Drinks in the Library

Here for It by R. Eric Thomas with Izzie Call

An episode so good I’m re-airing it! If you have listened to the podcast for awhile, you have probably heard me reference the book Here For it: Or, How To Save Your Soul

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones with Becky Spratford

The Only Good Indians is a 2020 horror novel by Stephen Graham Jones about four Blackfeet men haunted by a disturbing, deadly event that took place in their youth. Years

The Veronica Speedwell Series by Deanna Raybourn with Carmela Dutra 

Deanna Raybourn’s Veronica Speedwell series follows a fiercely independent Victorian lepidopterist who finds herself entangled in murder, mystery, and adventure in 19th-c

Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams with Lauren Comito

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism is a 2025 memoir by Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former Director of Global Public Policy at Facebook. This

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow with Phil Hilliker

Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is a sci-fi novel set in a post-scarcity future where death is curable and social status is run by a reputation metric c

Old Man's War by John Scalzi with Donna Barba Higuera

Old Man's War by John Scalzi follows 75-year-old John Perry, who joins the Colonial Defense Forces in exchange for a chance to explore the stars and a new, younger body.

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster with Rebecca N. Thompson, MD

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster is a book in which generations of readers have journeyed with Milo to the Lands Beyond in this beloved classic. Enriched by Jules F

A Life in Men by Gina Frangello with Kathleen Schmidt

What if every relationship you've ever had left behind a version of yourself? In A Life in Men by Gina Frangello, Mary's life is forever shaped by her complicated friends

The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill with Meg Medina

In The Ogress and the Orphans, Kelly Barnhill tells the story of the struggling town of Stone-in-the-Glen, where fear and misinformation lead the townspeople to blame a k

Missing You, Metropolis by Gary Jackson with Martheaus Perkins

Missing You, Metropolis by Gary Jackson is a poetry collection that blends superheroes, comic book mythology, pop culture, and personal memory to explore identity, race,

Animal Farm by George Orwell with Katy Hearne-Church

George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a satirical allegorical novel about a group of farm animals who overthrow their human owner in hopes of creating a society based on equalit

Theo of Golden by Allen Levi with MaryCatherine Price

Theo of Golden by Allen Levi is about an 86-year-old Portuguese widower who arrives in a small Southern town in Georgia. He spends his year there buying local pencil port

The Burning Girls by CJ Tudor with Erin Palmer

The Burning Girls by CJ Tudor is a folk horror and mystery novel about Reverend Jack Brooks and her teenage daughter, Flo, who move to a remote English village seeking a

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson with Adriana from Bring Me Books

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historical narrative that chronicles the Great Migration, the decades-long exodus of nearly six m

The Half Life with Rachel Beanland

The Half Life by Rachel Beanland is a novel set on a remote Italian island, about a navy wife’s reckoning with power, love, and the price of staying silent in the Atomic

The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien with Salaam Bhatti

To support Drinks in the Library and listen to ad-free episode and additional bonus content, subscribe on Patreon The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien is a timeless adve

Starter Villain by John Scalzi with Allie Speakmon

Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if o

Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry with Lacey Keigley

To support Drinks in the Library and listen to ad-free episode and additional bonus content, subscribe on Patreon Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry's seventh novel and his

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi with Deanna Allbrittin

Transcendent Kingdom is a 2020 novel by Yaa Gyasi that follows Gifty, a Ghanaian-American neuroscience PhD candidate at Stanford, as she studies addiction and depression

1984 by George Orwell with Sam Helmick, President of the American Library Association 2026

To support Drinks in the Library and listen to ad-free episode and additional bonus content, subscribe on Patreon Set in a totalitarian superstate, George Orwell's 1984