For many of us, libraries are our homes away from home. The smell of old pages, the quiet solitude, and of course, the books—we’ll give you a moment to stop daydreaming. When you’re done, hit play below to hear Geek Girl Riot’s Sherin, Angie, Erin, and Meagan get together to discuss their favorite reads old and new, which characters they’re loving or hating right now, and get nerdy about all things wordy (we couldn’t help ourselves) via some Sherin Sidebars™, the ringing of the shame bell, and some Spock Smut. True story.
Like the sound of one (or ten) of the books mentioned today? You can find all their recommendations below, in a list so long you’ll be able to fill up a library of your own. Happy reading!
Reading list:
- Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur – Amy Reeder, Brandon Montclare
- Black Panther – Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Power Man and Iron Fist – David F. Walker, Sanford Greene
- Nighthawk – David F. Walker, Ramon Villalobos, Bill Sienkiewicz, Denys Cowan
- Clean Room – Gail Simone, Jon Davis-Hunt, Jenny Frison
- Shadowshaper –
- Harmony Black / Red Knight Falling – Craig Schaefer
- Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
- The Girl on the Train – Paula Hawkins
- The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker
- The Wicked + The Divine – Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie
- Mercy Thompson series – Patricia Briggs
- Charley Davidson series – Darynda Jones
- Vampire Huntress series – L.A. Banks
- Goldie Vance series – Hope Larson, Brittney Williams
- Fever series – Karen Marie Moning
- Julia Alvarez
- Agatha Christie
- Speech Sounds / Kindred / Clay’s Ark / Wild Seed / Bloodchild – Octavia Butler
- Ray Bradbury
- Stephen King
- Joe Hill
- Y: The Last Man – Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra
- Saga – Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
- Jeremy Whitley
- Ilona Andrews
- Neil Gaiman
- Peter Grant series – Ben Aaronovitch
- Janet Evanovich
- Special Topics in Calamity Physics / Night Film – Marisha Pessl
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
(Note: this novel is the source material for Blade Runner) - Neuromancer – William Gibson
- Switch Bitch – Roald Dahl
- Batman
- Storm
- East of West – Jonathan Hickman, Nick Dragotta
- Batgirl – Gail Simone
- Superman
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – J.K. Rowling
- The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
- Captain America: Civil War – Mark Millar, Steve McNiven et al
- Elfquest – Wendy & Richard Pini
- The Sensational She Hulk – John Byrne
- Milestone comics
- She Hulk – Dan Slott
- Tenchi Muyo! – Hitoshi Okuda
- Trigun – Yasuhiro Nightow
- Naruto – Masashi Kishimoto
- Tenjho Tenge – Oh! great
- Gungrave – Yasuhiro Nightow
- Paper Girls – Brian K. Vaughan
- 100 Bullets –
- A History of Violence – John Wagner,
- Love Me, If You Dare – Ding Mo
- Ernest Hemingway
- Outlander – Diana Gabaldon
- Zita the Spacegirl – Ben Hatke
- Yesterday’s Son (Star Trek) – A.C. Crispin
- Good Omens – Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
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