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Book Recommendations

Check out a variety of recommendation lists below!

What We’re Reading Lately

Corinne’s Audiobook Picks! September 2024

Beach Reads

‘Summer’ Reads

Corinne’s Audiobook Picks! Summer 2024

Read with Pride

Father’s Day

Everyone can celebrate Pride with these fantastic Queer YA stories!

Celebrate Pride with some swoon-worthy Queer Romance!

The Beaverdale Review – May 2024

April showers brought May flowers, and May brought new books! Keep reading for picks from Asian American and Island Pacific…

AAPI Cookbooks

AAPI Picture Books

AAPI Middle Grade

AAPI Young Adult

AAPI Adut Titles

Corinne’s Audiobook Picks! Spring 2024

Beaverdale Books’ Greatest Hits of 2023

The Year of the Celebrity Memoir

Holiday Gift Guide: Humor

Holiday Gift Guide: General Nonfiction

Holiday Gift Guide: Historical Fiction

Holiday Gift Guide: Mysteries and Thrillers

Holiday Gift Guide: Picture Books

Holiday Gift Guide: Middle Grade

Holiday Gift Guide: Young Adult

Holiday Gift Guide: Books on Books

Holiday Gift Guide: Fiction

Holiday Gift Guide: Sports

Holiday Gift Guide: Biography

Holiday Gift Guide: History

Holiday Gift Guide: Graphic Novels

Holiday Gift Guide: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror

Corinne’s Audiobook Picks!

Indigenous American Voices and Stories

American Heirlooms: Early American History and Biographies

I Put a Spell On You: Paranormal Romance

The Great Old Ones: Horror Classics

Bestselling Royals Series, In New Papeback Edition

Erin Watt is the brainchild of two bestselling authors linked together through their love of great books and an addiction…

It’s HERE! 2023 Midwest Booksellers’ Holiday Catalog!

Have you received a copy of our Indie Book catalog? It’s overflowing with great stuff yet again! Looking for some…

Did You Hear the One About: Classics of True Crime and Dark History

This Dark Century: New Horror 2023

Enjoy the Freedom to Read!

  On Saturday, October 7, Beaverdale Books will host its first Banned Books Festival celebrating the Freedom to Read! The…

Even More of the Most-Banned Books in America

Challenged, Restricted, and Banned: A Reading List of Iowa’s Favorite Corruptive Literature

Hitting the Shelves

Books To Cool You Off

Steamy Summer Romances

Books of Summer

The New State of the Art: New Releases

The New State of the Art: Young Adult and Middle Grade

Sample Some Science & Soon-To-Be Bestsellers

Escape the summer heat while experimenting with some new reads! We’ve selected several classics of science writing, as well as…

Summer Science Sampler

Hitting the Shelves

Juneteenth and LGBTQ+ Reading Suggestions

In celebration of Juneteenth and PRIDE month, check out these suggestions, plus Hunter’s Pick of the Month! READ THE NEWSLETTER….

Queer Voices

Juneteenth Reading List

Pride Month Children’s Books

Summer Road Trip Classics and Favorites

Cabin Reads

Pride Month Young Adult and Middle Grade

Audiobook Spotlights

Pride Month Nonfiction

Pride Month Fiction

Beach Reads

Asian American Pacific Islander Voices

Jewish American Heritage Month Book Recommendations

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Book Recommendations

To Be Read in April

Our bookstore crawl last year was so much fun, we are doing it again and this year there are seven…

Hunter’s Picks Best of 2022

St. Patrick’s Day Recomendations

Milkman By Anna Burns Paperback Fiction Graywolf Press In an unnamed city, middle sister stands out for the wrong reasons….

Freedom Is a Feast
Scrap
Small Rain
Bluff: Poems
The Flitting: A Memoir of Fathers, Sons, and Butterflies
Season of the Swamp
The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family
The Guncle
On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
The Paris Novel
The God of the Woods
Table for Two
Better Living Through Birding
Come and Get It
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
The Mercy of Gods
Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil
The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands
Bury Your Gays
Smothermoss
The Night Guest
A Haunted Girl
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Splinters
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Wandering Stars
The Spellshop
Martyr!
This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
A Sorceress Comes to Call
Love Is My Favorite Flavor: A Midwestern Dining Critic Tells All
A Grotesque Animal: A Memoir
Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
Fire Exit
Masquerade
The Daughters' War
Rakesfall
The Tainted Cup
I Cheerfully Refuse
When Among Crows
The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
Just Like Millie
Diavola
The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
The Suicide Museum
The Safekeep
The Trail of Lost Hearts
Same As It Ever Was
Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Elon Musk
This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves
The Cello Still Sings: A Generational Story of the Holocaust and of the Transformative Power of Music
An Education in Malice
The Book of Love
The Parliament
Martyr!
Mister Magic
Black River Orchard
Good Night, Irene
Hello Beautiful
The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
Ink Blood Sister Scribe
Red Rabbit
The Mimicking of Known Successes
Bookshops & Bonedust
Starling House
Rocky Mountain High
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
Lady Tan’s Circle of Woman
The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology
Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos
Say Anarcha: A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women's Health
The Einstein Effect
The Latecomer: A Novel
Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South
Lone Women
Ripe
Medusa's Sisters
The Deep Sky
The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
Translation State
To Each His Own
Better Living Through Birding
Camp Damascus
Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir
Witch King
The Burgess Boys
Oh William!
Anything Is Possible
Our Hideous Progeny
Tom Lake
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Yellowface
Shy
My Name is Lucy Barton
The House in the Cerulean Sea
Bea Wolf
The Thick and the Lean
Atalanta
Babel: An Arcane History
The War Begins in Paris
Sword Catcher
Sea of Tranquility
Lily and the Octopus
The Long Way Back
Lucy by the Sea
The Facemaker
The House of Lincoln
These Precious Days
The Lost English Girl
When Women Were Dragons
Once Upon a Tome
This Other Eden
The Door-to-Door Bookstore
The Poisonwood Bible
I Have Some Questions for You
Dinners with Ruth
You Could Make This Place Beautiful
Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
The Candy House
Thirst for Salt
Fairy Tale
Stories from the Tenants Downstairs
Hunting Game
Jews in the Garden
The Second Long March
Blue Skies
Cold People
Alchemy of a Blackbird
The Invisible Hour
The Lost English Girl
Even If Everything Ends
Acne
Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York’s Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist
I Swear: Politics is Messier Than My Minivan
The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom
I Swear: Politics Is Messier Than My Minivan
Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships
Now Is Not the Time to Panic
The Thing in the Snow
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
Stateless
The Crane Husband
Tell Me I'm Worthless
Pandora
The Terraformers
The Light Pirate
A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars
A World of Curiosities: A Novel
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
All Systems Red
Ocean's Echo
Our Crooked Hearts
Restore Me
The Davenports
The Librarian of Burned Books
Lessons in Chemistry
The Age of AI and Our Human Future
Trackers
Horse
Remarkably Bright Creatures
French Braid
The Beckoning World: A Novel
The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
Once We Were Home
Demon Copperhead
Ohio
The Thing in the Snow
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Dr. No
Lark Ascending
Rough Draft: A Memoir
When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
Groundskeeping
Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
The Attic Child
What Happened to Paula: On the Death of an American Girl
The Call of the Wrens
Snapper
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Deluge
Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives In World War II
The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham
Poster Girl
Toad
Ithaca
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
The Scorpio Races
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Six of Crows
The Nineties
The Thief
The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven
Horse
Wayward
Lawn Boy
Razzmatazz
A Life in Light: Meditations on Impermanence
Shadows of Berlin
Till the Wheels Fall Off
Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay
If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
Lapvona
Vindicated
Hell of a Book
Her Dying Day
Birds in the Morning, Frogs at Night
The Winning Ticket
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
Ordinary Monsters
Apples Never Fall
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Breath
The Unwritten Book: An Investigation
Time is a Mother
Moon Witch, Spider King
The Big Book of Victorian Mysteries
The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
Smile: A Memoir
Lost & Found: A Memoir
Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins: Caleb Widogast
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
Akata Woman
Impact: How Rocks from Space Led to Life, Culture, and Donkey Kong
The Plot
The Divorce Colony:  How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier
The Family Chao
How To Be Perfect
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Winter's Orbit
The Cat Who Saved Books
Call Us What We Carry
White on White
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
State of Terror
The White Man Who Stayed
No Land To Light On
Late City
The Orphans of Davenport
Peril
Heard It in a Love Song
The Stranger in the Lifeboat
Wyman and the Florida Knights
The Alzheimer's Prevention Program: Keep Your Brain Healthy for the Rest of Your Life
Bearmouth
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
The Book of Magic
The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven
The Orphans of Davenport: Eugenics, the Great Depression, and the War over Children's Intelligence
The Lincoln Highway
Braiding Sweetgrass
The Trees
The Soul of the Family Tree: Ancestors, Stories, and the Spirits We Inherit
The Music of Bees
In Five Years
The Reading List