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NPL Cracked 2025

Which NPL books were cracked open most in 2025?!
Swipe through to see the top-5 most checked-out books by genre that Norwich readers couldn’t get enough of this year. Full booklist below for reference!

FICTION

  1. My Friends, Fredrik Backman
  2. Broken Country, Clare Leslie Hall
  3. The Frozen River, Ariel Lawhon
  4. Three Days in June, Anne Tyler
  5. Great Big Beautiful Life, Emily Henry

MYSTERY

  1. The Waiting, Michael Connelly
  2. Beautiful Ugly, Alice Feeney
  3. Marble Hall Murders, Anthony Horowitz
  4. Skin and Bones, Paul Doiron
  5. The Big Empty, Robert Crais

SCIENCE FICTION

  1. The House in the Cerulean Sea, TJ Klune
  2. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, V.E. Schwab
  3. The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar
  4. The Bones Beneath My Skin, TJ Klune
  5. Somewhere Beyond the Sea, TJ Klune

BIOGRAPHY

  1. Memorial Days, Geraldine Brooks
  2. The Tell, Amy Griffin
  3. Exit Wounds, Peter Godwin
  4. The 10, E.A. Hanks
  5. Cabin, Patrick Hutchison

NONFICTION

  1. Abundance, Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson
  2. Raising Hare, Chloe Dalton
  3. The Salt Stones, Helen Whybrow
  4. A Marriage at Sea, Sophie Elmhirst
  5. Recognizing the Stranger, Isabella Hammad

YOUNG ADULT

  1. Gather, Kenneth M. Cadow
  2. How It All Ends, Emma Hunsinger
  3. Sunrise on the Reaping, Suzanne Collins
  4. In Real Life, Cory Doctorow & Jen Wang
  5. Four, Veronica Roth

CHILDREN’S

  1. Dog Man: Brawl of the Wild, Dav Pilkey
  2. How to Draw a Secret, Cindy Chang
  3. Knight Owl and Early Bird, Christopher Denise
  4. Time to Make Art, Jeff Mack
  5. Tasty, Victoria Grace Elliott