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STAFF PICKS

Staff-recommended reading and viewing for OCtobER 2024.

Check back each month for a new list.  Also check out our Goodreads Group for reviews, online bookclubs, and more!

 

Gideon the Ninth

We Do This 'Til We Free Us

The Night Guest

The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes

This Close to Ok

The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp

Listen for the Lie

If We Burn

Mister Magic

Wyrd Sisters

PREVIOUS STAFF PICKS

  • September 2024
    • Lessons for Survival
    • Leviathan Wakes
    • My Lady Jane
    • Motherless Daughters
    • The Hound of the Baskervilles
    • A Sorceress Comes to Call
    • The Tainted Cup
    • Fervor
    • Fusion Strategy
  • August 2024
    • Today Will Be Different
    • Against the Loveless World
    • Octavia's Brood
    • Orientalism
    • Garden Spells
    • Pure America
    • The Perks of Loving a Wallflower
    • Miss Cecily's Recipes for Exceptional Ladies
    • The Golden Spoon
  • July 2024
    • Icarus
    • We Were the Lucky Ones
    • Agatha Christie
    • A Stranger in the House
    • Wonder
    • Cut Loose!
    • Filterworld
    • Mercury
    • Slow Down
    • Old Crimes
  • June 2024
    • Gender Queer
    • The Villa
    • Text Me When You Get Home
    • Hero of Two Worlds
    • Last Summer at the Golden Hotel
    • Is This Normal?
    • Wild Things
    • The Reign of Wolf 21
    • Daisy Darker
    • I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together
  • May 2024
    • The Little Red Chairs
    • The Sympathizer
    • The Postman Always Rings Twice
    • A Most Agreeable Murder
    • Ace
    • Thelma the Unicorn
    • Your House Will Pay
    • We All Want Impossible Things
    • The Fetishist
    • Swiss Vendetta
  • April 2024
    • The Silent Patient
    • A Friend for Henry
    • Solitaire
    • Riding Freedom
    • The Hanged Man of Conakry
    • Paris
    • What Red Was
    • Come As You Are
    • A Kind of Spark
    • A Kind of Spark
    • Murder is A Piece of Cake
  • March 2024
    • Night Side of the River
    • She-Hulk
    • The Final Girl Support Group
    • Bath Haus
    • Brooklyn
    • The Bee Sting
    • Women Talking
    • Brave the Wild River
    • Dark Earth
    • A Court of Mist and Fury
  • February 2024
    • It Happened on Saturday
    • The Consequences
    • Hyberbole and a Half
    • My Brother's Husband
    • The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
    • Waiting to Be Arrested at Night
    • White Bird
    • The Count of Monte Cristo
    • Wild and Distant Seas
    • The Revolutionary Temper
  • January 2024
    • A Rip Through Time
    • Rebecca
    • Better Late Than Never
    • A Woman Is No Man
    • This Is Major
    • Foster
    • Village of Secrets
    • Extremely Online
    • Lady Tan's Circle of Women
    • Bookshops & Bonedust
  • December 2023
    • Dog On It
    • The Roaring Days of Zora Lily
    • We Spread
    • The Woman In Me
    • Eight Dates and Nights
    • Emily of New Moon
    • Atomic Habits
    • Blackmail and Bibingka
    • Unbroken
    • Death Valley
  • November 2023
    • The Luminaries
    • The Werewolf of Paris
    • Motherthing
    • The Sentence
    • Winter Counts
    • The Last House on Needless Street
    • Every Heart a Doorway
    • Victory City
    • Our Best Intentions
    • Someone Else's Shoes
  • October 2023
    • Solito
    • Sabrina & Corina
    • Masters of Death
    • Godkiller
    • Juniper & Thorn
    • I'll Give You The Sun
    • The Skin and Its Girl
    • When Crack Was King
    • The Monsters We Defy
    • Why We Meditate
  • September 2023
    • Olga Dies Dreaming
    • Raw Dog
    • We See Each Other
    • Kaiju
    • Thornhedge
    • Bookworm
    • Mr. Mercedes
    • The Tiger Rising
    • My Murder
    • Winter Counts
  • August 2023
    • The Librarianist
    • The Appeal
    • The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
    • 56 Days
    • The Splendid and the Vile
    • Pretty Young Rebel
    • Ride-Or-Die
    • The Woman in the Library
    • The Virgin Suicides
    • Spinning
  • June 2023
    • The Myth of Normal
    • Spare
    • This Other Eden
    • Shrek!
    • The Change
    • This Delicious Death
    • Station Eleven
    • Heartbroke
    • D'Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding
    • Lore Olympus
  • May 2023
    • Alias Anna
    • The Measure
    • We Were Witches
    • The Waiting
    • The Man Who Died Twice
    • Dial A for Aunties
    • Dear Child
    • Call Down the Hawk
    • Chrysanthemum
    • Heart of the Sun Warrior
  • April 2023
    • Paper Girls
    • Girls Like Me
    • Cursed Bunny
    • A Thousand Times
    • Black Cake
    • American Royalty
    • The God of Endings
