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Staff Favorites of 2025Unpublished

Of all the books that came out in 2025, these were some of our staff members' favorites.

Updated December 19, 2025

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Staff Favorites of 2025

Of all the books that came out in 2025, these were some of our staff members' favorites.

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My friends : a novel

Backman, Fredrik

Paper Book

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A Fallon Book Club Pick WINNER OF THE 2025 GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS FOR BEST FICTION A Most Anticipated Book of 2025: Goodreads * USA TODAY * Marie Claire * BookPage * Literary Lifestyle * Book Riot * Sunset...

The book club for troublesome women : a novel

Bostwick, Marie

Paper Book

USA TODAY BESTSELLER · SOUTHERN INDIE BESTSELLER · A BRENDA NOVAK BOOK GROUP PICK · GLOSS BOOK CLUB PICK · THE GIRLFRIEND BOOK CLUB PICK · A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025 (SheReads) · Margaret never really meant to start a book club . . . or a feminist revolution, for that matter in this bold and...

Battle of the bookstores

Brady, Ali

Paper Book

INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER A LibraryReads Pick Rivalry and romance spark when two bookstore managers who are opposites in every way find themselves competing for the same promotion. Despite managing bookstores on the same Boston street, Josie Klein and...

Mark Twain

Chernow, Ron

Paper Book

The #1 New York Times Bestseller * A Barack Obama Summer Reading List Pick * A Washington Post and New York Times Notable Book * Named a Best Book of 2025 by TIME, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, and Kirkus Reviews ...

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'...

Too old for this

Downing, Samantha

TRN

The Pioneer Woman Cooks--The Essential Recipes: 120 Greatest Hits, New Twists, and Perfected Classics

Drummond, Ree

The ninth blockbuster cookbook by #1 New York Times bestselling author Ree Drummond, featuring tested, perfected versions of her all-time favorite, most crowd-pleasing, and timelessly popular recipes--the classics that families turn to every day and year after year. ...

The favorites : a novel

Fargo, Layne

Paper Book

To the world, they were a scandal. To each other, an obsession. NATIONAL BESTSELLER * An epic love story set in the sparkling, savage sphere of elite figure skating, starring a woman determined to carve her own path on and off the ice "Part...

Victorian psycho : a novel

Feito, Virginia

Paper Book

Virginia Feito's Mrs. March was hailed as "a brilliant debut . . . [by] a writer who keeps pace with the grandees she invokes" (Sarah Ditum, Guardian)--from Daphne Du Maurier and Shirley Jackson to Patricia Highsmith. Now, Feito returns with her "silver-polish sentences and her eerie psychological...

Future boy : Back to the Future and my journey through the space-time continuum

Fox, Michael J.

Paper Book

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A poignant, heartfelt, and funny memoir about how, in 1985, Michael J. Fox brought to life two iconic roles simultaneously--Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties and Marty McFly in Back to the Future. An amazing true story as only...

Isola : a novel

Goodman, Allegra

Paper Book

REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * "A shocking story, made all the more stunning by the fact that it has its roots in true history."--Jodi Picoult, author of By Any Other Name "A new generation of survival story . . . an extraordinary book that reads like a...

Everything is tuberculosis : the history and persistence of our deadliest infection

Green, John

Paper Book

#1 New York Times bestseller * #1 Washington Post bestseller * #1 Indie Bestseller * USA Today Bestseller John Green, award-winning author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world's...

Hazel says no : a novel

Gross, Jessica Berger

Paper Book

*A Today Best Upcoming Book* *An ABA Indie Next Pick* *A Spotify "Best Book of the Year So Far"* *An RJ Julia Best Book of 2025 So Far* *A Jewish Book Council Book Club Pick* "A joy to read."--Lilith

A wizard of Earthsea : a graphic novel

Le Guin, Ursula K.

Paper Book

Ursula K. Le Guin's timeless and revered A Wizard of Earthsea is reimagined in a richly expansive graphic novel by acclaimed artist Fred Fordham, creator of stunning adaptations To Kill a Mockingbird and Brave New World. Ged was the greatest sorcerer in Earthsea...

Broken country : a novel

Hall, Clare Leslie

Paper Book

" A love triangle unearths dangerous, deadly secrets from the past in this thrilling tale perfect for fans of The Paper Palace and Where the Crawdads Sing. "The farmer is dead. He is dead, and all anyone wants to know is who killed him."<...

The sirens : a novel

Hart, Emilia

Paper Book

A spellbinding novel about sisters separated by centuries, but bound together by the sea, from the author of the runaway New York Times bestseller Weyward 2019: Lucy awakens from a dream to find her hands around her ex-lover's throat. Horrified,...

The road to tender hearts : a novel

Hartnett, Annie

Paper Book

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A darkly comic and warm-hearted novel about an old man on a cross-country mission to reunite with his high school crush--bringing together his adult daughter, two orphaned kids, and a cat who can predict death--by the beloved author of Rabbit Cake and Unlikely...

This Thing of Ours

Joseph, Frederick

An instant New York Times bestseller! "A thought-provoking exploration of storytelling dynamics in a social media-driven society." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) The powerful and timely YA novel debut from three-time New York Times...

