Many can feel it… 2025 is shaping up to be a year marked by a fierce determination to embrace happiness and take the time to care for ourselves!
Gone are the days of maximum stress—welcome inspiring projects and a resolute focus on the quality of our lives. Selfish? Not at all. It’s about being more centered, so we can be happier with others!



This trend is undeniable, and we’re fully on board. Well-being will play a bigger role in our editorial line this year, starting right now with some cozy, soul-nourishing reading.
It’s clear to us all: time is becoming the most precious resource. Whether you choose to lose it leisurely or invest it in savoring a good book, reading offers unparalleled joy. A great story can transport us, spark our imagination, and gift us those pure moments of well-being.



Here’s our curated selection of five books guaranteed to whisk you away from the noise of the world for as long as their pages turn. These literary escapes, hitting shelves between now and March 18th, promise a perfect cocooning retreat. Read the first, then the second, and so on—this is your essential reading list for the first quarter of 2025!

Theft

Abdulrazak Gurnah
Release date : March, 18 2025

In his first novel since earning the 2021 Nobel Prize, this literary master weaves a powerful tale set against the backdrop of a rapidly changing world.

As the 21st century dawns, three young lives intersect in Tanzania. Karim, brimming with confidence and ambition, returns to his quiet hometown after university. Fauzia sees in him a potential path to break free from her stifling circumstances. Together, they create a sanctuary for Badar, a boy grappling with uncertainty about whether the future holds anything for him at all.

Dream state: a novel

Eric Puchner
Release date : February, 18 2025

Dream State is a delight… An exquisitely rendered novel about the vagaries of fate, and friendship, and love.

Cece is head over heels in love. She’s arrived early at her soon-to-be in-laws’ picturesque lake house in Salish, Montana, to finalize the details of her wedding to Charlie, a promising young doctor with a bright future ahead. Charlie has chosen Garrett, his college best friend, to officiate the ceremony—a choice Cece finds baffling. Garrett, an airport baggage handler, is weighed down by a haunting tragedy that ties him and Charlie to a shared and shadowed past.

Tilt, a novel

Emma Pattee
Release date : March, 25 2025

Unfolding over the span of a single day, this gripping debut tells the story of a woman confronting the unthinkable, driven by finding safety.

Last night, we were safe. Last night, in a parallel universe, your father and I were arguing in the kitchen.
Annie, nine months pregnant, is shopping for a crib at IKEA when a powerful earthquake shakes Portland, Oregon. Cut off from her husband, without a phone, money, or means of transportation, she is left with no choice but to navigate a city in turmoil—on foot.

Death of the author

Nnedi Okorafor
Release date : January, 14 2025

Endorsed by The New York Times Book Review, People, NPR, Rolling Stone, The Los Angeles Times, Reader's Digest, and more!

Zelu has always been the misfit in her sprawling Nigerian family—disabled, uninterested in marriage, and far more passionate about writing than pursuing a prestigious career in medicine or law. But her world is thrown into turmoil when, during her sister's extravagant Caribbean wedding, she’s abruptly fired from her university job, and, as if that weren’t enough, her novel faces yet another rejection from a publisher.

Isola

Allegra Goodman
Release date : February, 4 2025

A groundbreaking survival tale for a new era... a remarkable work that unfolds like a thriller..." — Vogue

Born into wealth, Marguerite seemed bound for a life of comfort and refinement. But when she is orphaned, her guardian—a mercurial and mysterious figure—squanders her inheritance and demands she join him on a perilous journey to New France. Stranded and fearful, Marguerite forms a deep and consuming bond with her guardian’s servant.