2023 Holiday Recommendation Show, Part 1

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🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Jeff and Rebecca respond to listener book recommendation requests. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! It's happening, readers — we're bringing paperbacks! Whether you hate carrying around bulky hardcovers, you're on a budget, you want a wider range of recommendations, or all of the above, you can now get a paperback subscription from TBR, curated just for you by one of our Bibliologists. You can also gift it (and the holidays, they are coming). Get all the details at mytbr.co. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: TBR! First Edition! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon From Strength to Strength by Arthur C. Brooks Together by Vivek H. Murthy The Other Significant Others by Rhaina Cohen LitHub’s list of Midlife Coming-of-Age Novels Inciting Joy by Ross Gay Joan is Okay by Weike Wang All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir Me (Moth) by Amber McBride Pachinko by Min Jin Lee The Midnight Library by Matt Haig The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters Snacking Bakes by Yossy Arefi The King Arthur Baking School by King Arthur Baking Company How to Bake Everything by Mark Bittman No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol Women Without Kids by Ruby Warrington Self, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed edited by Meghan Daum Regretting Motherhood by Orna Donath Yellowface by R. F. Kuang Erasure by Percival Everett Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson There’s a Book Riot list for that! The Hike by Drew Magary The Last Final Girls by Stephen Graham Jones Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughan Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee The Good Life by Robert Waldinger & Marc Schulz I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong The Perfectionists by Simon Winchester The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai Celeste Ng Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor "15 LGBTQ Haunted Horror Novels" "8 of the Best Queer Horror Books" "Great New Queer Horror To Read This Fall" Queer Comics Database is a thing and has a list for this! A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy Andy Weir Michael Lewis S.A. Cosby In the Shadow of the Mountain by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado The Guide by Peter Heller The Lost Man by Jane Harper The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraquib Cultish by Amanda Montell Paved Paradise by Henry Grabar Empire of the Sum by Keith Houston The Mysterious Case of Rudolph Diesel by Douglas Brunt Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson The Alchemy of Us by Ainissa Ramirez The Barbarian Nurseries by Héctor Tobar The Searcher by Tana French The collected Patrick O’Brien on audio The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin NK Jemisin Pico Iyer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Bird's Eye Chicken Dippers.
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0:28.0	This is the Book Grab podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill.
0:33.0	And I'm Rebecca Shinsky.
0:34.0	And today we're answering listener questions for holiday gift book recommendations.
0:39.0	It's our semi-annual recommendation show. We do it mom's dads and grad time and then for the
0:46.2	holiday book buying season as we go towards two episodes a week which we're planning on doing in 2024 I was wondering
0:56.0	about bringing back a kind of open call for recommendations to make segments out
1:00.4	of to kind of like respond get booked, which was Amanda and Jen Worthington's long time show.
1:07.5	It's a good bit and some of these we go through pretty quickly.
1:10.3	We can even do it where if we're stumped or you know coming back through but
1:14.4	always a good time but as we have more real estate maybe we can tend this
1:19.7	garden a little more often have a bunch here a few came in this morning we're
1:24.6	recording on Tuesday November 21st unfortunately I'm not going to get to those
1:27.5	but maybe we'll get to them in a in dedicated ongoing recommendation segments.
1:34.2	Rebecca, what do you think about that?
1:35.4	You like the idea or we should keep it special.
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