Date: January 14, 2025
She needs a divorce from her husband—but a hurricane threatens to dredge up their stormy, passionate past in this sizzling romance from the bestselling author of Say You’ll Be Mine.
Literary Fiction Aardvark Book Club Predictions
We Do Not Part by Han Kang
Release Date: January 21, 2025
One winter morning, Kyungha receives an urgent message from her friend Inseon to visit her at a hospital in Seoul. Inseon has injured herself in an accident, and she begs Kyungha to return to Jeju Island, where she lives, to save her beloved pet—a white bird called Ama.
A snowstorm hits the island when Kyungha arrives. She must reach Inseon’s house at all costs, but the icy wind and squalls slow her down as night begins to fall. She wonders if she will arrive in time to save the animal—or even survive the terrible cold that envelops her with every step. Lost in a world of snow, she doesn’t yet suspect the vertiginous plunge into the darkness that awaits her at her friend’s house.
Tartufo by Kira Jane Buxton
Release Date: January 28, 2025
From the author of Hollow Kingdom, a fantastically funny story featuring a cast of colorful characters in a dying Italian village and a giant truffle that changes their fate forever.
Contemporary Fiction Aardvark Book Club Predictions
The Really Dead Wives of New Jersey by Astrid Dahl
Release Date: January 14, 2025
A propulsive page-turning thriller following the hit reality TV show Garden State Goddesses where secrets are uncovered, intense rivalries surface, and a startling murder propels a producer on a riveting quest for the truth.
**This appears to be a book written by a fictional character from Perfume & Pain by Anna Dorn.
The Favorites by Layne Fargo
Release Date: January 14, 2025
To the world, they were a scandal. To each other, an obsession.
An epic love story set in the sparkling, savage sphere of elite figure skating, starring a woman determined to carve her own path on and off the ice
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Aardvark Book Club Prediction
Babylonia by Costanza Casati
Release Date: January 14, 2025
From the author of the bestselling Clytemnestra comes another intoxicating excursion into ancient history, painting the brutal and captivating empire of gods and men, and the one queen destined to rule them all.
Heavenly Bodies by Imani Erriu
Release Date: January 14, 2025
A runaway TikTok sensation, Heavenly Bodies is the first book in a dazzling new romantasy series that blends mythology and shadow magic with a tantalizing enemies-to-lovers romance that will rewrite the stars.
Dystopian Fiction Aardvark Book Club Prediction
All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall
Release Date: January 7, 2025
In the tradition of Station Eleven, a literary thriller set partly on the roof of New York’s Museum of Natural History in a flooded future.
Do you agree with my predictions? What are some of your January 2025 Aardvark Book Club predictions or hopefuls? Let me know in the comments!
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