Looking Back on a Magical 2024 and Jumpstarting a Fantastical 2025

2024 was a magical year at Dover, with bestselling books filled with enchanting characters, and you'll see more intriguing and fantastical characters in the months ahead. Illustrator Teresa Goodridge filled our lives with adorable gnome coloring books: Garden Gnomes, Gnome for the Holidays, Whimsical Gnomes, and cute Christmas and garden gnome stickers. Looking ahead to 2025, these fun-loving, good-luck beings can be found in new releases of Gnomes at Home and an extraordinary coloring book, Creative Haven® Drawn to Coloring! Gnomes & Gardens. In this reverse-style coloring book, you doodle and trace your lines instead of coloring in the lines to bring each full-color image to life.

Love and magic intertwined in a blend of romance and fantasy in Romantasy: A Coloring Book. This bestselling literary genre originated on social media. The romance continues with the upcoming release of Enemies to Lovers: A Romantasy Coloring Book. Add this to your wishlist now!

It was a whirlwind year in pop culture, with Dover releasing coloring books featuring icons from music and television. Favorites included unofficial coloring books featuring Taylor Swift, Dolly Parton, and the TV western Yellowstone.  Are you ready for more? Look for The Unofficial Super Swiftie Word Search Books, Volumes 1 and 2, and add to your wishlist the Unofficial Taylor Swift Friendship Bracelets: Through the Eras, available in March.

Dover's library of classic literature has consistently offered excellence and value in fiction and nonfiction. 2024 continued this success with the brilliant introduction of Dover Bookshelf. These hardcover classics with uniquely designed covers inspired by the stories within combine beauty and affordability, making them artful accessories in your home library and impressive gifts. Now available for book lovers and collectors, Bookshelf in a Box—a trio of literary classics in a full-color, vividly illustrated slipcase. Keep an eye out for other upcoming Dover Bookshelf releases starting in April.

Dover publishes an impressive selection of authors in the affordable Thrift Edition series. This past year intriguing novels from Elizabeth Bowen and Esther Forbes joined revered writers Philip K. Dick, Leo Tolstoy, Edith Wharton, and African American authors Countee Cullen, W. E. B. Du Bois, Rudolph Fisher, and Claude McKay, among others. Cozy up with our latest classic fiction reads from William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Erich Maria Remarque, John Steinbeck, and Virginia Woolf.

The modern fantasy of Dungeons and Dragons has put the magic of role-playing games at the forefront of storytelling. From gaming content to bestselling novels and popular streaming shows, its influence can be seen in fantasy creation. Now, you can create your own role-playing game based on world mythology with Deify: A Mythical Solo Role-Playing Game. Looking for unique heroes and villains? Explore Before the Tavern: 100 Character Concepts for Tabletop Role-Playing Games. Both are a wellspring of inspiration for your world-building, creative writing endeavors.

Little creators ages three and up were the focus of Super Simple, a trusted name in early learning and entertainment with more than 45 million YouTube subscribers. From coloring to activity books packed with easy-to-color illustrations and creative multisensory experiences, they provide hours of engagement for preschoolers and toddlers.

We're excited to present YOYO Books, stimulating titles for young children under the age of ten. From storybooks and sensory books to coloring, activity, and educational books, YOYO has titles to spark the creativity and imagination of every child. Coming soon: Colors to Touch and Big Sticker & Easy Coloring.

 

Get crafty with the adorables! Hobbyists crocheted the most adorable animal families, desserts, fruits and vegetables, and houseplants. We're starting the new year with Adorable Mini Animals to Crochet—whimsical micro-gurumi patterns of tiny creatures no bigger than your thumb! They're all so cute and sweet!

 

There's a wealth of exciting new releases awaiting your exploration in 2025. Discover more at www.doverpublications.com.