Welcome to Future Fiction, my reimagining of the Waiting on Wednesday meme! There are so many amazing new books coming out, that I can no longer pick just one. My goal with Future Fiction is to share at least three new books each week, a combination of recent cover reveals and books that I’ve recently added to my TBR pile. I’m still going to be linking up with Wishful Endings/Can’t Wait Wednesday, and I also want to give a shout out to Jill at Breaking the Spine for starting the original Waiting on Wednesday meme. I hope you’ll find some new books to add to your TBR piles, and as always, I look forward to hearing what YOU’RE looking forward to:-D
Today I have a long awaited book by a popular author and two other completely different books! Take a look:
Arthur Oakes is a reader, a dreamer, and a student at Rackham College, Maine, renowned for its frosty winters, exceptional library, and beautiful buildings. But his idyll—and burgeoning romance with Gwen Underfoot—is shattered when a local drug dealer and her partner corner him into one of the worst crimes he can imagine: stealing rare books from the college library.
Trapped and desperate, Arthur turns to his closest friends for comfort and help. Together they dream up a wild, fantastical scheme to free Arthur from the cruel trap in which he finds himself. Wealthy, irrepressible Colin Wren suggests using the unnerving Crane journal (bound in the skin of its author) to summon a dragon to do their bidding. The others—brave, beautiful Alison Shiner; the battling twins Donna and Donovan McBride; and brainy, bold Gwen—don’t hesitate to join Colin in an effort to smash reality and bring a creature of the impossible into our world.
But there’s nothing simple about dealing with dragons, and their pact to save Arthur becomes a terrifying bargain in which the six must choose a new sacrifice for King Sorrow every year—or become his next meal.
King Sorrow by Joe Hill. Releases in October 2025 from William Morrow. I know a lot of readers have been excited for Joe Hill’s next book, and I’m one of them. This one clocks in at almost 900 pages, though, so I’m going to have to think about that before I request it. So, this is a dragon story, but it doesn’t sound like any dragon story I’ve heard of. Should be interesting!
From the author of the internationally bestselling The Book of Doors, another fantastical, stand-alone novel in which a trio of seemingly everyday people are members of a secret society tasked with finding and protecting hidden magical objects—ordinary items with extraordinary properties.
The world of unknowable objects—magical items that most people have no idea possess powers—has been quiet for decades, but the three current members of a secret society have remained watchful, meeting every six months in the basement of a bookshop in London. They are pledged to protect their archive of magical items hidden away, safe from the outside world—and the world safe from them. But when Frank Simpson, the longest-standing member of the Society of Unknowable Objects, hears of a new artifact coming to light in Hong Kong, he sends Magda Sparks—author by day and newest member—to investigate.
Within hours of arriving in Hong Kong, Magda is facing death and danger, confronted by a professional killer who seems to know all about unknowable objects, specifically one that was stolen from him a decade before. Magda is forced to flee, using an artifact that not even the rest of the Society knows about.
Returning to London, Magda learns hers is not the only secret being kept from the other two members. And that the most pernicious secret is about the nature of the Society’s mission. Her discoveries will lead her on a perilous journey, across the Atlantic to the deep south of the United States, now in pursuit of not an unknowable object, but an unknowable the professional killer she first faced in Hong Kong. In doing so, Magda begins to understand that there are even more in the world who are chasing these magical items, and that her own family’s legacy is tied up in keeping all these secrets under wraps.
Magic has always been too powerful to reveal to the world. But Magda will learn there might be something even more
The Society of Unknowable Objects by Gareth Brown. Releases in August 2025 from William Morrow. Wow, two books from a publisher I don’t read that often! I have not yet read The Book of Doors, but I know lots of bloggers who loved it. I’m definitely going to check this one out.
Moonflow is three-time Hugo Award nominee Bitter Karella’s debut horror novel-a gloriously queer and irreverent psychedelic trip into the heart of an eldritch wood and the horrors of sisterhood. Answer the call of the forest, if you dare.
I see something out there, in the woods. It does not have a face.
They call it the King’s Breakfast. One bite and you can understand the full scope of the universe; one bite and you can commune with forgotten gods beyond human comprehension. And it only grows deep in the Pamogo forest, where the trees crowd so tight that the forest floor is pitch black day and night, where rumors of strange cults and disappearing hikers abound.
