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Southside Reads: Recommended Reads

Award Winners (March 2023)

Welcome to Southside Reads! We’re challenging you to read a variety of books in 2023 by assigning a different category to every month, but don’t worry! The categories are broad enough to put your own spin on them.

For March, we want you to read an award winner. No restrictions other than that. Go out and find a book, but if you want some suggestions to get you thinking, check out the list below (with information about local library availability*):

Our Missing Hearts book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Harlem Shuffle book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secretes of the Universe book cover with link to Goodreads description page
The Sentence book cover with link to Goodreads description page
The Vanishing Half book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Deacon King Kong book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Such a Fun Age book cover with link to Goodreads description page
The Water Dancer book cover with link to Goodreads description page
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Black Leopard, Red Wolf book cover with link to Goodreads description page
On the Come Up book cover with link to Goodreads description page
My Sister, the Serial Killer book cover with link to Goodreads description page
There There book cover with link to Goodreads description page
The Poet X book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Children of Blood and Bone book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Black Cake book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Transcendent Kingdom book cover with link to Goodreads description page
An American Marriage book cover with link to Goodreads description page
In the Midst of Winter book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel book cover with link to Goodreads description page

Key for Local Library Availability

Locations:

  • CVRL - Central Virginia Regional Library
  • LU - Longwood University: Greenwood Library
  • HSC - Hampden-Sydney College: Bortz Library

Services:

*LU Overdrive is available for current students, faculty and staff only.