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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!

42. Dog Books and Bad Poetry in Space!

Books that Have Dogs in Them

Marley & Me: life and love with the world's worst dog by John Grogan 

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls 

The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez 

The Perfect Dog by Kevin O’Malley

Dog in Charge by K.L. Going

Can I be Your Dog by Troy Cummings

Pig the Pug by Aaron Blabey

Gather by Kenneth M. Cadow 

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus 

Rez Dogs by Joseph Bruchac 

A Very Woodsy Murder by Ellen Byron 

You Lucky Dog by Julia London 

Favorite Space Things!

Apollo 13: Lost Moon by Jim Lovell (And of course the movie is fantastic and available on DVD through The Library.) 

The Martian and Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir 

The Skeleton Crew (show)

Guardians of the Galaxy Series (dvd)

Night night, Groot by Brendan Deneen

Vader’s Little Princess / Darth Vader and Son by Jeffrey Brown 

Cinder by Marissa Meyer 

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card 

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 

The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera 

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery 

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline 

Red Rising by Pierce Brown 

Bad Poetry

I could pee on this : and other poems by cats by Francesco Marciuliano 

Shel Silverstien – Where the Sidewalk Ends

Pig the Pug by Aaron Blabey

People Don’t Bit People by Lisa Wheeler 

Giraffes Can’t Dance by Giles Andrae  

Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo 

Dear Medusa by Olivia A. Cole 

Kent State by Deborah Wiles 

Muted by Tami Charles 

Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga 

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo 

Punching the Air by Ibi Yousef and Yusef Salaam 

Rez Dogs by Joseph Bruchac 

Song of the Sparrow by Lisa Ann Sandell 

What My Mother Doesn’t Know by Sonya Sones 

Librarian Wrap

When Crickets Cry by Charles Martin

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

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw 

The Final Revival of Opal and Nev by Dawnie Walton

Emma by Jane Austen

The Library Book by Susan Orlean

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig narrated by Carey Mulligan 

Happy Place by Emily Henry 

Nobody’s Perfect by Sally Kilpatrick

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters, narrated by Renata Friedman 

We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer 

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

Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave by Elle Cosimano, narrated by Angela Dawe (book 5 in the Finlay Donovan series) 

Red Rising by Pierce Brown, narrated by Tim Gerard Reynolds (book 1 in Red Rising series) 

A Grim Reaper’s Guide to Catching a Killer by Maxie Dara, narrated by Jaime Lamchick (book 1 in S.C.Y.T.H.E. Mystery series) 

Homebody by Theo Parish 

Man O’ War by Cormac McCarthy, narrated by E.R. Fightmaster 

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin, narrrated by Matt Bomer and introduction by Kevin Young 

A Very Woodsy Murder by Ellen Byron (book 1 in Golden Motel Mystery series) 

Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross, narrated by Alex Wingfield and Rebecca Norfolk (book 1 in Letters of Enchantment series) 

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker Chan, narrated by Natalie Naudus (book 1 in Radiant Emperor series)

A Good Girl’s guide to Murder by Holly Jackson