Rasmuson Library- Fall 2025 Book Recommendations

Rasmuson Library offers these Fall 2025 book recommendations from our Librarians.

Karen says that: Carl Hiaasen's newest novel, Fever Beach.

It highlights the deep philosophy behind the white supremacy movement, and as always gives the "Florida man" meme new material. If you need some comic relief, it will do the job!

 

Angie recommends: No Place Like Nome: The Bering Strait Seen Through Its Most Storied City by Michael Engelhard

A lyrical journey through history and place. Step back in time to Nome's past, where quirky characters, unbelievable happenings, and otherworldly adventures shaped a truly unique corner of the world.

 

Robyn recommends these:

Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell

A monster story that upends how we think about monsters. One of the freshest fantasy takes out there.

 

The Witchwood Knot by Olivia Atwater

The Gothic fantasy novel of your dreams. Has everything: young governess! Mysterious manor house! Strange goings on! Sinister servants! Dark secrets!

 

Rough Pages by Lev A.C. Rosen

In 1950s California, private investigator Evander "Andy" Mills searches for a missing list of subscribers to a gay bookshop. The novel speaks to the importance of community and literature in a time of censorship.

 

The Dark Library by Mary Anna Evans

The sleepy town of Bentham-on-Hudson used to be a place where nothing ever happened. But with the outbreak of WWII, strange things are going on. Called home when her father died unexpectedly, Dr. Estrella Ecker finds the family fortune gone and her mother missing. And someone seems to be watching the house. A modern Gothic with shoutouts to "Rebecca" and "The Secret Adversary".

 

Greenteeth by Molly O'Neill

There's trouble with a capital "T" in the village of Chipping Appleby and only a witch and Jenny Greenteeth can save the townspeople. 

 

 

And Elizabeth likes lighthearted mysteries such as:

The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant by Liza Tully

Can't spell treason without tea by Rebecca Thorne

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick Dewitt

Welcome to Murder Week by Karen Dukess

Knife Skills for Beginners by Orlando Murrin

 

 

Marie recommends:

Nesting by C.J. Cook
Will Farraday is building a high concept house on a Norwegian fjord.
The same spot where his wife died. A nice combination of Norwegian
folk tales and the hazards of environmental disregard.

Karma Doll by Jonathan Ames
In this darkly humorous detective story Happy Doll must find a balance between his Buddhist beliefs and the bloody path of retribution and justice
which he can't shake.

Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon
A family flees a crime ridden city for the comforts of charming Cornwall Combe. Deeply embedded in the community is an  allegiance to Mother Earth like no other.

Oddity (DVD)
A husband and wife are renovating an old house. When the wife is
murdered a patient from a local mental hospital is blamed. When the husband's blind and psychic sister arrives things get worse. She has brought, without a doubt, the most disturbing housewarming gift ever. Creepy and unsettling.

 

 

Tyson says that he just got done reading Wool by Hugh Howey. It's a dystopian thriller set in an apocalyptic future America. Good characters, lots of action, and a mystery to unravel. Apple TV has created a television show that they are two seasons into, which is a good adaptation, with only a few changes. 

 

 

Genova liked:

The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia for its haunting tale.

The Last House on the Left (film) which is not for the light of heart, and;

The Ones that Got Away by Stephen Graham which is a creepy short story collection to sink your teeth into.

 

Happy Fall reading from the Rasmuson Library!