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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Best of 2025 booklists
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Paris's Best of 2025
Paris's favourite fiction read in 2025, in no particular order. Mostly contemporary fiction.
Hong's Best Reads 2025
Books inform, entertain and inspire me Hong in 2025. Mostly non-fiction with some Chinese-language titles.
Jem's top fiction reads of 2025
Jem's absolute favourite books read in 2025. A mix of general fiction and romance titles, some YA, and some with LGBT characters.
Liam's 20 Best Graphic Novel Reads of 2025
Twenty of Liam's favourite manga and graphic novel books and series read this year.
Paris's Best of 2025
Paris's favourite fiction read in 2025, in no particular order. Mostly contemporary fiction.
Hong's Best Reads 2025
Books inform, entertain and inspire me Hong in 2025. Mostly non-fiction with some Chinese-language titles.
Jem's top fiction reads of 2025
Jem's absolute favourite books read in 2025. A mix of general fiction and romance titles, some YA, and some with LGBT characters.
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