The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast

Season 4 Ep. 78 Spinning a Good Yarn with Books and Brew with guest Susan Thomas 2-17-20

This week we travel to Eastern Kentucky to the town of Morehead in our quest to explore cool independent bookstores in our region. Morehead is home to a little over 7,000 residents and Morehead State University. The university as well as the regional medical center in town give the community a diverse makeup. And it’s location inside Daniel Boone National Forest and the head of the Sheltowee Trace Trail make it a tempting destination for folks who like to hike, hunt, fish, and soak up nature.

Our guest, Susan Thomas, is a managing partner and owner of CoffeeTree Books and the Fuzzy Duck Coffee Shop which have been a family business for over 20 years. It has morphed several times and is now housed in the town’s old single screen movie theater on Main Street. They have transformed the space to include a coffee shop in the old concession area, event space at the stage, and a business office in the old projector room, not to mention everything you would expect to see in a bookstore. But they have been creative with their space and have included a store within a store. CoffeeTree is also a destination for locals looking for supplies for fiber arts like knitting. They carry high quality yarns and classes for knitters. Susan is a knitter herself and wanted to offer products she used to have to travel over an hour to purchase. And while there weren’t initially many knitters in Morehead, Susan and others have nurtured a whole crop of townspeople anxious to learn and create.

Susan tells us why books and yarn aren’t the strangest store within a store concept in town, why she has an affinity for books about bees, and why moving back to her hometown after 16 years in Nashville is a decision she hasn’t once regretted.

Books mentioned in this episode:
1- The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
2- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
3- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
4- Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
5- The Storied Life of A J Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
6- The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
7- Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin
8- Outliers by Malcom Gladwell
9- The New One: Painfully True Stories From a Reluctant Dad by Mike Birbiglia and J. Hope Stein
10- The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr
11- We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker
12- Amari and the Night Brothers by B. B. Alston
13- Good Talk by Mira Jacob
14- Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia
15- The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage, and a Girl Saved by Bees by Meredith May
16- Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, A Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese by Brad Kessler
17- The E Myth: Why Most Businesses Don't Work and What To do About It by Michael E. Gerber

Season 4 Ep. 77 Romance Language with guest Tiffany Reisz 2-10-21

This coming Sunday, February 14, is Valentine’s Day, and we couldn’t pass up an opportunity to talk about the genre of romance.

If you are of a certain age, you may most associate romance novels with Fabio, the long-haired king of Romance novel covers. But romance is a very wide umbrella. There are historical romances like the books that inspired the Netflix series Bridgerton, classical romances (think Jane Austen books), and queer romances. Some romances are just about the emotional aspects of love, while others venture into the erotic beyond just a little kiss.

Our guest this week, Tiffany Reisz, is a Louisville-based erotic romance writer who started writing her first romance novel while a seminary student. She left seminary, though, to follow her love of writing and is now a USA Today bestselling author of over 28 books including the Original Sinners series and The Red. She has a dedicated fan base all over the world. I recently saw a FB fan club for her based in Italy.

Tiffany gives us a “romance for dummies” crash course on the differences between romance, erotica, and smut. She also talks about how her preference for fantasy books as a child morphed into writing a different kind of fantasy, why she doesn’t let preconceived notions against her genre bother her, and why being married to another writer is a “two heads are better than one” situation.

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

1- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
2- A Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
3- The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
4- Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
5- Star Trek: The Next Generation novels
6- Return of the Jedi (novelization)
7- Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
8- Lives of the Mayfair Witches by Anne Rice (series)
9- Sleeping Beauty series by Anne Rice
10- The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox
11- The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox
12- The Siren (The Original Sinners series) by Tiffany Reisz
13- Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey
14- Love Story by Erich Segal
15- The Story of O by Anne Desclos (pen name Pauline Reage')
16- The Chateau by Tiffany Reisz
17- The Lucky Ones by Tiffany Reisz
18- The Red by Tiffany Reisz
19- The Bourbon Thief by Tiffany Reisz
20- The Pearl by Tiffany Reisz
21- The Auction by Tiffany Reisz
22- Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
23- Nothing Lasts Forever (Die Hard) by Roderick Tharp
24- The Whisper Man by Alex North
25- The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
26- Sea People: The Power of Polynesia by Christina Thompson
27- A Polar Affair by Lloyd Spencer Davis

 

 

 

 

Season 4 Ep. 76 Braille Broadens Opportunities with guests Gary Mudd and Jayma Hawkins 2-3-21

If you are listening to this podcast, you probably appreciate a good book. You can pick up a paperback or read a digital copy on your e-reader whenever you have spare time. But imagine if you didn’t have the ability to see the words on the page? Blindness doesn’t make a person any less of a book lover but it sure does make reading them more complicated.

