Staff Picks Kalamazoo Public Library: Best of 2025 Each year Kalamazoo Public Library staff read, watch, and listen to hundreds of the titles found in our collections. Below are their lists of the best things they checked out in 2025. Best of 2025 – Abbey F. Book The lamb : a novel [2025] Lucy Rose Book Hungerstone : a novel [2025] Kat Dunn Book Sunrise on the reaping [2025] Suzanne Collins DVD All about Eve [1950] Joseph L Mankiewicz Blu-ray Sinners [2025] Ryan Coogler See more…Best of 2025 – Amanda R Book All the blues in the sky [2025] Renée Watson Book The beat I drum [2025] Dusti Bowling Book COACH JASON REYNOLDS Book Death in the jungle : murder, betrayal, and the… [2025] Candace Fleming Book Deep water [2024] Jamie Sumner See more…Best of 2025 – Amy A Book The farthest shore [2020] Ursula K Le Guin Book The dispossessed : an ambiguous Utopia [1974] Ursula K Le Guin Book The indispensable Calvin and Hobbes : a Calvin… [1992] Bill Watterson Book Attack of the deranged mutant killer monster… [1992] Bill Watterson Book Walter the farting dog [2005] William Kotzwinkle See more…Best of 2025 – Bill C Book Harriet Tubman: live in concert : a novel [2025] Bob Book I cheerfully refuse : a novel [2024] Leif Enger Book Run for the hills : a novel [2025] Kevin Wilson Book Here comes the sun : a last chance for the… [2025] Bill McKibben Large print book Who is government? : the untold story of public… [2025] Michael Lewis See more…Best of 2025 – Brianna J. Blu-ray Eddington [2025] Ari Aster Blu-ray Final destination, bloodlines [2025] Adam B Stein Blu-ray Heart eyes [2025] Josh Ruben Blu-ray The long walk [2025] Francis Lawrence DVD Mission: impossible, the final reckoning [2025] Christopher McQuarrie See more…Best of 2025 – Caitlin H. Book The bewitching [2025] Silvia Moreno-Garcia Book One day, everyone will have always been against… [2025] Omar El Akkad Book Great black hope : a novel [2025] Rob Franklin Book Swept away [2025] Beth O'Leary Book Girl on girl : how pop culture turned a… [2025] Sophie Gilbert See more…Best of 2025 – Christine H. Book Tidy up your life : rethinking how to organize,… [2025] Tyler Moore Book Legacy : a Black physician reckons with racism… [2024] Uché Blackstock Book Here we go again : a novel [2024] Alison Cochrun Book Spent : a comic novel [2025] Alison Bechdel Book Good dirt : a novel [2025] Charmaine Wilkerson See more…Best of 2025 – Christopher M Book Bat eater and other names for Cora Zeng : a… [2025] Kylie Lee Baker eAudiobook hoopla You Don't Owe Anyone [2021] McGraw, Caroline Garnet eBook hoopla How to Talk to Your Kids so They Listen and Grow [2023] Joy, Martha C. Book Touring after the apocalypse. 1 [2021] Sakae Saitō Book How to stop fascism : history, ideology,… [2021] Paul Mason See more…Best of 2025 – Dan H. Visual Materials ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Sinners [2025] Ryan Coogler DVD 2000 meters to Andriivka [2025] Mstyslav Chernov 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Weapons [2025] Zach Cregger Visual Materials EDDINGTON See more…Best of 2025 – Ellie S Book Shark Girl [2025] Kate Beaton Book Flap your hands : a celebration of stimming [2024] Steve Asbell Book The Queen Bees of Tybee County [2025] Kyle Casey Chu Book When stars are scattered [2020] Victoria Jamieson Book You are here : poetry in the natural world [2024] Ada Limón See more…Best of 2025 – Jessica H eBook Libby The High Mountain Court [2022] Mulford, A.K. Book A river of golden bones [2023] A K Mulford eBook Libby The Library of Lost Girls [2025] Pipps, Kristen Book SPELLCASTER JAYMIN EVE Book In the ravenous dark [2021] AdriAnne Strickland See more…Best of 2025 – Jill L. Book Everything is tuberculosis : the history and… [2025] John Green Book Culpability [2025] Bruce W Holsinger Book The river is waiting : a novel [2025] Wally Lamb Book The eyes & the impossible [2023] Dave Eggers Book Outside in and the inside out : a story about… [2025] Emmy Kastner See more…Best of 2025 – Kaylee D Book Night watch : a Discworld novel [2002] Terry