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