2025 Lariat Reading List Announced

The 2025 Lariat Reading List is here!

The goal of the Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List is to highlight outstanding fiction that is “simply a pleasure to read.” To that end, a committee of librarians from the Texas Library Association annually selects 25 outstanding fiction titles.

2025 Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List 

• The Book of Doors: A Novel, Gareth Brown (William Morrow / HarperCollins)
• The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife: A Novel, Anna Johnston (William Morrow / HarperCollins)
• By Any Other Name: A Novel, Jodi Picoult (Ballantine Books / Penguin Random House)
• Crow Talk: A Novel, Eileen Garvin (Dutton / Penguin Random House)
• Expiration Dates: A Novel, Rebecca Serle (Atria Books / Simon & Schuster)
• Extinction: A Novel, Douglas Preston (Forge Books / Macmillan)
• Family Family: A Novel, Laurie Frankel (Henry Holt and Co. / Macmillan)
• The Frozen River, Ariel Lawhon (Doubleday / Penguin Random House)
• Funny Story, Emily Henry (Berkley / Penguin Random House)
• The God of the Woods: A Novel, Liz Moore (Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House)
• How the Light Gets In: A Novel, Joyce Maynard (William Morrow / HarperCollins)
• How to Read a Book: A Novel, Monica Wood (Mariner Books / HarperCollins)
• James: A Novel, Percival Everett (Doubleday / Penguin Random House)
• Listen for the Lie: A Novel, Amy Tintera (Celadon Books / Macmillan)
• Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books: A Novel, Kirsten Miller (William Morrow / HarperCollins)
• Malas: A Novel, Marcela Fuentes (Viking / Penguin Random House)
• Middletide: A Novel, Sarah Crouch (Atria Books / Simon & Schuster)
• The Spellshop, Sarah Beth Durst (Bramble / Macmillan)
• We Solve Murders: A Novel, Richard Osman (Pamela Dorman Books / Penguin Random House)
• We Used to Live Here: A Novel, Marcus Kliewer (Atria / Emily Bestler Books / Simon & Schuster)
• The Wedding People: A Novel, Alison Espach (Henry Holt and Co. / Macmillan)
• Where They Last Saw Her: A Novel, Marcie R. Rendon (Bantam / Penguin Random House)
• The Women: A Novel, Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan)
• Worst Case Scenario: A Novel, T.J. Newman (Little, Brown and Company / Hachette Book Group)
• The Wren in the Holly Library, K. A. Linde (Entangled: Red Tower Books / Macmillan)