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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!

44. The Horrors of Halloween & Banned Books Week

Banned Books Week

All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson 

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe 

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison 

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 

Tricks by Ellen Hopkins 

Looking for Alaska by John Green 

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews 

Crank by Ellen Hopkins 

Sold by Patricia McCormick 

Flamer by Mike Curato 

Horror

Steven King’s Sleeping Beauties

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth (gothic fiction)

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson

The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix 

The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay 

The Institute by Stephen King 

Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak 

We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer 

The Reformatory by Tananarive Due 

The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James & The Book of Cold Cases 

The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson 

The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw 

The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson 

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland 

Lock Every Door by Riley Sager 

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Dean Koontz, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Stephen Graham Jones, Alma Katsu, Anne Rice, Dean Koontz, Grady Hendrix, Joe Hill, Paul G. Tremblay, Anne Rice, Victor LaValle, Catriona Ward, Simone St. James, Darcey Coates, Riley Sager, Stephen King

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith

Horror movie by Paul Tremblay

I was a teenage slasher by Stephen Graham Jones

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly

The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Edgar Allen Poe, Shirley Jackson 

Walking Dead 

Five nights at Freddy’s 

Something is Killing the Children by James Tynion 

The End of the World as We Know It: New tales of Stephen King's the Stand 

Bestsellers Club

This Here is Love by Princess Joy L. Perry 

A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll 

The Great Mann by Kyra Davis Lurie 

Summerhouse by Yiğit Karaahmet ; translated by Nicholas Glastonbury. 

Angelica: For Love and Country in a Time of Revolution by Molly Beer 

Body Problems: What Intersex Priest Sally Gross Teaches Us About Embodiment, Justice, and Belonging by M. Wolff (Augustana College professor!) 

The Sleep Room: A Sadistic Psychiatrist and the Women Who Survived Him by Jon Stock 

Simple Pleasures: Incredibly Craveable Recipes for Everyday Cooking by Jodi Moreno 

Librarian Wrap

Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind by Nate Bargatze

The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton

Ursula, Under by Ingrid Hill

Generation Friends by Saul Austerlitz

Distant Son by Tim Johnston

The Silver Eyes by Scott Cawthon – Five Nights at Freddy’s #1

No Crying in Baseball: The Inside Story of A League of Their Own: Big Stars, Dugout Drama, and a Home Run for Hollywood by Erin Carlson Narrated by Mia Hutchinson Shaw 

32 Days in May by Betty Corrello 

An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir and narrated by Fiona Hardingham and Steve West 

The Great Divide by Cristina Henriquez and narrated by Robin Miles 

Killer Chardonnay by Kate Lansing narrated by Brook Hoover 

Agatha Raison and the Quiche of Death by M.C. Beaton narrated by Penelope Keith 

In Someone Elses Shoes

Project Hail Mary      

The Ex Hex

Bad Reputation 

A Killer Sundae 

Spent: A Comic Novel by Alison Bechdel 

The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag 

Solid Gold Murder by Ellen Byron (book 2 in Golden Motel Mystery series) 

What Happens in Amsterdam by Rachel Lynn Solomon, narrated by Elizabeth Lamont 

Fitting Indian written by Jyoti Chand, illustrated by Tara Anand 

Fangirl Down by Tessa Bailey (book 1 in Big Shots series), narrated by Callie Dalton 

That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon by Kimberly Lemming, narrated by Hazel Addison (book 1 in Mead Mishaps series) 

Summer in the City by Alex Aster, narrated by Diane Guerrero 

The Strawberry Patch Pancake House by Laurie Gilmore (book 4 in Dream Harbor series) 

Leap by Simina Popescu 

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson, narrated by Bailey Carr, Marisa Calin, Michael Crouch, Gopal Divan, Robert Fass, Kevin R. Free, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Carol Monda, Patricia Santomasso, Shezi Sardar, Amanda Thickpenny and Various others (book 1 in Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series) 

Under Loch and Key by Lana Ferguson 

The Perfect Rom-Com by Melissa Ferguson, narrated by Karissa Vicker 

The Golden Hour written and illustrated by Niki Smith 

Sounds like Love by Ashley Poston, narrated by Patti Murin and Ashley Poston 

Cross My Heart and Never Lie written and illustrated by Nora Dåsnes, translated by Matt Bagguley 

The Little Lost Library by Ellery Adams (book 7 in Secret, Book & Scone Society series) 

Rez Ball by Byron Graves, narrated by Jesse Nobess

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

Accomplice to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer (book 3 in the Assistant to the Villain series) 

The Locked Ward by Sarah Pekkanen, narrated by January LaVoy 

Sister Wife: A Memoir of Faith, Family, and Finding Freedom by Christine Brown Woolley 

The Undercutting of Rosie and Adam by Megan Bannen, narrated by Kacie Rogers and Jim Frangione (third book in the Hart and Mercy series) 

Go Luck Yourself by Sara Raasch, narrated by Dylan Reilly Fitzpatrick (second book in the Royals and Romance series) 

The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R. King (book 1 in Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series)

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld (book 1 in the Uglies series)

Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez