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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!

35. Ringing in the New Year with Our 2025 Reading Goals!

2025 Online Reading Challenge

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong 

The lamplighters by emma stonex 

The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris 

The Topeka School by Ben Lerner 

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi 

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters 

All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg 

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin 

The Cousins by Karen McManus 

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker Chan 

The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R King 

Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez 

Cold Weather Reads

Ghost Station by S.A. Barnes 

A Haunting in the Arctic by C.J. Cooke 

Only One Survives by Hannah Mary McKinnon 

The Gathering by CJ Tudor 

The Wood at Midwinter by Susanna Clarke 

The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon 

The Prospectors by Ariel Djanikian 

Goodbye Autumn, Hello Winter by Kenard Pak 

Wilfred by Ryan T. Higgins 

Snow Falls by Kate Gardner 

The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder 

Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger

The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens

Blankets by Craig Thompson

2024 Favorites & 2025 We’re Excited About

Last Entry Point: Stories of Danger and Death in the Boundary Waters by Joe Friedriches

Ride with Me by Simone Saltani 

32 Days in May by Betty Corrello

Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry 

The Long Game by Elena Armas

Summertime Punchline by Betty Corello

Funny Story by Emily Henry

Don’t Forget to Write by Sara Goodman Confina

Love You a Latka by Amanda Elliot 

Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave by Elle Cosimano

Accomplice to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

Weyward by Emilia Hart

Hearstopper by Alice Oseman

Assistant to the Villain series (two books) by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard

Librarian Wrap

The Other Mrs. By Mary Kubica / Narrated by Piper Goodeve and Jeremy Arthur 

The Girls in Navy Blue by Alix Rickloff / Narrated by Dylan Moore and Carlotta Brentan

The Fiancé Dilemma by Elena Armas (Green Oak #2)

Bad Publicity by Bianca Gillam

Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler / Narrated by Jenna Lamia

Navigate Your Stars by Jesmyn Ward

New Kid by Jerry Craft

Hey Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction by Jarrett Krosoczka

What is a girl worth? : my story of breaking the silence and exposing the truth about Larry Nassar and USA gymnastics by Rachael Denhollander

The less people know about us : a mystery of betrayal, family secrets, and stolen identity by Axton Betz-Hamilton

The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg

A troubling tail by Laurie Cass

The Undermining of Twyla and Frank by Megan Bannen / Narrated by Nicol Zanzarella

Polar Vortex: A Family Memoir by Denise Dorrance 

Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Somewhere Beyond the Sea by T.J. Klune

Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV show (While also in an Actual Cult!) by Bethany Joy Lenz

The Queen of Poisons by Robert Thorogood

A Winter in New York by Josie Silver 

The Singer Sisters by Sarah Seltzer

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

Girl Forgotten by April Henry