Seattle Staff Faves 2025: Fiction, Part 2
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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The (most Unusual) Haunting of Edgar Lovejoy
Can a professional haunter and someone who’s been haunted all his life escape the ghosts of their pasts? (Kirkus Reviews)
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Tilt
In Pattee’s nail-biting debut, a pregnant woman navigates the aftermath of a major earthquake in Portland, Ore. (Publishers Weekly)
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Stag Dance
In this electrifying collection of three stories and a novella from Peters, trans characters explore desire, identity, and love. (Publishers Weekly)
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Shadow Ticket
A Great Depression-era tale about private eye Hicks McTaggart, whose search for the missing heiress to a Wisconsin cheese fortune sets him on a globe-trotting adventure. (Library Journal)
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Aunt Tigress
Tam Lin descends from a Chinese tiger spirit, but she's tried hard to put her connection to the world of the supernatural behind her and just be human. (Booklist)
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Liquid
An unnamed Iranian-Indian American narrator realizes she’s far from the middle-class comfort promised by her PhD, so when best friend Adam suggests she marry rich, she plans 100 dates to clinch a marriage proposal. (NoveList Plus)
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Archive of Unknown Universes
An intergenerational chronicle of family and romance in the face of El Salvador’s devastating civil war. (Kirkus Reviews)
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The Broposal
"Highly, highly recommend--looks like a lighthearted romance, but delves into being undocumented, an abusive relationship and boss, etc, but still a happy ending!"--Shanti Z.
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Life, and Death, and Giants
A giant boy with colossal gifts is born in a Wisconsin Amish community. (Kirkus Reviews)
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A Resistance of Witches
A talented young witch named Lydia Polk finds herself in a race against time to track down the Grimorium Bellum, a book of unspeakable magical power, before it falls into Nazi hands at the height of World War II. (Kirkus Reviews)
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