Longmont Librarian’s Favorite Books of 2025
Thank you, Longmont Book Swap Society! Here are our faves from 2025:
Mystery:
Bearer of bad news: a novel by Elisabeth Dini
Murder by memory by Olivia Waite
Mangle street murders by M.R.C. Kasasian
Murder by cheesecake: a Golden Girls cozy mystery by Rachel Ekstrom-Courage
Horror:
Murder road by Simone St. James
Witchcraft for wayward girls by Grady Hendrix
With a vengeance: a novel by Riley Sager
How to survive a horror story by Mallory Arnold
The unworthy: a novel by Augustina Maria Bazterrica
Fantasy:
A drop of corruption by Robert Bennett Jackson
Can’t spell treason without tea by Rebecca Thorne
Skipshock by Caorline O’Donoghue
The night ends with fire by K.X. Song
The raven scholar by Antonia Hodgson
Science Fiction:
Sleeping giants by Sylvain Neuvel
Mercy of gods by James S. A. Corey
Romance:
Forbidden alchemy by Stacey McEwan
Heart the lover: a novel by Lily King
Beg, borrow, or steal: a novel by Sarah Adams
Shield of Sparrows by Devney Perry
I shall never fall in love by Hari Conner
Nonfiction:
The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story by Pagan Kennedy
Adventures in opting out: a field guide to leabeding an intentional life by Cait Flanders
Group: how one therapist and a circle of strangers saved my life by Christie Tate
Girl on girl: how pop culture turned a generation of women against themselves by Sophie Gilbert
Order of time by Carlo Rovelli
Biography & Memoir:
Into the planet: my life as a cave diver by Jill Heinerth
Mother Mary comes to me by Arundhati Roy
This American woman: a one-in-a-billion memoir by Zarna Garg
Private equity: a memoir by Carrie Sun
Sociopath: a memoir by Patric Gagne
Historical fiction:
Good dirt: a novel by Charmaine Wilkerson
James: a novel by Percival Everett
Stolen life of Colette Marceau by Kristin Harmel
Women’s hotel by Daniel Lavery
Literary fiction:
Emperor of gladness: a novel by Ocean Vuong
The wedding people: a novel by Alison Espach
