Notable Books for Adults

Published annually, and selected by the Reference and User Services Association division of the ALA, recognizing the year’s 25 most important books.

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The Slip
eBook - 2025 Fiction, 2026
Nominees: Lucas Schaefer
Not Currently Available.Holds: 10 on 3 copies
The Sunflower Boys
Book - 2025 | First edition. Fiction, 2026
Nominees: Sam Wachman
Available in some locations
Things in Nature Merely Grow
Book - 2025 | First edition. Nonfiction, 2026
Nominees: Yiyun Li
All copies in use Availability details Holds: 3 on 22 copies
Valley of Forgetting
Book - 2025 Nonfiction, 2026
Nominees: Jennie Erin Smith
Available in some locations
Where Are You Really From
Book - 2025 Fiction, 2026
Nominees: Elaine Hsieh Chou
Available in some locations
Anita De Monte Laughs Last
Book - 2024 | First edition. Fiction, 2025
Nominees: Xochitl Gonzalez
Available in some locations
Becoming Earth
Book - 2024 | First edition. Nonfiction, 2025
Nominees: Ferris Jabr
Available in some locations
Bluff
Book - 2024 Poetry, 2025
Nominees: Danez Smith
Available in some locations
Challenger
Challenger
Challenger A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space By Higginbotham, Adam
Book - 2024 | First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition. Nonfiction, 2025
Nominees: Adam Higginbotham
Available in some locations
Fire Exit
Book - 2024 Fiction, 2025
Nominees: Morgan Talty
Available in some locations
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