Announcing the April 2025 LibraryReads List

By Kate McManus | March 17 2025 | NewsLibraryReads

Public library staff across the nation have spoken! Congratulations to the books selected for the April 2025 LibraryReads Top Ten List.

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For more information about the program, or to learn how to vote for your favorite upcoming books, visit LibraryReads.org. And, don’t forget, voting for the April LibraryReads list ends 3/1!

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TOP TEN LIST

An Ana and Din Mystery
The brilliant detective Ana Dolabra may have finally met her match in the gripping sequel to The Tainted Cup—from the bestselling author of The Founders Trilogy.

A Golden Girls Cozy Mystery
The first novel in the all-new Golden Girls Cozy Mystery Series!When Dorothy’s obnoxious date is found dead in a hotel freezer, it not only ruins a gorgeous cheesecake but threatens the elaborate St. Olaf–themed wedding Rose is hosting.

A Novel
“Subtly told and finely made, The Correspondent is a portrait of a small life expanding. Virginia Evans shows how one woman changes at a point when change had seemed impossible. That change, like this novel, turns out to be a cause for celebration.”—Ann PatchettA woman tries to heal old wounds and make sense of the world the only way she knows how—through letters—in this charming, laugh out loud debut novel about a life fully lived.

A Novel
Fans of whodunnits will rejoice! Kristen Perrin is back with her second novel in her Castle Knoll series, a book that begins when local fortune teller and lifelong troublemaker Peony Lane is found dead in the country estate Annie Adams inherited from her Great Aunt Frances. Annie is thrown into a new web of murder spanning decades in the quaint English Village of Castle Knoll that she'll have to solve with her Great Aunt's diaries and files, or else risk losing everything she loves about her new life.

A group of friends investigate the mystery of a strange staircase in the woods in this mesmerizing horror novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Accidents

HALL OF FAME

Two strangers find themselves stranded at sea together in this epic new love story by bestselling author Beth O’Leary.

A Maid Novel
When a daring art heist takes place at the Regency Grand, Molly’s life is threatened. The question is who’s out to get her, and why? Long-buried secrets will be revealed in this intriguing and heartwarming novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid and The Mystery Guest

Vera Wong is back and as meddling as ever in this follow-up to the hit Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers.…

A Rebel Blue Ranch Novel
She’s the one that got away. He’s the one that never let her go. From the bestselling author of Done and Dusted and Swift and Saddled, the next book in the Rebel Blue Ranch series, a small town romance in which past lovers get a second chance to rediscover what they lost."Wild and Wrangled is the perfect farewell to the Rebel Blue Ranch series…It's comforting and soft, filled with hot cowboys (important), and serves as a reminder that home will always be there waiting for you when you're ready to go back. I dare you to get to the last page without turning right back around to walk through the gates of Rebel Blue all over again. I'll see you there." Jessica Joyce, USA Today bestselling author of The Ex Vows

BONUS PICK

The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
An explosive, deeply reported exposé of Johnson & Johnson, one of America’s oldest and most trusted pharmaceutical companies—from an award-winning investigative journalist