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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!

26. Library Director Interview, April Fools Reading, and Our Seed Library!

Laugh Out Loud Reads

The Book With No Pictures by BJ Novak 

The Very Impatient Butterfly by Ross Burach or really anything by him! 

The Pig the Pug Series by Aaron Blabey 

Too Much Glue by Jason Lefebvre 

On Account of the Gum by Adam Rex 

Bark George by Jules Feiffer 

You Don’t Want a Unicorn by Ame Dyckman 

Mustache by Mac Barnett or really anything by him! 

Be Quiet! By Ryan T. Higgins or really anything by him! 

This is a Moose by Richard T. Morris 

Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery series by Mia P. Manansala 

Inheritance Games series by Jennifer Lynn Barnes 

Thursday Murder Club series by Richard Osman 

Heartstopper series by Alice Oseman 

Finlay Donovan series by Elle Cosimano 

Noodle Shop Mystery series by Vivien Chien 

Guest Reads

I Love Dick by Chris Kraus

Crucial Conversations by 

Catch 22 by

Zealot by 

Prequal by Rachel Madow

Librarian Reads

Beyond the Wand by Tom Felton 

The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory 

Hello Stranger by Katherine Center 

Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie  

The Housemaid by Freida McFadden 

Olga Dies Dreaming by Xóchitl González 

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah 

The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict 

The Girls in the Garden by Lisa Jewell 

Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers 

Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld

A Proposal They Can’t Refuse by Natalie Cana

The 100 Dresses by Eleanor Estes

Someone We Know by Shari Lapena 

The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas 

Crime and Cherry Pits by Amanda Flower (book 4 in Farm to Table Mystery series) 

The Cat of the Baskervilles by Vicki Delany (book 3 in the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery series) 

The Cost of Knowing by Brittney Morris 

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey 

The Fury by Alex Michaelides 

She Kills Me: The True Stories of History’s Deadliest Women by Jennifer Wright, illustrations by Eva Bee 

Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard 

The Read Lolita by Sarah Weinman