Top 10 Reads from the Gateway Collection

Here are the top 10 most borrowed books of 2025 from the Gateway Collection, the library’s leisure reading collection! Check out these books and more from the Gateway Collection.
The Gateway Collection is the SDSU Library's collection of popular fiction and non-fiction books to encourage leisure reading. It includes mystery, romance, fantasy, thriller, horror, biography, and more. It is located on the first floor of the Library Addition, under the Dome.
Be sure to stop by and grab a book or two to read over Winter Break!
Here are the top 10! Click on the title to link directly to the book in the library catalog.

A chilling historical horror novel set in the American west in 1912 following a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice.

What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don't understand yet..." When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her.

Everyone’s got a secret. Everyone’s got an agenda. But not everyone will survive…The Midnight Feast.

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help us start anew.

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family—but especially love.

A shimmering, joyful novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common.

Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it's now all over the internet.

When Piglet's fiancé reveals a horrible betrayal two weeks before their wedding day, she decides to proceed with the event, but her life slowly starts unraveling in the lead-up to the big day.

A memoir of the author’s struggle to understand her own sociopathy and shed light on the often maligned and misunderstood mental disorder.

A novel about a family living alone on a remote island, when a mysterious woman washes up on shore.
Note: All of the descriptions are from the book's publisher.