The Zorg : a tale of greed and murder that inspired the abolition of slavery

Kara, Siddharth

"A book of great importance and one that will likely become a classic." - New York Times Book Review One of The New York Times' 100 Most Notable Books of 2025 A Time Magazine Must-Read Book of 2025 A New Yorker<...

Murder at Gulls Nest /

Kidd, Jess,

One of The Wall Street Journal's Best Mysteries of 2025 From Jess Kidd, the bestselling author of Things in Jars who "is so good it isn't fair" (Erika Swyler, nationally bestselling author), the first in a cozy mystery series about a former nun who searches for...

Heart the lover : a novel

King, Lily

Paper Book

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A BEST BOOK OF 2025: TIME Magazine, New York Times, Washington Post, Harper's Baazar, NPR, Vogue, Oprah Daily, People Magazine, USA TODAY, Literary Hub, Electric Literature, Kirkus Review, BookPage, Apple, Spotify,...

The names

Knapp, Florence

Paper Book

THE YEAR'S BREAKOUT NOVEL AND WORD-OF-MOUTH HIT--A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND READ WITH JENNA PICK "Dazzling. . . Knapp tirelessly and beautifully replicates not just loss and grief but endless rebirth and delight." --The Washington Post "Elegant. . ....

Katabasis : a novel

Kuang, R. F.

Dante's Inferno meets Susanna Clarke's Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save...

Red city

Lu, Marie

Paper Book

DELUXE EDITION--a stunning hardcover edition featuring dark crimson sprayed edges The Godfather meets The Magicians in the sweeping adult debut from #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu. Perfect for fans of V.E. Schwab,...

These summer storms : a novel

MacLean, Sarah

Paper Book

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From author Sarah MacLean, a razor-sharp, wildly sexy novel about a wealthy New England family's long-overdue reckoning . . . and the one week that threatens to tear them apart. "Deliciously impossible to put down."--Jodi Picoult "Addictive."...

Accomplice to the villain

Maehrer, Hannah Nicole

Paper Book

THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES Accolades: Goodreads Choice Award finalist 2025: Readers' Favorite Romantasy * Likewise Choice Award finalist * Spotify Best Romantasy Audiobooks of 2025 recommendation Once Upon a Time...

Famous last words : a novel

McAllister, Gillian

Paper Book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "This novel blindsided me with twists and surprises that had me gasping...and with a poignancy about relationships and love that one rarely finds in the genre. A brilliant, brilliant book." --Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author ...

Wild dark shore

McConaghy, Charlotte

Paper Book

REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR 2025 "A breathtaking novel of ROMANCE, MYSTERY, AND TWISTS that will shock you...I love this book so much." --Reese Witherspoon "A WILDLY TALENTED...

Of time and turtles : mending the world, shell by shattered shell

Montgomery, Sy

Paper Book

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * AMAZON EDITOR'S PICK and BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * INDIE BESTSELLER * A SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE'S BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR * THE WASHINGTON POST'S BEST NONFICTION OF THE YEAR PICK * A NEW SCIENTIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR *THE PERFECT...

Cash

Peterson, Jessica

Butting heads leads to knocking boots in this hilariously banter-filled and wildly sexy enemies-to-lovers, grumpy/sunshine, small-town cowboy romance by New York Times bestselling author Jessica Peterson. One year on a Texas ranch. One angry, ridiculously hot cowboy. One...

A fine line between stupid and clever : the story of Spinal Tap

Reiner, Rob

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER For the first time, director Rob Reiner and cocreators Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer provide the full behind-the-scenes story of the making of the groundbreaking mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap and its upcoming sequel....

The antidote

Russell, Karen

Paper Book

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE * LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION * LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD From Pulitzer finalist, MacArthur...

Soul searching

Sage, Lyla

Home is where the heart is--and this one is haunted. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The author of the Rebel Blue Ranch series returns with a brand-new story, featuring a small-town upholsterer in need of a fresh start, a photographer whose life has come to a...

On the hippie trail : Istanbul to Kathmandu and the making of a travel writer

Steves, Rick

Paper Book

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Stow away with Rick Steves for a glimpse into the unforgettable moments, misadventures, and memories of his 1978 journey on the legendary Hippie Trail. In the 1970s, the ultimate trip for any...

The listeners

Stiefvater, Maggie

Paper Book

NATIONAL BESTSELLER· An Oprah Daily Best Summer Read of 2025 · A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of June "A wonderfully observed--actually, flat-out wonderful--historical novel." --The Wall Street Journal "Richly imagined . . ....

The Raven Boys : the graphic novel

Stiefvater, Maggie

Paper Book

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A gorgeously illustrated graphic novel adaptation of the first book in Maggie Stiefvater's #1 New York Times bestselling series The Raven Cycle! Blue Sargent comes from a family of psychics. Only, she has never had the same clairvoyant abilities they...

Tourist season

Weaver, Brynne

"The undisputed queen of dark rom-coms is back with a new swoony, one-of-a-kind banger, and the book world better get ready for it!" --Ali Hazelwood, #1 New York Times bestselling author From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brynne Weaver comes a wickedly delicious...

Onyx storm

Yarros, Rebecca

Paper Book

After nearly eighteen months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail knows there's no more time for lessons. No more time for uncertainty. Because the battle has truly begun, and with enemies closing in from outside their walls and within their ranks, it's impossible to...

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