Welcome to The Bookmark, a podcast of the Wabash Carnegie Public Library, hosted by Laura Beutler and Rachel Castle. This month we're trying out a trend from TikTok and rolling for book recommendations. We also fill you in on how Summer Reading is going and give you a construction update so you know what to expect when you come visit us.
This is how we rolled:
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton (Mystery)
Heavy by Kiese Laymon (Biography and Memoir)
Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune (Romance)
The Book of Blood and Shadow by Robin Wasserman (Dark Academia)
LEGO: A Love Story by Jonathan Bender (Biography and Memoir)
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (Literary Fiction)
Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures by Robert K. Whittman (True Crime)
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (Classic)
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (Children's Classic)
Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey (Western)
Outlawed by Anna North (Western)
The Devil's Revolver by V.S. McGrath (Western)
The Riddlemaster of Hed by Patricia A. McKillip (Fantasy)
The Book of Atrix Wolfe by Patricia A. McKillip (Fantasy)
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly (Historical Nonfiction)
Chuck Klosterman's books (Historical Nonfiction)
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore (Historical Nonfiction)
Jurassic Park by Michael Chrichton (Adventure)
The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason (Thriller)
The Martian by Andy Weir (Science Fiction)
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (Science Fiction)
This Book Is Full of Spiders by Jason Pargin (Horror)
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (Dystopian)
Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook by Sohla el-Waylly (Cookbook)
The Woks of Life by the Leung family (Cookbook)
The Complete America's Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook (Obviously also a Cookbook)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Thriller)
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (Thriller)
Master and Commander series by Patrick O'Brian (Historical Fiction)
Terry Pratchett's Discworld series (Satire)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (Satire)
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray (Satire)
When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
This episode of The Bookmark podcast is hosted by Laura Beutler and Rachel Castle and was edited and produced by Rachel Castle.