Episode Overview

In our fifth episode, host Jill is joined by Adam and Sheila as they discuss some of the top award winners to come out of 2016 ALA Midwinter conference as well as some of the titles they've recently finished reading. Our reader recommendations are pulled from some of our Twitter followers and we also spend time remembering the late great David Bowie and Alan Rickman. 

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Featured OverDrive Staff

Jill, Sheila, and Adam

 

Intro (0:00-2:38)

 

ALA Award Winners (2:39-6:11)

Last Stop on Market Street by Matt De La Pena, Illustrated by Christian Robinson

The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Wonders of the Invisible World by Christopher Barzak

 

Recent Reads (6:12-15:39)

Zeroes by Scott Westerfeld

A Wild Swan and Other Tales by Michael Cunningham

The Gap of Time by Jeannette Winterson

William Shakespeare Star Wars by Ian Doescher

Evicted by Matthew Desmond

Jim Henson by Brian Jay Jones

A Step Toward Falling by Cammie McGovern

These Shallow Graves by Jennifer Donnelly

Accidental Saints by Nadia Bolz-Weber

Pastrix by Nadia Bolz-Weber

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

Every Day I Fight by Stuart Scott

 

Readers Advisory Recommendations (15:40-23:16) 

Readalikes for Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff



Walking Dead Graphic Novels by Robert Kirkman


The Fifth Wave by Rick Yancy


We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson


Bluescreen by Dan Wells


Willful Machines by Tim Floreen


The Martian by Andy Weir


Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card


2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke


 

Readalikes for Moby Dick by Herman Melville



In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick


The Revenant by Michael Punke


The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett


 

Readalikes for In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson



Dead Wake by Erik Larson


Hitlerland by Andrew Nagorski


The Nazi Hunters by Andrew Nagorski


The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt


Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt


 

Pre-Pubs and Other Books (23:17-30:12)

Morning Star by Pierce Brown, Book 3 in the Red Rising Trilogy

View from the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman

Up From the Sea by Leza Lowitz

Pax by Sara Pennypacker, author of the Clementine Series

Unhooked by Lisa Maxwell

The Oxford Inheritance by Ann A. McDonald

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Black Chalk by Christopher J. Yates

The Likeness by Tana French

At the Existentialist Cafe by Sarah Bakewell

 

Remembering Alan Rickman and David Bowie (30:13-End)

Their bookish roles include Labyrinth: The Novelization, Harry Potter series, Sense and Sensibility, and The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

 

Music

"Buddy" provided royalty free from www.bensound.com 

 

Podcast Overview

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