Give the gift of reading: Helping listeners shop for their book lovers

On today's episode, Adam is joined by three of OverDrive's staff librarians to answer a few of the book request emails we've received over the last few weeks. Emma, Kristin, and Maria do not disappoint. Check out all these amazing books!

Books our librarians (and Adam) are reading:

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen

The First Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer

Historical Fiction with a Medical Slant

The Midwife of Hope River by Patricia Harman

The Physician by Noah Gordon

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

YA Poetry & Novels in Verse

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

Crank by Ellen Hopkins

The Dark Between Stars by Atticus

If They Come For Us by Fatimah Asghar

Swing by Kwame Alexander and Mary Rand Hess

Steampunk/Dieselpunk, Modern & Urban Fantasy

The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher

The Aeronaut's Windlass by Jim Butcher

The Queen of All Crows by Rod Duncan (Book One of the Map of Unknown Things series)

The Broken Earth series by N.K. Jemisin

Dark, Intense and Creepy audiobooks (based off of I'll be Gone In The Dark)

You by Caroline Kepnes

The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule

Pieces of Her by Karin Slaughter

Dark Fantasy and moral ambiguity

The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

Furyborn by Clarie Legrand

Behind Closed Doors by BA Paris

Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones

The Sisters of the Winter Wood

Thrilling dad books!

Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, Micro)

Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

Marathon Man by William Goldman

HP Read Alikes and Literary Fiction

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Alex, Approximately by Jenn Bennett

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James (2019)

True Crime and books about drug dealers

The Power of the Dog trilogy by Don Winslow

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico's Most Dangerous Drug Cartel by Dan Slater

The Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum