All Points West December 2025: Best Books of the Year

Explore the best books of 2025 as read by GVPL staff and recommended by librarian Brooklyn during CBC's All Points West with Jason D'Souza

Updated December 10, 2025
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Bury our bones in the midnight soil
Schwab, Victoria
The Heart-Stopping International Sensation! Instant No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller No. 1 New York Times Bestseller The Radio 2 Book Club Pick From V. E. Schwab, a genre-defying, unforgettable novel to sink your teeth into . . .
Slow dance : a novel
Rowell, Rainbow
Paper Book
Everybody thought Shiloh and Cary would end up together - everybody but Shiloh and Cary. Slow Dance follows these star-crossed best friends from their inseparable teen years on the wrong side of the tracks to their far-flung adulthoods - through her marriage and motherhood and...
Bear : a novel
Phillips, Julia
Paper Book
They were sisters and they would last past the end of time. Sam and her sister, Elena, dream of another life. On the island off the coast of Washington where they were born and raised, they and their mother struggle to survive. Sam works long days on the ferry that delivers wealthy...
Pageboy a memoir
Page, Elliot
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER | INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A New York TimesBook of the Year and TimeMagazine Must-Read Book of 2023 Shortlisted for the Goodreads Choice Awards andBooks Are My Bag Readers Awards 2023 ...
Stone yard devotional
Wood, Charlotte
Paper Book
A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winning author of The Natural Way of Things and The Weekend.
On the calculation of volume. I
Balle, Solvej
Tara Selter has slipped out of time. Every morning, she wakes up to the 18th of November. She no longer expects to wake up to the 19th of November, and she no longer remembers the 17th of November as if it were yesterday. She comes to know the shape...
Brownstone
Teer, Samuel
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE PRINTZ AWARD A Harvey Award Nominee! An Indie Next List Selection! A Kirkus Reviews Best Book! A Publishers Weekly Best Book! A 2025 CBC Best Children's Book of the Year selection! "Angsty. Awkward. With a scrappy...
The emperor of gladness : a novel
Vuong, Ocean
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Heartbreaking, heartwarming yet unsentimental, and savagely comic' Guardian 'Some of the most beautiful writing I've experienced in my lifetime' Oprah Winfrey READERS ARE OBSESSED WITH THE...
The husbands : a novel
Gramazio, Holly
Paper Book
**NO 1 KINDLE BESTSELLER** **A SUNDAY TIMES, STYLIST AND RED BOOK OF THE YEAR** 'As soon as I started reading I thought, 'I wish I'd thought of that.' Huge fun' KATE ATKINSON * 'One of the funniest debuts for years' SUNDAY TIMES ...
The library book
Orlean, Susan
Ebook
A New York Times Book of the Year, 2018 A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK A dazzling love letter to a beloved institution - our libraries. After moving to Los Angeles, Susan...
The bright sword : a novel of King Arthur
Grossman, Lev
Paper Book
A book of the year for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, Vulture, Esquire, Goodreads, Elle, NPR, Vox, New York Post, Lit Hub, Cosmo, People, Paste, Vanity Fair, Polygon, BookBub, BookRiot and more! 'If you love King Arthur as much as I do, you'll love...
James : a novel
Everett, Percival
Paper Book
'Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them' - Roddy Doyle James is a profound and ferociously funny novel from one of our greatest living writers, Percival Everett. The Sunday Times Bestseller Winner of the...

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