Pratchett Book Deep cuts : a novel [2025] Holly Brickley Book Old school Indian : a novel [2025] Aaron John Curtis Book Against the loveless world : a novel [2020] Susan Abulhawa eBook hoopla The Telling [2000] Le Guin, Ursula K. See more…Best of 2025 – Kit A Book The emperor of gladness : a novel [2025] Ocean Vuong Book My friends : a novel [2025] Fredrik Backman eBook Libby Not My Type [2025] Carroll, E. Jean Book Death at the sign of the rook : a Jackson Brodie… [2024] Kate Atkinson Book Tell me everything : a novel [2024] Elizabeth Strout See more…Best of 2025 – Lacey A. Book Babel : or, the necessity of violence : an… [2022] R F Kuang Book All the colors of the dark : a novel [2024] Chris Whitaker Book A little life : a novel [2015] Hanya Yanagihara Book Firekeeper's daughter [2021] Angeline Boulley Book Sunrise on the reaping [2025] Suzanne Collins See more…Best of 2025 – Liam B Book You weren't meant to be human [2025] Andrew Joseph White Book Awakened : a novel [2025] A E Osworth Book Key lime sky [2024] Al Hess DVD Sinners [2025] Ryan Coogler DVD Weapons [2025] Zach Cregger See more…Best of 2025 – Michael C. Book Wild dark shore [2025] Charlotte McConaghy eBook Libby When the Going Was Good [2025] Carter, Graydon Book Everything is tuberculosis : the history and… [2025] John Green eBook Libby Wild Thing [2025] Prideaux, Sue Book So far gone : a novel [2025] Jess Walter See more…Best of 2025 – Nina B Book Spent : a comic novel [2025] Alison Bechdel Book The ghost cat : a novel [2023] Alex Howard Book Hockey girl loves drama boy [2023] Faith Erin Hicks Book Good : from the Amazon jungle to suburbia and… [2024] FLuX (Illustrator) Book Big Jim and the white boy : an American classic… [2024] David Walker See more…Best of 2025 – Patrick J. DVD Anora [2024] Sean Baker Blu-ray Eddington [2025] Ari Aster Visual Materials THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION DVD The surfer [2024] Lorcan Finnegan Visual Materials ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER See more…Best of 2025 – Ryan G. Compact disc Diamond jubilee [2024] Cindy Lee (Musical group) Compact disc News of the universe [2024] Luz (Musical group) Compact disc Oyster cuts [2024] Quivers (Musical group) DVD The Phoenician scheme [2025] Wes Anderson DVD Flow = Straume [2025] Gints Zilbalodis See more…Best of 2025 – Stacy J Book Do more naturally : empowering effortless… [2024] David Kolbe eBook hoopla Many Voices One Song [2018] Rau, Ted J. eAudiobook Libby Co-Intelligence [2024] Mollick, Ethan eBook hoopla How You Learn Is How You Live [2017] Peterson, Kay eBook hoopla Leading Through [2024] Clark, Kim B. See more…Best of 2025 – Stacy N. eBook Libby All the Cool Girls Get Fired [2025] Brown, Laura eBook hoopla Managing Up [2018] Abbajay, Mary eAudiobook hoopla Bossypants [2011] Fey, Tina eBook hoopla The Woman's Guide to Surviving Patriarchy [2025] Boca, Alethia eBook hoopla Toxic Masculinity [2019] Whitehead, Stephen M. See more…Best of 2025 – Steve S Book Atavists : stories [2025] Lydia Millet Book Martyr! [2024] Kaveh Akbar Book Run for the hills : a novel [2025] Kevin Wilson Book Show don't tell : stories [2025] Curtis Sittenfeld Book Spent : a comic novel [2025] Alison Bechdel See more…Best of 2025 – Stewart F. Book Question 7 [2023] Richard Flanagan Book James : a novel [2024] Percival Everett Book The river at night [2019] Kevin Huizenga DVD Sinners [2025] Ryan Coogler Book Beneath the trees where nobody sees [2024] Patrick Horvath See more…Best of 2025 – Susan O eBook Libby Heart the Lover [2025] King, Lily Book The most [2024] Jessica Anthony Book Another word for love : a memoir [2024] Carvell Wallace Book Margo's got money troubles : a novel [2024] Rufi Thorpe Book Pachinko [2017] Min Jin Lee See more…Best of 2025 – Tady L. Book The city and its uncertain walls [2024] Haruki Murakami eAudiobook Libby All in Her Head [2024] Comen, Elizabeth Book The book of Bill [2024] Alex Hirsch eAudiobook Libby The Eyes Are the Best Part [2024] Kim, Monika Book Lucky day [2025] Chuck Tingle See more…
