MONTHLY PICKS
MINI ME
SEPTEMBER MINI-ME PICKS
THE WILD WOODS!
***NOTE***
Mini-Me books will be special ordered as orders are placed through wildlings, so please allow a few days for your books to arrive in the shop.
September’s Mini Me picks are H E R E! With Wildwood coming to theaters in October it was an easy choice to base this month’s selections around the first fabulous book in the series! If you haven’t read Wildwood, by Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis yet… this is the perfect time. Ages 9+ and NOTE this book is thick!
Common threads between all of our September Mini Me options are daring main characters, adventures, magic and of course… the wild woods!
As with previous months we have multiple choices for different age ranges. UNlike previous months… our adult pick is actually YA! I read The Wild Huntress, by Emily Lloyd-Jones a few years back found it to be absolutely enchanting. This is a great pick for adults or teens!
We also have The Wolf Suit, by Sid Sharp for early chapter readers, or as a great read-aloud. This one has a bit of a spooky feel… and a fabulous twist at the end! Ages 6+
And lastly, every family should own a copy of Little Witch Hazel: A Year in the Forest by Phoebe Wahl. No great battles in this one, but Hazel’s life in the forest always captivates! Ages 4+ (but really, all ages!)
WILDLINGS & FRIENDS
MONTHLY MESS-AROUND
SEPTEMBER TEAM-UP
WITH TRAINMOVEPLAY!
We are teaming up this month with our friends at TrainMovePlay! Join us on September 19 at 4pm to talk about all things Enneagram! If you’ve not gone through the process, or if it’s been a while, spend a couple of hours to focus on all things Enneagram!
Learn your type (or refresh!) to understand your inner strengths and motivations and use it to handle stress as we enter the busy fall season.
Session is beginner friendly (adults 21+) and includes:
The book: Essential Enneagram: The Definitive Personality Test and Self-Discovery Guide by David Daniels and Virginia Price
Mini notebook & pen
Grounding meditation session, lots of discussion, resources and continuing practices
Plus a few light snacks!
It will be held at TrainMovePlay’s space at 326 N. Ashland.
Orders can be placed online at Wildlings Bookshop through September 13 and will be ready for pick up at the event on September 19!
BOOK CLUBS
Join us for the next Wildlings Book Club! We’ll be reading our new favorite graphic novel: Boss of the Underworld, by Tor Freeman!
This book is like a funny-weird-charming Odyssey-like quest for Shirley, who falls down a manhole and has to save the underworld from the Green Menace. There are quirky characters (can’t forget George the cockroach!), Sewer Sirens, Sphinxes, the Bog of Sudden Intense Emotions, sketchy forests and sewer mazes, and an ending I did not see coming!
$25 Cost includes:
Book (paperback)
Ice Cream from Wilson’s
Underworld themed activity / craft
Grown-up Weirdlings join us on September 24 at 7pm for an hour to chat about Honey, by Imani Thompson. Cost includes book and one drink from Wilson's! NOTE: Books will be ordered upon sign-up, please allow a few days for your copy to arrive! I will reach out via text or email to let you know when it’s available for pick-up. PS If you already own the book but still want to join in the fun, reach out!
The Book:Honey
Imani Thompson
Publisher: Random House April 1 2026
EAN: 978059397976 1ISBN: 0593979761
Synopsis:A dark, provocative, adrenaline-rush of a novel about a graduate student who murders bad men and justifies it in the name of feminism, by a bold new voice in fiction"Might be the most-anticipated debut novel of the year thanks in part to its perfect-for-Hollywood premise."--Esquire
"A darkly comic novel about the tricky politics of race, sex, violence and love . . . the entertaining (and quietly damning) read you'll need to kick off spring."--Elle
A Most Anticipated Book of the Year: Glamour, Debutiful, Book Riot, Esquire, SheReads, Elle, StylistShe just wants to know what justice feels like.
Yrsa is bored: bored with her PhD program, her entitled students, and the never-ending pages of racial violence and feminist theory she has to read. But most of all, she's bored with the men in her life--especially the bad ones.
And then, one sunny afternoon, she accidentally kills one.
Suddenly a problematic professor is dead, and Yrsa, well--she's no longer bored.
Emboldened, she starts to chase the high, and soon no misbehaving sexist man within commuting distance is safe.
Finally Yrsa's academic research feels useful. But how long can killing in the name of feminist and racial solidarity justify her actions? And how long until her actions--and buried family secrets--come back to unravel her?
Grown-up Weirdlings join us to talk about The Tulip Poplars, by Silas House!
We are offering two dates and locations:
November 12 at 7pm at Wildlings Bookshop (includes book plus one drink from Wilson's!
November 14 at 10am at Gratz Park (includes coffee, bring a blanket or chair!) Rain Date November 15 at 10am
NOTE: Books will be pre-ordered upon sign-up and available to pick after the book releases on October 13! We will reach out via text or email to let you know when it’s available for pick-up.
The Book:
Tulip Poplars
Silas House
Publisher: Algonquin Books October 1 2026 EAN: 9781643756974 ISBN: 1643756974 Synopsis: Amos and Tom fall in love while working in the tobacco fields during the hot summers of the early 1900s, but it will be decades before they can truly be together. Tom cannot shake the strict religious code he was raised by nor the responsibilities of his family's farm, and he ultimately marries his longtime friend Maeve; while Amos goes to New York City to find the anonymity required to live his life openly. And though Maeve pines for Paschal rather than Tom, the strict Jim Crow laws prevent her and Paschal from being together. The Tulip Poplars is a sweeping novel--intimate in its storytelling and epic in its scope--spanning most of the 20th century, centering on four people trying to find happiness in a world that demands conventional choices. It is an examination of faith and doubt, race and class, and desire--not just sexual desire, but also the longing to be good when the whole world is telling you are evil for loving who you love. Deeply moving and based on the story of an ancestor, as well as the history of the small Kentucky towns he knows so well, House's new novel will leave you with a bigger heart.