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Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay Read Alikes: Mexikid by Pedro Martin Eighteen Roses by Shannon C.F. Rogers Rez Ball by Byron Graves

Author/Illustrator: Scott Stuart

Olive Oakes and the Haunted Carousel by Kalynn Bayron Read Alikes: The Peculiar Incident on Shady Street by Lindsay Currie Everybunny Loves Magic by Aaron Reynolds The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing by Sheila Turnage

The Black Girl Survives in This One edited by Desiree S. Evans and Saraciea J. Fennell Read Alikes: Man Made Monsters edited by Andrea L. Rogers Black Enough : Stories of Being Young & Black in America edited by Ibi Zoboi The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson

Wilderness Hacks by Joslin Brorsen Read Alikes: Just Keep Walking by Erin Soderberg Downing Hatchet by Gary Paulsen Red Fox Road by Frances Greenslade

I'll Find You Where the Timeline Ends by Kylie Lee Baker Read Alikes: The Lost Souls of Benzaiten by Kelly Murashige Seraphina by Rachel Hartman Until the Clock Strikes Midnight by Alechia Dow

Queso, Just in time by Ernesto Cisneros Read Alikes: The Shape of Thunder by Jasmine Warga The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez by Adrianna Cuevas Barely Floating by Lilliam Rivera

Under the Same Stars by Libba Bray Read Alikes: The Boy who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti Hazelthron by C.G. Drews A Night Divided by Jennifer A. Nielsen

X Marks the Haunt by Lindsay Currie Read Alikes: Wait till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn Small Spaces by Katherine Arden Scritch Scratch by Lindsay Currie

Twenty-Four Seconds from Now by Jason Reynolds Read Alikes: Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli Shut up, This is Serious by Carolina Ixta Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay

Vanya and the Wild Hunt by Sangu Mandanna Read Alikes: Dreamslinger by Graci Kim The Marvellers by Dhonielle Clayton Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi

The House Saphir by Marissa Meyer Read Alikes: The Floating World by Axie Oh Little Thieves by Margaret Owen A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer

The Mystery of the Lost Locket by Scout Louie Read Alikes: The case of the time-capsule bandit by Octavia Spencer Absolutely Truly by Heather Vogel Frederick School of the Dead by Avi

The Great Disillusionment of Nick and Jay by Ryan Douglass Read Alikes: Self-Made Boys by Anna-Marie McLemore The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas So Many Beginnings : A Little Women Remix by Bethany C. Morrow

Xolo: How One Good Dog Saved Humankind by Donna Barba Higuera Read Alikes: The Lords of Night by J.C. Cervantes The Labors of Hercules Beal by Gary D. Schmidt Winston Chu vs. the Wingmeisters by Stacey Lee

Guest: Shuva Rahim LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shuva-rahim Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/flowwithshuva/

The Last Bloodcarver by Vanessa Le Read Alikes: Zhara by S. Jae-Jones A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I. Lin A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid

Reach by Celesta Rimington Read Alikes: A Song Called Home by Sara Zarr Those Kids From Fawn Creek by Erin Entrada Kelly Wishing Upon the Same Stars by Jacquetta Nammar Feldman

After Life by Gayle Forman Read Alikes: Under the Same Stars by Libba Bray I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan

The Winter of the Dollhouse by Laura Amy Schlitz Read Alikes: The Doll People Book by Ann Martin and Laura Godwin The Tale of Despereaux Book by Kate DiCamillo The Doll's Eye by Marina Cohen

Persephone’s Curse by Katrina Leno Read Alikes: The Everneath by Brodi Ashton House Saphir by Marissa Meyer Abandon by Meg Cabot

Memory Spinner by C. M. Cornwell Read Alikes: The Ghost Collector by Allison Mills Keeper of the Lost Cities by Shannon Messenger The Edge of In Between by Lorelei Savaryn

You’ve Goth My Heart by L.C. Rosen. Read Alikes: Spell Bound by F.T. Lukens The Ghost and the Goth by Stacey Kade Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

Safe Harbor by Padma Venkatraman Read Alikes: The Secret Language of Birds by Lynne Kelly Red, White, and Whole by Rajani LaRocca Something Like Home by Andrea Beatriz Arango

