PLDL Most Popular Adult Titles February 2025

Portage Lake District Library Most Popular Adult Titles February 2025

Updated June 12, 2025
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1

All the beauty in the world : the Metropolitan Museum of Art and me
Bringley, Patrick
Paper Book
** THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ** A revelatory portrait of a great museum and the moving story of one guard's quest to find solace and meaning in art 'Who would have thought that the outstanding...

2

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...

3

A Crack in Everything: How Black Holes Came in from the Cold and Took Cosmic Centre Stage
Chown, Marcus.
Paper Book
What is space? What is time? Where did the universe come from? The answers to mankind's most enduring questions may lie in science's greatest enigma: black holes. A black hole is a region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. This can...

4

Beautiful ugly
Feeney, Alice
Paper Book
'I was consumed by this book, it's her best ever, a work of genius' - Lisa Jewell, author of None of This is True 'Her best book yet' - Harlan Coben, author of Fool Me Once The million-copy bestselling author of His and Hers, Alice Feeney, returns...

5

Black woods, blue sky : a novel
Ivey, Eowyn
Paper Book
Where there is wonder, there is love - a magical story of a family encountering the Alaskan wilderness from the author of the million-copy international bestseller, The Snow Child. ⭐ What readers are saying; ⭐ 'I was blown away....

6

Daughter of mine : a novel
Miranda, Megan
Paper Book
Sometimes the darkest secrets are buried the deepest . . . When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake's longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she's warily drawn back to the town - and people - she left behind almost a decade earlier. ...

7

Framed : astonishing true stories of wrongful convictions
Grisham, John
Paper Book
*** SHORTLISTED FOR THE ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 2025*** Ten wrongful conviction cases. Twenty-one innocent people. Framed tells ten stories with a truth more shocking than fiction. John Grisham, the master of the legal thriller, teams up with...

8

Murder Town
Burr, Shelley.
Paper Book
'Chilling and atmospheric thriller that plunges readers into the dark heart of a small Australian town with a haunting past' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Gemma Guillory has lived in Rainier her entire life. She knows the tiny town's ins and...

9

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...

10

The Texas murders
Patterson, James,
A cold case is about to turn hotter than the sun... Texas Ranger Rory Yates has proven his strength on the field time and again. Now he faces the toughest case of his career. He's on the trail of two missing women. Both are Native American. Does anything else link...

11

A gentleman in Moscow
Towles, Amor
Paper Book
OVER 4 MILLION COPIES SOLD A Showtime/Paramount+ series starring Ewan McGregor as Count Alexander Rostov From the number one New York Times-bestselling author, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his...

12

Battle mountain
Box, C. J.
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL! Can Joe Pickett stop an old friend throwing his life away for revenge? The gripping new novel from multi-award-winning author C.J. Box. The campaign of hate and vengeance that a pair of violent criminals...

13

Bellevue : a novel
Cook, Robin
Paper Book
A young doctor must come to terms with the dark truth behind some of the greatest medical advances in history made at Bellevue in this the gripping suspense-horror from New York Times bestselling author Robin CookTwenty-four-year-old Michael "Mitt" Fuller starts his surgical residency at the iconic...

14

Beloved : a novel
Morrison, Toni.
Paper Book
Discover Toni Morrison's most iconic work in this Pulitzer-prize winning novel that exemplifies her powerful and important place in contemporary American literature. 'An American masterpiece' AS Byatt It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an...

15

Better than friends : a novel
Shalvis, Jill
Old flames reignite in Sunrise Cove in this charming enemies-to-lovers, second-chance, small-town, forced-proximity love story about family, friendships, and true love from New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis. 'Jill Shalvis' books are funny, warm, charming and...

16

Between two kingdoms : a memoir of a life interrupted
Jaouad, Suleika
Paper Book
At just twenty-two, Suleika Jaouad was diagnosed with leukemia and given a 35 per cent chance of survival. For five years her world comprised four white walls, a hospital bed, fluorescent lights, tubes and wires. She became patient 5624. At twenty-seven, and celebrating her first year of remission,...

