Checked In: A Davenport Library Podcast

Nostalgia Reads

Amelia’s Notebook by Marissa Moss 

The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney 

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka  

Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Stephanie’s Ponytail by Robert Munsch 

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

There was an old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly 

Giraffes Can’t Dance by Giles Andreae

The Baby-Sitter's Club series

Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

Retellings

Jane Eyre retelling 

• The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins 

King Arthur legend retelling 

• Legendborn by Tracy Deonn 

Pride and Prejudice retellings 

• Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin – moderm-day Muslim retelling 
• Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding 

Romeo & Juliet retelling 

• A Pho Love Story by Loan Le (I second this! - Brittany) 

Sherlock Holmes retelling 

• A Study in Scarlet Women (book 1 in the Lady Sherlock Series) by Sherry Thomas – gender-bending series! 

Trojan War retelling 

• A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes (told from the perspective of the women involved) 

The Odyssey retelling 

• Circe by Madeline Miller (retelling of the Odyssey from that of Circe, the witch) 

The Wizard of Oz retelling 

• Wicked by Gregory Maguire (from the Wicked Witch’s point of view) 

Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 comedy with Cary Grant     

• Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala  

Cinderella 

• Cinder by Marissa Meyer 
• The Cinderella Murder by Mary Higgins Clark 
• An Offer From a Gentleman by Julia Quinn 

Little Red Riding Hood 

• Crimson Bound by Rosamund Hodge 

Dr. Moreau inspired reads 

• The Madman’s Daughter by Megan Shepherd 

Alice and Wonderland 

• The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor 

Historical Retellings 

• My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand 

Jane Austen 

• Pride and Premeditation by Tirzah Price 
• Sense and Second Degree Murder by Tirzah Price

Classics as Graphic Novels

• The Alchemist – original by Paulo Coelho; graphic novel by Derek Ruiz 
• Diary of a Young Girl – original by Anne Frank; "Anne Frank’s diary : the graphic adaptation” by Ari Folman 
• The Giver by Lois Lowry ; adapted and illustrated by P. Craig Russell 
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood; art and adaptation by Renee Nault

Little House on the Prairie 

• Caroline by Sarah Miller

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 

• The Hours by Michael Cunningham 

Bible - Book of Genesis     

• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant 

 Inside Out 2 – Books that made us emotional!

	Brittany	Beth	Stephanie
Joy	Anything by Emily Henry		Raven Cycle series by Maggie Stiefvater
Sadness	Before we were yours	Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls	Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
Anger	Normal People	Maus by Art Spegelman	Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall, illustrated by Hugo Martinez
Disgust	A Simple Favor	American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis	Sugar Falls: A Residential School Story by David Alexander Robertson
Fear	Room	Devil in the White City by Erik Larson	American Predator by Maureen Callahan
Envy	The Unhoneymooners	Anything by Mindy Kaling	Soulmate Equation & The True Love Experiment (both by Christina Lauren)
Embarrassment	The Shape of Water	Really Good Actually by Monica Heisey	Hello Stranger by Katherine Center
Ennui	Last One Home	Blankets by Craig Thompson	The Princess Bride
Anxiety	Leaving Time	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson	Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
Nostalgia	A Nice Place on the North Side	Landline by Rainbow Rowell	Throwback to Maurene Goo

 

Librarian Reads

Bear With Me Now by Katie Shepard 

Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros 

The Echo of Old Books by Barbara Davis

The Alienist by Caleb Carr

Before Green Gables by Budge Wilson

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Lethal Licorice by Amanda Flower (book 2 in Amish Candy Shop Mystery series) 

The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods 

The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center 

Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Solomon 

The Antique Hunter’s Guide to Murder by C.L. Miller 

The Red Harvest: A Novel of the Terror Famine in Soviet Ukraine by Michael Cherkas 

Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart 

The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill 

Lore Olympus Volume 6 by Rachel Smythe 

The Davenports by Krystal Marquis