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Suzanne Perez pulled books off her shelves that would fulfill each of the 12 categories in the 2024 #ReadICT Challenge. The categories will be announced December 31, 2023. Suzanne Perez and Beth Golay will record the January #ReadICT Challenge episode of Books & Whatnot on January 4, 2024 at 7 pm at the Wichita Public Library's Advanced Learning location.
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Suzanne Perez pulled books off her shelves that would fulfill each of the 12 categories in the 2024 #ReadICT Challenge. The categories will be announced December 31, 2023. Suzanne Perez and Beth Golay will record the January #ReadICT Challenge episode of Books & Whatnot on January 4, 2024 at 7 pm at the Wichita Public Library's Advanced Learning location.

With the year coming to an end Beth Golay and Suzanne Perez thought it was a perfect time to reflect on their 2023 reading goals and launch some new goals for 2024.

Also, stay on the lookout for more information on the 2024 #ReadICT challenge!

Books & Whatnot is produced by KMUW and is part of the NPR Podcast Network.

Books (and whatnot) discussed in this episode:

  • The Other Half  by Charlotte Vassell
  • Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
  • Salvage the Bones by Jessmyn Ward
  • Men We Reaped by Jessmyn Ward
  • Sing Unburied Sing by Jessmyn Ward
  • Inferno by Dante Alighieri
  • Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri
  • Paradiso by Dante Alighieri
  • The Iliad by Homer
  • The Odyssey by Homer
  • The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez
  • Tinkers by Paul Harding
  • This Other Eden by Paul Harding
  • Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
  • Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent
  • The Tree and the River by Aaron Becker
  • The Arrival by Shaun Tan
  • The Snowman by Raymond Briggs
  • The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
  • Wild and Distant Seas by Tara Karr Roberts
  • Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
  • Dayswork by Chris Bachelder & Jennifer Habel
  • This is Salvaged by Vauhini Vara
  • The Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara
  • The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  • Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • The Black Stallion by Walter Farley
  • All Creatures Great and Small by Jame Herriot
  • The Phantom Tollbooth by Jules Feiffer
  • The Book of Love by Kelly Link
  • Wellness by Nathan Hill
  • Plastic by Scott Guild
  • Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
  • American War by Omar El Akkad
  • A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
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Beth Golay is KMUW's Director of Marketing and Digital Content. She is the host of the KMUW podcast Marginalia, co-host with Suzanne Perez of the Books & Whatnot podcast, creator of the podcast You're Saying It Wrong, creator of KMUW's daily news podcast Wichita's Early Edition, and NPR StoryLab Workshop team member on the award-winning podcast My Fellow Kansans.
Suzanne Perez is KMUW's News Director, overseeing our staff of reporters and hosting our weekly feature program, The Range. She previously covered education for KMUW and the Kansas News Service. Before moving to public radio in 2021, Suzanne worked more than 30 years at The Wichita Eagle, where she reported on schools and a variety of other topics.