2025 LibraryReads (Awarded by LibraryReads)

Awards List

Monthly Pick

Babylonia
(*)
Costanza Casati

The Business Trip
(*)
Jessie Garcia

The Favorites
(*)
Layne Fargo

The Note
(*)
Alafair Burke

Out of the Woods
(*)
Hannah Bonam-Young

Temple of Swoon
(*)
Jo Segura

Water Moon
(*)
Samantha Sotto Yambao

I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com
(*)
Kimberly Lemming

Isola
(*)
Allegra Goodman

A Killing Cold
(*)
Kate Alice Marshall

The Quiet Librarian
(*)
Allen Eskens

Tell Me What You Did
(*)
Carter Wilson

Victorian Psycho
(*)
Virginia Feito

Wooing the Witch Queen
(*)
Stephanie Burgis

All the Other Mothers Hate Me
(*)
Sarah Harman

Broken Country
(*)
Clare Leslie Hall

Famous Last Words
(*)
Gillian McAllister

Go Luck Yourself
(*)
Sara Raasch

Murder by Memory
(*)
Olivia Waite

Promise Me Sunshine
(*)
Cara Bastone

The River Has Roots
(*)
Amal El-Mohtar

The Shots You Take
(*)
Rachel Reid

Something in the Walls
(*)
Daisy Pearce

The Story She Left Behind
(*)
Patti Callahan Henry

The Strange Case of Jane O.
(*)
Karen Thompson Walker

Wild Dark Shore
(*)
Charlotte McConaghy

Any Trope But You
(*)
Victoria Lavine

Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
(*)
Kylie Lee Baker

Cold Eternity
(*)
S.A. Barnes

A Drop of Corruption
(*)
Robert Jackson Bennett

I See You've Called in Dead
(*)
John Kenney

Murder by Cheesecake
(*)
Rachel Ekstrom Courage

Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame
(*)
Neon Yang

Can't Get Enough
(*)
Kennedy Ryan

The Correspondent
(*)
Virginia Evans

The Devils
(*)
Joe Abercrombie

How to Seal Your Own Fate
(*)
Kristen Perrin

In Case You Read This
(*)
Edward Underhill

Maine Characters
(*)
Hannah Orenstein

The Names
(*)
Florence Knapp

One Golden Summer
(*)
Carley Fortune

Silver Elite
(*)
Dani Francis

The Staircase in the Woods
(*)
Chuck Wendig

Battle of the Bookstores
(*)
Ali Brady

The Busybody Book Club
(*)
Freya Sampson

A Fate Forged In Fire
(*)
Hazel McBride

King of Ashes
(*)
S.A. Cosby

Meet Me at the Crossroads
(*)
Megan Giddings

The Phoenix Pencil Company
(*)
Allison King

The Poppy Fields
(*)
Nikki Erlick

So Far Gone
(*)
Jess Walter

The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau
(*)
Kristin Harmel

The Summer We Ran
(*)
Audrey Ingram

The Witch Roads
(*)
Kate Elliott

How to Survive a Horror Story
(*)
Mallory Arnold

The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy
(*)
Brigitte Knightley

The Library at Hellebore
(*)
Cassandra Khaw

Not Quite Dead Yet
(*)
Holly Jackson

Party of Liars
(*)
Kelsey Cox

The Satisfaction Cafe
(*)
Kathy Wang

Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes
(*)
Sandra Jackson-Opoku

Typewriter Beach
(*)
Meg Waite Clayton

A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
(*)
Sangu Mandanna

Top Pick

First-Time Caller
(*)
B.K. Borison

Good Dirt
(*)
Charmaine Wilkerson

Saltwater
(*)
Katy Hays

The Sirens
(*)
Emilia Hart

The Missing Half
(*)
Ashley Flowers

The Listeners
(*)
Maggie Stiefvater

The Enchanted Greenhouse
(*)
Sarah Beth Durst

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