What Fiction are you reading this week, Sept. 28, 2025?

[hermetic]

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For my 9,000th post:



I'm reading Fault Lines by Anne Rivers Siddons. A classic from 1995. It's a "powerful and deeply moving story of three women on a life-changing road trip up the California coast." Not my usual fare but I'm finding it quite readable and thought-provoking.

Listening to Airtight by David Rosenfelt. He's the author of the wonderful stories involving Tara, the golden retriever. This story is a thriller, no dogs involved, but still full of wit and laughs, at first. Then fracking is coming and a judge is brutally stabbed to death in his garage. Connected? An army of media and law enforcement descend on the case, and thousands of tips pour in from the public. Good stuff.

I am so grateful to all of you who stop by here to share your reading experiences. I've found so many books I might never have.

[willbrad9080]

1. Congratulations on 9,000 posts, and thanks for the recs!

Wow, 9,000 posts — that's a milestone worth celebrating! 🎉

Fault Lines sounds like a hidden gem. I haven't read much by Anne Rivers Siddons, but your description has me curious — I might pick it up just for that blend of emotional depth and setting. And Airtight? Sounds like a wild ride. I'm a sucker for thrillers with sharp wit, even if the dog’s sitting this one out. 😄

Thanks for always sharing your reads here — your posts consistently bring something new to the table. Looking forward to hearing what you pick up next week!

[hermetic]

8. Thank you

[randr]

2. Go As A River by Shelley Read

Powerful first novel.

[cbabe]

3. Congratulations on your 9000 post. Keeping reading alive. Someone should make a monument in front of your fav library.

A couple James Comey books before I realized he was the James Comey.

Confusing cast of characters. Big plot holes. (Is this a human author or is it ai?) Some of the court scenes were ok. Always fun to see how lawyers squirm their way through a case.

Central Park West: the unmissable debut legal thriller by the former director of the FBI (A Nora Carleton Legal Thriller Book 1)

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Just started All The Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby

A literary thriller set in the Deep South. Retired fbi agent as newly elected first black sheriff in small town rural Virginia.

Horrific crime. Divided community seemly set on hate and violence.

Have to slow down to savor Cosby’s prose. Think James Lee Burke.

[hermetic]

7. Thanks

There kind of is...

I've read THAT MANY books from my local library.

That S.A. Cosby book sounds awesome.

[LearnedHand]

11. I like SA Cosby and All the Sinners is a good one!

[Polly Hennessey]

4. Hermetic, it was a good day when I discovered your posts.

I look forward to “What Fiction Are You Reading” each week. I have discovered many wonderful books thanks to you and others. Congratulations on 9,000, now on to 9,001. ☺️📚

I love, love, the Andy Carpenter series. Airtight is on my list. For now, I have started a new nighttime Cozy: A Scandal in Scarlet by Vicky Delaney. It’s one of the Sherlock Holmes bookshop mysteries.

[hermetic]

6. Thanks

I like Delany's Holmes bookshop mysteries, too. There's 10 now with another due out in January. I've got some catching up to do there. She has several other series, as well. Fifty two books in all.

[Safe as Milk]

5. How about "MEDBEDS"?

This is Diddling Donny's fantasy of revolutionary gains in health care-- a miracle "bed" on which people lay and get mystically improved physical health by the application of mystery "alien" medical technology of which absolutely NO ONE has any knowledge. Donny reposted this nonsense on his social media machine this morning.

Oh, but wait! What about the Epstein files?

[berniesandersmittens]

9. Happy 9,000!

Finishing up Heartless by Marissa Meyer. Entertaining and interesting take on the Queen of Hearts.

Her Cinder series was a pretty good YA read as well. It's a neat take on various fairy tales.

[hermetic]

10. Thanks

Meyer is another prolific author. The Cinder(ella) series does sound entertaining. "Being cyborg does have its benefits: Cinder's brain interface has given her an uncanny ability to fix things (robots, hovers,etc.)."

Edit to add: Love your little persisterhood icon.

[LearnedHand]

12. Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, by Grady Hendrix

Set in 1970, 15-year-old Fern is sent to a home for unwed mothers. She experiences all the misogyny and shame of that era, until she meets a librarian who introduces her to the book, How to be a Groovy Witch.

NB: I really like Hendrix’s twisted imagination. I’ve read several of his books.

[hermetic]

14. Oooh, must read

The author "delivers another searing, completely original novel and further cements his status as a horror master'."

Just published in January.

[LearnedHand]

15. Yep, but horror with an ironic flavor

Quite unlike any other horror writers I’ve read. Congrats on 9000, btw, and thanks as always for your reading threads. I’ve found lots of good books here.

[mentalsolstice]

13. Congrats on 9000! I always look forward to your Sunday threads 🧵.

This week I finished Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult, about a deceased baby found in an Amish barn, really good. My mom and I traveled through Lancaster a long time ago. We were respectful, no cameras, no pointing. We were stopped at an intersection, when a buggy full of teens crossed and the driver gave us the middle finger salute. I wish I had my camera out at that moment.

I’m currently reading A Town With Half The Lights On by Page Getz, an epistolary novel told through emails, newspaper articles and messages in a bottle. It’s about a family of Brooklynites relocated to the small town of Goodnight, KS. A very fun read!

Thank you for sharing and here’s to 9000 more!.

[hermetic]

16. I thank you

A Town With Half The Lights On definitely sounds fun. Includes "a host of rambunctious alpacas." I drive past an alpaca farm on my way to the library and I love seeing them. Always makes me smile.

Why in the world would an Amish lad do that? You were stopped. Ahh, kids these days....

[txwhitedove]

17. Lovely Sunday to read all day. Yesterday busy with grandson and family rebuilding my back

fence damaged by Hurricane Beryl that finally fell over after this year's spring storm. So, I plan to stay quiet and finish reading wonderful story Body & Soul by Frank Conroy. Many books on library list to get read. PS congrats on 9k posts.

[rsdsharp]

18. Congratulations on 9000. It took me a long, long time to get there.

I’m reading Circle of Days by Ken Follett. It’s his take on the making of Stonehenge. This will be the second Stonehenge book I’ve read this year after Bernard Cornwell’s Stonehenge (catchy title). Years ago, I also read Sarum by Edward Rutherford.

[hermetic]

19. Took me 21 years

I've always wanted to visit there, Stonehenge. Not too likely now, I'd guess.