On this episode of Second Look, our Growing Place Library staff members, Jennifer Wilson and Merrill Skipworth, along with 2PC member and avid reader, Lacey Moody, sit down for the fifth annual book talk! The list below features books recommended and mentioned in this episode as well as links to the Instagram accounts for the Library and Lacey Moody.
Fiction
Authentically Izzy- Pepper Basham
Carrie Soto is Back- Taylor Jenkins Reid
Cartographers- Peng Shepherd
Daisy Jones and the Six- Taylor Jenkins Reid (audiobook is excellent)
Flight- Lynn Steger Strong
Hello Beautiful- Ann Napolitano
Lessons in Chemistry- Bonnie Garmus
Lord Peter Mysteries- Dorothy Sayers
Nora Goes Off Script- Annabel Monaghan
Remarkably Bright Creatures- Shelby Van Pelt
Signal Fires- Dani Shapiro
The Exiles- Christina Baker Cline
The Golden Spoon- Jessa Maxwell
The Record Keeper-Charles Martin (Book 3 of Murphy Shepherd Trilogy)
The Red Notebook- Antoine Laurain
The River- Peter Heller
The White Lady- Jacqueline Winspear
Thursday Murder Club Series- Richard Osman
Tobacco Wives- Adele Myers
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow- Gabrielle Zevin
Non-fiction
A Meal With Jesus- Tim Chester
Becoming Duchess Goldblatt- Anonymous
Confronting Christianity- Rebecca McLaughlin
Find Your People- Jennie Allen
Good Apple- Elizabeth Passarella
Gospelbound- Collin Hansen and Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra
Habits of the Household- Justin Whitmel Earley
It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway- Elizabeth Passarella
Joyful- Ingrid Fetell Lee
Left on Tenth- Delia Ephron
Made to Belong- David Kim
One More Croissant for the Road- Felicity Cloake
Redemption Accomplished and Applied- John Murray
Secular Creed- Rebecca McLaughlin
Surprised by Oxford- Carolyn Weber
Taste- Stanley Tucci
The Anthropocene Reviewed- John Green
This is Where You Belong- Melody Warnick
When Thoughts and Prayers Aren't Enough- Taylor Schumann
Middle Grade
Serpent Slayer and the Scroll of Riddles- Champ Thornton
The Dragon and The Stone- Kathryn Butler
The Secret Lake- Karen Inglis
The Shoe Books (Ballet Shoes, Theatre Shoes…)- Noel Streatfeild
The Westing Game- Ellen Raskin
Tuesdays at the Castle, series- Jessica Day George
Wolves of Willoughby Chase- Joan Aiken
Other Books and Authors Mentioned…
Chanel Cleeton- Perez Family Series
Drowning- T. J. Newman
Falling- T.J. Newman
Habits of Grace- David Mathis
Happy Place- Emily Henry
Jesus Through the Eyes of Women- Rebecca McLaughlin
Mhairi McFarlane, author
My Life in France- Julia Child
Paris by the Book- Liam Callanan