Ep. #5 — Jill, Sheila, and Adam

In our fifth episode, host Jill is joined by Adam and Sheila as they discuss some of the top award winners to come out of 2016 ALA Midwinter conference as well as some of the titles they’ve recently finished reading. Our reader recommendations are pulled from some of our Twitter followers and we also spend time remembering the late great David Bowie and Alan Rickman. 

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Jill, Sheila, and Adam

Intro (0:00-2:38)

ALA Award Winners (2:39-6:11)

Last Stop on Market Street by Matt De La Pena, Illustrated by Christian Robinson

The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Wonders of the Invisible World by Christopher Barzak

Recent Reads (6:12-15:39)

Zeroes by Scott Westerfeld

A Wild Swan and Other Tales by Michael Cunningham

The Gap of Time by Jeannette Winterson

William Shakespeare Star Wars by Ian Doescher

Evicted by Matthew Desmond

Jim Henson by Brian Jay Jones

A Step Toward Falling by Cammie McGovern

These Shallow Graves by Jennifer Donnelly

Accidental Saints by Nadia Bolz-Weber

Pastrix by Nadia Bolz-Weber

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

Every Day I Fight by Stuart Scott

Readers Advisory Recommendations (15:40-23:16) 

Readalikes for Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

• Walking Dead Graphic Novels by Robert Kirkman
• The Fifth Wave by Rick Yancy
• We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson
• Bluescreen by Dan Wells
• Willful Machines by Tim Floreen
• The Martian by Andy Weir
• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
• 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

Readalikes for Moby Dick by Herman Melville

• In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
• The Revenant by Michael Punke
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

Readalikes for In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson

• Dead Wake by Erik Larson
• Hitlerland by Andrew Nagorski
• The Nazi Hunters by Andrew Nagorski
• The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

Pre-Pubs and Other Books (23:17-30:12)

Morning Star by Pierce Brown, Book 3 in the Red Rising Trilogy

View from the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman

Up From the Sea by Leza Lowitz

Pax by Sara Pennypacker, author of the Clementine Series

Unhooked by Lisa Maxwell

The Oxford Inheritance by Ann A. McDonald

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Black Chalk by Christopher J. Yates

The Likeness by Tana French

At the Existentialist Cafe by Sarah Bakewell

Remembering Alan Rickman and David Bowie (30:13-End)

Their bookish roles include Labyrinth: The Novelization, Harry Potter series, Sense and Sensibility, and The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Music

“Buddy” provided royalty free from www.bensound.com 

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