Best New Books 2025 For Women Fiction. Just in time for 2025, we’ve sifted through publishing releases and curated a literary lineup featuring inspiring female voices, from acclaimed essayist leslie jamison to bikini kill. It’s been another hard year, but at least the reading was good.

We asked monica ali, the acclaimed novelist and chair of this year’s. The women’s prize for fiction is the world’s most prestigious annual book award honoring women’s fiction.