We assumed that technology would make things easier for people with visual impairment, and while it can help, it can also complicate things. Even recording our podcast took on unique challenges when we realized that one of our guests wouldn’t be able to read the questions we sent in the same ways that our former sighted guests did. When there was a snafu with recording and we thought to text our guests, we had to remember that the text might have to then go to audio format. How long would that take? Was that immediate or was there a delay? Would the remote recording technology pick up not only our guest’s voice but also the voice dictation from the computer at the same time?

Though sighted, Carrie and I were definitely blind to some of the complications that life with visual impairment can mean when it comes to the world of reading.

Our guests this week, Gary Mudd and Jayma Hawkins, from the American Printing House for the Blind, generously recorded with us twice to work through complications. Gary, who became blind at the age of 12, has recently retired from his role as VP of Government and Community Affairs and Jayma is the National Prison Braille Director.

Gary and Jayma talk to us about how braille books are produced as well as many other products that help visually impaired students be successful, how braille production programs in prisons produce braille books for students but also create newfound skills and confidence in inmates, and how one blind mother’s desire to read books to her sighted children helped create the Braille Tales program in coordination with Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

1- Katie the Catsitter by Colleen A. F. Venable
2- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
3- Same Sun Here by Silas House and Neela Vaswani
4- Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

Season 4 Ep. 75 The Perks of the Merc with guest Amy Hunter 1-27-21

If you are a book lover, you are probably also a library lover. Those two things just go together, like peanut butter and jelly or Sherlock and Watson. Some book lovers not only visit their local libraries all the time, but they also visit libraries when they travel. Carrie, for example, checked out Maison de la litterature in Quebec City when she visited several years ago. It is cool to see what libraries in other places look and feel like.

Closer to home, there is a membership library in Cincinnati Ohio that would be well worth a stop if you find yourself in the Queen City. Our guest this week, Amy Hunter, is the programs and marketing manager at The Mercantile Library, one of only about 18 surviving membership libraries around the country. She gives a crash course in membership libraries that were invented by Benjamin Franklin before the rise of public libraries at the turn of the 20th century.

Amy talks to us about the unique history of the Mercantile library including some of the interesting rules that were imposed back at its inception in 1835, about the wide variety of speakers they have hosted from Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 1800s all the way to Margaret Atwood just a few years ago, and why many people consider the Mercantile a “steampunk” fantasy in library form.

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

1- Charlotte's Web/Stuart Little by E. B. White
2- Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
3- Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
4- Sweet Taste of Liberty by W. Caleb McDaniel
5- Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld
6- Heavy by Kiese Lemon
7- Silver Sparrow/American Marriage by Tayari Jones
8- TigerLand by Will Haygood
9- The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
10- Perestroika in Paris by Jane Smiley
11- Meet Me at the Museum: A Novel by Ann Youngson
12- The Ghosts of Eden Park by Karen Abbott

Season 4 Ep.74 She Illustrates the Point with guest Danica Novgorodoff 1-20-21

Our guest this week, Danica Novgorodoff, is a writer, graphic novelist, and illustrator who has written 3 of her own graphic novels but her work has received some extra special attention recently.  She is the illustrator of the new graphic novel edition of Jason Reynolds’ award winning young adult novel Long Way Down.  She believes she was chosen for the book partly because of her special use of watercolors as a medium for graphic art, which gives the work an ephemeral feel.  

Besides this project, she is also in the process of writing a graphic novel on climate change, several children’s books, as well as essays and illustrating a cookbook with a James Beard award winning cookbook author.  And did I mention she has a 3 year old and a one year old? As well as working at home during a pandemic?  We need to give this artist and mother a medal... or at least a glass of wine and an hour to herself.  

Danica talks to us about what steps she takes to adapt a book into a graphic novel, how becoming a mother totally changed her thoughts on how to write and illustrate a good children’s book, and how the pandemic hastened her family’s move away from Brooklyn back to some of her roots in Kentucky.

