Plano Reads: Selfie Book Talk, Episode #20
Your Plano Public Library staff are virtually recommending their favorite reads.
Continuing reading for a list of these titles, with additional read-alikes you can check out.
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House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig
Available as: Print | eBook | eAudiobook
Recommended by: Amy B. at Haggard Library
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Description: A gothic retelling of the fairytale The Twelve Dancing Princesses, featuring a chilling mystery set by the sea.
House of Salt and Sorrows Read-alikes:
Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones, available as: Print | eBook
The Waking Forest by Alyssa Wees, available as: Print
Strange Grace by Tessa Gratton, available as: Print | Playaway
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Available as: Print | eBook | eAudiobook
Recommended by: Stephanie T. at Davis Library
Genre: Fiction
Description: A deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants in Alabama ravaged by depression and addiction and grief—a novel about faith, science, religion, love.
Transcendent Kingdom Read-alikes
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue, available as: Print | eBook | eAudiobook | CD Book
The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacob, available as: Print | eBook
Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett, available as: Print | eBook
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
Available as: Print | Large Print |eBook | eAudiobook
Recommended by: Abby M. at Davis Library
Genre: Fiction
Description: The story of a group of people affected by a shooting in a Brooklyn housing project in 1969. As the story deepens, it becomes clear that the lives of the characters—caught in the tumultuous swirl of 1960s New York—overlap in unexpected ways.
Deacon King Kong Read-alikes:
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead, available as: Print | eBook | eAudiobook
Stateway’s Garden by Jasmon Drain, available as: Print
Black Bottom Saints by Alice Randall, available as: Print | eBook
Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage
Available as: Print | eBook | eAudiobook
Recommended by: Amanda M. at Haggard Library
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Description: This 7-part series features the funny and fantastic adventures of a wizard apprentice and his quest to become an ExtraOrdinary Wizard.
Septimus Heap Read-alikes
Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, available as: Print | Large Print | eBook | eAudiobook | CD Book | Playaway
Five Kingdoms series by Brandon Mull, available as: Print | eBook | eAudiobook | CD Book
Potion Masters series by Frank Cole, available as: Print | eAudiobook
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Available as: eBook
Recommended by: Bob L. at Haggard Library
Genre: Science Fiction
Description: On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of their lives. Each carries a desperate hope—and a terrible secret. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands.
Hyperion Read-alikes:
Transcendental by James Gunn, available as: Print | eBook
Dune by Frank Herbert, available as: Print | eBook | eAudiobook
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