Happy 2025! We are excited to start off the year by sharing the Paper authors featured in 2025’s most anticipated lists.
Austin Taylor was featured as one of Publisher Weekly’s 2025 Writers to Watch, she shared her inspiration for her debut novel Notes on Infinity which will publish from Celadon in June 2025 in the US and by Michael Joseph in the UK. Notes on Infinity has already received a wonderful endorsement from internationally bestselling author Chris Whitaker of All the Colors of the Dark, who called it ‘mesmeric . . . it stole my breath and my heart. It’s a grand story of science and startups, a simple story of first love and belonging and a perfect portrait of friendship, family, and that fine line between exhilaration and agony. I couldn’t have loved it more.‘
Lauryn Hamilton Murray’s Heir of Storms was named one of Waterstones’ Must Read Children’s Books of 2025. Heir of Storms will publish in June from Penguin UK and Macmillan Roaring Brook in the US. #1 New York Times’ bestselling author, Melissa de la Cruz described Heir of Storms as “The Hunger Games with more spells, more stakes, and way more swoon. A must-read!”
Kate Fagan’s The Three Lives of Cate Kay and Austin Taylor’s Notes on Infinity were featured in Goodreads’ Hottest Debuts of 2025 list.
Here’s to 2025!