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Southside Reads: Recommended Reads

Author's Debut (September 2024)

Welcome to Southside Reads! We’re challenging you to read a variety of books in 2024 by assigning a different category to every month, but don’t worry! The categories are broad enough to put your own spin on them.

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*):

Such a Fun Age book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Black Cake book cover with link to Goodreads description page
A Burning book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Of Women and Salt book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Pageboy book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Queenie book cover with link to Goodreads description page
More Happy Than Not book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Banyan Moon book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Beasts of a Little Land book cover with link to Goodreads description page
His Only Wife book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Firekeeper's Daughter book cover with link to Goodreads description page
The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer book cover with link to Goodreads description page
What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez book cover with link to Goodreads description page
A Proposal They Can't Refuse book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Darius the Great Is Not Okay book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Purple Hibiscus book cover with link to Goodreads description page
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms book cover with link to Goodreads description page
The Kiss Quotient book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Boy Meets Boy 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/Libby is available for current students, faculty and staff only.