Seattle Staff Faves 2025: Fiction, Part 1
Every year we ask our staff across the system for their favorite books published in a given year. Like last year, we needed two parts to accommodate all of the adult fiction our staff read! Enjoy this variety of fiction staff favorites, with annotations by staff members or as noted. (Created November 2025)
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Sun City
Set in a 1970s Florida retirement community, this novel portrays the lives of residents and employees navigating personal desires, cultural divides, and existential questions, offering a vivid exploration of aging in a changing America. (NoveList Plus)
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A Curse Carved in Bone
Caught between divine heritage and a dark prophecy, Freya must navigate forbidden alliances and the clash of gods and mortals to save her people. (NoveList Plus)
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Intemperance
A middle-aged woman starts a commotion when she decides to hold a competition to find a new husband. (Kirkus Reviews)
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A Palace Near the Wind
Bound by duty to marry a human king to protect her forest-dwelling people, Liu Lufeng instead plans his assassination, but uncovering her people’s origins forces her to defy tradition and risk everything to save her family and their home. (NoveList Plus)
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Say You'll Remember Me
Samantha Diaz believes most people are good, and she is going to prove it to grumpy veterinarian Dr. Xavier Rush by raising the funds necessary to provide Pooter, the young kitten she found, with the life-saving surgery the tiny feline needs. (Booklist)
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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
A chilling historical horror novel set in the American west in 1912 following a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice. (NoveList Plus)
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We Do Not Part
As Kyungha braves a treacherous snowstorm on Jeju Island to save her injured friend's pet, she unwittingly embarks on a journey that blurs reality and memory, uncovering a hidden chapter of Korean history and the enduring power of friendship amidst forgotten violence. (NoveList Plus)
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Best Offer Wins
Former Washington Post reporter Kashino debuts with a wicked satirical thriller about the cutthroat world of Washington, D.C., area real estate. (Publishers Weekly)
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The Library at Hellebore
Things at school can be tough. Your roommate thinks you like her boyfriend, your friend won't shut up about her sorority, and sometimes the faculty's desire for flesh coincides inconveniently with graduation. (LibraryReads)
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Murder at Gulls Nest
An undercover nun tracks the fate of a lost friend and solves a dastardly murder in an English seaside town. (Kirkus Reviews)
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