A cozy manga series I like is Giant Spider & Me, short and cozy post-apocalyptic series focused on food and found family. I read it right after being disappointed by Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea, and it really impressed me.

Your bookshelf is stunning. All those gorgeous editions! I AM JEALOUS!

Shadows upon time (suneater book 7) has to be my most anticipated book ever even more than stormlight archive book 5(until book 10 releases maybe) because that’s what we have been waiting for hadrian marlowe the hero who ended the war killing every last cielcin in the sky saving mankind also the monster the suneater who killed a sun killing 2 billions humans and even his own emperor(sacrifices for the greater good)

Now it makes sense why 2024 felt a bit quiet and weak in terms of new releases, they were all being saved to be blasted at us in 2025... my poor TBR, this is gonna be WILD hahahah. I somehow had no idea we were getting a new standalone War for the Rose Throne book, HECK YES!! Aside from that, I think I am most looking forward to The Devils, Of Empires and Dust, Dance of Shadows and Red God. Also, for the love of all that is holy... please let Alecto the Ninth come out already 🥲🤣

Breath of the Dragon was really good. If you liked The Rage of Dragons, you'll like this one.

i prefer modern fantasy with political intrigues like farseer, game of thrones the reason why narnia and lotr was memorable for me was because the i watched the movies which were epic. otherwise i would not have felt like reading the books. the music from the movies made me feel it when i would pick up the lotr books. narnia is fine but the plots and characters not memorable but theyre not intriguing. i remebred trying to read the lotr book in 2002 but i said that i preferred movies if i had taken asoif in 2000, i wouldve seriously gotten into reading. just my preference i forcibly read farseer but within the first 50 pages, i was immediately like obssessed with reading. it was so escaping, the characters were still in my head. imagin if they made the movie with the right directors, just like they did with game of thrones they showed flawed human nature like r**e, jealousy, the complexity in so called godly figures like mother father, kings and evil ones but i heard about new epic ones like bound and broken; faithful and fallen... may pick them up

Red God, by Pierce Brown and Of Empires and Dust, by Ryan Cahill are my most anticipated books for next year! Haven’t started the Sun Eater series yet. Though I have all books. My tbr list grows larger day by day. Thanks Petrik!!

I missed the announcement for Gatebound! I can’t wait, the series so underrated. Although I think it’s the penultimate book in a series of four!

When I still haven’t finished the books from my 2024 reading list but Petrik already shows me what should I read next year 😃 Luckily, I can buy some time if I wait for Polish editions;)

I didn't know Peter Mclean had another book coming, that's exciting! And of course looking forward to everything Fonda Lee releases

"A Drop of Corruption" was so amazing! I could not help myself , I could not wait so I immediately read the ARC. I am hoping for the second "Amina al-Sirafi" volume from Shannon Chakraborty in 2025. I am hoping that Ken Liu returns to Fantasy, but I would read anything from him, even Nonfiction.

Interesting releases, but the little tones in the video background distracted me a lot, I thought they were a cellphone ringing somewhere😅.

Red God!!!! i'm really hoping!!!

I am looking forward to so many of these. I would also add The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison (my #1 most anticipated release of 2025) the conclusion to her Cemeteries of Amalo trilogy, The Orb of Cairado (a novella also by Addison and set in the same universe, I would read her grocery lists), and and The Incandescent by Emily Tesh.

2025 is sooo stacked. I have a list and there's still like 6-7 on this I wasn't aware of. Btw, minor correction, I talked with Fonda Lee last week and she said Last Contrast of Isako is a standalone! I was surprised because I also thought it was a duology. Can't wait for Strength of the Few!

watching your videos is always terrible for my tbr 😂

Hi Petrik. Thanks for mentioning the novel by Richard Swan. It has the best cover art and I think I'll enjoy reading it.

mikesbookreviews doesn't seem to want to give away his copy of the devils . Can I have yours, lol. I'm also looking forward to Richard Swan's new book. i loved the empire of the wolf

Gonna be a wild year!!

Petrik! You cant just add so many books to my tbr 😭

Petrik let me know if you ever run into The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip

So many great titles next year!

Katabasis, for sure. Rebecca Kuang had a Q&A/reading session at the main library in my city very recently. She's a rock star. Yah, the sequel to The Will of the Many can't come soon enough. Viz is gonna kick butt. Thank you.

I really enjoyed The helm of midnight and the sequel and am looking forward to the last of the trilogy. The RJ Barker trilogy wyrdwood , the war arts saga, Ryan Cahill, and many more 😊

AAAAAAHHHHH!!!!! Sorry that had to be said. I don't know what's worse: that I want to read so many of those books you just suggested, or that so many of them are part of series that I haven't even started yet. Next year is gonna get brutal, both for my bank account and my sanity.

