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Books to Leaf Through
Best Reads For Fall 2025
As autumn unfolds, we invite you to discover stories that embody the season’s depth and reflection.
The Sea Crow Press Fall Reading List highlights compelling voices in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry—works that connect us to place, memory, and the natural world. These books offer insight, beauty, and resonance for readers seeking meaningful company as the year turns.
Open Reality
Meeting the Polycrisis Together With All Beings
by Shodo Spring
Only modern humans have imagined ourselves as gods…
And come to the edge of destroying life on earth.
What if industrial civilization isn’t the best that humans can do? What if we weren’t alone in the world, but embedded in a universe of conscious, intentional, powerful beings?
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The Winterpoor
Set on the raw, storm-tossed Cape Cod of the off-season, this haunting novel follows an artist fighting to protect a neglected boy and salvage his own life amid poverty, addiction, and the pull of lost love.
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The Invisible Hand
After her testimony sends her father to prison, Sara takes to the road with a stranger—until cracks threaten her fragile freedom. As childhood slips away and the city unravels in a gothic nightmare, war within and unseen forces draw her toward an unlikely guide who may know the way out.
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Creature
A Novel of Mary Shelley and Frankenstein
by Amy Weldon
A haunted young Mary Shelley finds her voice—and her Creature—in this novel that entwines her hidden struggles with the birth of Frankenstein and its enduring shadow.
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Ronnie Willow and the Devil's Shadow
A suspicious fire claims the life of someone close to Ronnie Willow, and she can't resist investigating the crime despite her friends' urgent warnings. As the mystery unfolds, so does a new romance. Ronnie struggles to navigate the perilous path of young love while searching for clues someone doesn't want her to find. In a quaint Cape Cod town, murderous minds lurk. Are Ronnie and her friends willing to risk their lives to solve the mystery?
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Maiden Mother Crone
Maiden Mother Crone is a memoir in verse that reimagines faith through the sacred feminine. Madeleine blends magic, mysticism, faith, and feminism with searing personal experience, offering a cri de cœur for women silenced or sidelined. Inspired by Celtic and Nordic traditions, the collection traces a journey from mother goddess to modern faith, reclaiming the voices of Maidens, Mothers, and Crones and calling readers toward connection, inclusion, and new ways of being.
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Macabre Tropies
Deep in the woods, Nero plays his violin in secret, the eerie sound drifting to lobstermen offshore. No one questions it—no one questions Nero—making him an expert at killing. Up in Boston, J.T. O’Rourke’s life is unraveling until a reporting job at The Point on Cape Cod offers escape. But when a summer kid goes missing, J.T. becomes the prime witness. His search for answers uncovers old wounds, dangerous secrets, and a killer who threatens everyone he loves.
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The Art Collector's Wife
Shortlisted for The Santa Fe Writing Project's 2023 Literary Awards Program
2025 Firebird Book Award Winner: First place, Historical Fiction, First Place Holocaust, Second Place Coming-of-Age
Literary Titan Five Star Award
"A standout. Highly Recommended." The Midwest Book Review
In 1962 Venice, Italy, seventeen-year-old Isabel is shoplifting and skipping class until she discovers a fantastical secret about her Holocaust survivor grandmother Lila: she has stashed away a collection of Renaissance Art. To be fair, it's not a complete surprise: Lila is secretive about the war and that dreadful time before when the whole living world came to a standstill. More than anything else, Isabel longs to know about her mother and father who perished.
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