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Checked In: A Davenport Library Podcast

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28. Pride Month, Summer Reading & the David R. Collins Writers' Conference

Pride Month Reads

The Celebrants by Stephen Rowley 

Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez 

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee 

Evander Mills series by Lev AC Rosen (Lavender House 2022, The Bell in the Fog 2023, Rough Pages 2024) 

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

Gaytheist by Lonnie Mann 

Transitions by Elodie Durand

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston 

Washington’s Gay General by Josh Trujillo

All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M Johnson 

Heartstopper by Alice Oseman 

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo 

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

Dreamer Trilogy by Maggie Stiefvater

Librarian Reads

Someone We Know by Shari Lapena 

Dare to Lead by Brene Brown 

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

Just the Nicest Couple by Mary Kubica 

Left Field Love by C. W. Farnsworth 

Watching You by Lisa Jewell 

Summertime Punchline by Betty Corrello 

Last One Home by Debbie Macomber 

The Celebrants by Steven Rowley 

Funny Story by Emily Henry 

The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson 

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros 

Mad Honey by Jodi Piccoult 

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid 

The Manor House by Gilly MacMillan

Have You Seen Me by Kate White

The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley 

Mulled to Death by Kate Lansing

A Bone to Pick by Charlaine Harris

Woman, Life, Freedom created by Marjane Satrapi 

Veronica Ruiz Breaks the Bank by Elle Cosimano  

The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt 

This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America by Navied Mahdavian 

The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston 

The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman 

Charm City Rocks by Matthew Norman 

Assaulted Caramel by Amanda Flower

Gaytheist: Coming Out of My Orthodox Childhood by Lonnie Mann 

The Bookshop of Second Chances by Jackie Fraser 

Advocate: A Graphic memoir of family, community, and the fight for environmental justice by Eddie Ahn 

Continental Drifter by Kathy MacLeod 

Lavender House by Lev A.C. Rosen 

Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home by Nora Krug 

The Bell in the Fog by Lev A.C. Rosen 

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera 

Poppy Done to Death by Charlaine Harris 

Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman 

Full of Myself by Siobhan Gallagher 

Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau 

Lore Olympus Vol 6 by Rachel Smythe 

The Chaos of Stars by Kiersten White