Episode 16: Deep Dives and Beloved Reads

Histories, memoir, historical fiction, Richard Scarry…. and serial killers? Cheryl’s Books: Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange by Katie Goh Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford Mentioned: Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh The Digging-est Dog by Al Perkins (can be found in collection) Summer Pony by Jean Slaughter Doty Keeping Barney by Jessie Haas Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners Jessica’s Books: The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue The Black Utopians by Aaron Robertson Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green Links: Michigan Notables: Foster Event: Mentioned: Best Word Book Ever —Richard Scarry Mari’s Books: The Pecan Sheller by Lupe Ruiz-Flores Whale Eyes: A Memoir About Seeing and Being Seen by James Robinson Watch his award-winning short film: The Couch in the Yard by Kate Hoefler Mentioned: Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret by Judy Blume Our Producer, Rissa’s Books: Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees by Patrick Horvath Big Kids by Michael DeForge Mentioned: Skippyjon Jones books by Judith Schachner The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka Junie B. Jones books by Barbara Park Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Some of books mentioned in response to CADL’s Facebook question “What story began your love of reading?”: The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White Little Women by Louisa May Alcott The Babysitter’s Club by Ann M. Martin Books by Madeleine L’Engle The Monster at the End of This Book by Jon Stone The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore The Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreve The Valley of the Dolls by Jacquelinn Susann (available through MELCAT)

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Episode 16: Deep Dives and Beloved Reads is an episode from CADLcast Podcast by Capital Area District Libraries .

This episode is 52:01 long.

This episode was published on Apr 7, 2025.

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