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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!

41. Beach Reads, Cowboys, & Iowa's Most Popular Genre

Beachy Reads

The Summer we found the baby by Amy Hest

The Summer we found the baby by Amy Hest Young

Eden Undone by Abbott Kahler

The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex

The Last One at the Wedding by Jason Rekulak

Buried in a Good Book by Tamara Berry

Continental Drifter by Kathy MacLeod

The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman

The Summer of Broken Rules by K.L. Walther

The Love of My Afterlife by Kirsty Greenwood

The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center

My Killer Vacation by Tessa Bailey

Tessa Bailey (It Happened One Summer and Hook, Line, and Sinker – these two are a series)

Emily Henry (Beach Read, Book Lovers, Happy Place)

This Summer Will be Different by Carley Fortune 

The Beach Trap by Ali Brady 

Great Big Beautiful Life, People We Meet on Vacation, & Funny Story by Emily Henry 

Don’t Forget to Write by Sara Goodman Confino 

The Break-up Pact by Emma Lord 

Summertime Punchline by Betty Corrello 

Good for You by Camille Pagán  

Cowboys

The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson and the rest of the Walt Longmire series.

“Yellowstone” TV series

Outlawed by Anna North 

Inland by Tea Obreht 

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder 

Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange 

The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich 

Lone Women by Victor Lavalle 

Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine 

Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas 

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt 

The Only Good Indian by Stephen Graham Jones 

True Grit by Charles Portis 

Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey 

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry 

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Ron Hansen 

The Revenant by Michael Punke 

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy 

All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

My Calamity Jane

Rebel Blue Ranch series

Book Clubs

The Lion of Lark-Hayes Manor by Aubrey Hartman 

The Superteacher Project by Gordon Korman 

Shiny Misfits by Maysoon Zayid and Shadia Armin 

An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole 

Hate to Want You by Alisha Rai 

Beautiful Bastard by Christina Lauren 

Emma by Jane Austen 

The Library Book by Susan Orlean 

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by Victoria Schwab 

The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie King 

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg 

Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin 

The Cousins by Karen M. McManus 

Red Rising by Pierce Brown 

Man O’War by Cory McCarthy 

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus 

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver 

The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant 

All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg 

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin 

Librarian Wrap

The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka 

Hello Stranger by Katherine Center 

The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley

Cabin: off-the-grid adventures with a clueless craftsman by Patrick Hutchison.

The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict 

How to be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur

Emma by Jane Austen 

The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis narrated by Michael York 

This Summer will be Different by Carley Fortune narrated by AJ Bridel

The Maidens by Alex Michaedides narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith and Louise Brealey 

Friends with Secrets by Christine Gunderson  

Mary Poppins Comes Back by P.L. Travers

What Have You Done by Shari Lapena narrated by January LavVoy, Jorjeana Marie, and Barrett Leddy 

Codename Charming by Lucy Parker (book 2 in the Palace Insiders Series) 

What Have We Done by Alex Finlay Narrated by Brittany Pressley, James Patrick Cronin, Jon Lindstrom, Maggie Thompson  

Only Lovers in the Building by Nadine Gonzalez

Happy Place by Emily Henry

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

The Unwedding by Ally Condie

Nobody’s Perfect by Sally Kilpatrick 

Deeper than Dead by Debra Webb

Church Camp: Bad Skits, Cry Night, and How White Evangelicalism Betrayed a Generation by Cara Meredith, narrated by Jessica Humphreville 

The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year by Ally Carter, narrated by Saskia Maarleveld and Zachary Webber 

Murder by Cheesecake: A Golden Girls Cozy Mystery by Rachel Ekstrom Courage 

A Novel Love Story by Ashley Poston, narrated by Dorothy Dillingham Blue 

Booked for Murder by P.J. Nelson, narrated by Hallie Bee Bard (book 1 in the Old Juniper Bookstore Mystery series) 

The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society by C.M. Waggoner, narrated by Cindy Piller 

The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, narrated by Amber Faith (book 1 in Naturals series) 

Pictures of You by Emma Grey, narrated by Kristy Best and Nic English 

Do Your Worst by Rosie Danan, narrated by Shane East and Saskia Maarleveld 

There’s a Murder Afoot by Vicki Delany (book 5 in the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery series) 

Holler: A Graphic Memoir of Rural Resistance by Denali Sai Nalamalapu 

Dear Dad: Growing Up with a Parent in Prison – and How We Stayed Connected by Jay Jay Patton, Antione Patton, Kiara Valdez, Markia Jenai 

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo, narrated by the author 

The Cousins by Karen M. McManus, narrated by Sarah Skaer, Kate Reinders, David Garelik, and Julia Whelan 

Murder Runs in the Family by Tamara Berry 

83 Days in Mariupol: A War Diary by Don Brown 

We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer 

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters, narrated by Renata Friedman 

This Beautiful, Ridiculous City: A Graphic Memoir by Kay Sohini 

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin 

Red Rising by Pierce Brown