We added up all of the times an item was placed on hold to give you the most requested books and more at the Des Moines Public Library in 2025. Enjoy browsing what was popular and trending this year.
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Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
- Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
- The Wedding People by Alison Espach
- Say You'll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez
- My Friends by Frederick Backman
- Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
- The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
- Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
- Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- My Friends by Frederick Backman
- Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
- Wild Dark Shore by Charotte McConaghy
- The Wedding People by Alison Espach
- The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
- The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
- The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
- James by Percival Everett
- The Women by Kristin Hannah
The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins
- Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
- Abundance by Ezra Klein
- The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
- Careless People by Sarah Wynn Williams
- 107 Days by Kamala Harris
- Original Sin by Jake Tapper
- The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel A. Vander Kolk
- One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice by Virginia Giuffre
- Awake by Jen Hatmaker
- All The Way To The River by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Mark Twain by Ron Chernow
- Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and a Family in Fractured America by Beth Macy
- Big Dumb Eyes by Nate Bargatze
- That's A Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You by Elyse Myers
- Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton
- The Look by Michelle Obama
- Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America by Robert B. Reich
Good Things by Samin Nosrat
- Baking for Two by America's Test Kitchen
- Baking Across America by Dylan B. Hollis
- Keep it Simple, Y'all by Matthew Bounds
- What To Cook When You Don't Feel Like Cooking by Caroline Chambers
- There's Always Room at the Table by Kaleb Wyse
- So Easy So Good by Kylie Sakaida
- Life-Changing Salads by Danielle Brown
- Every Day With Babs by Barbara Costello
- The Blue Zones Kitchen One Pot Meals: 100 Recipes to live to 100 by Dan Buettner
The Black Wolf by Louise Penny
- We Are All Guilty Here by Karin Slaughter
- The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
- The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman
- All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
- The Proving Ground by Michael Connelly
- The Woman in Suite 11 by Ruth Ware
- Never Flinch by Stephen King
- Nightshade by Michael Connelly
- Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
- Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
- Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
- Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
- Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
- Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
- A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- The House In The Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
- Say You'll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez
- Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez
- One Golden Summer Carley Fortune
- Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez
- Problematic Summer Romance by Ali Hazelwood
- Just For the Summer by Abby Jimenez
- Mate by Ali Hazelwood
- Deep End by Ali Hazelwood
- The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
- The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
- Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
- Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
- A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
- Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas
- The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Barnes
Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
- Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
- Say You'll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez
- Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
- My Friends by Frederick Backman
- The Wedding People by Alison Espach
- Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
- The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
- The Women by Kristin Hannah
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
- All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
- Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney
- Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
- Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver
- Deep End by Ali Hazelwood
- Don't Let Him In by Lisa Jewell
- Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
- Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
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