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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Lonely Crowds
"Absolutely beautiful and devastating interrogation of intimacy and what we risk when we offer vulnerability to those we hope will love us."--Eliza S.
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Scythe & Sparrow
Doctor Fionn Kane is running from a broken heart, one he hopes to mend in small-town Nebraska, far away from his almost-fiancé and his derailed surgical career. He wants none of the circus he left behind in Boston. But then the real circus finds him. (NoveList Plus)
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Run for the Hills
Four previously unknown half siblings set out on a road trip in search of their long-absent father. (NoveList Plus)
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Onyx Storm
After nearly 18 months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail must seek allies from unfamiliar lands to stand with Navarre, and she will do anything to save what she loves--her dragons, her family, her home, and him. (NoveList Plus)
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Fundamentally
When Dr. Nadia Amin accepts a UN role in Iraq to lead a controversial deradicalization program, she faces hostile colleagues, systemic corruption, and an unexpected bond with a young refugee who forces her into impossible decisions with unforeseen consequences. (NoveList Plus)
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Seattle Staff Faves 2025: Fiction, Part 1 — 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 1 — a staff-created list from The Seattle Public Library | The Seattle Public Library | BiblioCommons