Beyond the Shelves: Horror For Scaredy Cats

Beyond the Shelves: A Podcast from the Des Moines Public Library

Sarah and Jes discuss books that will put you in the mood for spooky season but aren't that scary.

Show Notes:

What They're Reading

• Wild Reverence by Rebecca Ross
• Swift and Saddled by Layla Sage
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
• A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum

Best Bets: other highly recommended books

• Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
• Moon Called by Patricia Briggs and Fiona Staples
• My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
• Saga by Brian K. Vaughan

Books to get you into spooky season:

• Revelator by Daryl Gregory
• White Smoke by Tiffany Jackson
• The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
• Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly
• Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang
• Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina
• Hungerstone by Kat Dunn
• The September House by Carissa Orlando

Book Bulletin

• A new update to the Libby hold system
• Jes and Sarah talk about the battle between AI creation and published children's books
• The last of the Fall Author Series