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The Best Short Reads of 2025 for Adults | Multnomah County Library

Recommendations from Multnomah County Library staff. For more of our 2025 Best Books use the link at the end.

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  • REDress

    Art, Action, and the Power of Presence

    A compelling anthology featuring many unique and powerful Indigenous perspectives on the tragedy of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit people(MMIWG2S) demonstrating the power of art as activism (and activism as art). -…
    Book, 2025Winnipeg, Manitoba : HighWater Press, [2025] — 305.48897 R3212 2025
  • Poetic and beautiful! - Leo B.
    Book, 2025New York : Tordotcom, an imprint of Tor Publishing Group, 2025. — SF ELMOHTAR 2025
  • Laughed and cried while reading this book about families and growing older in one sitting. Love this book and this author! - Amy S.
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Harper, 2025. — FICTION NEWMAN 2025
  • A Field Guide to the Subterranean

    Reclaiming the Deep Earth and Our Deepest Selves : a Memoir

    Hocking, Justin,
    Gorgeous and educational, braids together a myriad of subjects that, while at first may seem disconnected, fall into place like puzzle pieces. - Jessica G.
    Book, 2025Los Angeles, CA : Counterpoint, 2025. — 978.8 H6858f 2025
  • This short book takes you on a kaleidoscopic journey where you're never quite sure what's actually true--and I couldn't get enough! - Delaney N.
    Book, 2025New York : Random House, [2025] — FICTION BROWN 2024
  • Capturing the essence of growing up as an outsider during a pop culture boom time, these essays had me laughing, reflecting, and going down Wikipedia rabbit holes. - Matt S.
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Random House, [2025] — 814.6 M1826p 2025
  • Vivid visions of a post-apocalyptic Africa full of powerful sorcery. I was pulled right in by the writing and the strong-willed character of Najeeba. Part of a series - read the others first. - Erika B.
    Book, 2025New York : DAW Books, 2025. — SF OKORAFOR 2025
  • If you hate your job with all of your being, you will feel so seen. - Heather E.
    Book, 2025New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House, 2025. — FICTION SERRANO 2025
  • Amazing novella series, each one stands alone well. This one is deeply tragic. - Heidi S.
    Book, 2025New York : Tordotcom/Tor Publishing Group, 2025. — FICTION VO 2025
  • The Bees

    the Women Who Rocked Lithuania

    Magicdusté, Akvilė,
    This is at once charming and chilling - young women form a rock band, and the KGB doesn’t like it. A touching portrait of the struggle to be an artist in a repressive, authoritarian society. - Erika B.
    Graphic Novel, 2025Seattle, Washington : Fantagraphics Underground, 2025. — GN 781.66092 MAGICDUST 2025
  • Midnight Timetable

    a Novel in Ghost Stories

    정 보라, 1976-
    Eerie and offbeat. Seven stories intertwine, slowly revealing more about an institute that houses haunted objects… and even sheep! - Erika B.
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill / Little, Brown and Company, 2025. — FICTION CHONG 2025
  • I'm a wimp about horror but this one is good! Not for arachnophobes! - Heidi S.
    Book, 2025New York : Tor Publishing Group, 2025. — SF PUEYO 2025
  • Be ready to cry, face the reckoning, and feel compelled to take action. A better world is possible, "This is the book for our time." - Emily L.
    Book, 2025New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2025. — BIO 813.6 ELAKKAD 2025
  • Rich and vibrant short stories that take place in Guatemala,, expect laughter and tears. - Mark F.
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2025] — FICTION LEMUS 2025
  • For Queer fans of Jane Austen - Leo B.
    Graphic Novel, 2024New York, NY : HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024] — ygn CONNER 2024
  • A famed dragon slayer goes on a journey to a kingdom that worships the beasts she's spent her whole life killing. What if there is more to the dragons than she's been taught? - Aley U.
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Tom Doherty Associates/Tor Publishing Group, 2025. — SF YANG 2025
  • A page turner that felt like a fever dream and made me squirm. Definitely not for the faint of heart. I still can't stop thinking about it... - Emily L.
    Book, 2025New York : Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group, 2025. — FICTION FELKERMAR 2025