Waterford Readers
January 2026
A Note from your Librarian
 
We had a nice turnout last night despite it being two days before Christmas, so thanks to everyone who made it. The Mistletoe Mystery was a great Hallmark-esque book with basically no mystery at all (unless you happen to be our main character Molly) but it was very heartwarming and holiday appropriate. We will be starting 2026 off with a bang with a twisty thriller about a woman accused of a terrible crime years earlier and the caregiver assigned to her who begins to unravel the mystery of the past. February brings us another fun mystery/thriller, and in March we will read a cozy mystery before starting something new in April -- a sci-fi thriller about a mysterious illness that gives people false memories. 
 
The consensus from last night is that people would be interested in some historical fiction as well, so we may experiment with that genre over the summer. As always, any suggestions are welcome, so please feel free to bring your reading list to our next book club.
 
Happy holidays, and see you next year!
Chloe
 
Upcoming Book Selections
The Only One Left by Riley Sager
The Only One Left by Riley Sager
January 27, 2026, 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Waterford Public Library

Bestselling author Riley Sager returns with a Gothic chiller about a young caregiver assigned to work for a woman accused of a Lizzie Borden-like massacre decades earlier. Copies will be available for pickup beginning December 23, 2025. The book is also available on Libby.
The Last One at the Wedding by Jason Rekulak
The Last One at the Wedding by Jason Rekulak
February 24, 2026, 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Waterford Public Library

Frank Szatowski is shocked when his daughter, Maggie, calls him for the first time in three years. He was convinced that their estrangement would become permanent. He's even more surprised when she invites him to her upcoming wedding in New Hampshire. It seems that Maggie failed to mention that she's marrying Aidan Gardner, the son of a famous tech billionaire. Feeling desperately out of place, Frank focuses on reconnecting with Maggie and getting to know her new family. But it's difficult: Aidan is withdrawn and evasive; Maggie doesn't seem to have time for him; and he finds that the locals are disturbingly hostile to the Gardners. Copies will be available for pickup beginning January 27, 2026. The book is also available on Libby.
How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin
How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin
March 24, 2026, 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Waterford Public Library

For fans of Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club, an enormously fun mystery about a woman who spends her entire life trying to prevent her foretold murder only to be proven right sixty years later, when she is found dead in her sprawling country estate…. Now it’s up to her great-niece to catch the killer. Copies will be available for pickup beginning February 24, 2026. 
Recursion by Blake Crouch
Recursion by Blake Crouch
April 28, 2026, 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Waterford Public Library
 
MEMORY MAKES REALITY.
That’s what New York City cop Barry Sutton is learning, as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome—a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. That’s what neuroscientist Helena Smith believes. It’s why she’s dedicated her life to creating a technology that will let us preserve our most precious memories. If she succeeds, anyone will be able to re-experience a first kiss, the birth of a child, the final moment with a dying parent. As Barry searches for the truth, he comes face to face with an opponent more terrifying than any disease—a force that attacks not just our minds but the very fabric of the past. And as its effects begin to unmake the world as we know it, only he and Helena, working together, will stand a chance at defeating it.
Copies will be available for pickup beginning March 24, 2026.
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