Announcing the May 2025 LibraryReads List

By Maureen Meekins | April 15 2025 | NewsLibraryReads

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


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 June LibraryReads list ends 5/1!

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TOP TEN LIST

A Novel
Two women haunted by their sisters' unsolved disappearances band together in this captivating mystery from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All Good People Here and host of the #1 true crime podcast Crime Junkie.

A radiant escape to the lake from #1 New York Times bestselling author Carley Fortune

In the first book of a sizzling dystopian romance series, psychic gifts are a death sentence and there are rules to survival: Trust no one. Lie to everyone. And whatever you do, don’t fall for your greatest enemy.“Dani Francis is a rockstar, and I’m so happy she’s bringing dystopia back! . . . I’m absolutely obsessed, and I need the next book in the series injected into my vein right now.” —Ali Hazelwood, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bride

A Novel
“A magnificent novel, thrumming with life in all its pain and precariousness, yet suffused with the glorious possibilities of love and redemption.” —Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Horse“The Names is a truly gorgeous, heart-opening novel. I couldn’t put it down, and I’m grateful to have Cora and her children living inside my heart now. What a wonderful book!” —Ann Napolitano, New York Times bestselling author of Hello Beautiful“Magnificent. A stunning, hopeful, bitterly beautiful novel....Read it. It’s very special.”—Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of All the Colors of the DarkThe extraordinary novel that asks: Can a name change the course of a life?

A Novel
To become the first queen in centuries, a powerfully blessed blacksmith must use her wits and fire magic to overthrow the corrupt powers ruling her kingdom—while also fighting her growing desire for one of her dragon-riding adversaries—in the first book of a sizzling Celtic-inspired fantasy romance duology.

A Novel
From beloved author Hannah Orenstein, this is “The Parent Trap for adults” – the story of two half-sisters who have never met but find themselves forced together after their father suddenly dies, leaving them to deal with the family cabin in Maine that holds a lifetime of summer memories for them both.

A dysfunctional book club must learn to pull together and solve a murder in this bighearted new mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Nosy Neighbors.

HALL OF FAME

A new small-town romance by Ashley Herring Blake, USA Today bestselling author of Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date.

A Novel
Two sisters living on Martha's Vineyard during World War II find hope in the power of storytelling when they start a wartime book club for women—a spectacular novel inspired by true events from the New York Times bestselling author of Lilac Girls.

Falling in love with your husband is anything but convenient in this steamy romance from the New York Times bestselling author of Business or Pleasure.

“Poignant, funny, and bingeable, Annabel Monaghan writes five star reads.” —Abby JimenezFrom the USA Today bestselling author of Nora Goes Off Script, a novel about a former adolescent TV actress-turned-Hollywood producer whose “fake it till you make it” mantra sets her on a crash course with her past, forcing her to spend a week on Long Island with the last man she thinks might make her believe in love.