PLDL Most Popular Adult Titles June 2025

Portage Lake District Library Most Popular Adult Titles June 2025

Updated July 9, 2025
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1

Funny story
Henry, Emily
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ∙ A shimmering, joyful novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024 Named a Must-Read Book of 2024 by...

2

The first gentleman : a thriller
Clinton, Bill
Paper Book
Instant New York Times Bestseller! "Bill Clinton reveals key White House details in murderous new political thriller... It's a twisty thriller with plenty of inside jobs, political sabotage and many, many deaths." -USA Today ...

3

The women
Hannah, Kristin
Paper Book
A #1 bestseller on The New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times! From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah's The Women--at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a...

4

2 sisters murder investigations
Patterson, James
Paper Book
Patterson's greatest crime-solving team since the Women's Murder Club is the Bird Sisters.  Rhonda and Barbara "Baby" Bird are half-sisters--and full partners in their Los Angeles detective agency. They agree on nothing.   ...

5

All the colors of the dark : a novel
Whitaker, Chris
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD * From the author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an epic love story that "hits like a sledgehammer . . . an absolutely must-read novel" (Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl). Read...

6

Badlands
Preston, Douglas J.
Paper Book
The #1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child return with a thrilling tale of "hair-raising fun" (Kirkus) in which archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson, while investigating bizarre deaths in the desert, awaken an ancient evil more terrifying than...

7

Blue Monday
French, Nicci.
Paper Book
The stunning first book in a new series of psychological thrillers introducing an unforgettable London psychotherapist Frieda Klein is a solitary, incisive psychotherapist who spends her sleepless nights walking along the ancient rivers that have been forced underground in modern London....

8

Floored : a woman's guide to pelvic floor health at every age and stage
Reardon, Sara
Paper Book
"Floored is a transformative guide. A must-read for reclaiming comfort, dignity, and vitality." - Dr. Mary Claire Haver, Board Certified OBGYN and author of The New Menopause The definitive guide to pelvic floor health, written by pelvic floor...

9

Great big beautiful life
Henry, Emily
Paper Book
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK ∙ AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ∙ Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping novel from Emily Henry. As...

10

How to win at travel
Kelly, Brian
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Turn your wanderlust into reality with expert strategies from Brian Kelly, the founder of The Points Guy--the leading voice in travel and loyalty programs--with this ultimate resource for everything from leveraging airline and...

11

It's a love story
Monaghan, Annabel
The Instant New York Times bestseller "Poignant, funny, and bingeable, Annabel Monaghan writes five star reads." --Abby Jimenez From the USA Today bestselling author of Nora Goes Off Script, a novel about a former adolescent TV actress-turned...

12

My friends
Backman, Fredrik
Paper Book
#1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman, who "captures the messy essence of being human" (The Washington Post), returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a stranger's life twenty...

13

Paranoia.
Finder, Joseph
Paper Book
It was only a prank: diverting cash from Wyatt Telecom's executive slush fund to throw a retirement bash for a member of the loading dock crew. But when corporate security catches up with Adam Cassidy, a low ambition junior staffer at the high-tech behemoth, they call it something else:...

14

Rot : an imperial history of the Irish famine
Scanlan, Padraic X.
Paper Book
A "vigorous and engaging" (Fintan O'Toole, New Yorker) new history of the Irish Great Famine, showing how the British Empire caused Ireland's most infamous disaster In 1845, European potato fields from Spain to Scandinavia were attacked by a novel pathogen....

15

Snafu : the definitive guide to history's greatest screwups
Helms, Ed
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller  From actor, comedian, writer, and host of the hit history podcast SNAFU, Ed Helms brings you an absurdly entertaining look at history's biggest blunders, complete with lively illustrations.       ...

16

Tangled up in You
Lauren, Christina
Paper Book
A witty and deeply romantic modern reimagining of Disney's Tangled, by the New York Times bestselling author duo Christina Lauren, part of the acclaimed and bestselling Meant to Be collection. "I dare you to not fall wildly in love with Ren and Fitz! Christina Lauren as a...

17

The Amalfi curse
Penner, Sarah
Paper Book
"This intoxicating story blends old-world magic and modern-day mystery with a delicious dash of amore." --People  Powerful witchcraft. A hunt for sunken treasure. Forbidden love on the high seas. Beware the Amalfi Curse... Haven Ambrose...

