Today’s TTT is “Top Ten Books Anticipated Releasing in 2025”, which doesn’t work for me because I don’t really follow potential publishing unless it’s an author I stalk or it’s Star Trek related. So, here’s a tease or two for you.
After the debate, the Biden White House was less like the TV series The West Wing and more like House of Cards. Or, as Biden’s aide Anita Dunn tartly observed in a farewell toast with staffers, Francis Ford Coppola’s film The Godfather. (UNCHARTED, Chris Whippell. A history of the 2024 presidential campaign.)
“Surely one can write poetry and pursue a responsible career,” said Hugh. “Perhaps surgery can be a Sunday hobby, but I assure you poetry is life and death for me, Hugh,” said Daniel. (THE SUMMER BEFORE THE WAR)
Let’s take a crack at the prompt for today, though, by trawling upcoming releases over at Amazon!
(1) Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language. Adam Aleksic
(2) Lions and Scavengers: The True Story of America (and Her Critics), Ben Shapiro.
(3) The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand, various authors. The Stand was my first King novel, and revisiting its world harrowed by Captain Trips sounds fascinating. Little suspect about the fact that it’s an anthology from non-King people, though.
(4) Peak Human: What We Can Learn from History’s Greatest Civilizations
(5) Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home
by Stephen Starring Grant
(6) Star Trek Strange New Worlds: Ring of Fire, David Mack. No idea what the plot is about. David Mack is already a lock-in, but add Strange New Worlds and I’m like a neocon with a new country to bomb.
(7) The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition, Volume I: The Ancient World and Christendom (The Golden Thread, 1). James Hankins and Allen C. Guelzo. The first volume is priced at $100, but I’ll keep an eye out for it.
(8) King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation, Scott Anderson.
(9) Yield: How Google Bought, Built, and Bullied Its Way to Advertising Dominance
by Ari Paparo
(10) A More Expected Hero: A LitRPG Sequel. This has disappeared but I have faith it may yet reappear. It used have a catalog entry! Rhett C. Bruno & Jaime Castle.
Reading Freely 
People are still reading new fiction? I thought the robots had taken over that and turned all fiction into pablum?
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It depends on your definition of new….do endless WW2 romances count as new fiction? That seems to be what hits the shelves.
Oh, I meant literally, as in published for the first time in 2025, etc.
Right now I’m more Peak Human than Lions and Scavengers, though I suspect Lions and Scavengers is more reality.
We’ll see! Shapiro is too neocon for me, but I’ve enjoyed some of his books.
Yield sounds like a good read.
Especially for those of us who remember when Google was the cool outlier!
Hmm. The Stand book does sound interesting, but I am also skeptical about it being written by authors other than Stephen King. I wonder why that was done?
I’m hoping the book’s forward will say!
Lions and Scavengers sounds interesting. Here is our <a href=”https://www.longandshortreviews.com/miscellaneous-musings/top-ten-tuesday-most-anticipated-books-releasing-in-the-second-half-of-2025/“>Top Ten Tuesday.</a> Thank you!
Some strange books there: #5 sounds like it might be a sequel to last year’s Demon Copperhead, and the #7 coauthor, Allen Guelzo, is an eminent Civil War historian (I recommend his book on Lincoln) who may be delving into deep waters with an ancient history overview. While the #10 entry sounds a bit too deep in the RPG world for my taste, maybe that’s why its listing disappeared.
Interesting list. I haven’t read a Star Trek novel in years, but David Mack was always a favorite author. I love Strange New Worlds so I should check out those books. Thanks for the list!
Mack is the best, I’d say. Christopher L Bennett is good for “hard” SF plots, though.
#1 and #5 both sound good to me. I hadn’t heard of either of them before, so thanks for the head’s up!
Happy TTT!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
I haven’t read The Stand yet so definitely need to read that first but I’m kind of curious about the one linked to it. Definitely strikes me as odd that Stephen Kings not the one whose written it too though.
It looks like you’ve found some interesting books to keep an eye out for.
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/late-2025-most-anticipated-canadian-releases/
Oh gosh just the word Algospeak gives me goosebumps but yet the topic of evolving language is so interesting. Peak Human also sounds good 🙂 !!
The other day I saw some Lower Decks graphic novels which I got excited over though they’re not brand new but I thought you might appreciate it!
Yes! I read one on KU but the rest of series wasn’t available.
Ah okay, that’s too bad the rest of the series wasn’t there 😦