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Fall 2025 Featured Reads

Nov 27, 2025 - Waterloo Public Library
Featured Reads

Whether you’re looking for something dark and mysterious or something to peak your curiosity, we’ve got a great fall read waiting for you in our latest collection of fiction and non-fiction picks.

Fiction

The Hounding
Xenobe Purvis
Songs for Other People's Weddings
David Levithan
The Tokyo Zodiac Murders
Soji Shimada
A Resistance of Witches
Morgan Ryan
Archive of Unknown Universes
Ruben Reyes
The Librarians
Sherry Thomas
Jamaica Road
Lisa Smith
Culpability
Bruce Holsinger
The Heist of Hollow London
Eddie Robson
The Sunflower Boys
Sam Wachman
Coffin Moon
Keith Rosson
Vera, or Faith
Gary Shteyngart

Non-Fiction

Flashes of Brilliance: The Genius of Early Photography and How It Transformed Art, Science, and History
Anika Burgess
A Year with the Seals : Unlocking the Secrets of the Sea's Most Charismatic and Controversial Creatures
Alix Morris
We Should All Be Birds: A Memoir
Brian Buckbee
Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women's Magic
Lindsey Stewart
John Candy: A Life in Comedy
Paul Myers
Canada Unscripted : CBC and NFB Icons Unfiltered
Edited by Vic Sarin
Anatomy of a Con Artist: The 14 Red Flags to Spot Scammers, Grifters, and Thieves
Johnathan Walton
Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything: A Memoir
Alyson Stoner
Hotshot: A Life on Fire
River Shelby
New Age of Sexism: How Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny
Laura Bates
Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations
Sam Kean
A Marriage at Sea: True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst
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