As 2025 comes to an end, we’ve rounded up our patrons’ favorite books of the year. Check it out below, and see if any of your top reads made it onto the list:
Top Adult Fiction of 2025:
- The Women, by Kristin Hannah
- Beautiful Ugly, by Alice Feeney
- Robert B. Parker’s Hot Property, by Mike Lupica
- The Waiting, by Michael Connelly
- All the Colors of the Dark, by Chris Whitaker
- The God of the Woods, by Liz Moore
- Paranoia, by James Patterson
- Nobody’s Fool, by Harlan Coben
- Head Cases, by John McMahon
- The Wedding People, by Alison Espach
Top Adult Nonfiction of 2025:
- The “I Don’t Want to Cook” Book, by Alyssa Brantley
- The Well Plated Cookbook, by Erin Clarke
- Night Magic, by Leigh Ann Henion
- The Let Them Theory, by Mel Robbins
- The Serviceberry, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- The Anxious Generation, by Jonathan Haidt
- Taking Manhattan, by Russell Shorto
- Hiking Ruins of Southern New England, by Nicholas Bellantoni
- Plan Your Estate, by Denis Clifford
- Swimming Holes New England, by Sarah Lamagna
Top Teen Fiction of 2025:
- The Apothecary Diaries (Series), by Nekokurage
- The Summer I Turned Pretty, by Jenny Han
- Song of the Six Realms, by Judy Lin
- Saint Young Men, by Hikaru Nakamura
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
- Lafayette!: A Revolutionary War Tale, by Nathan Hale
- The Adventures of Tintin, by Hergé
- Scythe, by Neal Schusterman
- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, by Suzanne Collins
- Sunrise on the Reaping, by Suzanne Collins
Top Juvenile Fiction of 2025:
- The Bakery Dragon, by Devin Elle Kurtz
- Pigs Dig a Road, by Carrie Finison
- Dino-Baseball, by Lisa Wheeler
- Splat the Cat and the Obstacle Course, by Laura Driscoll
- If You Give a Dog a Donut, by Laura Numeroff
- Amelia Bedelia, by Peggy Parish
- Farming Strong, All Year Long, by Sherri Rinker
- Bear Can’t Wait, by Karma Wilson
- The Seashore Book, by Charlotte Zolotow
- The Wild Robot, by Peter Brown
