Since 2009, the Texas Library Association has created a list that highlights outstanding fiction published during the year that merits special attention from adult readers. This list is the Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List. Here are the items from the 2025 list that are in the TBP collection.
For more information: https://txla.org/tools-resources/reading-lists/lariat/current-list/
| BOOK OF DOORS by Gareth Brown (DB 119678) |
| BORROWED LIFE OF FREDERICK FIFE by Anna Johnston (DB 124326) |
| BY ANY OTHER NAME by Jodi Picoult (DB 123719) |
| EXPIRATION DATES by Rebecca Serle (DB 120246, BR 25514, LB 0000623) |
| EXTINCTION by Douglas Preston (DB 120861) |
| FAMILY FAMILY by Laurie Frankel (DB 119034) |
| FROZEN RIVER by Ariel Lawhon (DB 117781, LB 0000144) |
| FUNNY STORY by Emily Henry (DB 120998, BR 25494, LB 0000348) |
| GOD OF THE WOODS by Liz Moore (DB 122747, LB 0000606) |
| HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN by Joyce Maynard (LB 0000605) |
| HOW TO READ A BOOK by Monica Wood (DB 121701) |
| JAMES by Percival Everett (DB 120063, BR 25513 In Process, LB 0000436) |
| LISTEN FOR THE LIE by Amy Tintera (DB 119654) |
| MALAS by Marcela Fuentes (DB 122759, LB 0000549) |
| SPELLSHOP by Sarah Beth Durst (DB 123077) |
| WE SOLVE MURDERS by Richard Osman (DB 124180, LB 0001031) |
| WEDDING PEOPLE by Alison Espach (DB 123160) |
| WHERE THEY LAST SAW HER by Marcie Rendon (DB 123805) |
| WOMEN by Kristin Hannah (DB 118896, LB 0000104) |
| WORST CASE SCENARIO by T. J. Newman (DB 123285) |
| WREN IN THE HOLLY LIBRARY by K. A. Linde (DB 122207) |