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Dive Into Our Top 10 Reads

Published 8 months ago • 2 min read

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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