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WW’s Top 5 Reads: February 2025

A roundup of what Portlanders have been reading this month.

By WW Staff
Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora (Penguin Random House)

We took a look at the top sellers from Powell’s, Literary Arts, Broadway Books and Annie Bloom’s Bookstore to see which books’ pages the city’s been flipping. Here are the top reads for February:

1. Reading the Waves

by Lidia Yuknavitch

Reading the Waves by Lidia Yuknavitch (Penguin Random House)

2. Solito: A Memoir

by Zamora Javier

Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora (Penguin Random House)

3. Martyr!

by Kaveh Akbar

Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (Courtesy of the author)

4. Onyx Storm

by Rebecca Yarros

Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros (Entangled Publishing)

5. The Edge of Water

by Olufunke Grace Bankole

The Edge of Water (Tin House Books)
WW Staff