The electrifying true story of a young couple shipwrecked at sea: a mind-blowing tale of obsession, survival, and partnership stretched to its limits.

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

“Your role as the keepers and custodians of knowledge and story is sacred, and your role in our cultural vital—don’t let anyone ever make you doubt that.”

In this irresistible debut novel that became a phenomenon in Italy, a freethinking young wife and mother brings a gust of modernity to a traditional small town in Southern Italy, stirring forbidden passions and changing the life of everyone around her.

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With starred reviews from publications including Booklist, Library Journal, and AudioFile—your patrons will want to read these much-anticipated books that reviewers are raving about.

From the 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.

PRH Library Marketing has gone reading with these summer picks! Whether you’re a romance reader or a lit fic fiend, our staff has the hottest recs of the season.

A spellbinding novel of literary and psychological suspense about the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charismatic, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding school—by the legendary author “who is surely on any shortlist of America’s greatest living writers” (The New York Times Magazine)

Our staff picks prove there’s an audiobook for everyone. What will you listen to next?

Request eGalleys of some of our favorite September titles, and if you love the books, please consider nominating them for LibraryReads!

“Right now, in a library in this country, there is a child whose world is being transformed by the book she is reading. That child is laughing, or crying, or understanding herself in a new way––and that is thanks to the dedication and love of all those who have given their lives to our precious libraries.”