Announcing the June 2025 LibraryReads List

By Rachel Tran | May 15 2025 | News LibraryReads

Public library staff across the nation have spoken! Congratulations to the books selected for the June 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 July LibraryReads list ends 6/1!

Check out which July titles we’re loving.

TOP PICK

The Listeners

A Novel

Maggie Stiefvater

“Joan is the manager of a resort hotel in West Virginia. Life is good until the U.S. is pulled into WWII and the hotel’s only guests are detained Axis diplomats. While Joan is very good at keeping secrets, this adds strain on the staff. Readers who adored Stiefvater’s YA books will welcome this historical fiction that reads like a classic spy thriller.”—Kimberly McGee, Lake Travis Community Library, Austin, TX

NoveList read-alike: In the Country of Others by Leila Slimani

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TOP TEN LIST

Battle of the Bookstores

Ali Brady

“When their boss decides to merge their beloved bookstores, romance-reader Ryan and literary “Ice Queen” Josie vie for the title of bookstore manager. Readers will enjoy the witty banter, loveable cast of characters, spicy scenes, literary references, and the representation of the romance genre and romance bookstores as inclusive stories and places for anyone and everyone to find themselves.”—Dana Treichler, Princeton Public Library, NJ

NoveList read-alike: Love to Hate You by Marina Adair

Fiction > Romance > Contemporary Romance

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HALL OF FAME

What Kind of Paradise

A Novel

Janelle Brown

A teenage girl breaks free from her father's world of isolation in this exhilarating novel of family, identity, and the power we have to shape our own destinies—from the New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Things and Watch Me Disappear

Fiction > Literary Fiction

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Sounds Like Love

Ashley Poston

A hitmaking songwriter and a bitter musician share a startling and inexplicable connection that they’ll do anything to shake, in the next sparkling, magical book from Ashley Poston.

Fiction > Paranormal Fiction
Fiction > Romance > Paranormal & Fantasy Romance
Fiction > Women's Fiction

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Atmosphere

A Love Story

Taylor Jenkins Reid

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 lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits.