The week of December 2, 2025
Read these next.
New December books loved by Southern indie booksellers.
Because there is a book out there for every kind of reader.
Founded on our booksellers’ conviction that you can never have too many good books, Read This Next! is a list of books coming out each month that booksellers are especially excited about. Read This Next! Kids is a bimonthly list of forthcoming Children’s and Young Adult Books receiving Southern indie bookseller love.
This month’s list includes steamy romance, reality TV, and a Nobel Prize winner. Because indie booksellers read everything, and really believe there is a book for every kind of reader.
See what books are on the list for December.
Happy reading!
Featuring reviews of:
- House of Day, House of Night by Olda Tokarczuk, reviewed by Catherine Pabalate, Epilogue: Books Chocolate Brews in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- Our Gifted Hearts by Jennifer Kennedy, reviewed by Kathy Clemmons, Sundog Books in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida
- Tea is Love by Adib Khorram, reviewed by Jennifer Sauter-Price, Read Early and Daily (READ) in Arlington, Virginia
- A Guilded in Vengeance by Lyssa Mia Smith, reviewed by Eden Haymon, Cavalier House Books in Denham Springs, Louisiana
- A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls by Adam Morgan, reviewed by Jan Blodgett, Main Street Books in Davidson, North Carolina
- Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich, reviewed by Krista Roach, E. Shaver, Booksellers in Savannah, Georgia
- Fake Skating by Lynn Painter, reviewed by Kimberly Todd, Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi
- Bookseller Buzz: Best Offer Wins by Marisa Kashino, Barb Rascon, Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, North Carolina, Allyn Oliver, The Bluffton Bookshop in Bluffton, South Carolina, Maggie Robe, Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, North Carolina