Books Mentioned in this Episode:
1- Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
2- My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
3- Island of the Blue Dolphins  by Scott O'Dell
4- Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
5- Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
6- Long Way Down (graphic novel) by Jason Reynolds, illustrated by Danica Novgorodoff
7- A Late Freeze by Danica Novgorodoff
8- The Undertaking of Lily Chen by Danica Novgorodoff
9- Refresh, Refresh by Danica Novgorodoff
10- Slow Storm by Danica Novgorodoff
11- Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast
12- What I Hate from A to Z by Roz Chast
13- The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humbolt's New World by Andrew Wulf
14- The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humbolt and the Shaping of America by Laura Dassow Walls
15- Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
16- Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier

Ep. 58 RePlay - A Neighborhood Bookstore as Community Outreach with Clare Wallace

***Listeners, this week we have our last replay episode before we start back with Season 4 next week with an all new group of fascinating bookish guests. We’ve been recording over the hiatus, and we are excited to introduce you to more book lovers in just a few more days.

Our rebroadcast this week is from Season 3, episode 58 with Clare Wallace, the executive director of South Louisville Community Ministries which also runs The Rosewater bookstore in coordination with The BookWorks. The community bookstore opened just as COVID was hitting the city in the spring of 2020, and it took several months for them (and everyone) to figure out the new normal.

but they are up and running with regular hours, a really great selection of books, and gift items made by artisans in the neighborhood. Located on South 3rd Street, The Rosewater’s regular hours are:

Wednesday & Thursday, 10:00 - 4:00
Friday & Saturday, 10:00 - 6:00
Sunday, 10:00 - 3:00

It also offers mystery bags. Book lovers can complete a Google Form and request books from a certain genre. If you’re like me and spend way too much time in the house, something as simple as a mystery bag of books you can pick up curbside is the kind of excitement I’m down for in 2021.
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This past weekend many people recognized Independent Bookstore Day, a day to be extra appreciative of their local bookstores and booksellers that give booklovers all the feels. Everyone loves a bookstore, don’t they?

Our guest today certainly does. When Clare Wallace visits a new place, she always looks for the closest used bookstore. This gave her the idea to open The Rosewater, aptly named after her favorite Kurt Vonnegut book, which she envisions as a comforting living room for everybody. Clare is the executive director of South Louisville Community Ministries, a nonprofit that provides emergency assistance for residents of South Louisville facing crisis, and she was looking for a visible way to do outreach in the neighborhood. The bookstore serves several purposes; to create a warm community space, to bring life to parts of the neighborhood that have seen hard times, to provide transitional employment for residents in crisis, and to offer a service that the neighbors want!

Clare grew up in a house filled with hundreds of books with a mother who worked for a publisher but her favorites were those that explored other worlds. After Clare left college, she literally went around the world working in international development and as a Peace Corps volunteer. When she settled in Louisville, she chose to land in the most diverse part of the city which is filled with a wide variety of different ethnicities and income levels; Clare works to bring people together in her adopted hometown.

Clare tells us how The Rosewater is pivoting from traditional retail sales to creative services like mystery book boxes delivered to your door due to Covid, why creating a comforting community space for the neighborhood is important to her, and how learning to deal with failure is a skill she learned abroad that helps her create new projects today.

Books Discussed in this Episode:

1- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
2- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
3- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
4- Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
5- Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
6- God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
7- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
8- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
9- The Lost Queen by Signe Pike
10- The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights by John Steinbeck
11- Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown
12- This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
13- My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris
14- New Kid by Jerry Craft
15- The Watchman by Alan Moore
16- Saga by Brian K. Vaughan
17- American Gods by Neil Gaiman

 

 

 

 

Replay Ep. 39 Cassie Chambers' Hill Women

This week we wanted to revisit an interview we did with Cassie Chambers.

Ron Howard’s movie adaptation of J. D. Vance’s memoir Hillbilly Elegy starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close has sparked quite a debate bordering on controversy in America this fall about Vance’s assertion as to the motivations and plight of Appalachian people. Many authors from this region have wanted to push back on that a bit to show that Appalachia is complex and not merely a place to rise above.

