Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List 2025

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)

Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List 2024

Since 2009, the Texas Library Association has published the the Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List, highlighting outstanding fiction published during the past year that merits special attention from adult readers. Here are the titles from the 2024 list that are in the TBP collection.

For more information: https://txla.org/tools-resources/reading-lists/lariat/current-list/

ALL THE SINNERS BLEED by S. A. Cosby (DB 115237)
DID YOU HEAR ABOUT KITTY KARR? by Crystal Smith Paul (DB 114592 IN PROCESS)
EMILY WILDE’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FAERIES by Heather Fawcett (DB 112234, BR 24964 IN PROCESS)
FOURTH WING by Rebecca Yarros (DB 115206, BR 25277 IN PROCESS)
GIRL CALLED SAMSON by Amy Harmon (DB 114233)
GO AS A RIVER by Shelley Read (DB 117785 IN PROCESS)
GOOD NIGHT, IRENE by Luis Alberto Urrea (DB 114929)
HELLO STRANGER by Katherine Center (DB 115383, BR 25244 IN PROCESS, LB 14819)
HORSE by Geraldine Brooks (DB 108556, LB 14085)
INK BLOOD SISTER SCRIBE by Emma Törzs (LB 14844)
MAAME by Jessica George (DB 112961)
MOTHER-DAUGHTER MURDER NIGHT by Nina Simon (DB 116413)
NO TWO PERSONS by Erica Bauermeister (DB 114586 IN PROCESS)
QUIET TENANT by Clémence Michallon (DB 116945 IN PROCESS, LB 14512)
RIVER WE REMEMBER by William Kent Krueger (DB 116354)
ROMANTIC COMEDY by Curtis Sittenfeld (DB 113860, BR 24945 IN PROCESS, LB 14285)
SPITE HOUSE by Johnny Compton (DB 115899)
STARLING HOUSE by Alix E. Harrow (DB 116445)
SYMPHONY OF SECRETS by Brendan Slocumb (DB 114928)
TOM LAKE by Ann Patchett (DB 116555, BR 25129 IN PROCESS, LB 14828)
WHALEFALL by Daniel Kraus (IN PROCESS)
YELLOWFACE by R. F. Kuang (DB 114930, BR 24934 IN PROCESS, LB 14812)
YOURS TRULY by Abby Jimenez (DB 114035)