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Breakup Books for the Lovelorn, Angry, and Heartbroken in 2025

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With everything going on in the world right now, the last thing that you need right now is a break-up. But we can’t always control when heartbreak happens. I know it’s hard to believe, but eventually, you will be able to move on and you will be happier for it. But today is not that day. 2025 might not even be that year. For now, allow yourself to handle your heartache at whatever pace makes sense to you. Here are three books coming out in 2025 that are ready to meet you where you are. No matter how you’re feeling about your breakup.

When You Just Want to Forget Them

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Meet Me At Blue Hour by Sarah Suk (Quill Tree Books, April 1)

Sometimes it seems like the best way to get over someone is to just get them out of your mind entirely. But forgetting comes with its own heartbreak. Seventeen-year-old Yena Bae is spending her summer working at her mom’s memory-erasing clinic in Busan, South Korea when she reunites with her best friend, Lucas Pak. Lucas is also in Busan for the summer because he wants to get his grandfather into an experimental treatment plan that would actually restore memories. But here’s the thing: Lucas does not remember Yena at all. It seems that he’s erased her from his memories, but why?

When You Maybe Wish You Could Get Back Together

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Bed and Breakup by Susie Dumond (Dial Press, June 25)

Breakups don’t always mean the end of the relationship forever. That’s why second-chance romances exist! Exes Molly and Robin opened up a bed and breakfast, having no idea it would be the thing that would tear them apart. Seven years after their breakup, Molly and Robin are ready to fix the antique inn up, sell it, and be out of each other’s hair once and for all. But their efforts to restore the place to its former glory also remind them of why they fixed it up in the first place. And why they once fell in love.

When You Just Want Revenge

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The Payback Girls by Alex Travis (Sourcebooks Fire, April 1)

If you got revenge on your lying, cheating, no-good ex, wouldn’t you want to remember it? When high school seniors Meghan, Robin, and Bria all find out they’ve been dating the same guy, they’re not too happy about it. But then their “boyfriend” Nate is discovered bloodied and unconscious after the big basketball game. With all the drama going on in their romantic lives, the three teen girls become prime suspects. Meghan is sure she didn’t do it, but she can’t quite remember what happened the night of the attack. And all three girls do have a motive.


2025 might feel like a year of heartbreak, but reading can turn your 2025 into a year of self-care. If you are lovelorn, angry, and heartbroken, these books are going to feel like a giant hug.