Colleen Barnes, DPS coordinator for ELA and Media Specialists, joins Russell and the Rach(a)els to discuss her favorite books, DPS reading challenges, and the Dolly Parton Imagination Library.
Books we discuss include:
- Books of Essays, especially:
- “The Best of Me” by David Sedaris
- “Wow, No Thank You” by Samantha Irby
- “Here For It: Or, How To Save Your Soul in America” by Eric Thomas
- “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie
- “Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions” by Daniel Wallace
- “The Iowa Baseball Confederacy” by W.P. Kinsella
- “Love in the Time of Cholera” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- “Colton Gentry’s Third Act” by Jeff Zentner
- “Monster Hunter Mystery” series by Annelise Ryan
- ANYTHING by Beverly Cleary and Judy Blume
- “Bud, Not Buddy” by Christopher Paul Curtis
- “Call of the Wild” by Jack London
- “Small Spaces” by Katherine Arden
