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2025 Lariat Reading List Announced

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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)

 

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