What We're Reading
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
Kitten by Stacey Yu
Meet me in the Garden by Nina LaCour
The New People by Andrea Uptmor
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Names Have Been Changed by Yu-Mei Balasingamchow
Haunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton
Upward Bound by Woody Brown
Fall Releases
Mazywood by Tananarive Due
Incarnate by Alma Katsu
Venus, Vanishing by Rebecca Birrell
It Looks Like You in the Dark by Mathilda Zeller
Reality TV Book Recs
Romance
One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London
The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun
Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake by Alexis Hall
Horror/Speculative/Dystopian
Small Game by Blair Braverman
Hide by Kiersten White
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
General Fiction
The Compound by Aisling Rawle
The Book of Luke by Lovell Holder
The Homewreckers by Mary Kay Andrews
Mystery/Thriller
One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware
The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell
Murder on Sex Island by Jo Firestone
Books from Reality Stars
Open Book by Jessica Simpson
Bad Mormon by Heather Gay
You Better Believe I'm Gonna Talk About It by Lisa Rinna
Nonfiction
Cue the Sun: The Invention of Reality Television by Emily Nussbaum
Enter the Villa: The (Unauthorized) Reality Behind Love Island by Anna Peele
True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us by Danielle Lindemann
Not All Diamonds and Rose: The Inside Story of the Real Housewives by Dave Quinn
Book Bulletin
Ebooks are coming to Libro.fm
17 Aug 2026
Special Episode: AViD with Shannon Chakraborty
Our regularly scheduled episode of Beyond the Shelves is a little bit delayed, but we have a special episode for you while you wait! On May 14, The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi and The Tapestry of Fate author Shannon Chakraborty took part in our annual Authors Visiting in Des Moines series. This is a recording of that appearance. The program was moderated by author and library employee Linden Thompson.
15 Jul 2026
Beyond The Shelves: Sublimation by Isabel J. Kim Book Club
In this episode of Beyond The Shelves Jes and Sarah host a book club for Sublimation by Isabel J. Kim and discuss some book news ranging from a controversial trademark to AI narrations and a rage bait article coming out of the UK.
What we're reading
Darling Daffodils Farm Brittanée Nicole
Crash Test Amy James
No Friend to this House Natalie Haynes
Take a Chance, Sasha Sinclair Ashley Herring Blake
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter Stephen Graham Jones
Girl's Girl Sonia Feldman
To Be Read (TBR)
The Unicorn Hunters Katherine Arden
Meals You Can't Mess Up Shay Spence
The Disappointment Scott Broker
Under Story Chloe Benjamin
Book Club: Sublimation by Isabel J. Kim
What is Sublimation (https://catalog.dmpl.org/GroupedWork/7f5cf033-3bdd-06d8-9b1b-dfd363f8f70d-eng/Home?searchId=17371868&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local&referred=resultIndex) about? When you immigrate, you leave a copy of yourself behind, an instance. One person enters their new country; the other stays trapped at home. Some instances keep in touch, call each other daily, keep their lives and minds in sync in the hopes of reintegrating and resuming a life as one person. Others, like Soyoung Rose Kang, leave home at ten years old and never speak to their other selves again. Rose, in America, never imagined going back to Korea until her grandfather died and her Korean instance called her home for the funeral. She doesn't know that Soyoung plans to steal her body and her life. How far would you go to live the choice you didn't make?
Book Bulletin
Anthony Head, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Ted Lasso Actor, Dies
'Hot Girls Read' Trademark Sparks Intense BookTok Controversy
Romantasy in the UK – Bad Girl books
Two websites restrict reviews of JD Vance's book after savage critiques
Michael Caine's AI-Generated Voice to Narrate 'The Odyssey' Audiobook Ahead of Christopher Nolan's Movie
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