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
- My Friends, Fredrik Backman
- Broken Country, Clare Leslie Hall
- The Frozen River, Ariel Lawhon
- Three Days in June, Anne Tyler
- Great Big Beautiful Life, Emily Henry
MYSTERY
- The Waiting, Michael Connelly
- Beautiful Ugly, Alice Feeney
- Marble Hall Murders, Anthony Horowitz
- Skin and Bones, Paul Doiron
- The Big Empty, Robert Crais
SCIENCE FICTION
- The House in the Cerulean Sea, TJ Klune
- Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, V.E. Schwab
- The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar
- The Bones Beneath My Skin, TJ Klune
- Somewhere Beyond the Sea, TJ Klune
BIOGRAPHY
- Memorial Days, Geraldine Brooks
- The Tell, Amy Griffin
- Exit Wounds, Peter Godwin
- The 10, E.A. Hanks
- Cabin, Patrick Hutchison
NONFICTION
- Abundance, Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson
- Raising Hare, Chloe Dalton
- The Salt Stones, Helen Whybrow
- A Marriage at Sea, Sophie Elmhirst
- Recognizing the Stranger, Isabella Hammad
YOUNG ADULT
- Gather, Kenneth M. Cadow
- How It All Ends, Emma Hunsinger
- Sunrise on the Reaping, Suzanne Collins
- In Real Life, Cory Doctorow & Jen Wang
- Four, Veronica Roth











