Most Popular in 2025 - Fiction for adults
Library staff have compiled reports to discover 2025's popular items at Christchurch City Libraries Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi. The books are listed in order of how many times they were borrowed.
- In too deep Lee Child
- We solve murders Richard Osman
- We all live here Jojo Moyes
- Intermezzo Sally Rooney
- The Secret Lee Child and Andrew Child
- The hidden girl Lucinda Edmonds
- The waiting Michael Connelly
- Death at the sign of the Rook Kate Atkinson
- Frankie Graham Norton
- Midnight and blue Ian Rankin
- Camino ghosts John Grisham
- The dark wives Ann Cleeves
- The blue hour Paula Hawkins
- Precipice Robert Harris
- Onyx storm Rebecca Yarros
- Nightshade Michael Connelly
- Leave the girls behind Jacqueline Bublitz [NZ]
- The tenant Freida McFadden
- Long Island Colm Tóibín
- Nemesis Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
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ma1co1m's Best Comics of 2025
A selection of some of the best comics I have read in 2025, that you can find on a library shelf near you.
Donna's Best of the Best 2025
The absolute faves - there are the books I raved about the most. A mixture of fiction and non-fiction.
2025 Kirkus Reviews - Best Young Adult Books of the Year
Kirkus Reviews is an American book review magazine founded in 1933. Published twice a month, they review over 10,000 books a year.
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The Services to Schools' team shares the books that "spark curiosity, invite conversation and offer new ways of seeing."
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