Ep. #292 – Give the gift of reading: Helping listeners shop for their book lovers
Posted on: December 13, 2018
On today’s episode, Adam is joined by three of OverDrive’s staff librarians to answer a few of the book request emails we’ve received over the last few weeks. Emma, Kristin, and Maria do not disappoint. Check out all these amazing books!
Books our librarians (and Adam) are reading:
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen
The First Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer
Historical Fiction with a Medical Slant
The Midwife of Hope River by Patricia Harman
YA Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
The Dark Between Stars by Atticus
If They Come For Us by Fatimah Asghar
Swing by Kwame Alexander and Mary Rand Hess
Steampunk/Dieselpunk, Modern & Urban Fantasy
The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher
The Aeronaut’s Windlass by Jim Butcher
The Queen of All Crows by Rod Duncan (Book One of the Map of Unknown Things series)
The Broken Earth series by N.K. Jemisin
Dark, Intense and Creepy audiobooks (based off of I’ll be Gone In The Dark)
The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
Pieces of Her by Karin Slaughter
Dark Fantasy and moral ambiguity
The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert
Behind Closed Doors by BA Paris
The Sisters of the Winter Wood
Thrilling dad books!
Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, Micro)
Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty
Marathon Man by William Goldman
HP Read Alikes and Literary Fiction
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Alex, Approximately by Jenn Bennett
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James (2019)
True Crime and books about drug dealers
The Power of the Dog trilogy by Don Winslow
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico’s Most Dangerous Drug Cartel by Dan Slater
On today’s episode, Adam is joined by three of OverDrive’s staff librarians to answer a few of the book request emails we’ve received over the last few weeks. Emma, Kristin, and Maria do not disappoint. Check out all these amazing books!
Books our librarians (and Adam) are reading:
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen
The First Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer
Historical Fiction with a Medical Slant
The Midwife of Hope River by Patricia Harman
YA Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
The Dark Between Stars by Atticus
If They Come For Us by Fatimah Asghar
Swing by Kwame Alexander and Mary Rand Hess
Steampunk/Dieselpunk, Modern & Urban Fantasy
The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher
The Aeronaut’s Windlass by Jim Butcher
The Queen of All Crows by Rod Duncan (Book One of the Map of Unknown Things series)
The Broken Earth series by N.K. Jemisin
Dark, Intense and Creepy audiobooks (based off of I’ll be Gone In The Dark)
The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
Pieces of Her by Karin Slaughter
Dark Fantasy and moral ambiguity
The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert
Behind Closed Doors by BA Paris
The Sisters of the Winter Wood
Thrilling dad books!
Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, Micro)
Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty
Marathon Man by William Goldman
HP Read Alikes and Literary Fiction
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Alex, Approximately by Jenn Bennett
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James (2019)
True Crime and books about drug dealers
The Power of the Dog trilogy by Don Winslow
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico’s Most Dangerous Drug Cartel by Dan Slater
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