We welcomed Cassie Chambers as a guest back in March 2020, just as Covid was starting to hit this country in full force. Her memoir HIll Women was written as a response in her own way to Vance’s memoir; about a different view of the Appalachian experience from a woman’s perspective. Cassie’s had some more exciting news in 2020 as she went on to win a seat on the Lousiville Metro City Council as well as becoming a visiting professor at the University of Louisville School of Law.

**Our guest today grew up in poverty in eastern Kentucky, but attended Yale and Harvard, received her law degree, and came back to Kentucky to work for the Legal Aid Society, helping at-risk women in her home state. Cassie Chambers has also written a memoir, called Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains, about life and culture in Owsley County through the lens of three generations of women in her own family.

Her book came out in January of this year. Newsweek has named it a must-read book to savor this Spring, and Publisher’s Weekly called it a “passionate memoir”.

Cassie talks to us about her favorite book series from childhood that she still rereads as an adult, why she felt the women of Appalachia specifically need their stories told and what compelled her to write it, and why she thinks more women don’t run for office and why that needs to change.

Books mentioned:
1- Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery
2- Castaway: Poems For Our Time by Naomi Shihab Nye
3- Walkable City by Jeff Speck
4- Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith
5- The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
6- Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains by Cassie Chambers

Season 3 Ep.73 This Episode Is So "2020"

2020 has been one for the books, hasn’t it. See my pun there? A worldwide pandemic, a truly historic election, racial unrest, murder hornets, shortages of toilet paper, and massive fires in California are just a few weird things that happened this year; we all took solace where we could. For book lovers like us, it usually meant a book but could also include new hobbies like puzzles and baking for me, crocheting for Carrie, and wine for the both of us.

For this last episode of 2020, Carrie and I decided to talk about some notable books that we didn’t have a chance to talk about during the year and also take a look forward to 2021 to some books we are anxious to read.

Technology has really been messing with us at the end of 2020. Several pieces we recorded didn’t work, or disappeared, or just plain sucked. Anything that could go wrong did. So we had to get creative with this episode. And like many things about 2020, that creativity to do something different sometimes makes something better. I hope in this case this episode is better than the one we started with before the gremlins inside our computer got a hold of it.

We will be taking a few weeks off. While we are gone, we will re-play some older episodes that we think deserve another listen. Then we will be back January 13 with all new episodes with cool interesting people who are book lovers too.

Books mentioned--
1- A Polar Affair: Antartica's Forgotten Hero and the Secret Love Lives of Penguins by Lloyd Spencer Davis
2- Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley
3- Nothing is Wrong and Here is Why by Alexandra Petri
4- Shirley: A Novel by Susan Scarf Merrell / The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
5- The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
6- The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia by Emma Copley Eisenberg
7- Boom by Mark Haddon
8- Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
9- The One and Only Ivan /The One and Only Bob by Katherine Applegate
10- Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
11- Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life by John Kaag
12- Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn
13- Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
14- Eat a Peach by David Chang
15- Once and Future Witches by Alix Harrow
16- The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World by Patrik Svensson
17- The Stone Sky (Brokem Earth #3) by NK Jemisin
18- This Close to OK by Leesa Cross-Smith
19- The Whisper Man by Alex North
20- Murmur of Bees by Sophia Segovia
21- Lakewood by Megan Giddings

Perks Guests' Recommendations--
1- Brave(ish): A Memoir of a Recovering Perfectionist by Margaret Davis Ghielmetti (Anita Martin recommends)
2- The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (Diane Neu recommends)
3- Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron (Tamika recommends)
4- Maurice by EM Forster (Tabby Pawlitzki recommends)
5- The Never Game by Jeffery Dever (Robin Weiss recommends)
6- Dash and Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan (Mindy Jett recommends)
7- Protection Spell by Jennifer Givhan (Robert Eric Shoemaker recommends)
8- Writers and Lovers by Lily King (Ellen Birkett Morris recommends)
9- The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (Anne Baker recommends)
10- Winter's Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher (Niamh Lutes recommends)
11- Untamed by Glennon Doyle (Katy Yocom recommends)
12- The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (Tricia Taylor recommends)
13- The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo (Jennie Mulhall recommends)
14- This is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel (Kim Vidrine recommends)
15- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (Holly Mcarthur recommends)
16- Winter Loon by Susan Bernhard (Bobi Conn recommends)
17- It All Comes Back to You by Beth Duke (Kim Esposito recommends)
18- Children of Blood and Bone by Toni Adeyemi (Deedee Cummings recommends)
19- World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Amy Miller recommends)
20- The Ice Storm by Rick Moody (Andrew Shaffer recommends)

RePlay Ep. 31 Cook The Books with Laura Lucchese 12-23-20

There is a saying, “If you want a happy ending, read a cookbook”. Our guest, Laura Lucchese, is in a book club that always ends well because her group reads and then produces a group meal from cookbooks.