Sarah makes her living growing mushrooms. When a bad harvest leaves her in a desperate fix, the lure of the King’s Breakfast has her journeying into those vast uncharted woods. Her only guide is the most annoying man in the world, and he’s convinced there’s no danger. But as they descend deeper, they realize they’re not alone. Something is luring them into the heart of the forest, and they must answer its call.
Moonflow by Bitter Karella. Releases in September 2025 from Run For It (Orbit). You gotta love this crazy, psychedelic cover, and hey, that’s a good word to use because this is mushroom horror! I can’t wait.
900 pages??? What’s with all these tomes lately? 😀 Then again, I guess Joe hill is the son of his father…
The Society of Unknowable Objects sounds like a Warehouse 13 (the TV series) for the next generation…
Moonflow sounds…different. I might have to look into it. Great cover BTW.
I loved Warehouse 13! Your observation makes me want to read The Society of Unknowable Objects even more:-)
I hope you enjoy all of these. I’m curious about The Society Of Unknowable Objects but on the whole The Book Of Doors intrigues me most so I’m going to try and check that one out first I’ll watch out for your thoughts on the last of these too. It has parts that intrigue me but a psychedelic trip doesn’t really sound like my kind of read. So I’ve listed it as a maybe based on what others think lol
I hope you read The Book of Doors, I’m curious to read some more reviews of it.
I’m adding all of these to my tbr. Thanks for introducing me to them, Tammy!
I’m glad they sound good to you!
I do love a good Joe Hill novel, but omg, that’s long!
It’s soooo long!
Maybe a little horror heavy for me this week haha, but Moonflow looks intriguing!
I want a copy of Moonflow just for the cover:-)
A new Joe Hill novel! It sound utterly crazy, and if it were by anything else, I’d say the description sounds like something impossible to pull off… but I’m sure it will be brilliant! How exciting!
He’s certainly been working on it for a long time, lol.
Me reading the synopsis of King Sorrow: Rackham College, Maine, renowned for its frosty winters, exceptional library, and beautiful buildings… can I please attend too? hahaha but for real, it sounds like a really good story so it’s going on my to read list even with it being a huuuuge book.
I agree, despite the many many pages, it sounds pretty amazing!
I’m very excited for The Society of Unknowable Objects and Moonflow has such a cool cover!
Moonflow is my favorite of these covers:-)
Man, that cover of Moonflow is something else. Kind of want to read it just because of it, but then that’s nothing new. I forgot the Hill book cover came out last week. I’m anxious to read it. I still need to read The Fireman. I know it’s weird but I had the book out years ago and our dog was injured and got blood on it and now I can’t look out it without anxiety even though it’s been years. The only way I’ll ever read it is to replace the hardcover book, which was a gift, or get it for my Kindle. Great choices this week!
Wow, that’s a crazy story about The Fireman! I actually started it but I never finished it for some reason.
I love the sound of The Society of Unknowable Objects – but Moonflow… that is one crazy cover!! I hope you enjoy all these offerings, Tammy:)).
Thanks Sarah! Yes, that cover of Moonflow is crazy:-)
The Society of Unknowable Objects certainly has potential!
It sounds really good, right?
Hope you enjoy them if you get your hands on them. 🙂
Me too, I’m not sure I’ll read all of them, but we’ll see:-)
Love all of these covers for sure! Thanks for bringing them to my attention. Hope you get your hands on them and enjoy them!
Thanks Lisa!
Oooh Moonflow is on my list but I had not seen the cover yet, it is fun! Okay 900 PAGES?! Whoa. No. I mean- I know I have liked long books before but… Idk, that is a lot. Especially since I am iffy on dragons. I will wait to see what others thought for sure. The Society of Unknowable Objects sounds pretty good, too.
The whole dragon thing with the Joe Hill book is kind of throwing me off. But also making me curious!
Moonflow sounds awesome!!
I agree, and the cover is fabulous:-)
All three of your picks this week sound pretty unique!!
Thanks Susy:-)
I’ve had mixed luck with Joe Hill. I really enjoyed Locke & Key but was a bit disappointed by Horns and Strange Weather, so the thought of trying out a 900 page book has me feeling pretty iffy. But I’m very curious about Gareth Brown’s book. I’ve not tried anything by him but both his books sound good.
I’d love to read both of Gareth Brown’s books. I think I have a NetGalley copy of The Book of Doors that I never read, oops.
Definitely curious about the new Joe Hill!
I’m curious but will probably wait a bit to see how readers react.
Mmm, a new Joe Hill – but 900 pages! Wow, it’s like book 1, 2 and 3 all rolled into one.
Lynn 😀