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Southside Reads: Recommended Reads

Recommended Reads (November 2025)

Welcome to Southside Reads! We’re challenging you to read a variety of books in 2025 by assigning a different category to every month, but don’t worry! The categories are broad enough to put your own spin on them.

For November, we want you to read a book that reflects the theme Recommended Reads. You could read a book recommended to you by someone you know, or maybe you want to pick something with a starred review online, or from a 'Best of' list. Go out and find a book, but if you want some recommendations to get you thinking, check out the list below (with information about local library availability*):

A Love Song for Ricki Wilde book cover with link to Goodreads description page
A Short Walk Through a Wide World book cover with link to Goodreads description page
A Thousand Times Before book cover with link to Goodreads description page
A Very Private School: A Memoir book cover with link to Goodreads description page
A Sorceress Comes to Call book cover with link to Goodreads description page
A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson book cover with link to Goodreads description page
All Fours book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Anita de Monte Laughs Last book cover with link to Goodreads description page
A Talent for Murder book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Annie LeBlanc Is Not Dead Yet book cover with link to Goodreads description page
The Backyard Bird Chronicles book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Catalina book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Annie Bot book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Burn Book: A Tech Love Story book cover with link to Goodreads description page
The Cemetery of Untold Stories book cover with link to Goodreads description page
The City and Its Uncertain Walls book cover with link to Goodreads description page
The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Colored Television book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Come and Get It book cover with link to Goodreads description page

Key for Local Library Availability

Locations:

  • CVRL - Central Virginia Regional Library
  • LU - Longwood University: Greenwood Library
  • HSC - Hampden-Sydney College: Bortz Library

Services:

*LU Libby/Overdrive is available for current students, faculty and staff only.