Library Books Mid-October 2016

I can't believe it's time already for the monthly library book roundup! I feel like I haven't had time to breathe in the last few weeks, much less go to the library. Good thing I work at the library or I might never go.

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell
Blackacre by Monica Youn
Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out by Susan Kufkin
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
The House of Small Shadows by Adam Nevill

Not pictured:
Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence edited by Marion Dane Bauer
Blue Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015 by Kevin Young
Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems by James Baldwin
Letters Composed During a Lull in the Fighting: Poems by Kevin Powers
Jack of Spades by Joyce Carol Oates
A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel J. Levitin

I checked out the Jackson, Nevill, and Oates for Spook/Book/Scare-tober reading. Greenwell, Youn, and Young all came home with me because they were longlisted for the National Book Award while the Thien is shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

The Kufkin and Bauer were for Banned Books Week, Baldwin and Powers were library eBooks in a hunt for recent poetry, Carr was a whim after seeing it posted in Litsy, and the Levitin is a book I requested my library to order after someone referenced Levitin a bunch in a presentation I found interesting.

Phew! What do you have on your library pile?

Reading Envy 043: Librarian Time Capsule

Jenny recently attended the South Carolina Library Association conference in Columbia, SC. It was our 100th anniversary as an organization, so Jenny decided it would be fun to try to interview 100 attendees about books they've read recently (or are currently reading.) Librarians read everything, which you will experience as you listen to them talk about books. Also included: library science students, vendors, and speakers who were in attendance. There are more than 100 books because some people can't just pick one.

One hundred years from now, this recording could serve as a capture of a moment in time for the South Carolina Library Association. A huge thanks goes out to everyone who participated!

Most interviews were conducted in a conference facility with other people in the background. You could say the Reading Envy Pub was just having a busy day....

Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 043: Librarian Time Capsule

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Books mentioned (in order, so there are a few duplicates of titles multiple people are reading):



(images displayed are just a selection of titles mentioned)

1. F*ck Feelings: One Shrink's Practical Advice for Managing All Life's Impossible Problems by Michael Bennett and Sarah Bennett
2. Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People by Nadia Bolz-Weber
3. Mrs. Duck's Lovely Day by Vivienne Blake
4. Finders Keepers by Stephen King
5. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
6. Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan
7. The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance---What Women Should Know by Katty Kay and Claire Shipman
8. The Martian by Andy Weir
9. Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
10. The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope by Austen Ivereigh
11. Purity by Jonathan Franzen
12. The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
13. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mendel
14. Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson
15. The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation by Thich Nhat Hanh
16. "Marginalia" also available on The Best Cigarette by Billy Collins
17. Jambusters: The Remarkable Story Which Has Inspired the ITV Drama Home Fires by Julie Summer
18. The Gold Train: The Destruction of the Jews and the Second World War's Most Terrible Robbery by Ronald Zweig
19. I Crawl Through It by A.S. King
20. The Taming of the Queen by Philippa Gregory
21. The Strain by David Lapham
22. Under a Crescent Moon by Mercy Celeste
23. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
24. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
25. The Martian by Andy Weir
26. Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street by John Brooks
27. Rules for Ghosting by A. J. Paquette
28. Counting Crocodiles by Judy Sierra and Will Hillenbrand
29. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
30. Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series by Laurie R. King
31. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
32. The Rook by Daniel O'Malley
33. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
34. The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel Levitin
35. Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men by Jane Ward
36. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
37. On Writing - A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
38. The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! by Mo Willems
39. Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson
40. Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
41. River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh
42. Flood of Fire by Amitav Ghosh
43. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonatahn Lethem
44. Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive by T.D. Jakes
45. In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume
46. How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization by Franklin Foer
47. Under the Same Sky: From Starvation in North Korea to Salvation in America by Joseph Kim
48. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (could have been Girl on a Train by A.J. Waines!)
49. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
50. Gone by James Patterson
51. How Google Works by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg
52. Perelandra by C.S. Lewis
53. Brown-Eyed Girl by Lisa Kleypas
54. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
55. The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel by Deborah Hopkinson
56. Daughter of Deep Silence by Carrie Ryan
57. Ideas Are Free: How the Idea Revolution Is Liberating People and Transforming Organizations by Alan Robinson
58. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey
59. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
60. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
61. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
62. The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore
63. This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash
64. Start a Revolution: Stop Acting Like a Library by Ben Bizzle and Maria Flora
65. The Marvels by Brian Selznick
66. Different Seasons by Stephen King
67. All These Things I've Done by Gabrielle Zevin
68. Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson
69. The Shining by Stephen King
70. The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon
71. Creating Magic: 10 Common Sense Leadership Strategies from a Life at Disney by Lee Cockerell
72. The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra by Helen Rappaport
73. Descent by Tom Johnston
74. Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson
75. Infinite in Between by Carolyn Mackler
76. Come Rain or Come Shine by Jan Karon
77. The Escape by David Baldacci
78. Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
79. The Giver by Lois Lowry
80. Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brene Brown
81. The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
82. 1882: Custer in Chains by Robert Conroy
83. Serpent in Paradise by Dea Birkett
84. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series by Louise Penny
85. Beacon Hill series by Cynthia Peale
86. The Selection by Kiera Cass
87. The Elite by Kiera Cass
88. The One by Kiera Cass
89. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
90. The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire by Jack Weatherford
91. White Cat by Holly Black
92. The Blue Moon Circus by Michael Raleigh
93. Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
94. The Martian by Andy Weir
95. The Three Bears
96. The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
97. Wind/Pinball: Two novels by Haruki Murakami
98. Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
99. Black Widow Forever Red by Margaret Stohl
100. The Rose Society by Marie Lu
101. The Princess Who Defied Kings by J. Kirsch
102. The Princess who Tamed Demons by J. Kirsch
103. I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
104. Trail of Broken Wings by Sejal Badani
105. No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin
106. Petey by Ben Mikaelsen
107. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
108. HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes
109. Traveling Sprinkler by Nicholson Baker
110. The Martian by Andy Weir
111. Penn Center: A History Preserved by Orville Vernon Burton
112. George by Alex Gino
113. Dangerous Work: Diary of an Arctic Adventure by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
114. Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham

Related podcast episodes:
Reading Envy Episode 008: Gone Rogue
Reading Envy Episode 027: A Conference of Librarians

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