Attack of the Best Lists 2025: LibFaves 25 and you can participate!

This post is part of my year end "Attack of the Best Lists" coverage. To see every post in my "Attack of the Best Lists 2025" coverage [and more backlist best of the year options] you can click here. 

Today, #LibFaves25 begins on Bluesky, the annual, 10 day, library worker Twitter countdown of the best books published in calendar year 2025 and every single one of you can join in.

From my colleague Jenna:

Library folks! Starting today (12/8) count down your 10 favorite books published in 2025, 1 per day, through 12/17. TITLE in caps, tag #LibFaves25! I’ll be the tally taker today and I’ve got an awesome crew to help me out the other days. At the end, we’ll share the top titles and full list. 📚🩷

The key to all of this is the tagging #LibFaves25 on Bluesy and putting your titles in all caps. They need them to be 2025 titles as the point pg this is for us to flex our buying power as library workers. 

You do not have to rank the titles in order as all titles mentioned are compiled and ranked by number of times mentioned. All you need to do is put on title a 1 title a day for 10 days on Bluesky as directed above. 

Look, I am aware that  I am not giving you much warning to prep, but technically you just need one title right this minute. I know you have a definite top title in mind right now to get started today. And then worry about building out 9 more later.

We need to all work together to create this massive, library worker generated best list. It is a tool for book discovery for our patrons, it is a way for us to find out about tiles we may have missed that our colleagues have enjoyed. 

In fact, that is why I participate and only do my top 10 Horror titles because often those books would not garner a mention if I didn't get them entered into the mix. I take it upon my self as the library world's horror expert to make sure that these titles make a larger library worker favorites list.

After the ten days are over, I will do a more comprehensive post on the horror blog about my favorite Horror reads, and I will also do my annual best books I read in 2025 list on December 23rd as well, but for #LibFaves25, I will represent for Horror so that when the final list of titles is compiled, it will be represented a least a little.

I really hope you consider joining us. It's one entry a day for you, but when wee all work together, the numbers are huge, and we can help so many readers. The more of us that participate, the more wide ranging the list is. 

Use this link to follow the past years of LibFaves favorites including the tallied top books and spreadsheet of every book that received a vote. Or this post which has the last few spreadsheets with easy access.

[Please note, 2023 there was no LibFaves as we were all navigating the switch from Twitter to Bluesky]