Stefanie Koens
The Best Books of the Year: 2025
- December 17, 2025
- Books
- Features
- Affirm Press
- Allen and Unwin
- Atria Australia
- Barbara Truelove
- Bindery Books
- Chris Flynn
- Hachette Australia
- HarperCollins AU
- Jessica Townsend
- Johanna Van Veen
- kate solly
- Lili Wilkinson
- Madeline Cleary
- Nikita Gill
- Omar Musa
- Penguin Australia
- Poisoned Pen Press
- Ruby Jean Cottle
- Simon and Schuster Australia
- Stefanie Koens
- Steve MinOn
- UQP Books
It’s just over a week until Christmas and the AU Books Team have been busy making their lists, rating their books, and agonising over their choices for their favourite books of 2025. It’s never an easy task and it’s practically impossible to pick just one, so we let them pick a few. Of course this…
The AU’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025: July – September
- July 1, 2025
- Books
- Features
- Alison Nampitjinpa Anderson
- Bantam
- Chloe Adams
- Dreaming Fully Awake Press
- Fremantle Press
- Hachette
- HarperCollins Australia
- JM Field
- Mandi Kontos
- nell stevens
- nicolas rothwell
- Omar Musa
- One More Chapter
- Patrick Marlborough
- Penguin
- philippa gregory
- R F Kuang
- Rosie Hewlett
- Scribner
- Stefanie Koens
- T. Kingfisher
- Takuya Asakura
- Text Publishing
- Toni Jordan
- Tor Nightfire
- UQP Books
- Yuka Maeno
Assassins, gorgons, greyhounds and calico cats all feature in this quarter’s most anticipated list, with characters across the board witnessing their own personal versions of hell (and the very literal hell in one case). But amongst these monsters and trials and conflicts are also moments of peace, moments of solidarity, and moments of personal growth….