17

Bride
Hazelwood, Ali
Paper Book
A dangerous alliance between a Vampyre bride and an Alpha werewolf becomes a love deep enough to sink your teeth into in this new paranormal romance from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis. Misery Lark, the only daughter of the most...

18

Cilka's journey
Morris, Heather
Paper Book
In 1942 Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her separation from the other women prisoners. Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly given, equals...

19

Cultish : the language of fanaticism
Montell, Amanda
Ebook
"One of those life-changing reads that makes you see--or, in this case, hear--the whole world differently." --Megan Angelo, author of Followers "At times chilling, often funny, and always perceptive and cogent, Cultish is a bracing reminder that the scariest thing about cults is that you...

20

Grave danger
Grippando, James
Paper Book
"Spectacular. . . . Swyteck continues to be one of the more compelling legal-thriller protagonists, and Grippando continues to be one of the genre's best craftsmen. Another winner in this consistently excellent series."--Booklist  Bestselling author James Grippando's legendary...

21

Holmes is missing
Patterson, James
Paper Book
It's their toughest case yet. And their best detective is missing. Holmes, Margaret and Poe's Brooklyn-based detective agency solves the crimes no one else can. Or they did - until Holmes decided to leave the business. There is no time to waste as the team are...

22

Is she really going out with him? : a novel
Cousens, Sophie
From the New York Times bestselling author of This Time Next Year, a hilarious love story about a disillusioned divorcée who agrees to let her children play matchmaker... Columnist Anna Appleby has left her love life behind after a painful divorce. Who needs a...

23

Mothers and sons : a novel
Haslett, Adam
At forty, Peter, an asylum lawyer in New York City, is overworked and isolated. He spends his days immersed in the struggles of immigrants only to return to an empty apartment and occasional hook-ups with a man who wants more than Peter can give. But when the asylum case of a young gay man...

24

Confessions
Airey, Catherine
Paper Book
It is late September in 2001 and the walls of New York are papered over with photos of the missing. Cora Brady's father is there, the poster she made taped to columns and bridges. Her mother died long ago and now, orphaned on the cusp of adulthood, Cora is adrift and alone. Soon, a letter will...

25

November 9
Hoover, Colleen
Paper Book
Beloved #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us returns with an unforgettable love story between a writer and his unexpected muse. Fallon meets Ben, an aspiring novelist, the day before her scheduled cross-country move. Their...

26

Ocean prey
Sandford, John
Paper Book
Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers join forces on a deadly maritime case like no other . . .  An off-duty Coast Guardsman is fishing with his family when he calls in some suspicious behaviour from a nearby boat. The slick craft has stopped to pick up a surfaced diver, who...

27

Open season
Kellerman, Jonathan

28

Presumed guilty
Turow, Scott
'A superb, sexy sequel to Presumed Innocent' Sunday Times 'A legend of suspense fiction' Steve Cavanagh 'The master of the courtroom drama' Daniel Silva 'A writer with few peers in any genre' David Baldacci Daily Mail Books to Watch 2025 The Times Best Thrillers...

29

Raised by wolves
Patterson, James

30

Resurrection walk
Connelly, Michael
Paper Book

31

Revenge of the tipping point : overstories, superspreaders, and the rise of social engineering
Gladwell, Malcolm
Paper Book
Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand new volume that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and revealing light 'Addictive... fascinating and provocative' Guardian...

32

Robert B. Parker's buzz kill
Gaylin, Alison
Sunny Randall is hired to investigate the disappearance of an energy drink company's CEO, Dylan. As she gets closer to finding Dylan, she learns not only of his bad behaviour toward numerous women, but of his bad behaviour within the business world - and his energy drink that, despite its...

33

Small things like these
Keegan, Claire
Paper Book
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CILLIAN MURPHY A SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER A TOP 5 IRISH TIMES 100 BEST IRISH BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY A NEW YORK TIMES 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

34

Handbook of Shells
Dorling Kindersley (corp)
Paper Book
The clearest and sharpest recognition guide to over 500 species of seashell from around the world Authoritative text, crystal-clear photography, and a systematic approach make this the most comprehensive and concise pocket guide to seashells of the world. Packed with...

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