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Books on Tap Favorite Reads in 2025

Discover what readers from the Books on Tap book club loved in 2025.

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  • American Sherlock

    Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI

    Dawson, Kate Winkler,
    Known as the 'American Sherlock Holmes,' Edward Oscar Heinrich was one of America's greatest forensic scientists, with a skill level that seemed almost supernatural. Heinrich spearheaded the invention of new forensic tools that police still use…
    Book, 2020New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2020] — 363.25092 H3648D 2020
  • Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is,…
    Book, 2025New York : Ballantine Books, [2025] — F REID-T
  • Pulitzer winner Doerr (All the Light We Cannot See) returns with a deeply affecting epic of a long-lost book from ancient Greece. In the mid-22nd century, Konstance, 14, copies an English translation of Cloud Cuckoo Land by Antonius Diogenes with…
    Book, 2021New York : Scribner, 2021. — F DOERR-A
  • Cold Canning

    the Easy Way to Preserve the Seasons Without Hot Water Processing : 425 Small-batch Jams, Jellies, Chutneys, Chili Crisps, Pickles, Sauerkrauts, Kimchis & More

    Weinstein, Bruce, 1960-
    Cold canning is a revolutionary new approach to preserving the best produce of the season, without the headache of traditional canning methods. Whether you're canning for convenience, frugality, or fun, these small-batch recipes are simple to make…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Voracious/Little, Brown and Company, 2025. — 641.42 WEINSTEIN 2025
  • Everything Is Tuberculosis

    the History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

    Green, John, 1977-
    Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it. In 2019, author John Green met…
    Book, 2025New York, New York : Crash Course Books, 2025. — 616.995 GREEN 2025
  • Daughters of the Winter Queen

    Four Remarkable Sisters, the Crown of Bohemia, and the Enduring Legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots

    Goldstone, Nancy, 1957-
    Documents how a betrayed Elizabeth Stuart, the daughter of James I, raised her four daughters in exile during the Dutch Golden Age, tracing how their stories shaped a three-decade war and fulfilled the promises of their great-grandmother, Mary Queen…
    Book, 2018New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018. — 943.7023 G5789D 2018
  • When Barbara Van Laar is discovered missing from her summer camp bunk one morning in August 1975, it triggers a panicked, terrified search. Losing a camper is a horrific tragedy under any circumstances, but Barbara isn't just any camper, she's the…
    Book, 2024New York : Riverhead Books, 2024. — F MOORE-L
  • The start of an epic enemies-to-lovers hockey romance from USA TODAY bestselling author Rachel Reid-book two in her fan-favorite Game Changers series. Nothing interferes with pro hockey star Shane Hollander's game. Now that he's captain of the…
    eAudiobook, 2019Tantor Media, Inc, 2019
  • By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this daisy chain of events reaches fission when Flanagan as a young man…
    Book, 2024New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024. — 823 FLANAGAN 2023
  • In this strong crime novel from Thriller Award finalist Cosby (Blacktop Wasteland), the double murder of married couple Isiah Randolph and Derek Jenkins, shot dead outside "a fancy wine store" in Richmond, Va., drives African American Ike Randolph…
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Flatiron Books, 2021. — F COSBY-S
  • Emerging industrialization and its concomitant power struggles provide the backdrop for Carrasco's continuation of The Best Bad Things (2018). Ex-Pinkerton detective Alma returns in full disguise as Jack, a Tacoma drug runner, concealing her gender…
    Book, 2024New York : MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. — F CARRA-K
  • The Sleeping Beauties

    and Other Stories of Mystery Illness

    O'Sullivan, Suzanne,
    Drawing on fascinating case studies, neurologist O'Sullivan (Its All in Your Head) delivers a razor-sharp study of illnesses that often cannot be explained in traditional medical terms. O'Sullivan highlights the deeply entwined biological,…
    Book, 2021New York : Pantheon Books, [2021] — 616.8524 OS8S 2021
  • Xishi is beautiful, but beauty hasn't helped her as a common Yue girl growing up under the cruel control of the Wu. Then Fanli, the Yue king's brilliant advisor, selects Xishi to seduce the Wu king and save their people. Under Fanli's tutelage,…
    Book, 2024New York : St. Martin's Press, 2024. — F LIANG-A
  • Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place. Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his…
    Book, 2023New York : Tor, Tor Publishing Group, 2023. — SCI SCALZ-J
  • Through the Night Like a Snake

    Latin American Horror Stories

    In ten chilling stories from this ensemble cast of contemporary Latin American writers, horror infiltrates the unexpected, taboo regions of the present-day psyche. Latin American Horror is having a moment. Through the Night Like a Snake, the latest…
    Book, 2024San Francisco, CA : Two Lines Press, [2024] — F THROU
  • Raised in Brazil in a religious cult called the Children of God, which originated in the United States and is currently called the Family International, Young was denied an education and was physically, emotionally, and sexually abused. She escaped…
    Book, 2022New York : St. Martin's Press, 2022. — B MESTY-D 2022
  • Tucked away in an old building at the end of a narrow alley in Kyoto, the Kokoro Clinic for the Soul can only be found by people who are struggling in their lives and genuinely need help. The mysterious clinic offers a unique treatment to those who…
    Book, 2024New York : Berkley, 2024. — F ISHID-S
  • In Norris's gorgeous debut, a queer couple navigate their differences after an unexpected loss. Femme violist Davis Freeman, who is Black, is set to marry sturdy bisexual Everett Caldwell in the Caldwells' Montauk beach house. Davis has never felt…
    Book, 2025New York : Random House, 2025. — F NORRI-D
  • Who Is Government?

    the Untold Story of Public Service

    The government is a vast, complex system that Americans pay for, rebel against, rely upon, dismiss, and celebrate. It's also our shared resource for addressing the biggest problems of society. And it's made up of people, mostly unrecognized and…
    Book, 2025New York : Riverhead Books, 2025. — 351 WHO 2025
  • The greatest peaceable expression of common purpose in US history, the New Deal altered Americans' relationship with politics, economics, and one another in ways that continue to resonate today. No matter where you look in America, there is likely a…
    Book, 2021New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2021] — 973.914 R19W 2021