BOOKED SOLID: A New Canaan Library Podcast for Adventurous Readers Across All Genres

This month, Kathleen and James look at a troubling vision of the near future in Laila Lalami's riveting book, The Dream Hotel. Join our hosts for a discussion on technology, surveillance, and the challenges of writing speculative fiction. Please take our survey to help us make Booked Solid even better! Let us
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Kathleen and James step into a reimagining of the 1930s Dust Bowl in Karen Russell's genre-bending novel The Antidote. The hosts discuss the book's magical realism, its incredible use of language, and its argument for how history can be more deeply connected than one might expect. Please take our survey to help us make Booked Solid even better! Let us
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This month, Kathleen and James find far more than they expected in Daniel Mason's brilliant novel, North Woods. Join our hosts as they celebrate the Library's Lit Lunch pick with a discussion on the ways that the past influences the present and the joy of discovering unexpected connections. Please take our survey to help us make Booked Solid even better! Let us
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For the first episode of season 7, Kathleen and James visit the windswept island of Shearwater in Charlotte McConaghy's thrilling book, Wild Dark Shore. They discuss the book’s breathtaking setting, how the story explores the themes of climate change and despair, and why hope and community are so important in the face of disaster. Please take our survey to help us make Booked Solid even better! Let us
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Featured Titles:
Woodworking by Emily St. James
Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
Hungerstone by Kat Dunn
Sister Deborah by Scholastique Mukasonga
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
Spent by Alison Bechdel
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane
When the World Tips Over by Jandy Nelson
Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
Magnolia Wu Unfolds it All by Chanel Miller
The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young
Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
 

Please take our survey to help us make Booked Solid even better! Let us know what you enjoy and what improvements we can make for the future.

To place a hold on any of the titles mentioned in this episode, check out our Booked Solid reading list on the New Canaan Library website.