Plano Reads: Book Selfies, Episode 14
Your Plano Library Staff are virtually recommending their favorite reads.
Below is the list of titles, with additional read-alikes you can check out on Overdrive and the Libby App.
See all Book Selfies posts here.
Sparkers by Eleanor Glewwe
Recommended by: Amanda at Haggard Library, available as a Book and Audiobook
Genre: Junior fantasy fiction
Description from Novelist: “Marah, an underclass ‘sparker’ in a society ruled by magicians, works with her friend Azariah to find a cure for a mysterious disease that turns its victims’ eyes black.”
Read-Alikes:
- The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
- Whichwood by Tahereh Mafi
- Twinchantment by Elise Allen
Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron
Recommended by: Ellen at Schmelpfenig Library, available as a Book and eBook
Genre: Teen fantasy fiction
Description from Novelist: “It’s 200 years since Cinderella found her prince, but the fairytale is over. Sophia knows the story though, off by heart. Because every girl has to recite it daily, from when she’s tiny until the night she’s sent to the royal ball for choosing. And every girl knows that she has only one chance. For the lives of those not chosen by a man at the ball are forfeit. But Sophia doesn’t want to be chosen — she’s in love with her best friend, Erin, and hates the idea of being traded like cattle. And when Sophia’s night at the ball goes horribly wrong, she must run for her life. Alone and terrified, she finds herself hiding in Cinderella’s tomb. And there she meets someone who will show her that she has the power to remake her world.”
Read-Alikes:
- The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
- Ruinsong by Julia Ember
- The Wrath and the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Recommended by: Amy at Haggard Library, available as a Book and eBook
Genre: Fantasy fiction
Description from Novelist: “Surviving a horrific multiple homicide, a girl from the wrong side of the tracks is unexpectedly offered a full scholarship to Yale, where her mysterious benefactors task her with monitoring the university’s secret societies.”
Read-Alikes:
- Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella
- A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
- Vicious by V. E. Schwab
Big Wonderful Thing by Stephen Harrigan
Recommended by: Cathe at Schimelpfenig Library, available as a Book and eBook
Genre: Nonfiction – History
Description by Publisher: “The story of Texas is the story of struggle and triumph in a land of extremes. It is a story of drought and flood, invasion and war, boom and bust, and the myriad peoples who, over centuries of conflict, gave rise to a place that has helped shape the identity of the United States and the destiny of the world.”
Read-Alikes:
- Passionate nation by James L. Haley
- Lone star rising by William C. Davis
- Gone to Texas by Randolph B. Campbell
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
Recommended by: Tenille at Haggard Library, available as a Book and eBook
Genre: Horror
Description from Novelist: “A supernatural thriller set in South Carolina in the ’90s about a women’s book club that must protect its suburban community from a mysterious stranger who turns out to be a real monster.”
Read-Alikes:
- Bird Box by Josh Malerman
- Never Have I Ever by Joshilyn Jackson
- Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
