The Lighthouse keepers' most anticipated books of 2025
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2024 was a bountiful year for books, and it's thrilling to see, just over the horizon, that 2025 is packed with the queer, feminist, philosophical, political and poetic reads we've been hungry to see more of!
A wee reminder that book pre-orders are such a gift - not only do you get to delight in the book landing on your doorstep on publication, but pre-orders play a big role in the trade in supporting emerging writers, flagging to press/reviewers/booksellers excitement about a release and encouraging publishers to back new titles with the campaign support they deserve. So if you can, it really does make a difference to pre-order the books you are excited for!
We'd love to hear about any other books that you're looking forward to and we haven't flagged! Give us a shout on socials (bluesky/instagram/tiktok @lighthousebks!)
Linked Books
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- Bad Vibes
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- Aja Barber
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- Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line: A Hidden History of Queer Women
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- Elizabeth Lovatt
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- Pink Pilled: Women and the Far Right
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- Lois Shearing
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- Before We Hit the Ground
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- Selali Fiamanya
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- When We Ruled
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- Paula Akpan
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- Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal : My Adventures in Neurodiversity
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- Robin Ince
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- No Is Not a Lonely Utterance : The Art and Activism of Complaining
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- Sara Ahmed
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- Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation
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- Sophie Lewis
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- Pathemata : Or, The Story of My Mouth
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- Maggie Nelson
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- Muckle Flugga *signed*
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- Michael Pedersen
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- Stag Dance
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- Torrey Peters
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- The New Age of Sexism How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny
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- Laura Bates
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- One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
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- Omar El Akkad
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- Outrage : Why The Fight for LGBTQ+ Equality Is Not Yet Won And What We Can Do About It
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- Ellen jones
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- Patriarchy Inc: What We Get Wrong About Gender Equality and Why Men Still Win at Work
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- Cordelia Fine
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- Dark Laboratory : On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis
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- Dr Tao Leigh Goffe
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- No & Other Love Stories
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- Kirsty Logan
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- Foreign Fruit : A Personal History of the Orange
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- Katie Goh
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- Love in Exile
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- Shon Faye
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- The Two Roberts
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- Damian Barr
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- Pathfinding: On Walking, Motherhood and Freedom
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- Kerri Andrews
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- Fierce Salvage : A Queer Words Anthology
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- ed Ryan Vance, Michael Lee Richardson
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- Emperor of Gladness
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- Ocean Vuong
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- Look, Don't Touch : Reflections on the Freedom to Feel
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- layla-roxanne hill, Francesca Sobande
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- Revolutionary Desires : The Political Power of the Sex Scene
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- Xuanlin Tham
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- Small Town Joy : From Glam Rock to Hyperpop: How Queer Music Changed the Sound of Scotland
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- Carrie Marshall
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- Ctrl Hate Delete : The New Anti-Feminist Backlash and How We Fight It
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- Cécile Simmons
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- Moral Abdication : How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza
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- Fassin, Didier
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- Hark : How Women Listen
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- Alice Vincent
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- Model Home
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- Rivers Solomon
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- The South
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- Tash Aw
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- The River Has Roots
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- Amal El-Mohtar
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- The Dissenters
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- Youssef Rakha
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- The Psychic Lives of Statues Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire
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- Rahul Rao
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- Red Pockets : An Offering
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- Alice Mah
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- Death of the Author
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- Nnedi Okorafor
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- Universality
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- Natasha Brown