Beyond The Shelves: Pocket-Sized Powerhouses

Sarah and Jes highlight eight short books under 200 pages to power through the DMPL reading challenge bingo, promote the fall author series, discuss a new bookstore in town, and a new app to track your reading. 

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Show Notes:

What They're Reading

• Kingdom of Claw by Demi Winters
• American Spirits by Anna Dorn
• It's Not the End of the World by Jonathan Parks-Ramage

2025 Reading Challenge: Short books to get BINGO

• The Thee of Us by Ore Agbaje-Williams
• The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed
• Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri
• Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz
• All Systems Red by Martha Wells
• Shady Hollow by Juneau Black
• Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
• The Vegetarian by Kang Han
• To learn more about the reading challenge click here

Book Bulletin

• Shelf Love, a new romance bookstore opened in Des Moines
• Page Bound is a new book tracking app that combines Goodreads and Reddit