Jamie Canavés
What are your favorite genres?
MURDER—er, Crime. Memoirs. Bananapants.
What are a few of your desert-island reads?
Sandhya Menon, Tayari Jones, Keigo Higashino, Carrie Fisher
What's your go-to reading snack?
Anything that can be eaten with one hand and is bad for you.
Weirdest or most interesting place you've read a book?
Have read while floating in every body of water I’ve ever encountered—lazy rivers included.
What do you do when you're not reading?
Wait, what is "not reading"?
Giovanna Centeno Barbalho
Sarah Davis
What are your favorite genres?
Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction, Mystery/Thriller, Children's/Middle Grade, YA, Nonfiction, Comics/Graphic Novels
What are a few of your desert-island reads?
"The Secret History" by Donna Tartt; Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling; "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger; "Ghost World" by Daniel Clowes; "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green; "A Visit from the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan; "SuperMutant Magic Academy" by Jillian Tamaki
What's your go-to reading snack?
Chocolate covered espresso beans
Weirdest or most interesting place you've read a book?
On the Isle of Skye while I was doing research about Virginia Woolf.
What do you do when you're not reading?
Writing stories and poems, blogging, and cooking.
Amanda Diehl
What are your favorite genres?
Romance, Sci-fi/Fantasy, Horror
What are a few of your desert-island reads?
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami, The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang, John Dies at the End by David Wong
What's your go-to reading snack?
Anything crunchy and salty!
Weirdest or most interesting place you've read a book?
On the lawn in front of the National Library of Sweden
What do you do when you're not reading?
Trying new craft beers & playing Stardew Valley
Cassie Gutman
Liberty Hardy
What are your favorite genres?
Sci-fi, fantasy, mystery, military history
What are a few of your desert-island reads?
The Known World by Edward P. Jones, The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken, Geek Love by Katherine Dunn, The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
What's your go-to reading snack?
Humus and salsa! Mix them together - it's amazing.
Weirdest or most interesting place you've read a book?
On a nighttime glass-bottom boat tour of the Bermuda Triangle.
What do you do when you're not reading?
Not...reading? DOES NOT COMPUTE.
Sydney
What are your favorite genres?
lit fic, young adult, thrillers/horror, anything that makes you yell "WTF" at the end
What are a few of your desert-island reads?
Anything by Christina Lauren, V.E. Schwab, and Leigh Bardugo. And Harry Potter, always, Harry Potter.
What's your go-to reading snack?
I'm more of a drinking reader (Diet Coke). But I wish it was Cheetos.
Weirdest or most interesting place you've read a book?
Shower, the door is clear for a reason.
What do you do when you're not reading?
My 9-to-5. Pet #allthedogs. Sleep.
Emily Martin
What are your favorite genres?
Literary Fiction, Victorian Literature, YA, Horror, Mysteries/Thrillers
What are a few of your desert-island reads?
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling, Beloved by Toni Morrison
What's your go-to reading snack?
Iced coffee
Weirdest or most interesting place you've read a book?
In line at Dragon*Con waiting to see LeVar Burton
What do you do when you're not reading?
Teaching Pure Barre classes, watching The Bachelor, and petting cats
Mary Kay McBrayer
What are your favorite genres?
horror, noir, true crime, mob, nonfiction, memoir, magical realism, southern gothic
What are a few of your desert-island reads?
Beloved by Toni Morrison, The Godfather by Mario Puzo, Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
What's your go-to reading snack?
coffee with milk and small things that I can eat with one hand, like peanut M&Ms
Weirdest or most interesting place you've read a book?
stuck in the Havana airport waiting to get home for Christmas, out of Cuban money with only useless American cards after my ex traded a bottle of rum for our cab ride in a 1940s-shelled Frankenstein car
What do you do when you're not reading?
Dance, write, hustle, and drink boxed wine.
Connie
What are your favorite genres?
Fiction, memoir, poetry, reference books
What are a few of your desert-island reads?
Bluets, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Salvage the Bones
What's your go-to reading snack?
Popcorn
Weirdest or most interesting place you've read a book?
Everywhere
What do you do when you're not reading?
Write, travel, eat noodles, and stare at the moon
Tirzah Price
What are your favorite genres?
Mystery, Fiction, Fantasy
What are a few of your desert-island reads?
Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi, The Secret Place by Tana French, Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman, We Are Okay by Nina LaCour, Trouble is a Friend of Mine by Stephanie Tromly
What's your go-to reading snack?
White cheddar popcorn
Weirdest or most interesting place you've read a book?
In the announcer's booth at a rodeo
What do you do when you're not reading?
Knitting, cooking, chasing my dog
Etinosa Uwadiae
What are your favorite genres?
Science fiction, Fantasy, Historical fiction, Contemporary
What are a few of your desert-island reads?
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor, The Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn, Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa, Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
What's your go-to reading snack?
Chocolate Cookies, Biscuits
Weirdest or most interesting place you've read a book?
Toilet... at my former workplace
What do you do when you're not reading?
Write, watch Anime, blog and daydream