What were your favourite reads in 2025?
Libraries Tasmania’s Top 10 lists have been released!
Find out what Tasmanians loved to read and borrow in 2025.
Tasmanians proved once again to be passionate readers, borrowing more than 3.2 million physical and digital items last year.
Digital resources continue to soar in popularity, with eBook and eAudiobook loans increasing by 6 per cent to nearly 1.2 million in 2025.
Tasmanian and Australian authors featured strongly across categories of both digital and physical books, including the growing popularity of children’s titles by Tasmanian Aboriginal authors.
Browse the dropdown sections below to see Tasmania’s favourite reads across 10 categories.
Tasmanian authors – fiction
| Rank | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The jam maker | Mary-Lou Stephens |
| 2 | Dusk | Robbie Arnott |
| 3 | Where the birds call her name | Claire van Ryn |
| 4 | The good losers | Meg Bignell |
| 5 | The chocolate factory | Mary-Lou Stephens |
| 6 | Heartsease | Kate Kruimink |
| 7 | The secrets of the Huon Wren | Claire van Ryn |
| 8 | The whisky widow | Karen Brooks |
| 9 | Mole Creek | James Dunbar |
| 10 | Milking time | Rachael Treasure |
Adult fiction
| Rank | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | We solve murders | Richard Osman |
| 2 | In too deep | Lee Child |
| 3 | The jam maker | Mary-Lou Stephens |
| 4 | Blood pact | Fiona McIntosh |
| 5 | The waiting | Michael Connelly |
| 6 | Here one moment | Liane Moriarty |
| 7 | Time of the child | Niall Williams |
| 8 | Nobody’s fool | Harlan Coben |
| 9 | The fallen woman | Fiona McIntosh |
| 10 | Dusk | Robbie Arnott |
Crime
| Rank | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | We solve murders | Richard Osman |
| 2 | The waiting | Michael Connelly |
| 3 | What happened to Nina? | Dervla McTiernan |
| 4 | The dark wives | Ann Cleeves |
| 5 | Foul play | Fiona McIntosh |
| 6 | Think twice | Harlan Coben |
| 7 | Blood pact | Fiona McIntosh |
| 8 | Resurrection walk | Michael Connelly |
| 9 | Midnight and blue | Ian Rankin |
| 10 | This is why we lied | Karin Slaughter |
Tasmanian non-fiction
| Rank | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The good life | Hannah Moloney |
| 2 | Question 7 | Richard Flanagan |
| 3 | Broccoli & other love stories: notes and recipes from an always curious, often hungry kitchen gardener | Paulette Whitney |
| 4 | A very secret trade: the dark story of gentlemen collectors in Tasmania | Cassandra Pybus |
| 5 | Tasmanian gardens | Meg Bignell & Alice Bennett |
| 6 | Bush lives: tales from the Tasmanian backblocks | Nic Haygarth |
| 7 | The Milkwood permaculture living handbook | Kirsten Bradley |
| 8 | Good life growing | Hannah Moloney |
| 9 | Toxic: the rotting underbelly of the Tasmanian salmon industry | Richard Flanagan |
| 10 | Wild creature mind: the neuroscience breakthrough that helps you transform anxiety and live a fiercely loving life | Steve Biddulph |
Adult non-fiction
| Rank | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Memorial days | Geraldine Brooks |
| 2 | The good life | Hannah Moloney |
| 3 | Day trip Tasmania | Andrew Grune & Evi O |
| 4 | Just one thing: how simple changes can transform your life | Michael Mosley |
| 5 | Question 7 | Richard Flanagan |
| 6 | The season | Helen Garner |
| 7 | Broccoli & other love stories: notes and recipes from an always curious, often hungry kitchen gardener | Paulette Whitney |
| 8 | A very secret trade: the dark story of gentlemen collectors in Tasmania | Cassandra Pybus |
| 9 | Tonight | Nagi Maehashi |
| 10 | Tasmanian gardens | Meg Bignell & Alice Bennett |
Romance
| Rank | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Outback reunion | Rachael Johns |
| 2 | Back to Birdsville | Fiona McArthur |
| 3 | From London with love | Katie Fforde |
| 4 | The Sugar Palace | Fiona McIntosh |
| 5 | The other Bridget | Rachael Johns |
| 6 | Talk to the heart | Rachael Johns |
| 7 | Silverton Shores | Mandy Magro |
| 8 | Funny story | Emily Henry |
| 9 | The bad bridesmaid | Rachael Johns |
| 10 | As the river rises | Fiona McArthur |
eBooks and eAudiobooks
| Rank | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harry Potter (series) | J.K. Rowling |
| 2 | The community | Christine Gregory |
| 3 | The chilling | Riley James |
| 4 | Leave the girls behind | Jacqueline Bublitz |
| 5 | The Bluff | Joanna Jenkins |
| 6 | The campers | Maryrose Cuskelly |
| 7 | The jam maker | Mary-Lou Stephens |
| 8 | The subtle art of not giving a f**k | Mark Manson |
| 9 | Thursday Murder Club (series) | Richard Osman |
| 10 | The angry women’s choir | Meg Bignell |
Junior fiction
| Rank | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The bad guys (series) | Aaron Blabey |
| 2 | WeirDo (series) | Anh Do |
| 3 | Hotdog! (series) | Anh Do |
| 4 | Cucumber madness! | Aaron Blabey |
| 5 | The world’s worst monsters | David Walliams |
| 6 | Hot mess | Jeff Kinney |
| 7 | Wedding belles | Meredith Costain |
| 8 | The 169-storey treehouse | Andy Griffiths |
| 9 | Tom Gates is ha! ha! hilarious | Liz Pinchon |
| 10 | Spaceboy | David Walliams |
Youth fiction
| Rank | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Throne of glass (series) | Sarah J. Maas |
| 2 | Hunger games (series) | Suzanne Collins |
| 3 | A good girl’s guide to murder | Holly Jackson |
| 4 | Powerless | Lauren Roberts |
| 5 | Check & mate | Ali Hazelwood |
| 6 | The summer I turned pretty | Jenny Han |
| 7 | The cruel prince | Holly Black |
| 8 | Six of crows | Leigh Bardugo |
| 9 | Tomorrow, when the war began | John Marsden |
| 10 | The reappearance of Rachel Price | Holly Jackson |
Tasmanian children’s books
| Rank | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | We love Country | Leanne Pelikan |
| 2 | Here on Sea Country | Kylie Dickson |
| 3 | Come over to my house | Eliza Hull & Sally Rippin |
| 4 | The stormy night | Adam Thompson |
| 5 | Saturday is pancake day | Bernadette Green |
| 6 | Sky Country | Patsy Cameron |
| 7 | Searching for treasure | Johanna Bell |
| 8 | Sea Country | Patsy Cameron |
| 9 | Dogs : a counting & comparing book | Frances Mackay |
| 10 | Cheer up, Blobfish! | Julie Murphy |
