Top Syndetics Unbound Titles of 2025

2025 is almost over. So we’ve compiled the most popular books in public libraries around the world, based on the thousands of libraries that use Syndetics Unbound to add covers, recommendations, summaries, series information and other information and features to their library catalogs.

This post covers the United States up to December 15. We’ll be updating this when the year is over, and putting out data for Australia, Canada and the UK too.

First, here’s a “bar chart race” showing the top books changing over the year. You can also see and share the visualization over on Flourish.

Here are the top titles for the whole year:

And here is a complete list of the top 100 books in US public libraries in 2025.

1. Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
2. Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
3. The Women by Kristin Hannah
4. The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About by Mel Robbins
5. Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
6. Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
7. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
8. James by Percival Everett
9. The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
10. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
11. The Wedding People by Alison Espach
12. The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
13. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
14. My Friends by Fredrik Backman
15. Atmosphere: A Love Story by Taylor Jenkins Reid
16. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
17. The Crash by Freida McFadden
18. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
19. Strangers in Time by David Baldacci
20. Dog Man by Dav Pilkey
21. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Book 1) by J. K. Rowling
22. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
23. Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney
24. Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
25. All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
26. The Tenant by Freida McFadden
27. The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
28. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
29. The Widow by John Grisham
30. Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
31. The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
32. The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown
33. Nightshade by Michael Connelly
34. Say You’ll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez
35. Atomic Habits by James Clear
36. The Boyfriend by Freida McFadden
37. The Housemaid’s Secret by Freida McFadden
38. Battle Mountain by C. J. Box
39. We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes
40. 1984 by George Orwell
41. The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
42. The River Is Waiting by Wally Lamb
43. Don’t Let Him In by Lisa Jewell
44. Never Flinch by Stephen King
45. The Housemaid Is Watching by Freida McFadden
46. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
47. Funny Story by Emily Henry
48. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
49. Hidden Nature by Nora Roberts
50. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
51. Three Days in June by Anne Tyler
52. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
53. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
54. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
55. Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
56. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
57. The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
58. The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
59. 25 Alive by James Patterson
60. The Teacher by Freida McFadden
61. Verity by Colleen Hoover
62. Never Lie by Freida McFadden
63. Nobody’s Fool by Harlan Coben
64. Powerless by Lauren Roberts
65. We Are All Guilty Here by Karin Slaughter
66. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green
67. The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
68. One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune
69. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
70. Dog Man: Big Jim Begins by Dav Pilkey
71. Ward D by Freida McFadden
72. A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
73. The Perfect Divorce by Jeneva Rose
74. The Academy by Elin Hilderbrand
75. Gone Before Goodbye by Harlan Coben
76. Lethal Prey by John Sandford
77. The First Gentleman by Bill Clinton
78. None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell
79. Bonded in Death by J. D. Robb
80. A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
81. Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
82. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
83. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
84. First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston
85. Blood Moon by Sandra Brown
86. Do Not Disturb by Freida McFadden
87. Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
88. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab
89. Deep End by Ali Hazelwood
90. The Names by Florence Knapp
91. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
92. The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose
93. The Intruder by Freida McFadden
94. Counting Miracles by Nicholas Sparks
95. Quicksilver by Callie Hart
96. The Inmate by Freida McFadden
97. Paranoia by James Patterson
98. Dog Man Unleashed by Dav Pilkey
99. The Mirror by Nora Roberts
100. The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

How Do We Know?

This data was collected by Syndetics Unbound. The search data is fully anonymized the day it is collected.

The numbers in the moving chart represent the share of interest, normalized by day. If we didn’t do that, you’d get seasick, since weekends are always lower.