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Most Requested April

What are people reading across the city? This list is updated at the beginning of each month by tallying up holds placed over the past 30 days.

 

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April 2025

*Updated May 2, 2025

#1 Great Big Beautiful Life

Great Big Beautiful Life, by Emily Henry

 

  • This month: #1
  • Last month: N/A
  • Months in top 10: 1
  • Peak: #1 (1 month)

Two writers spend a month on a secluded island, vying to write a famous heiress’s biography. As they compete, a complicated relationship forms—blurring the line between ambition, trust, and something deeper.

 

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#2 Say You'll Remember Me

Say You'll Remember Me, by Abby Jimenez

 

  • This month: #2
  • Last month: N/A
  • Months in top 10: 1
  • Peak: #2

Sparks fly when fiery Samantha meets gorgeous, charming—and infuriating—veterinarian Xavier Rush. One unforgettable date changes everything, but with her family in crisis, Samantha has to walk away. Some connections, though, are too powerful to forget.

 

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#3 Sunrise on the REaping

Sunrise on the Reaping, by Suzanne Collins

 

  • This month: #3
  • Last month: #1
  • Months in top 10: 2
  • Peak: #1 (1 month)

As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. When Haymitch's name is called, he can feel all his dreams break. As the Games begin, Haymitch understands he's been set up to fail. But there's something in him that wants to fight . . . and have that fight reverberate far beyond the deadly arena.

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#4 Onyx Storm

Onyx Storm, by Rebecca Yarros

 

  • This month: #4
  • Last month: #2
  • Months in top 10: 8
  • Peak: #1 (2 months)

Violet must journey beyond the failing Aretian wards to seek allies from unfamiliar lands to stand with Navarre. The trip will test every bit of her wit, luck, and strength, but she will do anything to save what she loves--her dragons, her family, her home, and him.

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#5 STrangers in Time

Strangers in Time, by David Baldacci

 

  • This month: #5
  • Last month: N/A
  • Months in top 10: 1
  • Peak: #5

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Calamity of Souls comes David Baldacci's newest novel, set in London in 1944, about a bereaved bookshop owner and two teenagers scarred by the Second World War, and the healing and hope they find in one another. 

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#6 Everything is Tuberculosis

Everything is Tuberculosis, by John Green

 

  • This month: #6
  • Last month: N/A
  • Months in top 10: 1
  • Peak: #6

John Green, acclaimed author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world's deadliest infectious disease.

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#7 Fourth Wing

Fourth Wing, by Rebecca Yarros

 

  • This month: #7
  • Last month: N/A
  • Months in top 10: 10
  • Peak: #1 (1 month)

As war grows more deadly, Violet Sorrengail joins the elite Navarre: the dragon riders. But she'll need to keep her wits because once you enter the Basgiath War College, there are only two ways out: graduate or die.

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#8 Broken Country

Broken Country, by Clare Leslie Hall

 

  • This month: #8
  • Last month: #5
  • Months in top 10: 2
  • Peak: #5

When her brother-in-law's actions reconnect her with a former love, Gabriel, whose son eerily resembles her deceased child, Beth's carefully constructed life unravels as past secrets and jealousies resurface, leading to deadly consequences and a difficult choice. 

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#9 Wild Dark Shore

Wild Dark Shore, by Charlotte McConaghy

 

  • This month: #9
  • Last month: #10
  • Months in top 10: 2
  • Peak: #9

A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon. A novel of breathtaking twists, dizzying beauty, and ferocious love, Wild Dark Shore is about the impossible choices we make to protect the people we love, even as the world around us disappears. 

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#10 The Wedding People

The Wedding People, by Alison Espach

 

  • This month: #10
  • Last month: #7
  • Months in top 10: 9
  • Peak: #1 (1 month)

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew.

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