All Episodes

Beyond The Shelves: Librarians in Pop Culture

Beyond The Shelves: Inside the Summer Reading Magic

Tasty Recommendations: Pairing Cookbooks with Novels

Beyond the Shelves: Brontë, the Big Screen, and the Backlash

Beyond The Shelves - Libraries as Third Spaces

Beyond The Shelves: 2026 Reading Challenge Recommendations

Beyond The Shelves: Best Books of 2025

6 Nature Books That Will Change How You See the World

Beyond the Shelves: Horror For Scaredy Cats

Beyond the Shelves: Pocket-Sized Powerhouses

Beyond the Shelves: Book Club - 'The Phoenix Pencil Company'

Beyond the Shelves: Summer Lovin'

Beyond the Shelves: Summer Reading Preview

Beyond the Shelves: A History of Chick Lit

Beyond the Shelves: Book Club #1, 'Harlem Rhapsody', and Other Fun News

Beyond the Shelves: Library Lovers Month

Beyond the Shelves: Books That Bring Us Joy

Beyond the Shelves: Best of 2024

DMPL Podcast: Children's Author and Illustrator Don Tate

Beyond the Shelves: Decolonizing Your Bookshelf

DMPL Podcast: Daniel Kraus

Beyond the Shelves: Picks of the Zodiac

DMPL Podcast: Austin Frerick

Beyond the Shelves: Reimagining the Classics

DMPL Podcast: Shawntelle Madison

Beyond the Shelves: The Library of Things (With Special Guest Kathleen)

Beyond the Shelves: Disability Pride Month Book Picks

DMPL Podcast: Iowa Author Scott Reister

Beyond the Shelves: Pride Month Book Picks for Kids

DMPL Podcast: AViD Author Joyce Carol Oates

Beyond the Shelves - All About Book Chat

DMPL Podcast: Gregg Hurwitz

Beyond the Shelves: Reading Through the Decades

Beyond the Shelves: Stats, Numbers, and Tech with DMPL Systems Administrator Katie

DMPL Podcast: Megan Bannister, Author of 'Secret Iowa'

Beyond the Shelves: All About Romance

Beyond the Shelves - 2024 Reading Goals

Beyond the Shelves - Best of 2023

DMPL Podcast: Andrew Sean Greer

DMPL Podcast: Community Table 2023 with Storyteller Toni Simmons

Beyond the Shelves: Spooky Season

Beyond the Shelves: Back to School

Beyond the Shelves: Vacation Reads

Beyond the Shelves: Book Jockeys

Beyond the Shelves Episode 5: Pride Month Picks

AViD Author Emily St. John Mandel

Beyond the Shelves Episode 4: Keeping Track

AViD Author J. Ryan Stradal

DMPL Podcast: M. Chris Fabricant and 'Junk Science'

Beyond the Shelves Episode 3: Cross-Genre Picks

DMPL Podcast: AViD Author Sarah Penner

Beyond the Shelves E2: AViD and Favorite Book-to-Film Adaptations

Sara Broers, author of '100 Things to Do in Iowa Before You Die'

Beyond the Shelves E1: Reading Resolutions

Sean Adams, Author of 'The Thing in the Snow' and Moderator for Author Spotlight: Stephen Markley

Iowa Children's Author Victor D.O. Santos

Atmospheric Book Picks with Rebecca

Iowa Author Award Honoree Heather Gudenkauf

Banned Books Week with the ACLU of Iowa

2022 All-Iowa Reads Author Rachel Mans McKenny

AViD Author Karin Slaughter

Spark Stories: Dr. Richard L. Deming

'Baking Blue Ribbons' with Kay Fenton Smith

Series Starters with Haley

Chuy Renteria, author of 'We Heard It When We Were Young'

Romance Read Recs from Book Chat

DMPL Podcast: AViD Author Jason Mott

Beth Hoffman, Author of 'Bet the Farm'

AViD Author Amanda Montell

AViD Author Angeline Boulley

DMPL Podcast: AViD Author Brad Meltzer

Reading Challenge Book Suggestions

Amy Lee Lillard, Author of 'Dig Me Out'

How to Use Book Chat

'What Happened to Paula' author Katherine Dykstra

Best of 2021

DMPL Podcast: Books About Grief

Horror Book Picks with Janeé

Dyslexia Awareness Month

Latinx Heritage Month Book Picks

Anthony Paustian

Book a Book Chat Librarian

Terry Swails, Author of 'Derecho 911'

Graphic Novel Book Picks

Lana Wood Johnson

Pride Month Book Picks

Solving the Villisca Axe Murders with Rachel McCarthy James

7 Questions with Elin Hilderbrand

Mental Health Awareness Month Picture Books

Iowa Author Joseph LeValley

DMPL Podcast: Kanopy Read Alikes with Marlú

7 Questions with AViD Author Tayari Jones

Book Picks: March MADNESS

Greer Macallister, author of 'The Arctic Fury'

7 Questions with Robert Kolker

Darcy Maulsby, author of 'Classic Restaurants of Des Moines and Their Recipes'

DMPL Podcast: Reading Challenge Book Picks

DMPL Podcast: AViD Author Adam Higginbotham

Book Chat's Favorite Books of 2020

DMPL AViD Podcast: 7 Questions with Kate Quinn

DMPL Podcast: Scott Chantler, Author of 'Bix'

Book Picks: All the Feels