On this episode of Second Look, our Growing Place Library staff member, Merrill Skipworth, along with 2PC members, Jennifer Wilson and Lacey Moody, sit down for the sixth annual book talk! The list below features books recommended and mentioned in this episode.

Middle Grade:
Clara Poole and the Long Way Round by Taylor Tyng
21 Balloons by William Pene de Bois
Wish Tree by Katherine Applegate
Key Player by Kelly Yang (Series) 
Hummingbird by Natalie Lloyd
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt 

Young Adult Fiction:
American Royals by Katharine McGee (Series)
The Royal We by Heather Cocks
Pride by Ibi Zoboi
The Do Over by Lynn Painter
Unequal Affections by Lara S. Ormiston 

Rom-Com:
Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
Meet Me in the Margins by Melissa Ferguson
Moorewood Family Rules by HelenKay Dimon
The Good Part by Sophie Cousens 

Memoir:
Finding Me by Viola Davis
How to Stay Married by Harrison Scott Key
All My Knotted-Up Life by Beth Moore
Taste by Stanley Tucci
You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey by Amber Ruffin 

Non-fiction:
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
Good Apple by Elizabeth Passarella 

Historical Fiction: 
The Women by Kristen Hannah
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Philippa Williams
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver 

Science Fiction:
The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis

General Fiction: 
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
Cassandra in Reverse by Holly Smale
How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame by Olivia Ford
Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
Summer Stage by Meg Mitchell Moore
Charm City Rocks by Matthew Norman
Talking at Night by Claire Daverley
The Last Love Note by Emma Grey

Thriller/Mystery:
Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
The Fury by Alex Michaelides
The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
Going Zero by Anthony McCarten 

Spiritual Growth:
Mostly What God Does by Savannah Guthrie
Real by Catherine Parks
Made to Belong by David Kim
Made for People by Justin Whittle Earley

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