Kalamazoo Public Library: Best of 2025 Each year Kalamazoo Public Library staff read, watch, and listen to hundreds of the titles found in our collections. Below are their lists of the best things they checked out in 2025. Best of 2025 – Abbey F. Book The lamb : a novel [2025] Lucy Rose Book Hungerstone : a novel [2025] Kat Dunn Book Sunrise on the reaping [2025] Suzanne Collins DVD All about Eve [1950] Joseph L Mankiewicz Blu-ray Sinners [2025] Ryan Coogler See more…Best of 2025 – Amanda R Book All the blues in the sky [2025] Renée Watson Book The beat I drum [2025] Dusti Bowling Book COACH JASON REYNOLDS Book Death in the jungle : murder, betrayal, and the… [2025] Candace Fleming Book Deep water [2024] Jamie Sumner See more…Best of 2025 – Amy A Book The farthest shore [2020] Ursula K Le Guin Book The dispossessed : an ambiguous Utopia [1974] Ursula K Le Guin Book The indispensable Calvin and Hobbes : a Calvin… [1992] Bill Watterson Book Attack of the deranged mutant killer monster… [1992] Bill Watterson Book Walter the farting dog [2005] William Kotzwinkle See more…Best of 2025 – Bill C Book Harriet Tubman: live in concert : a novel [2025] Bob Book I cheerfully refuse : a novel [2024] Leif Enger Book Run for the hills : a novel [2025] Kevin Wilson Book Here comes the sun : a last chance for the… [2025] Bill McKibben Large print book Who is government? : the untold story of public… [2025] Michael Lewis See more…Best of 2025 – Brianna J. Blu-ray Eddington [2025] Ari Aster Blu-ray Final destination, bloodlines [2025] Adam B Stein Blu-ray Heart eyes [2025] Josh Ruben Blu-ray The long walk [2025] Francis Lawrence DVD Mission: impossible, the final reckoning [2025] Christopher McQuarrie See more…Best of 2025 – Caitlin H. Book The bewitching [2025] Silvia Moreno-Garcia Book One day, everyone will have always been against… [2025] Omar El Akkad Book Great black hope : a novel [2025] Rob Franklin Book Swept away [2025] Beth O'Leary Book Girl on girl : how pop culture turned a… [2025] Sophie Gilbert See more…Best of 2025 – Christine H. Book Tidy up your life : rethinking how to organize,… [2025] Tyler Moore Book Legacy : a Black physician reckons with racism… [2024] Uché Blackstock Book Here we go again : a novel [2024] Alison Cochrun Book Spent : a comic novel [2025] Alison Bechdel Book Good dirt : a novel [2025] Charmaine Wilkerson See more…Best of 2025 – Christopher M Book Bat eater and other names for Cora Zeng : a… [2025] Kylie Lee Baker eAudiobook hoopla You Don't Owe Anyone [2021] McGraw, Caroline Garnet eBook hoopla How to Talk to Your Kids so They Listen and Grow [2023] Joy, Martha C. Book Touring after the apocalypse. 1 [2021] Sakae Saitō Book How to stop fascism : history, ideology,… [2021] Paul Mason See more…Best of 2025 – Dan H. Visual Materials ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Sinners [2025] Ryan Coogler DVD 2000 meters to Andriivka [2025] Mstyslav Chernov 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Weapons [2025] Zach Cregger Visual Materials EDDINGTON See more…Best of 2025 – Ellie S Book Shark Girl [2025] Kate Beaton Book Flap your hands : a celebration of stimming [2024] Steve Asbell Book The Queen Bees of Tybee County [2025] Kyle Casey Chu Book When stars are scattered [2020] Victoria Jamieson Book You are here : poetry in the natural world [2024] Ada Limón See more…Best of 2025 – Jessica H eBook Libby The High Mountain Court [2022] Mulford, A.K. Book A river of golden bones [2023] A K Mulford eBook Libby The Library of Lost Girls [2025] Pipps, Kristen Book SPELLCASTER JAYMIN EVE Book In the ravenous dark [2021] AdriAnne Strickland See more…Best of 2025 – Jill L. Book Everything is tuberculosis : the history and… [2025] John Green Book Culpability [2025] Bruce W Holsinger Book The river is waiting : a novel [2025] Wally Lamb Book The eyes & the impossible [2023] Dave Eggers Book Outside in and the inside out : a story about… [2025] Emmy Kastner See more…Best of 2025 – Kaylee D Book Night watch : a Discworld novel [2002] Terry Pratchett