Play2min 04secA 'beautifully told' family dramaNovember 15, 2019 5:23 PMBookseller Gwen Danfelt recommends a beautiful novel that weaves together a sense of place with a pressing question of identity.
Play2min 04secThe stunning memoir that could make Hemingway jealousNovember 1, 2019 3:24 PMBy Tracy MumfordBookseller Jinny Amundson recommends a memoir by Beryl Markham, the first person to fly solo, nonstop across the Atlantic from east to west.
Play1min 58secYour perfect Halloween readOctober 25, 2019 4:45 PMBy Tracy MumfordPrepare yourself, Halloween readers: Bookseller Aaron Cance has the ideal unnerving novel for you.
Play2min 10secA story of the kidnapped children of SpainOctober 18, 2019 10:03 AMBookseller Shirley Mullin recommends a deeply research novel about the children stolen from their parents under the Franco regime in Spain.
Play1min 58sec'An incredible depiction of small town life'October 11, 2019 5:02 PMBy Tracy MumfordBookseller Adah Fitzgeral recommends a novel that’s about “finding the extraordinary in the ordinary.” It revolves around a small town near the coast in North Carolina, and a woman who lives life very much her own way.
Play1min 49secA dangerous search for a dozen eggsSeptember 27, 2019 5:36 PMBy Tracy MumfordBookseller Holly Brooks recommends a novel that follows two men desperately searching for cake ingredients in the middle of the siege of Leningrad.
Play2min 00secThe wisdom of Anthony BourdainSeptember 20, 2019 1:56 PMBy Tracy MumfordBookseller Hans Weyandt recommends a collection of Anthony Bourdain’s interviews, which show the famous chef as the “charming, belligerent, interesting traveler” he was.
Play1min 52secMeet 'the greatest American novelist you’ve never heard of'September 13, 2019 3:00 PMBy Tracy MumfordNovelist Lucy Ellmann has produced what bookseller Lori Feathers calls “the most brilliant and, at the same time, the most audacious novel of 2019.”
Play2min 09secA gateway to Greek mythologySeptember 6, 2019 10:49 AMBy Tracy Mumford“I rarely use the word ‘beautiful’ for fiction,” said bookseller Lillian Schmid. “But this is just really a beautiful novel.”
Play2min 04secIf you love Octavia Butler, Colson Whitehead and Toni MorrisonAugust 30, 2019 2:07 PMBy Tracy MumfordBookseller Nialle Sylvan says that Rivers Solomon’s novel earns comparisons to some of the biggest names in literature.