Best Debut Novels of 2025

The new voices of 2025 — first novels that announced major new careers.

The Rainmaker by John Grisham
The unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
Roads of destiny by O. Henry
Cruel & Unusual by Patricia Cornwell
A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
Along Came a Spider by James Patterson
Murder in the gunroom by H. Beam Piper
Killing Floor by Lee Child
Saving Faith by David Baldacci
Tell No One by Harlan Coben
Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy L. Sayers

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