Your Top Reads of 2025!

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Each year, Sno-Isle Libraries members check out thousands of books and movies, and these are the titles they reached for most in 2025. From fiction and nonfiction to kids’ favorites, teen hits, and most-watched movies, these top picks highlight what our community loved most this year.

Jump to: Adult Fiction | Adult Nonfiction | Kids | Teens | Movies

Adult Fiction

Kristin Hannah's Vietnam War drama was Sno-Isle Libraries' most checked out book, ebook and audiobook of the year! Mystery lovers propelled Louise Penny's latest installment of the Inspector Gamache series to the top of the mystery checkouts and perennial favorite Emily Henry dominated amongst our romance readers.

The Women

The Grey Wolf

Great Big Beautiful Life

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Adult Nonfiction

Mel Robbins' blockbuster self-help book was Sno-Isle Libraries' most checked out nonfiction title in both hardcover and ebook. Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer's self-narrated audiobook about the knowledge we can gain from plants was the most checked out nonfiction audiobook of the year along while celebrity chef Ina Garten's highly anticipated memoir was at the top of biography-lovers' reading lists. 

The Let Them Theory

Braiding Sweetgrass

Be Ready When the Luck Happens

More Top Nonfiction Reads

Teens

Series were at the top of the teen checkouts this year with not one, but two titles from Suzanne Collins' bestselling Hunger Games series being the most-read and listened to teen books of the year. The opener to Sarah J. Maas' now 10-year old fantasy series clocked in as the most read teen ebook of the year, while the cooking-focused fantasy from Ryoko Kui's manga series was the most-read graphic novel. 

Sunrise on the Reaping

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Delicious in Dungeon

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Kids

Bestselling authors Mo Willems and Dav Pilkey once again charmed young readers with more wild adventures from their favorite characters. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's warm, inclusive picture book asked kids to celebrate differences and learn how everyone’s unique strengths help a community grow, while Peter Brown's heartwarming novel about a robot lost in the wilderness was Sno-Isle's most-read children's book of the year.

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Sleigh!

Just Ask!

Big Jim Begins

The Wild Robot

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Movies

The 2024 Academy Award Winner for Best Picture about the creation of the atomic bomb was Sno-Isle Libraries most watched film of 2025. Marvel's sassy superhero cross-over and Disney's long-awaited sequel to the much beloved coming-of-age film Inside Out were the second and third-most checked out DVDs of the year.

Oppenheimer

Deadpool & Wolverine

Inside Out 2

More Top Movies

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