Beyond the Shelves: Picks of the Zodiac

Beyond the Shelves: A Podcast from the Des Moines Public Library

On the newest episode of the DMPL Podcast, Jes and Sarah give book recommendations for each sign of the zodiac. It's a nice warm-up for the next big Flash Recommendation event, coming up on Wednesday, October 16.

What is Flash Recommendations? It's an event on our social media pages where you give us some information and our Book Chat team gives you a book recommendation. On October 16, head over to our Facebook or Instagram page and let us know a genre and your Zodiac sign. Then you'll get a book rec. It's that simple! Be sure to listen to this episode of the podcast to get some general recs as well.

Don't forget about the last event in our Fall Author Series - Daniel Kraus will be stopping at the Central Library on Wednesday, October 23, at 7 PM.

What We're Reading

• Jes
  • The Really Dead Wives of New Jersey, by Astrid Dahl
  • Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, by Elena Ferrante
  • The Husbands, by Holly Gramazio
• Sarah
  • City of Brass, by S.A. Chakraborty
  • The Black Bird Oracle, by Deborah Harkness

Picks of the Zodiac

• Aries
  • 1Q84, by Haruki Murakami
  • Hell of a Book, by Jason Mott
• Taurus
  • The Golem and the Jinni, by Helene Wecker
  • The Hidden Life of Trees, by Peter Wohlleben
  • The Cottage Around the Corner, by D.L. Soria
• Gemini
  • Open Throat, by Henry Hoke
  • The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth, by Zoë Schlanger
• Cancer
  • The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters, by Balli Kaur Jaswal
  • What the Fireflies Knew, by Kai Harris
  • Black Candle Women, by Diane Merie Brown
• Leo
  • ​​​​​​​Maeve Fly, by CJ Leede
  • Perfume & Pain, by Anna Dorn
• Virgo
  • ​​​​​​​Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail, by Ashley Herring Blake
  • The Secrets We Kept, by Lara Prescott
  • Election, by Tom Perotta
• Libra
  • ​​​​​​​Evenings and Weekends, by Oisín McKenna
  • Cleopatra & Frankenstein, by Coco Mellors
• Scorpio
  • ​​​​​​​The Bandit Queens, by Parini Shroff
  • When We Were Birds, by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
  • Portrait of a Thief, by Grace D. Li
• Sagittarius
  • ​​​​​​​The Husbands, by Holly Gramazio
  • All I Want is You, by Falon Ballard
• Capricorn
  • ​​​​​​​The Violin Conspiracy, by Brendan Slocumb
  • Educated, by Tara Westover
  • For the Wolf, by Hannah Whitten
• Aquarius
  • ​​​​​​​Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil, by Ananda Lima
  • That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America, by Amanda Jones
• Pisces
  • ​​​​​​​Stay True, by Hua Hsu
  • The Dreamers, by Karen Thompson Walker
  • Peaces, by Helen Oyeyemi