18

The love haters
Center, Katherine
Paper Book
Featuring beautiful spray-painted edges with vibrant designed endpapers. It's a thin line between love and love-hating in the newest laugh out loud, all the feels rom-com by New York Times bestselling author Katherine Center. Katie Vaughn has...

19

The maid's secret
Prose, Nita.
Paper Book
THE INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER! From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid and The Mystery Guest A wedding. A heist. A secret. Molly Gray's life is about to change in ways she could never have imagined. She...

20

The man made of smoke : a novel
North, Alex
Paper Book
"So well written and neatly plotted that it will appeal even to readers who usually shy away from this sort of thing." ―New York Times The latest gripping serial killer thriller from the New York Times bestselling author Alex North. Dan...

21

Orphanage By The Lake
Paper Book
A MISSING GIRL AN ORPHANAGE FILLED WITH SECRETS Order the new psychological crime thriller from bestselling author Daniel G. Miller Hazel wants a new life. She's thirty years old...

22

The Thursday murder club
Osman, Richard
Paper Book
A New York Times bestseller | Soon to be a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg at Amblin Entertainment "Witty, endearing and greatly entertaining." --Wall Street Journal   "Don't trust anyone, including the four septuagenarian...

23

With a vengeance : a novel
Sager, Riley
Paper Book
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One train. No stops. A deadly game of survival and revenge. In 1942, six people destroyed Anna Matheson's family. Twelve years later, she's ready for retribution. Under false pretenses, Anna has lured those...

24

A leopard-skin hat
Serre, Anne
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE A Leopard-Skin Hat may be the French writer Anne Serre's most moving novel yet. Hailed in Le Point as a "masterpiece of simplicity, emotion and elegance," it is the story of an intense friendship between "the Narrator" and his close childhood...

25

Abundance
Klein, Ezra
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A terrific book...Powerful and persuasive." --Fareed Zakaria "Spectacular...Offers a comprehensive indictment of the current problems and a clear path forward...Klein and Thompson usher in a mood shift. They inspire hope and enlarge...

26

Atmosphere : A Love Story
Reid, Taylor Jenkins
*AN INSTANT #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program, about the extraordinary...

27

Beach read. [online electronic book]
Henry, Emily.
Ebook
FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FUNNY STORY! A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters. As...

28

Becoming Nicole : the transformation of an American family
Nutt, Amy Ellis
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PEOPLE AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MEN'S JOURNAL * A STONEWALL HONOR BOOK IN NONFICTION * FINALIST FOR THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FOR TRANSGENDER...

29

Blood moon
Brown, Sandra
Paper Book
In this sexy thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown, an unruly detective and an ambitious TV show producer work against the clock to prevent another young woman from disappearing before the next blood moon--while trying to resist the attraction between them. <...

30

Broken country : a novel
Hall, Clare Leslie
Paper Book
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK | A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall is an unforgettable story of love, loss, and the choices that shape our lives...but it's also a masterfully crafted mystery that will keep you guessing until the very last page....

31

Build it with Dad
Hamler, A. J.
Paper Book
What could be better than spending some quality time with your kids? How about spending time with them in the woodshop? Perfect for any woodworker with kids, Build It with Dad features 22 woodworking projects that kids of all ages will love....These easy-to-make projects will help you teach your...

32

Building a non-anxious life
Delony, John
Audiobook

33

Death of an artist : a mystery
Wilhelm, Kate.
Paper Book
In Kate Wilhelm's latest crime novel, a small Oregon town is rocked by a wheels-within-wheels case of art, fraud, and murder. Silver Bay, Oregon, a small coastal resort town with nearly a thousand residents, is home to three generations of women: Marnie, the long-widowed owner...

34

Erased : what American patriarchy has hidden from us
Tubbs, Anna Malaika
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * USA TODAY NATIONAL BESTSELLER * AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR 2025 The new book from the New York Times bestselling author of The Three Mothers. In Erased, Anna Malaika Tubbs...

35

Every time I go on vacation, someone dies
Mack, Catherine
Paper Book
A USA Today Bestseller #1 Toronto Star Bestseller in Canadian FictionA Globe and Mail Bestseller in Canadian Fiction A Vancouver Sun Bestseller in New Releases An Indie Next List Pick (May 2024) An...

36

Far from home : a novel
Steel, Danielle
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Danielle Steel delivers an exciting and moving historical novel about a courageous wife and mother hiding in occupied France. In July 1944, Arielle von Auspeck arrives at the glamorous Hotel Ritz in occupied Paris. Half French, half German, she...