Book Deep cuts : a novel [2025] Holly Brickley Book Old school Indian : a novel [2025] Aaron John Curtis Book Against the loveless world : a novel [2020] Susan Abulhawa eBook hoopla The Telling [2000] Le Guin, Ursula K. See more…Best of 2025 – Kit A Book The emperor of gladness : a novel [2025] Ocean Vuong Book My friends : a novel [2025] Fredrik Backman eBook Libby Not My Type [2025] Carroll, E. Jean Book Death at the sign of the rook : a Jackson Brodie… [2024] Kate Atkinson Book Tell me everything : a novel [2024] Elizabeth Strout See more…Best of 2025 – Lacey A. Book Babel : or, the necessity of violence : an… [2022] R F Kuang Book All the colors of the dark : a novel [2024] Chris Whitaker Book A little life : a novel [2015] Hanya Yanagihara Book Firekeeper's daughter [2021] Angeline Boulley Book Sunrise on the reaping [2025] Suzanne Collins See more…Best of 2025 – Liam B Book You weren't meant to be human [2025] Andrew Joseph White Book Awakened : a novel [2025] A E Osworth Book Key lime sky [2024] Al Hess DVD Sinners [2025] Ryan Coogler DVD Weapons [2025] Zach Cregger See more…Best of 2025 – Michael C. Book Wild dark shore [2025] Charlotte McConaghy eBook Libby When the Going Was Good [2025] Carter, Graydon Book Everything is tuberculosis : the history and… [2025] John Green eBook Libby Wild Thing [2025] Prideaux, Sue Book So far gone : a novel [2025] Jess Walter See more…Best of 2025 – Nina B Book Spent : a comic novel [2025] Alison Bechdel Book The ghost cat : a novel [2023] Alex Howard Book Hockey girl loves drama boy [2023] Faith Erin Hicks Book Good : from the Amazon jungle to suburbia and… [2024] FLuX (Illustrator) Book Big Jim and the white boy : an American classic… [2024] David Walker See more…Best of 2025 – Patrick J. DVD Anora [2024] Sean Baker Blu-ray Eddington [2025] Ari Aster Visual Materials THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION DVD The surfer [2024] Lorcan Finnegan Visual Materials ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER See more…Best of 2025 – Ryan G. Compact disc Diamond jubilee [2024] Cindy Lee (Musical group) Compact disc News of the universe [2024] Luz (Musical group) Compact disc Oyster cuts [2024] Quivers (Musical group) DVD The Phoenician scheme [2025] Wes Anderson DVD Flow = Straume [2025] Gints Zilbalodis See more…Best of 2025 – Stacy J Book Do more naturally : empowering effortless… [2024] David Kolbe eBook hoopla Many Voices One Song [2018] Rau, Ted J. eAudiobook Libby Co-Intelligence [2024] Mollick, Ethan eBook hoopla How You Learn Is How You Live [2017] Peterson, Kay eBook hoopla Leading Through [2024] Clark, Kim B. See more…Best of 2025 – Stacy N. eBook Libby All the Cool Girls Get Fired [2025] Brown, Laura eBook hoopla Managing Up [2018] Abbajay, Mary eAudiobook hoopla Bossypants [2011] Fey, Tina eBook hoopla The Woman's Guide to Surviving Patriarchy [2025] Boca, Alethia eBook hoopla Toxic Masculinity [2019] Whitehead, Stephen M. See more…Best of 2025 – Steve S Book Atavists : stories [2025] Lydia Millet Book Martyr! [2024] Kaveh Akbar Book Run for the hills : a novel [2025] Kevin Wilson Book Show don't tell : stories [2025] Curtis Sittenfeld Book Spent : a comic novel [2025] Alison Bechdel See more…Best of 2025 – Stewart F. Book Question 7 [2023] Richard Flanagan Book James : a novel [2024] Percival Everett Book The river at night [2019] Kevin Huizenga DVD Sinners [2025] Ryan Coogler Book Beneath the trees where nobody sees [2024] Patrick Horvath See more…Best of 2025 – Susan O eBook Libby Heart the Lover [2025] King, Lily Book The most [2024] Jessica Anthony Book Another word for love : a memoir [2024] Carvell Wallace Book Margo's got money troubles : a novel [2024] Rufi Thorpe Book Pachinko [2017] Min Jin Lee See more…Best of 2025 – Tady L. Book The city and its uncertain walls [2024] Haruki Murakami eAudiobook Libby All in Her Head [2024] Comen, Elizabeth Book The book of Bill [2024] Alex Hirsch eAudiobook Libby The Eyes Are the Best Part [2024] Kim, Monika Book Lucky day [2025] Chuck Tingle See more…
