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The matzah ball
The holiday trap
Love in winter Wonderland
You're a mean one, Matthew Prince
A merry little meet cute : a novel
A holly jolly ever after

Holiday Romance for the Rest of Us

Melody
The café at the edge of the woods
Monster baker
A spoonful of frogs
Skeleton for dinner
Zombies don't eat veggies
Leila, the perfect witch

Spooky Foodie Kids' Books: the Genre We Didn't Know We Needed

Mari
Held
Creation lake : a novel
Orbital
James : a novel
The safekeep : a novel
STONE YARD DEVOTIONAL.

The Booker Prize: The Long and Short of It

Heidi K
Poltergeist
Paranormal activity
The Blair Witch project
Pet sematary
Scary stories to tell in the dark
An American werewolf in London

Spooktober!

Mykle
Legends & lattes : a novel of high fantasy and low stakes
The house in the Cerulean Sea
A psalm for the wild-built
The very secret society of irregular witches
Can't spell treason without tea : a cozy fantasy steeped with love
Emily Wilde's encyclopaedia of faeries

Cozy Fantasy Reads

Bond
After the fact : if & when and here & now
América del Norte
Another woman
Blue light hours : a novel
The body alone : a lyrical articulation of chronic pain
Code of the hills

2024 Iowa City Book Festival Reading List

Anne M
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami
Aelita, Queen of Mars
All the King's Men
Nightbitch
Racialism and the media Black Jesus, Black Twitter, and the first Black American president

2024 Refocus Film Festival Reading List!

Katie
Martyr!
The Most
Catalina : a novel
James : a novel
All fours : a novel
Creation lake : a novel

2024 National Book Awards Longlist Fiction

Jason
Winged migration
Iowa bird watching : a year-round guide
The birds of America.
Audubon as artist : a new look at The birds of America
Bird love
Extreme birds : the world's most extraordinary and bizarre birds

Winged Migration

Melody
The bread the devil knead
Cyber mage : a novel
Maybe Esther : a family story
The body by the shore
Apricots of Donbas : poems
Moving a stone : selected poems by Yam Gong = Ban shi : Yinjiang shi xuan

Explore the International Writing Program

Anne M
Martyr!
The shallows : what the Internet is doing to our brains
James : a novel
Ghosts : a novel
Greenwood : a novel
Parable of the sower

Books We Read: Summer 2024

Heidi K
Swimming in the dark : a novel
The swimmers
Same time next summer
Swimming lessons
The mermaid of Black Conch
Swimming in Paris : a life in three stories

Take the Plunge: Swim Reads

Anne M
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