Best Reads of 2025

The best reads of 2025 from the City of Perth Library staff.

Updated January 29, 2026
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Best Reads of 2025

The best reads of 2025 from the City of Perth Library staff.

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A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy ... A Memoir of Sorts
Slater, Nigel.
Paper Book
THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From award-winning writer Nigel Slater, comes a new and exquisitely written collection of notes, memoir, stories and small moments of joy. 'Nigel Slater's prose is the rarest delicacy of all: exquisite yet effortless, filled with heart,...
The will of the many
Islington, James
Paper Book
"" background-color:="">Featuring a reversible book cover with the original hardcover art design. At the elite Catenan Academy, a young fugitive uncovers layered mysteries and world-changing secrets in this new fantasy series by internationally bestselling...
Nettle & Bone
Kingfisher, T
Paper Book
Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel An Instant USA Today & Indie Bestseller An Oprah Daily Top 25 Fantasy Book of 2022 A Vulture Best Fantasy Novel of 2022 An NPR Best Sci Fi, Fantasy, & Speculative Fiction Book of 2022 A...
Fire
Boyne, John
Paper Book
On the face of it, Freya lives a gilded existence, dancing solely to her own tune. She has all the trappings of wealth and privilege, a responsible job as a surgeon specialising in skin grafts, a beautiful flat in a sought-after development, and a flash car. But it wasn't always like this. Hers is a...
Standstill
Perera, Sashi
Paper Book
'Brilliant, vulnerable and hilarious. Sashi Perera has given us a comedy, a tragedy, a memoir, a polemic and an instruction manual on self-forgiveness. I laughed and cried, often at the same time.' SHANKARI CHANDRAN 'This book is chaos. This book is laughter and love. This...
Nevermoor : the trials of Morrigan Crow
Townsend, Jessica
Paper Book
A breathtaking, enchanting new series by debut Australian author Jessica Townsend, about a cursed girl who escapes death and finds herself in a magical world - but is then tested beyond her wildest imagination. Morrigan Crow is cursed. Born on an unlucky day, she is blamed for all local misfortunes,...
The one
Marrs, John (Freelance journalist)
Paper Book
HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO FIND THE ONE?A no 1 EBook bestseller and featured on Simon Mayo's Radio 2 book club. Perfect for fans of TM Logan's Lies and C.L. Taylor's The Fear.One simple mouth swab is all it takes. A quick DNA test to find your perfect partner- the one you're...
Patriot
Navalny, Alexei.
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER * BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORKER, THE ATLANTIC, NPR * The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs. "...
Gideon the ninth
Muir, Tamsyn
Paper Book
Gideon the Ninth is the first book in the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Locked Tomb Series, and one of the Best Books of 2019 according to NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, BookPage, Shelf Awareness, BookRiot, and Bustle!...
Angel down
Kraus, Daniel
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A thunderous gallop of a war novel, a new classic, a best-in-class example of speculative fiction." --The New York Times Book Review The critically acclaimed author of the...
Wild dark shore
McConaghy, Charlotte
Paper Book
REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK FOR NOVEMBER 2025! 'At once a gripping mystery, an exquisitely written ode to the natural world, and a taut, psychological thriller, Wild Dark Shore is a triumph. Charlotte McConaghy is masterful in her ability to show the...
Orbital
Harvey, Samantha
Paper Book
**WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE** **THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'A slim, profound study of intimate human fears set against epic vistas' GUARDIAN 'Stunning... An uplifting book' SUNDAY TIMES Life on our...
Vanishing World
Murata, Sayaka/ Takemori, Ginny Tapley (TRN).
Paper Book
From the author of the bestselling literary sensations Convenience Store Woman and Earthlings comes a surprising and highly imaginative story set in a version of Japan where sex between married couples has vanished and all children are born by artificial insemination ...
The Mercy of Gods : Book One of the Captive's War
Corey, James S. A.
Paper Book
'THE START OF SOMETHING TRULY EPIC' Fonda Lee, author of the Green Bone Saga'NO ONE BUILDS A UNIVERSE LIKE JAMES S. A. COREY' John Scalzi, New York Times bestselling authorFrom the New York Times bestselling author of the Expanse comes a spectacular new space opera...
The Incandescent
Tesh, Emily.
Paper Book
A Deadly Education meets Plain Bad Heroines in this sapphic dark academia fantasy from bestselling author Emily Tesh, winner of the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards Doctor Walden is the Director of Magic at Chetwood School and one of the most powerful magicians in...
The mother-in-law
Hepworth, Sally
Paper Book
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Sister and The Family Next Door with new novel The Younger Wife out now."Hepworth turns up the tension in her latest Australian-set domestic suspense novel. A masterful depiction... makes this a winner for fans of Liane Moriarty and Megan Abbott...
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