Dive Into Our Top 10 Reads


PUB DATE FRIDAY 2025 RECAP
Our Top 10 Bestsellers
from Sibylline Digital First

Before we head into a new year of bold storytelling, we’re celebrating the Pub Date Friday books you loved most. Here are our top 10 bestselling titles.


1. Uncorked: A Memoir of Letting Go and Starting Over
by Mary Alice Stephens

One woman’s funny, fearless journey from wine-soaked nights to a vibrant sober life, and the courage it took to start over at 45.


2. Little Bird: A Novel
by Barbara Viniar

In 1910, fearing escalating violence against the Jews in Russia, Feige’s father arranges for her to marry a wealthy cousin in New York City.


3. Giving Up the Ghost: A Daughter's Memoir
by Samantha Rose

When a ghostwriter’s late mother returns, grief becomes a journey of truth, healing, and rewriting the stories we carry.


4. Fine, I'm a Terrible Person: A Novel
by Lisa F. Rosenberg

A broke eccentric divorcée and her uptight daughter crash into each other’s plans in LA, sparking a wild, funny, and unexpectedly healing weekend.


5. The Four Queens of the Buttonbush Museum: A Novel
by Beth Brookhart

In 1950, a bold farmwife leads a fierce team to save a museum, but sabotage and rival egos threaten to derail their mission. Can she pull off a miracle?


6. Tread Lightly: A Novel
by Elizabeth Kemp

A lifeguard’s murder drags a former hostage negotiator back into danger. In Silicon Valley, motherhood, past trauma, and secrets collide.


7. The Sunken Town: A Novel
by Karen Nelson

An inherited farmhouse leads Lindsay deep into her birth mother’s past, where long-hidden secrets rise to the surface and reshape her identity.


8. Whistling Women and Crowing Hens: A Novel
by Melora Fern

Birdie’s whistle makes her famous on the Chautauqua circuit, but love, loyalty, and danger test her courage in roaring 1920s America.


9. Tap Dancing at the Bluebird: A Novel
by Christine Walker

Young friends are torn apart by betrayal and tragedy—decades later, can love, dance, and forgiveness bring them back together?


10. Harvesting History: While Farming the Flats
by Muriel A. Murch

From Hollywood to West Marin, Harvesting History is a heartfelt tale of farming, community, and filmmaking—where storytelling meets sustainability.



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