2023 Holiday Recommendation Show, Part 1

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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