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Girls of Dark Divine by E. V. Woods Read Alikes: The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma Mystery Royale by Kaitlyn Cavalancia Wicked Darlings by Jordyn Taylor

Graciela In the Abyss by Meg Medina Read Alikes: A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall by Jasmine Warga The Trouble with Heroes by Kate Messner Bad Badger by Maryrose Wood

Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf Read Alikes: The Underwood Tapes by Amanda DeWitt Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed

The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze by Derrick Barnes Read Alikes: Boy 2.0 by Tracey Baptiste How the Word Is Passed by Sonja Cherry-Paul Maeve Mulvaney Has Had Enough by Kelly Mangan

Guest: Natalie Benway Website: https://www.welllivedlife.org/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/well.livedlife/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Well-Lived-Life/100087409642027/

Aetherbound by E.K. Johnston Read Alikes: Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao Alone Out Here by Riley Redgate Pathfinder by Orson Scott Card

Will’s Race for Home by Jewell Parker Rhodes Read Alikes: One crazy summer by Rita Williams-Garcia Safe Harbor by Padma Venkatraman The Watsons go to Birmingham by Christopher Curtis

Dragonfruit by Makiia Lucier Read Alikes: A Forgery of Fate by Elizabeth Lim What the River Knows by Isabel Ibanez All the Stars and Teeth by Adalyn Grace

The Midwatch Institute for Wayward Girls by Judith Rossell Read Alikes: The Secret Library by Kekla Magoon The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels by Beth Lincoln The Mysterious Benedict Society Book by Trenton Stewart

My Fairy God Somebody by Charlene Allen Read Alikes: Bright Red Fruit by Safia Elhillo Me (Moth) by Amber McBride Finding Jupiter by Kelis Rowe

Guest: John Kenyon Website: www.iowacityofliterature.org One Book Two Book (February 21-22, 2026): https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/onebooktwobook/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IowaCityofLit/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iowacityoflit/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/iowacityoflit.bsky.social

Family Week by Sarah Moon Read Alikes: Black Boy Joy by Kwame Mbaila Small Town Pride by Phil Stamper The House That Whispers by Lin Thompson

The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson Read Alikes: Kill Creatures by Rory Power Nothing More To Tell by Karen M. McManus Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Abike-Iyimide

Serwa Boateng's Guide to Vampire Hunting by Roseanne A. Brown Read Alikes: Pahua and the Soul Stealer by Lori M. Lee Isaiah Dunn Saves the Day by Kelly J. Baptist Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston

Bittersweet in the Hollow by Kate Pearsall Read Alikes: Delicious Monsters by Liselle Sambury The Lake House by Sarah Beth Durst All That's Left to Say by Emery Lord

Guest: Shamichael Hallman Website: https://northlibertylibrary.org/digital-history/ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/shamichael Substack: https://shamichael.substack.com/

Weird Sad and Silent by Alison McGhee Read Alikes: Maeve Mulvaney Has Had Enough by Kelly Mangan Efren Divided by Ernesto Cisneros Barely Floating by Lilliam Rivera

Bad Creek by Peyton June Read Alikes: Prelude for Lost Souls by Helene Dunbar She is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran The Haunted by Danielle Vega

Aarzu All Around by Marzieh Abbas Read Alikes: Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani

Artifice by Sharon Cameron Read Alikes: This Book Won’t Burn by Samira Ahmed Rez Ball by Byron Graves They Went Left by Monica Hesse

Dreamslinger by Graci Kim Read Alikes: Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B Alston Pilar Ramirez and the Escape from Zafa by Julian Randall The Dragon's Apprentice by James Riley

Invisible Son by Kim Johnson Read Alikes: Chaos Theory by Nic Stone We are All So Good at Smiling by Amber McBride Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas

Just Keep Walking by Erin Soderberg Downing Read Alikes: The Secret Language of Birds by Lynne Kelly The Labors of Hercules Beal by Gary D. Schmidt Tumble by Celia C. Perez

What the River Knows by Isabel Ibanez Read Alikes: Heartless Hunter by Kristen Ciccarelli A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

A Place at the Table by Saadia Faruqi Read Alikes: Finding Junie Kim by Ellen Oh Amina’s Voice by Hena Khan The Magical Imperfect by Chris Baron