Most Popular in 2025: eBooks and eAudiobooks
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 this year.
- Onyx Storm Rebecca Yarros
- Quicksilver Callie Hart
- Sunrise on the Reaping Suzanne Collins
- A Beautiful Family Jennifer Trevelyan [NZ]
- Shield of Sparrows Devney Perry
- The Tenant Freida McFadden
- Three Wee Bookshops at the End of the World Ruth Shaw [NZ]
- A Different Kind of Power Jacinda Ardern [NZ]
- The Housemaid Freida McFadden
- Leave the Girls Behind Jacqueline Bublitz [NZ]
- The Let Them Theory Mel Robbins
- The Crash Freida McFadden
- Watching the Bodies Graham Smith
- The Housemaid's Secret Freida McFadden
- Careless People: A Story of Where I Used to Work Sarah Wynn-Williams [NZ]
- We Solve Murders Richard Osman
- The Serpent and the Wings of Night Carissa Broadbent,
- The Proving Ground Michael Connelly
- The Housemaid Is Watching Freida McFadden
- The Locked Door Freida McFadden
- Beautiful Ugly Alice Feeney
- No Words for This Ali Mau [NZ]
- In Too Deep Lee Child
- The Intruder Freida McFadden
- One Hundred Years of Betty Debra Oswald
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