I’m also going to try The Book That Wouldn’t Burn when the third book comes out, I’ve heard good things, and I bought book one.

Still no word for book 2 of The Ashes Of The Unhewn Thrown series by Brian Stavely?

I’ll start setting aside some money. Many books to buy this year.

Gatebound is not the last book of The Illborn Saga. It’s the penultimate one

There will be another book in the end of the year which I’ve been waiting for since I found out it’ll have an English translation, and I think it’s right up to your alley: The Bird that drinks Tears by Lee Yongdo, it’s a Korean fantasy in the scale of The Lord of the Rings, you should check it out!!

Loved this video Petrik it’s got me so in the mood for a chunky fantasy (it’s been a while) 🤣 I miss my name on the patreon but my job situation changed and I pulled in the purse strings haahha!! Looking forward to re-joining the patreon asap!! ❤

Here is Petrik messing up everyone’s 2025 TBR 😂 in a good way though 😊

Thats a great list and many are on my list for next year too! Most excited I am for Of Empires and Dust, A Drop of Corruption, The Devils and The Strength of the Few. And here some more tI have an eye on next year: - Secret Project 5 by Brandon Sanderson - The Black Orb by Ewhan Kim - Written on the Dark by GGK - The Amber Owl by Juliet Marillier - Heart of the Wyrdwood by R.J. Barker - Rose/House by Arkady Martine - Lightfall by Ed Crocker - The Outcast Mage (The Shattered Lands, #1) by Annabel Campbell - The Dark Mirror (The Bone Season, #5) by Shannon, Samantha - The Ragpicker King (The Chronicles of Castellane, #2) by Cassandra Clare - Don't Sleep with the Dead by Nghi Vo - The Raven Scholar (The Eternal Path #1) by Antonia Hodgens - Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by VE Schwab - The Witch Roads by Kate Elliott

Most of booktube: here’s 10 books/series I want to try next year. Petrik: Here’s minimum 30 books and all their cover artists I’m going to try and cram into my reading list while also producing incredible special editions. You sir are the goat.

Shadows upon time, red god, strength of the few, and new Fonda Lee book! Great year to be a reader

Looks to be another great year for fantasy/sci-fi! Hopefully, I'll squeeze my book somewhere in there and hope it doesn't get swallowed up by all these heavy-hitters 😬

If I get Red God and Sun Eater 7 and The Strength of the Few and The Bound and the Broken 4 in the same year DEAR LORD

That's a nice list a lot of overlap with mine. Here's some additional stuff coming I have my eye on: - Feb 11 - Heather Fawcett - Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales - Mar 4 - James J. Butcher - Cold Iron Task - May 13 - Stephen Aryan - The Sorrow of the Sea - May 20 - Vivian Shaw - Strange New World - May 27 - GGK - Written In The Dark - Jun 3 - Vaishnavi Patel - Ten Incarnations of Rebellion - Jun 24 - R.J. Barker - Heart of the Wyrdwood

Shadows Upon Time!!! 🎉🎉🎉

I’m really looking forward to Strength of the Few. That first book really stuck in mind a long time after reading it.

Strength of the Few and Grave Empire I will definitely read when they release. Loved Swan’s last trilogy and Will Of The Many was an amazing book

So many books to be excited to and still so many books still on my tbr 😅😅 The Radiant King looks amazing!

*Warlock: Book 2* by Daniel Kensington on Feb

Mine are in order. 1. Red God, 2. Shadows Upon Time and 3. Strength of the Few.

Looking forward to next year 2025 books 🎉

My most anticipated in no specific order is, Ambessa Chosen of the Wolf, My Friends by Fredrik Backman, The Devils, Red God, Strength of the Few

Broken Binding are doing a new sub box next year where it will have new books in fantasy and sci if. Do you think any of these will get special editions and will you be part of that process?

So many awesome books to come! Excellent summary Petrik, here's to another great year of reading!

red god is my most anticipated book, I can`t wait! I just know Pierce Brown will delivers, he is a goat!

Just when I think I will catch up a little bit on my TBR in 2025......SO MANY books. Lot's of series are ending which means I can finally start, but also some book 1's from authors I don't want to miss out on (the Devils, Grave Empire, The Last Contract of Isako) then there are books from series I really enjoy (of Empire and Dust, The Blackfire Blade, Red God if comes out) THEN there's stuff you've put on my radar (Anji Kills a King, A Song of Legends Lost, Paved with Good Intentions, Seven Recipes for Revolution). I need a hyperbolic time chamber just to read.