Crashing waves, falling leaves, a shadowy forest - books that provide a strong sense a place are what we're talking about on the latest episode of the DMPL Podcast. Book Chat team member Rebecca talks about three new books that she thinks of when she thinks "atmosphere."

Rebecca's Picks

• What Moves the Dead, by T. Kingfisher
• Daisy Darker, by Alice Feeney
• Our Wives Under the Sea, by Julia Armfield

Other Book Suggestions

• Her Body and Other Parties, by Carmen Maria Machado
• Crooked House, by Agatha Christie
• Just Like Home, by Sarah Gailey
• White is for Witching, by Helen Oyeyemi
• Black Rabbit Hall, by Eve Chase
• Wilder Girls, by Rory Power
• Moon of the Crusted Snow, by Waubgeshig Rice
• Five Little Indians, by Michelle Good
• Once There Were Wolves, by Charlotte McConaghy
• Stephen Graham Jones books
  
• Alice Hoffman books

Iowa Author Award Honoree Heather Gudenkauf is the latest guest on the DMPL Podcast! She discusses her newest book, The Overnight Guest, as well as her 14-year career. 

Gudenkauf is one of three honorees at the 2022 Iowa Author Awards Dinner, which takes place Friday, October 14, at 6:30 PM at the Embassy Suites in downtown Des Moines. The program, titled The Magic of Libraries, will also feature honorees Art Cullen and Nate Staniforth. 

Show Notes

• 2022 Iowa Author Awards
• Heather Gudenkauf books
• Authors Heather mentions:
  • Kimberly Bell
  • Lisa Unger
  • Pam Jenoff
  • Kristina McMorris
• Books Heather mentions:
  
  • My Ántonia, by Willa Cather
  • Autopsy, by Patricia Cornwell
  • Night Will Find You, by Julia Heaberlin
  • Where Coyotes Howl, by Sandra Dallas