Shawn "S.A." Cosby joined us at the Peters Township High School Auditorium on November 6, 2025 with an audience of more than 300 people. Cosby is an Anthony Award-winning writer from Southeastern Virginia. He is the author of the instant New York Times bestseller All the Sinners Bleed which was on Barack Obama's Summer Reading List and author of New York Times bestseller Razorblade Tears and Blacktop Wasteland, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, was a New York Times Notable Book, and was named a best book of the year by NPR, The Guardian, and Library Journal, among others. When not writing, he is an avid hiker and chess player.

Patrick Radden Keefe joined us at the Peters Township High School Auditorium on November 7, 2024. Patrick Radden Keefe is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of the New York
Times bestsellers Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks, Empire of Pain (a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction), and Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland. Say Nothing received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, was selected as one of the ten best books of 2019 by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and The Wall Street Journal, and was named one of the top ten nonfiction books of the decade by Entertainment Weekly. His previous books are The Snakehead and Chatter. His work has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. He is also the creator and host of the eight-part podcast Wind of Change.

Recommended Reads from Patrick:

• Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper
• The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
• New Yorker - Larissa MacFarquhar
• New Yorker - David Remnick
• "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man" by Henry Louis Gates

Victoria "V.E." Schwab joined us at the Peters Township High School Auditorium on November 1, 2023. V.E. Schwab is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty books, including the acclaimed Shades of Magic series, the Villains series, the City of Ghosts series, and the international bestseller The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. When not haunting Paris streets or trudging up English hillsides, she lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is usually tucked in the corner of a coffee shop, dreaming up monsters.

Reading Recommendations from Victoria:

• Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
• Little Thieves and Painted Details by Margaret Owens
• The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean
• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
• Murderbot series by Martha Wells
• Wayward Children series by Seanan McGuire

Andy Weir joined us at the Peters Township High School Gymnasium on November 3, 2022. Andy Weir built a two-decade career as a software engineer until the success of his first published novel, The Martian, allowed him to live out his dream of writing full-time. He is a lifelong space nerd and a devoted hobbyist of such subjects as relativistic physics, orbital mechanics, and the history of manned spaceflight. He also mixes a mean cocktail. He lives in California.

Reading Recommendations from Andy:

• Dark Matter, Recursion, and Upgrade by Blake Crouch
• Lady Astronaut series by Mary Robinette Kowal
• Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
• Isaac Asimov
• Robert Heinlein

Taylor Jenkins Reid joined us at the Peters Township High School Auditorium on November 4, 2021. New York Times bestselling author and screenwriter Taylor Jenkins Reid writes historical novels that explore the complexities of love and life. Four of her novels, Malibu Rising, Daisy Jones & The Six, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, and One True Loves, have been optioned for film and streaming adaptations. Malibu Rising is a #ReadwithJenna book club pick, and Daisy Jones & The Six was a Reese's Book Club selection. Taylor's other books include Maybe in Another Life, After I Do, and Forever, Interrupted.

Reading Recommendations from Taylor:

• My Oxford Year by Julia Whelan
• Good Girl by Gillian Flynn
• The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams
• Book Lovers by Emily Henry
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett

Anna Quindlen joined us on November 7, 2019 at the Peters Township High School Auditorium. Anna Quindlen is a novelist and journalist whose work has appeared on fiction, nonfiction, and self-help bestseller lists. She is the author of many novels: Object Lessons, One True Thing, Black and Blue, Blessings, Rise and Shine, Every Last One, Still Life with Bread Crumbs, and Miller’s Valley. Her memoir Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, published in 2012, was a #1 New York Times bestseller. Her book A Short Guide to a Happy Life has sold more than a million copies. While a columnist at The New York Times she won the Pulitzer Prize and published two collections, Living Out Loud and Thinking Out Loud.

Reading Recommendations from Anna:

• The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott
• White Houses by Amy BLoom
• Field of Blood by Denise Mina
• Commonwealth by Anna Patchett
• Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue
• Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson

Tim O'Brien joined us on November 7, 2018 at the Peters Township High School Auditorium. Tim O'Brien is an American novelist noted for his writings about American soldiers in the Vietnam War. His best-known work is the novel The Things They Carried.

Recommended Reading from Tim:

• Revolutionary Roads by Richard Yates
• Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
• First Love by Ivan Turgenev
• The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor

Yaa Gyasi joined us on November 9, 2017 at the South Hills Bible Chapel. Yaa Gyasi is a Ghanaian American novelist. Her work, most notably her 2016 debut novel Homegoing and her 2020 novel Transcendent Kingdom, features themes of lineage, generational trauma, and Black and African identities. At the age of 26, Gyasi won the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Award for Best First Book, the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, the National Book Foundation's "5 under 35" honors for 2016 and the 2017 American Book Award. She was awarded a Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature in 2020.

Recommended Reading from Yaa:

• The Lover by Marguerite Duas
• Evicted: Poetry & Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
• The Warmth of Other Sons by Isabel Wilkerson
• Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
• Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett