Due South looks ahead at upcoming 2025 book releases

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Due South looks ahead at upcoming 2025 book releases

By Leoneda Inge,

Stacia Brown

Published February 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM EST

Whether you鈥檙e already an avid reader or you鈥檙e hoping to get back into a regular reading practice in the new year, there鈥檚 no better time than the present to make your 2025 reading list.

From fantasy to nonfiction titles, there鈥檚 plenty of upcoming releases to look forward to this year.

Here are a few picks from Flyleaf Books' Maggie Robe:

Non Fiction

鈥� by Ron Chernow

鈥� by Geraldine Brooks

鈥� by John Green

Poetry

鈥� by Blake Hobby

44 Poems on Being with Each Other鈥� by Padraig O. Tuama

Young Adult

鈥� by Tracy Deonn (A Legendborn Novel)

鈥� by Suzanne Collins (A Hunger Games Novel)鈥�

Fiction (with some subgenres listed!):

搁辞尘补苍肠别:鈥€� by Emily Henry

搁辞尘补苍迟补蝉测:鈥€� by Rebecca Yarros

Science Fiction:鈥€� by John Scalzi

贵补苍迟补蝉测:鈥€痓y Amal El-Mohtar

贬耻尘辞谤:鈥€� by Landon Bryant

尝颈迟别谤补谤测:鈥€� by Torrey Peters

Guest

Maggie Robe, Marketing and Events Manager at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill

This conversation originally aired on January 16, 2025.

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Leoneda Inge

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of 瓜神app's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at 瓜神app as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda鈥檚 work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital 瓜神app Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.

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Stacia Brown

Stacia L. Brown is a writer and audio storyteller who has worked in public media since 2016, when she partnered with the Association of Independents in Radio and Baltimore's WEAA 88.9 to create The Rise of Charm City, a narrative podcast that centered community oral histories. She has worked for WAMU鈥檚 daily news radio program, 1A, as well as 瓜神app鈥檚 The State of Things. Stacia was a producer for 瓜神app's award-winning series, Great Grief with Nnenna Freelon and a co-creator of the station's first children's literacy podcast, The Story Stables. She served as a senior producer for two Ten Percent Happier podcasts, Childproof and More Than a Feeling. In early 2023, she was interim executive producer for WNYC鈥檚 The Takeaway.

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