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Sun Valley Writers’ Conference – 2023

2023 Reading List at The Community Library


Fiction 

  • Dave Barry: Swamp Story | NEW FICTION Foyer – FICTION Barry, Axis 360 eBook and eAudiobook     
  • Hernan Diaz: Trust | FICTION Diaz, Lg Print Fic Diaz, Axis 360 eBook and eAudiobook
  • Jonathan Escoffery: If I Survive You | NEW FICTION Foyer,  FICTION Escoffery, Axis 360 eBook and eAudiobook
  • Mohsin Hamid: The Last White Man | FICTION Hamid, Lg Print Fic HAM, Axis 360 eBook and eAudiobook
  • Emily St John Mandel: Sea of Tranquility | FICTION Mandel, Lg Print FIC MAN – Overdrive eAudiobook, Axis 360 eAudiobook
  • Sarah Thankam Mathews: All This Could Be Different |NEW FICTION Foyer, FICTION Mathews, Axis 360 eBook and eAudiobook
  • Curtis Sittenfeld: Romantic Comedy | NEW FICTION Foyer, FICTION Sittenfeld, Lg Print Fic SIT, Axis 360 eBook and eAudiobook
  • Abraham Verghese: The Covenant of Water | NEW FICTION Foyer Verghese, Axis 360 eAudio, Nook 1 (see librarian)

Memoir 

  • Maria Hinojosa: Once I Was You: A Memoir | 070.92 HIN, Axis 360 eBook and 360 eAudiobook, SPANISHLIT, SPA 070.92 HIN 
  • Terry McDonell: Irma: The Education of a Mother’s Son | New Book Foyer 920 MCD, Axis 360 eBook and eAudiobook 
  • Javier Zamora: Solito: A Memoir | MAIN Biography – 92 ZAM, SPA 920 ZAM, Axis 360 eBook and       eAudiobook, SPANISHLIT SPA 920 ZAM  

Nonfiction 

  • Anne Applebaum: Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism | 321.9 APP, Lg Print 321.9 APP, Axis 360 EAudiobook
  • Aleksandra Crapanzano: Gateau: The Surprising Simplicity of French Cakes | New Book Foyer 641.8653 CRA, Axis 360 eBook
  • Andrea Elliott: Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City | 362.77 ELL, Axis 360 eBook and eAudiobook
  • David Grann: The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder | New Book Foyer 910.916 GRA, Lg Print, 910.91, Overdrive eBook, Axis 360 eBook and eAudiobook, Nook 5 (see librarian)
  • Jennifer Homans: Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century | Axis360 eBook
  • Robert Kagan: The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World | 327.73 KAG, Axis 360 eBook
  • Patrick Radden Keefe: Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks | 364.16 KEE – Lg Print 364.1 KEE, Overdrive eBook and eAudiobook
  • Ezra Klein: Why We’re Polarized | 306.209 KLE, Adult TB CD 320.973 KLE, Axis 360 ebook and eAudibook
  • Annie Lowrey: Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World | 331.236 LOW, Axis 360 eBook and eAudiobook
  • Evan Osnos: Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury | NONFICTION Main Coll – 973.93 OSN, Axis 360eBook, Overdrive eAudiobook
  • Imani Perry: South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation | TRAVELGUIDE 917.504 PER, Axis 360 eBook and eAudiobook
  • Alexandra Petri: Alexandra Petri’s US History: Important American Documents (I Made Up) | New Nonfiction Foyer 973.02 PET, Axis 360 eBook
  • Ed Yong: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms | NEW Nonfiction Foyer 591.5 YON, Axis 360 eBook, Overdrive eAudiobook, Glowlight Nook 6 eRead (see librarian)

Poetry 

  • Tracy K. Smith: Such Color | New Book Foyer 811.6 SMI, Axis 360 eBook

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