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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Hemlock & Silver
Combining dark fairy tale aesthetics with a medical mystery plot, this utterly delightful Snow White riff transports readers to a New Mexicoesque kingdom of deserts, mesa houses, and saints with the heads of venomous snakes. (Publishers Weekly)
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What Stalks the Deep
Alex Easton does not want to visit America. They particularly do not want to visit an abandoned coal mine in West Virginia with a reputation for being haunted. (NoveList Plus)
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Katabasis
Dante’s Inferno meets Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi in this dark academia fantasy, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul--perhaps at the cost of their own. (NoveList Plus)
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Cannon
"Beautifully drawn, pitch-perfect depictions of the complexities of familial and friend relationships."--Abby B.
Format: Graphic Novel
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Seattle Staff Faves 2025: Fiction, Part 2 — a staff-created list from The Seattle Public Library | The Seattle Public Library | BiblioCommons
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)
View Seattle Staff Faves 2025: Fiction, Part 2 — a staff-created list from The Seattle Public Library | The Seattle Public Library | BiblioCommons