Dawn's Picks
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
by Lori Gottlieb
The Vampire Knitting Club series
by Nancy Warren
Emma's Picks
The Hidden Oracle
by Rick Riordan
). I’ve been obsessed with Rick Riordan’s stories since I was a kid and am very much looking forward to the television adaptation of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series which is supposed to be coming out in the next couple of years. I’m picking The Hidden Oracle to feature this month because it is the first book in the newest Percy Jackson Universe series, The Trials of Apollo, which I’m guessing some of the og fans of the books haven’t picked up yet. But they should (regardless of their age) because it’s a great story, and Percy of course plays a role. 
Mary's Picks
Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin
by Liesl Shurtliff
Good for fun family reading. The whole family will enjoy it.
Good book for the family to read together. You won’t be bored.
Shelbi's Picks
The Southern Reach trilogy
by Jeff Vandermeer
I don’t know that I’ve ever read a series that does such an impressive job of creating an eerie, Weird, otherworldly atmosphere infused with creeping dread. That’s not to say that these books are scary, though, so don’t let that put you off.
A team of five women enter a territory known as Area X, where the land and creatures has been… changed. Their mission is to discover why, after numerous teams before them have failed to do so. The second book switches up the feeling and setting quite a bit while still managing to convey a sense of serious wrongness. I adore this creepy, weird series!
This is the movie adaptation of the first book in the Southern Reach trilogy. The plot ends up quite a bit different from the book but the atmosphere of Weird eeriness is lovingly recreated in this film! I hugely recommend this to sci-fi fans who don’t mind unanswered mysteries. Already enjoy the movie? Pick up the book series!!!
The Masquerade trilogy
by Seth Dickinson
My poor booktalk skills can’t do this book justice, so I’m going to simply write a list of qualities that may entice you to pick this up:
- Smart and gut-wrenching plotlines
- Complex characters with layered motivations à la Game of Thrones
- Light fantasy elements
- Political machinations
- Badass women characters
- A protagonist that begins a journey toward being an anti-hero
- Explores themes of colonialism and imperialism
- Saturated with thoughts of REVENGE!!!!
- I have not yet read the third and final book but I can’t imagine a universe in which I’ll be unhappy with it. Prepare for emotional obliteration, though, because some truly sad stuff happens. (which is an understatement).
Sandy's Picks
116 easy tricks, amazing brainteasers, and simple stunts to WOW your grandkids.
Outlander
by Diana Gabaldon
Time to start re-reading/reading for the first time! The newest book in the series comes out in the Fall of 2021 🙂
