Staff Favorite Books of 2025

It’s been an amazing year of reading! Here are some of the things PFL staff have enjoyed the most during 2025.

 

In a Distant Valley by Shannon Bowring

The Elements by John Boyne

Flooded: Requiem for Johnstown by Ann E. Burg

The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia by Juliet Grames

Matrix by Lauren Groff

The Everlasting by Alix Harrow

Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz

The Wall by Marlen Haushofer

Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Feast by Margaret Kennedy

Fairy Tale by Stephen King

North Woods by Daniel Mason

The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh

The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

We Solve Murders by Richard Osman 

Endling by Maria Reva

Hibakusha: Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki translated by Gyanor Sekimori

The History of Sound: Stories by Ben Shattuck

More Weight: A Salem Story by Ben Wickey

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