DDL Staff Picks of 2025

Updated December 5, 2025
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Atmosphere : a love story
Reid, Taylor Jenkins
Paper Book
***THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER*** 'Tipped to be this summer's biggest read' SUNDAY TIMES 'A richly drawn page-turner' OBSERVER 'Quite possibly our favourite TJR novel yet' COSMOPOLITAN 'I absolutely adored this' BRYONY GORDON 'A...
Broken country : a novel
Hall, Clare Leslie
Buckeye : a novel
Ryan, Patrick
A New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2025 A Read With Jenna Book Club Pick September 2025 One town. Two families. A secret that changes everything. 'Poignant, powerful' Independent 'Omniscient, sweeping, almost...
The buffalo hunter hunter
Jones, Stephen Graham
Paper Book
Etsy Beaucarne is an academic who needs to get published. So when a journal written in 1912 by Arthur Beaucarne, a Lutheran pastor and her grandfather, is discovered within a wall during renovations, she sees her chance. She can uncover the lost secrets of her family, and get tenure. As...
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 . . .
The correspondent : a novel
Evans, Virginia
The crash
McFadden, Freida
Paper Book
A brand new psychological thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden! The nightmare she's running from is nothing compared to where she's headed. Tegan is eight months pregnant, alone, and desperately wants to put her crumbling...
Cursed daughters : a novel
Braithwaite, Oyinkan
THE SECOND NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF THE GLOBAL MEGA-SELLER, MY SISTER, THE SERIAL KILLER
Don't let him in
Jewell, Lisa
PREPARE TO BE HOOKED BY THE GRIPPING NEW THRILLER FROM LISA JEWELL. 'Gripping. Shocking. Masterful.' FREIDA McFADDEN 'Lisa Jewell is a stone-cold genius and Don't Let Him In deserves to win mainstream literary prizes. Her best book yet. A...
Everything is tuberculosis : the history and persistence of our deadliest infection
Green, John
Heartwood : a novel
Gaige, Amity
Katabasis : a novel
Kuang, R. F.
Paper Book
Prepare for one hell of a journey... 'A big, bold fantasy romp' GUARDIAN 'R.F. Kuang is making magic' ELLE '[A] truly original and spellbinding hero's-journey story' VOGUE 'I devoured it' RED Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's...
The knight and the moth
Gillig, Rachel
The listeners
Stiefvater, Maggie
As the U.S. joins World War II, the manager of a luxury hotel set in the remote West Virginia mountains finds herself charged with the care of detained Nazi diplomats--and the FBI agent looking for a spy among them, by the #1 New York Times bestselling novelist Maggie Stiefvater. ...
The loneliness of Sonia and Sunny : a novel
Desai, Kiran
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years--an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity, by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Inheritance of Loss<...
A marriage at sea : a true story of love, obsession, and shipwreck
Elmhirst, Sophie
My name is Emilia del Valle : a novel
Allende, Isabel
'A spellbinding masterpiece' SANTA MONTEFIORE'Isabel Allende is a literary treasure' KRISTIN HANNAH 'A captivating novel of love and war from one of our most revered storytellers' KATE MORTON The new historical novel from literary legend Isabel...
Sisters in the wind
Boulley, Angeline
Paper Book
A Good Morning America Book Club Pick! From the instant New York Times bestselling author of Firekeeper's Daughter and Warrior Girl Unearthed comes a daring new mystery about a foster teen claiming her heritage on her own terms. Ever since Lucy Smith...
Sunrise on the reaping
Collins, Suzanne
Paper Book
The unforgettable fifth book in the Hunger Games series: Haymitch's story. Feature film scheduled for November 2026. #1 USA Today Bestseller * #1 New York Times Bestseller * #1 Indie Bestseller * #1 Publishers Weekly Bestseller * A New York Times Editors'...
Water moon : a novel
Sotto, Samantha
Paper Book
On a backstreet in Tokyo lies a pawnshop, but not everyone can find it. Most will see only a cosy ramen restaurant. And just the chosen ones - those who are lost - will find a place to pawn their life choices and deepest regrets. Hana Ishikawa wakes on her first morning as the...

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