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Checked In: A Davenport Library Podcast

Each month, librarians from the Davenport Public Library in Iowa will dive into a variety of topics and connect listeners to the many great resources the Library and City of Davenport have to offer. Listen in for book suggestions, interviews, and more!

21. Festivus (Book Edition!), Cold Weather Novels, and Reading Goal Wrap-Up!

Festivus: An Airing of Grievances 

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan

The Giver by Lois Lowry 

The One & Only by Emily Giffin

Murder is Binding by Lorna Barrett

Advika and the Hollywood Wives by Kirthana Ramisetti

Mexican Gothic

The House Across the Lake

Thursday Murder Club

Death Bee Comes Her 

Malibu Rising 

Short Books

The Christmas guest by peter swanson

Blue Hour by Tiffany Clarke Harrison

Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher

If an Egyptan Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga

And Then I woke up by Malcolm Devlin

Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson

Assembly by Natasha Brown

This Body is not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor

The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende

Cold Weather Novels

Dead of Winter by Darcy Coates

The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz

City Under One Roof by Iris Yamashita

The Drift by CJ Tudor

Ascension by Nicholas Binge

Breathless by Amy McCulloch

Leech by Hiron Ennes

Echo by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

Hidden in Snow by Viveca Sten