Your Shelf or Mine

Becky, Jo, and Holly talk about books of the 1960s including:

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger, From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg, The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, The Young Unicorns by Madeline L'Engle, Miami and the Siege of Chicago by Norman Mailer and much more!

Holly recommends:

The Acid Queen by Susannah Cahalan, The Life You Save May Be Your Own by Paul Elie, The Fire Is Upon Us by Nicholas Buccola, The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

Becky and Jakob talk about:

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

Eloise by Kay Thompson

and more!

Becky and Austin talk about books of the 1940s, including: 

Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstro m 

The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown by Mac Barnett 

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown 

The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown 

In the Great Green Room by Amy Gary 

“Looking At Picture Books” substack by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen: https://lookingatpicturebooks.substack.com/ 

Especially: https://lookingatpicturebooks.substack.com/p/goodnight-moon 

The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton 

The Little Fur Family by Margaret Wise Brown 

The Little Island by Golden MacDonald (Margaret Wise Brown) and Leonard Weisgard 

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 

Lit Hub list: https://lithub.com/a-century-of-reading-the-10-books-that-defined-the-1940s/ 

Hiroshima by John Hersey 

https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/a-rare-discovery-on-the-seventy-fifth-anniversary-of-john-herseys-hiroshima 

Fallout by Lesley M.M. Blume 

Gwendolyn Brooks 

Becky and Jey talk about books of the 1930s including: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, Angus and the Ducks by Marjorie Flack, The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf, The Story of Babar by Jean de Brunhoff, and Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink. 

Check out American Indians in Children's Literature here: https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/ 

Find our reading challenge here: https://longviewlibrary.beanstack.com/ 

We are counting down to the Longview Library's 100th anniversary in April 2026 by reading and discussing books from one decade each month. You can read along with us and track your participation on our Beanstack page: longviewlibrary.org. 

This month, Becky, Jo, and Austin talk about books from the 1920s:

Millions of Cats by Wanga Gag (Wanga Gag: The Girl Who Lived to Draw by Deborah Kogan Ray and Before They Were Artists: Famous Illustrators as Kids by Elizabeth Haidle)

The Brownies' Book

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery

and more!

Becky, Austin, and Holly talk about the work of National Book Award winner Percival Everett, including Erasure (and the movie adaptation "American Fiction"), God's Country, Watershed, So Much Blue, Telephone, The Trees, James, and more!

Becky, Jennifer, Jo, and Jakob talk about library book club selections from September through November 2024!

Including:

Becky and Jakob talk about Christmas books, including:

Santa's Gotta Go by Derrick Barnes

A City Full of Santas by Joanna Ho

Love, Santa by Martha Brockenbrough

One Foggy Christmas Eve by Kerilynn Wilson

Santa's First Christmas by Mac Barnett

How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney by Mac Barnett

The Nutcracker and the Mouse King by Natalie Andrewson

Dash and Lily's Book of Dares by David Levithan and Rachel Cohn

A Merry Little Meet Cute by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone

A Holly Jolly Ever After by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone

You're a Mean One, Matthew Prince by Timothy Janovsky

Flopping in a Winter Wonderland by Jason June

Make My Wish Come True by Rachel Lippincott and Alyson Derrick

How to Excavate a Heart by Jake Maia Arlow

and more!

Becky, Jenny, Jakob, and Heather talk about the work of Stephen Graham Jones including:

The Only Good Indians 

My Heart is a Chainsaw 

I Was a Teenager Slasher

Mongrels

and more!

Becky, Jakob, Heather M, and Jennifer talk about Misery by Stephen King, the 1990 movie starring Kathy Bates, and season two of Castle Rock. Plus more! Spoilers abound, plus some discussion of graphic violence in the book, movie, and show.