James Beard, the great culinary expert said, food is our common ground, a universal experience. In our mind, to bring books and food together is a match made in heaven.

Laura tells us how many cookbooks have a narrative story just like a traditional book, why cooking from a cuisine outside your own encourages discussion, and how modern cookbooks offer a different philosophy to entertaining that diverges from the older well-known cookbook authors like Martha Stewart.

Books mentioned in this episode:
1- Six Seasons by Joshua McFadden and Martha Holmberg
2- How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman
3- Smitten Kitchen Cookbook by Deb Perelman
4- Dining In by Alison Roman
5- Nothing Fancy by Alison Roman
6- Indianish by Priya Krishna
7- Bottom of the Pot by Naz Deravian
8- Buttermilk Graffiti by Edward Lee
9- Smoke and Pickles by Edward Lee
10- Everyday is Saturday by Sarah Copeland
11- How They Choked by Georgia Bragg
12- Simple by Yotam Ottolenghi
13- Do You Mind If I Cancel by Gary Janetti
14- Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
15- Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
16- A Gentleman from Moscow by Amor Towles
17- All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood
18- Sourdough by Robin Sloan

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Ep.72 Don't Omit YA Lit with Mindy Jett 12-16-20

If you are a book lover of a certain age, you may have spent a lot of time reading authors like Judy Blume, Paula Danziger, Gary Paulsen, or Christopher Pike when you were a teenager. Although books began to be categorized as ‘young adult” as early as the 1960s, when we were teens we didn’t know that, and we certainly didn’t care what the boring grownups were calling the books we gravitated to.

While it blows our minds to think that it has been 30+ years since the end of the 80s and early 1990s, a lot has changed in the book publishing industry since the time when we were young adults. Young adult literature is everywhere and has many subgenres, including dystopian, romance, and historical fiction.

Our guest this week, Mindy Jett, is a self-professed book nerd who still gravitates toward YA fiction even though she has teenagers of her own. She talks about how reading YA is just like immersing yourself in a sci-fi world or a different time period except it is the world from a teen perspective. We discuss how reading YA fiction has given her more insight into her own children, and how much nostalgia from her own childhood plays into her love of books from that era.

This is our last regular episode of 2020. Next week we will have a wrap-up episode where Carrie and I discuss some of our favorite books of the year that we overlooked during past episodes. Then we will take several weeks off for the holidays but will be back in early January to start season 4 with a whole new crop of cool and interesting bookish guests.

Books mentioned--
1- Forever by Judy Blume
2- From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
3- Twilight Where Darkness Begins (series) by various authors
4- Sweet Valley High (series) by Francine Pascal
5- Diary of a Wimpy Kid (series) by Jeff Kinney
6- Amulet (series) by Kazu Kibuishi
7- Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
8- Looking for Alaska / Paper Towns / An Abundance of Catherines / The Fault in Our Stars / Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
9- Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
10- Warcross by Marie Lu
11- Simon vs. The Homo Sapien Agenda by Becky Albertali
12- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
13- The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
14- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
15- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
16- Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl
17- The Court of Thorns & Roses by Sarah J Maas
18- Obeslisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin
19- Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
20- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
21- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
22- The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
23- Pride by Ibi Zoboi
24- Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
25- We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
26- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
27- The Hate You Give / On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
28- Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
29- The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls by Anton DiSclafani
30- Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos
31- Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
32- Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
33- Rough Magic by Lara Prior-Palmer
34- Stuart Little by E.B. White
34- The Green Book by Jill Paton Walsh
35- 101 Books to Read Before You Grow Up by Bianca Shulze
36- Where the World Ends by Geraldine McCaughrean
37- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
38- Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
39- My True Love Gave to Me edited by Stephanie Perkins