Happy New Year! Ryan and Jo are joined by Michael, the owner of Gibson's, to chat about their favorite books of 2021. Come for the book recommendations, stay for the tangents!

Books Mentioned During This Episode

Ryan, https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/ryan-elizabeth-clark

Cherish Farrah by Bethany C. Morrow (audiobook)

Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James

• Moon Witch, Spider King

Electric Idol (Dark Olympus #2) by Katee Robert

Wicked Beauty (Dark Olympus #3)

Neon Gods (Dark Olympus #1)

My Sister the Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite 

• Join the Jack of All Graves Book Club! 

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

• The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

One Step Too Far by Lisa Gardner 

Something to Hide by Elizabeth George 

Ain’t Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds, Jason Griffin

Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly

The Cheat Sheet by Sarah Adams

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

And Then I Woke Up by Malcolm Devlin

The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling

Jo, https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/jo

The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

Mantel Pieces by Hilary Mantel

• Wolf Hall

Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould

Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart

• Shuggie Bain

Michael, https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/michael-herrmann

City on Fire by Don Winslow

This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub 

Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

• Priestdaddy 

Animal by Lisa Taddeo

• Three Women

Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/staff-favorites-2021

The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr

Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

Matrix by Lauren Groff

A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske 

The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor

The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel

You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson

• Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns

Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe

• Say Nothing

Siren Queen by Nghi Vo

A Restless Truth by Freya Marske

Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston

The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw

Goblin by Josh Malerman

Pearl 

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