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The Best Northwest/local Books 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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  • This one hits close to home, literally. If you ever wonder what might happen if "the Big One" hits Portland, this nail biting account of a heavily pregnant woman during the immediate aftermath provides a realistic vision of our possible future. -…
    Book, 2025New York : Marysue Rucci Books, 2025. — FICTION PATTEE 2025
  • This is the sapphic gothic horrormance of my dreams… or is it my nightmares? I stayed up way too late reading and couldn’t sleep after that climactic ending! - Liza D.
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Kensington Publishing Corporation, 2025. — FICTION LAROUX 2025
  • This suspenseful page-turner manages to be at once chilling, touching, and even phantasmagoric at times. There's gore, but there's also a family story - you get it all! - Erika B.
    Book, 2025New York : Doubleday, 2025. — SF WILSON 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
  • 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
  • A funny and accessible intro to meditation. Tess T.
    Book, 2025[Place of publication not identified] : [Sara Violante], [2025] — 201.44 V7952s 2025
  • Deciding to See

    the View From Nathan's Bus

    Vass, Nathan,
    This might be the best book you never heard of! Nathan is a real Seattle bus driver (and artist) whose interactions with his guests on the bus filled me with hope, and joy of our shared humanity in troubled and all other times. He changed my…
    Book, 2025Seattle, Washington : Chin Music Press, [2025] — 388.32209 V336d 2025
  • Love in a F*cked-up World

    How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together

    Spade, Dean, 1977-
    Soooo many good prompts and worksheets to think about and discuss. And lots of practical tools and advice! Read it aloud as a group, or on your own, this book has left me inspired and one that I'll definitely come back to! - Emily L.
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Groups, Inc., 2025. — 306.73 S7327L 2025
  • The Injustice of Property

    Homeless Encampments and the Limits of Liberalism

    Przybylinski, Stephen, 1986-
    There aren't many books that cover the on the ground reality of houseless people in the US. This book leans on Stephen's time in Portland and our local solutions to deal with this challenge. - Grant S.
    Book, 2025Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2025] — 363.50979 P9738i 2025
  • The perfect book for Halloween time or any spooky season. Set in 1970s Portland, this vampire novel is filled with action, dread, and nostalgia, sometimes all at once. - Ralph T.
    Book, 2025New York : Random House, [2025] — FICTION ROSSON 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
  • You will be caught up in the engaging adventures of these tiny, feisty creatures as well as those of their fellow park denizens (random porcupine! giant salamander! and even humans). - Erika B.
    Book, 2025[S.l.] : Buhito Press, 2025. — FICTION DESHLER 2025
  • You ever try to live alone in the woods in northeast Washington? But then family troubles force you out? Great characters, engrossing story, loss and redemption. - Mark F.
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2025] — FICTION WALTER 2025
  • Murderland

    Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers

    Fraser, Caroline,
    Horrifying and compelling. Highly recommended for those who already are familiar with the true crime genre, or those who enjoy shocking environmental exposés. - Willa M.
    Book, 2025New York : Penguin Press, 2025. — 364.15232 F8413m 2025
  • Do the early 2000s count as historical fiction? I was deep in my elder millennial feelings over the to detail given to era's indie music scene along with the strong characterization of Percy and Joe. - Kady F.
    Book, 2025New York : Crown, [2025] — FICTION BRICKLEY 2025