As we say "welcome in" to the new year, the Los Angeles Public Library would like to share our staff's favorite books of 2025; books that scored a 6-7 or higher!

These lists have it all! From silly read-alouds for your littles to Capital sagas for teens. Biographies and tell-alls, cults and controversy, fun with fiction—busybody readers, and crime scene cleaners, witchcraft and wild dark shores, brigands, tombs, and buried bones—something for everyone!

Book Recommendations From Your Friendly Neighborhood Library for 2025

Check the featured book reviews and book lists on LAPL Reads for more suggestions.