    • An American Sunrise
    • How Moon Fuentez
  • March 2023
    • mad honey
    • fruiting bodies
    • the feminine mystique
    • my grandmother's hands
    • the color of water
    • american fire
    • get it together
    • thousand cranes
    • just as i am
    • forest walking
  • February 2023
    • The Marrow Thieves
    • The Snow Child
    • This Is How It Always Is
    • Writers & Lovers
    • The Book Eaters
    • The Cabinet
    • Wish You Were Here
    • Stony the Road
    • The Never Tilting World
    • Investing 101
  • January 2023
    • sweetgrass
    • years
    • magic
    • winter
    • time
    • text
    • sokcho
    • dancing
    • nightcrawling
    • daughter
  • December 2022
    • snail
    • starless
    • defy
    • south
    • naked
    • lore
    • vegan
    • afong
    • indians
    • bee
  • November 2022
    • everything
    • collector
    • king
    • first
    • there
    • crawdads
    • caleb's
    • heroines
    • departures
    • haunting
  • October 2022
    • well
    • witch
    • inheritance
    • highway
    • mexican
    • eyre
    • house
    • honey
    • castle
    • witch
  • September 2022
    • dirt
    • delphine
    • heaven
    • tea
    • alice
    • sit
    • history
    • yes
    • apprentice
    • korean
  • August 2022
    • brooklyn
    • artcurious
    • nettle
    • broken
    • rare
    • maud
    • fascism
    • girls
    • psalm
    • wahala
  • July 2022
    • kaikeyi
    • brass
    • sleepless
    • precious
    • bomb
    • bluest
    • westaway
    • damnation
    • nimona
    • fevered
  • June 2022
    • immune
    • lesser
    • lemon
    • braid
    • cerulean
    • legion
    • fencing
    • peace
  • May 2022
    • talk
    • famine
    • well
    • eragon
    • breasts
    • molly
    • love
    • gates
    • amsterdam
    • edge
  • April 2022
    • true
    • chouette
    • seek
    • heartstopper
    • sophia
    • chernobyl
    • one-straw
    • rage
    • hatmakers
    • edge
  • March 2022
    • psalm
    • jade
    • code
    • queen
    • pachinko
    • yolk
    • angels
    • papi
    • theater
    • period
  • February 2022
    • woods
    • place
    • oliphant
    • squad
    • ringquist
    • quanders
    • almost
    • covid
    • systems
    • jane
  • January 2022
    • nothing
    • girl
    • pick
    • skye
    • creature
    • hating
    • coat
    • war
  • December 2021
    • Just Mercy
    • Crying in H Mart
    • Road Ends
    • Whodunit crime puzzles
    • Catwings
    • Prianesi
    • Interior Chinatown
    • Smoke
    • Broke in America
    • Hunt, Gather, Parent
  • November 2021
    • city baker's
    • three women
    • devi
    • betty
    • wounded knee
    • unsettled ground
    • migrations
    • small pleasures
    • circe
    • trio
  • October 2021
    • Thursday
    • Guest
    • Frangipani
    • Broken
    • Plot
    • Luck
    • Nowhere
    • Huddle
    • Being
    • Said
  • September 2021
    • Dolly
    • tree
    • epic
    • tiger
    • ban
    • emotion
    • forest
    • mindful
    • twelve
    • shop
  • August 2021
    • thick
    • among
    • vanessa
    • coffee
    • elephant
    • space
    • librarian
    • summer
  • July 2021
    • sigh
    • maiden
    • audre
    • rosaline
    • alligator
    • dust
    • aardvark
    • distraction
    • hex
  • June 2021
    • dead
    • Cerulean Sea
    • Stamped
    • One to watch
    • Maud Dixon
    • Goodbye
    • lamplighters
    • Hmart
    • Maine
    • Cemetery boys
  • May 2021
    • darker
    • feather
    • death
    • save
    • stewards
    • vegetarian
    • face
    • traitor
    • six
    • super
  • April 2021
    • bird
    • never
    • evelyn
    • door
    • fox
    • poem
    • hill
    • rosy
    • mountain
    • greenwood
  • March 2021
    • lovecraft
    • something
    • agatha
    • swim
    • blackout
    • plow
    • rage
    • talk
    • ends
    • men in kilts
  • January/February 2021
    • spell bound
    • Riviera gold
    • That Time of Year
    • Wind
    • braiding
    • curse
    • lost queen
    • Rambling
    • maybe
    • color law
  • December 2020
    • women
    • memory
    • dickens
    • world
    • owl
    • group
    • witches
    • mill
    • foe
    • freedom
  • November 2020
    • Leonard and Hungry Paul : a novel
    • Barnaby Mayne
    • A song below water
    • Seven lies
    • The kitchen god's wife
    • My name is Resolute
    • Loving
    • A children's bible : a novel
    • Stand up straight and sing!
    • slave's cause
  • September 2024
    • October 2020
      • Lockwood
      • Turn Key
      • Knife
      • Watch
      • Pull Stars
      • Spotlights
      • Lacks
      • Weather
      • Run Eat
      • Starless
    Last updated: September 2024