Year-End Lists

Chicago Public Library: Top 10 Favorite Books of 2025, a list of staff favorites

• Black in Blues

  How a Color Tells the Story of My People
  Imani Perry
• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
  Stephen Graham Jones
• Flashlight
  Susan Choi
• Flesh
  David Szalay
• A Flower Traveled in My Blood

  The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children
  Haley Cohen Gilliland
• Is a River Alive?
  Robert Macfarlane
• A Marriage at Sea

  A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
  Sophie Elmhirst
• Mother Mary Comes to Me
  Arundhati Roy
• Wild Dark Shore
  Charlotte McConaghy
• Woodworking
  Emily St. James