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2025 Adult Fiction

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Check out the most popular authors and titles of the year!

Discover the top Adult fiction books and authors that have captivated readers’ imaginations in 2025. From gripping thrillers to heartwarming romances, our collection showcases the best in contemporary literature. Explore the diverse voices and compelling narratives that have made these books some of the most circulated titles of the year. Whether you’re looking for a page-turning mystery or a thought-provoking drama, our curated selection has something for every reader.

Top Author

The Number 1 Top Author is:

McFadden, Freida

Freida McFadden, a bestselling author recognized by the New York Times and others, is a physician and novelist of psychological thrillers and medical humor. Her books, translated into more than 45 languages, have won awards including the International Thriller Writers Award and the Goodreads Choice Award. She lives with her family and cat in an old, ocean-view home with creaky stairs, where screams might go unheard.

Top Books by Freida McFadden

The Housemaid’s Secret

Finding an employer who doesn’t question my past is tough. Luckily, the Garricks gave me a job cleaning their penthouse with city views and preparing meals in their shiny kitchen. I stay quiet, waiting for what I want. It’s almost perfect, but I haven’t met Mrs. Garrick or seen inside the guest bedroom. I hear her crying and see bloodstains on her nightgown. One day, I knock on her door, and when it opens, everything changes. I promise to protect her and keep my secrets. Douglas Garrick did wrong and will pay — it’s just a matter of how far I’ll go.

Want to Know a Secret?

Everyone has secrets, some worse than others. Influencer April Masterson knows the secret to perfect brownies and mouthwatering key lime squares. But watching her offline, you might uncover secrets she’d rather keep hidden—like where her son goes at night, what she does with the soccer coach behind fogged windows, and what’s buried in her backyard. These secrets could ruin her. Freida McFadden reveals a flawless life layered with obsession, deception, and lurking menace.

Never Lie

Sometimes the truth kills… Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan search for their dream house and find an estate once owned by Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished years ago. A winter storm traps them there, and the house loses its charm. Restless, Tricia discovers audio transcripts of Dr. Hale’s sessions. Listening to the tapes, she uncovers the events leading to her disappearance. Each tape gradually reveals a web of lies, and by the final cassette, the horrifying story is exposed—but it may be too late.

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Top 10 Most Circulated

Fiction Booklist

10. McFadden, Freida: Boyfriend

9. Moyes, Jojo: We All Live Here

8. Feeney, Alice: Beautiful Ugly

7. McFadden, Freida: The Housemaid

6. Everett, Percival: James

5. Baldacci, David: To Die For

4. Lawhon, Ariel: Frozen River: a Novel

3. Espach, Alison: Wedding People: a Novel

2. McFadden, Freida: Crash

PCL’s #1 Most Checked Out Fiction Book

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The Women

Hannah, Kristin

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears this, it’s a revelation. Raised in sunny Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she prides herself on doing the right thing. In 1965, as the world changes, she dares to imagine a different future. When her brother ships to Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path.

As green and inexperienced as the men sent to fight in Vietnam, Frankie is overwhelmed by the chaos and destruction of war. Each day is a gamble of life and death, hope and betrayal; friendships run deep and can be shattered in an instant. In war, she meets—and becomes one of—the lucky, the brave, the broken, and the lost. But war is just the beginning for Frankie and her veteran friends. The real battle lies in coming home to a changed and divided America, to angry protesters, and to a country that wants to forget Vietnam.

The Women is the story of one woman who goes to war, but it shines a light on all women who put themselves in harm’s way and whose sacrifice and commitment to their country have too often been forgotten. A novel about deep friendships and bold patriotism, The Women is a richly drawn story with a memorable heroine whose idealism and courage under fire will come to define an era.

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