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What We're Reading for National Read a Book Day

In celebration of National Read a Book Day on Sunday, here's some books we're currently loving. Where possible, we've included links to the Ohio Digital Library (https://ohdbks.overdrive.com/), which allows you to borrow ebooks and audiobooks for free by using your library card or signing up through text message.



Matt Cooper likes a mix of fiction and nonfiction. Currently, he's rereading J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, but he recently finished The Urban Bestiary by Lyanda Lynn Haupt and The Pioneers by David McCullough. 

Stephanie Ziegler is a true crime buff. Right now she's reading Death at the Priory by James Ruddick and Gone at Midnight by Jake Anderson.

Chris Galanos recently finished Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem and has just started Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow.

Emma MacGuidwin is catching up on some recent best sellers. Right now she's reading Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly and listening to Becoming by Michelle Obama. After those, she plans to resume reading Truman by David McCullough.

Sara Sampson is just tearing through titles. Her recent favorites include Red at the Bone by Jaqueline Woodson, The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim, The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes, and How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi. 

Kevin Carey is simultaneously working his way through Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton and This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger.

Natasha Landon likes a little bit of everything, except poetry. She recently reread The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub and has started The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett.