The Fort Worth Public Library has divulged their year's most popular literary escapades, with a staggering 4.38 million items having circulated throughout fiscal year 2025, as reported by Fort Worth Public Library's announcement. A fervent reader's fervor was on full display across genres with everything from picture books to crime novels flying off the shelves, cementing these titles as the top reads of 2025.
Tomes for the younger crowd featured adventures of all stripes, including Mo Willems' "Will the Pigeon Graduate?", Arley Nopra's addition to "The Baby-Sitters Club" series, "Mallory and the Trouble with Twins", and James Dean's sandy tale "Pete the Kitty and the Mermaid's Sandcastle" among others, with "I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919" by Lauren Tarshis, and "Green Eggs and Ham Take a Hike: A Green Eggs and Ham Story" by James Kochalka, fortifying the ranks of these fervently perused pages.
Teen readers were no less voracious, immersing themselves in tales ranging from Suzanne Collins' "Sunrise on the Reaping", a dystopian prelude, to the interactive frights of Scott Cawthon's "Escape the Pizzaplex"; from the final installment of Jennifer Lynn Barnes' trilogy, "Glorious Rivals", to Lauren Roberts' "Fearless" which peeled back the layers of vulnerability and change, these stories wove a web of escapades that entranced Matson's "Gradchanted" with its narrative on rites of passage and growth.
Among the adult fiction aficionados, James Patterson reigned with titles like "The Texas Murders", "Holmes is Missing: A Holmes, Margaret & Poe Mystery", along with "The Writer" and "Paranoia" each a tale infusing suspense and duplicity through narratives of crime, betrayal, and the complex webs, weaved by human desire and fear, and alongside Patterson's commanding presence stood Rebecca Yarros' "Onyx Storm", a fantasy pushing the bounds of alliance and arcane powers.
Non-fiction found its devotees as well, with topics as eclectic as gardening and celestial exploration capturing the imaginations of many; "The Science Book" by DK Publishing and "The Moon: From Imagination to Exploration", also by DK Publishing, stood shoulder to shoulder with more pragmatic guides like "DIY: Repair, Renovate, and Decorate with Over 450 Step-by-Step Projects" by Julian Cassell and the "GED Test Prep 2025/2026" by Tim Collins, catering to the hands-on and the headstrong, geared towards those seeking knowledge both profound and practical.
