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Ask a bookseller

Every week, The Thread checks in with booksellers around the country about their favorite books of the moment.

Ask a Bookseller: 'On the Savage Side'

Ask a Bookseller: 'On the Savage Side'

Aden Evosirch of the Winchester Book Gallery in Winchester, Va., recommends “On the Savage Side,” by Tiffany McDaniel. It is based on a true unsolved murder case in rural Ohio where six women, known as the Chillicothe Six, disappeared from the area in 2014 and 2015. Four were later found dead.
by Emily Bright

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Ask a Bookseller: 'The Racism of People Who Love You'

Ask a Bookseller: 'The Racism of People Who Love You'

Andrea King of Left Bank Books in St. Louis, Mo., recommends the nonfiction read “The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging” by Samira K. Mehta.
by Emily Bright

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Ask a Bookseller: 'They're Going to Love You'

Ask a Bookseller: 'They're Going to Love You'

Matt Nixon of A Cappella Books in Atlanta, Ga., has loved selling his customers Meg Howrey's novel “They're Going to Love You.”
by Emily Bright

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Ask a Bookseller: 'The English Understand Wool'

Ask a Bookseller: 'The English Understand Wool'

Part of the fun of talking with independent bookstores is hearing about great books from smaller, independent presses. Today's recommendation combines both.
by Emily Bright

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Ask a Bookseller: 'Wandering Souls'

Ask a Bookseller: 'Wandering Souls'

This week's recommendation comes from Emi Lim Morison of Country Bookshelf in Bozeman, Mo.
by Emily Bright

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Ask a Bookseller: 'Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club'

Ask a Bookseller: 'Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club'

Amy Erickson of Bluebird Bookshop in Detroit Lakes, Minn., recommended a novel that she called “very much an up-north book.”

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Ask a Bookseller: 'The God of Endings'

Ask a Bookseller: 'The God of Endings'

Josh Hames recommends local writer Jacqueline Holland, new novel, "The God of Endings." It's an unconventional vampire story, Hames says, that's a "genuinely felt human tale as much as it is inhuman."
by Emily Bright

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Ask a Bookseller: 'The Poetics of Wrongness'

Ask a Bookseller: 'The Poetics of Wrongness'

Evelyn Bauer of Papercuts Bookshop recommends “The Poetics of Wrongness” by poet Rachel Zucker. She challenges outdated paradigms of motherhood, feminism and poetics.
by Emily Bright

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Ask a Bookseller: David Copperfield reimagined in Appalachia

Ask a Bookseller: David Copperfield reimagined in Appalachia

The novel is a fairly direct retelling of “David Copperfield” by Charles Dickens, set in the 1980s in Appalachia — familiar territory for rural Kentucky-born Kingsolver.
by Emily Bright

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