RMRT Book Recommendations
ALA Annual Chicago 2023
Please let me know of any additions or corrections, and I will update this list. Thaks to all who participated in Chicago. It was nice to see and talk to you in person!
PROMPT: Read a book that takes place in your home state
All-of-a-Kind Family books by Sydney Taylor
Books by Beverly Cleary
Books by John Steinbeck
Books Sara Paretsky
Donut Disturb: A Bakeshop Mystery by Ellie Alexander
Down Cut Shin Creek: The Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky by Kathi Appelt and Jeanne Cannella Schmitzer
Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
Last Dance on the Starlight Pier by Sarah Bird
Light Shines in the Darkness, The: Choosing Hope After a Mass Shooting by Melinda Rainey Thompson (editor)
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Other Wes Moore, The: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
Personal Librarian, The by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
Radium Girl, The: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
Street, The by Ann Petry
Woman They Could Not Silence, The: The Shocking Story of a Woman Who Dared to Fight Back by Kate Moore
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Ann Marie Pipkin
apipkin1@bellsouth.net
RMRT Board Member
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