The spring publishing season is loaded with books coming out, including some by our 2025 AViD authors. Check out the lists of the books our librarians are most excited about.
If you have a goal to read more in 2025, join the DMPL Reading Challenge BINGO!
*Indicates a 2025 AViD author
*Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson
*Strangers in Time by David Baldacci
Audition by Katie Kitamura
The Antidote by Karen Russell
Happy Land by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
Hot Air by Marcy Dermansky
Stop Me if You've Heard this One by Kristen Arnett
The Pretender by Jo Harkin
The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
Harriet Tubman Live in Concert by Bob The Drag Queen
I'll Love You Forever: Notes From a K-Pop Fan by Giaae Kwon
Ordinary Time: Lessons Learned While Staying Put by Annie B. Jones
Authority by Andrea Long Chu
There is No Place for Us by Brian Goldstone
Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
Saving Five by Amanda Nguyen
The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Pratice for an Inspired Life by Suleika Jaouad
*Say You'll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez
Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
The Love Simulation by Etta Easton
The Love Haters by Katherine Center
Just Our Luck by Denise Williams
Any Trope But You by Victoria Lavine
Swept Away by Beth O'Leary
Can't Get Enough by Kennedy Ryan
Promise Me Sunshine by Cara Bastone
Flirting Lessons by Jasmine Guillory
Vanishing Daughters by Cynthia Pelayo
This Book Will Bury Me by Ashley Winstead
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
Hungerstone by Kat Dunn
How to Seal Your Own Fate by Kristen Perrin
The Haunting of Room 904 by Erika T. Wurth
The Perfect Divorce by Jeneva Rose
The Missing Half by Ashley Flowers
The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica
Saltwater by Katy Hays
All The Other Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harman
The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig
The Sirens by Emilia Hart
Gifted and Talented by Olivie Blake
The Gods Time Forgot by Kelsie Sheridan Gonzalez
Idolfire by Grace Curtis
The Amalfi Curse by Sarah Penner
The Ragpicker King by Cassandra Clare
Oathbound by Tracy Deon
Silver Elite by Dani Francis
When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi
The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami
Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite
Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata
Luminous by Silvia Park
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
Immaculate Conception by Ling Ling Huang