37

Fight : inside the wildest battle for the White House
Allen, Jonathan
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * USA TODAY BESTSELLER "Brutal." --Huffington Post "Scathing." --New York Post "[D]epicts Biden's decline in vivid detail." --Politico "So many revelations." --Joe Scarborough, co-host of MSNBC's Morning Joe ...

38

Flashlight : a novel
Choi, Susan
Paper Book
"The first major American novel to be published this year." --Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal "Gorgeous . . . Almost impossibly heartbreaking." --Sam Worley, New York Magazine A Must-Read: The New York Times, New York<...

39

Fourth wing
Yarros, Rebecca
Paper Book
A #1 New York Times bestseller * TV series in development at MGM Amazon Studios with Michael B. Jordan's Outlier Society * Amazon Best Books of the Year, #4 * Apple Best Books of the Year 2023 * Barnes & Noble Best Fantasy Book of 2023 * NPR "Books We Love" 2023 * Audible Best Books of...

40

Ginseng roots : a memoir
Thompson, Craig
Paper Book
From the celebrated author of Blankets and Habibi comes a new graphic memoir exploring the class divide, childhood labor, family, and our globalized world--all centered on Wisconsin's ginseng farming industry "Ginseng Roots is Thompson's most visually arresting...

41

Good dirt : a novel
Wilkerson, Charmaine
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The daughter of an affluent Black family pieces together the connection between a childhood tragedy and a beloved heirloom in this moving novel from the bestselling author of Black Cake, a Read with Jenna Book Club Pick "Engrossing . . . Wilkerson...

42

He/She/They : How We Talk about Gender and Why It Matters
Paper Book
From a trans rights activist and athlete, an urgent guide that changes the conversation about gender identity. Anti-transgender legislation is being introduced in state governments around the United States in record-breaking numbers. Trans people are under attack in...

43

Hidden nature
Roberts, Nora
Paper Book
The #1 New York Times-bestselling author presents a novel about an injured cop who must fight to bring down a pair of twisted killers... Natural Resources police officer, Sloan Cooper, and her partner had just taken down three men preying on hikers in the Western...

44

I was Anastasia : a novel
Lawhon, Ariel
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * An enthralling feat of historical suspense that unravels the extraordinary twists and turns in Anna Anderson's fifty-year battle to be recognized as Anastasia Romanov. Is she the Russian Grand Duchess or the thief of another woman's legacy? ...

45

Invisible women : data bias in a world designed for men
Criado-Perez, Caroline
Paper Book
The landmark, prize-winning, international bestselling examination of how a gender gap in data perpetuates bias and disadvantages women. #1 International Bestseller * Winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award *...

46

Is a River Alive?
Paper Book
From the celebrated writer, observer and naturalist Robert Macfarlane comes a brilliant, perspective-shifting new book, which answers a resounding "yes" to the question of its title. At the heart of Is a River Alive? is a single, transformative idea: that rivers...

47

It happened on the lake
Jackson, Lisa
In an intense, twisty, Hitchcockian standalone spin on Rear Window from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson, a woman returns to the Oregon town where a nightmare unfolded 20 years ago--and is waiting to engulf her again. For fans of J.T. Ellison, Paula Hawkins, Karin...

48

King of ashes : a novel
Cosby, S. A.
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Propulsive and powerful. . . A gripping roller coaster ride of escalating danger." --New York Times Book Review"Pick up the novel everyone will be talking about." --The Atlantic...

49

Lincoln in the bardo : a novel
Saunders, George
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE The "devastatingly moving" (People) first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast...

50

Tom Clancy Line of Demarcation
Woodward, M. P.
Paper Book
The discovery of an oil field off the coast of Guyana plunges Jack Ryan, Jr into a cauldron of lies in the latest entry in this New York Times bestselling series. It starts with the destruction of a US Coast Guard cutter and the loss of her entire crew. But the USCG...

51

Listen to Your Sister : A Novel
Paper Book
Most Anticipated by Goodreads, People, BookRiot, Reactor, Screenrant, and more! For fans of Jordan Peele's films, Stranger Things, and The Other Black Girl, Listen To Your Sister is a laugh-out-loud, deeply terrifying,...

52

Mark Twain
Chernow, Ron
Paper Book
The #1 New York Times Bestseller! "Comprehensive, enthralling . . . Mark Twain flows like the Mississippi River, its prose propelled by Mark Twain's own exuberance." --The Boston Globe "Chernow writes with such ease and clarity . . . For all its...

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