Welcome to another episode of the Booklovers Podcast. Join us as Andrea, Amy and I talk about holiday books. Along with some shout outs to old favorites, we cover a variety of holiday books from essays to picture books.

What’s your favorite holiday book?

Holiday Books

 

Holidays on Ice. This is a collection of essays written by longtime NPR contributor David Sedaris. As a former bookstore owner, I know how brutal the holidays can be in the retail world. So I totally fell in love with this collection when I read about his time spent being Krumpet the Elf at the New York City Macy’s. Let me share just one quote –

“But instead I am applying for a job as an elf. Even worse than applying is the very real possibility that I will not be hired, that I couldn’t even find work as an elf. That’s when you know you’re a failure.”

Reading the book is fun but it’s even better if you listen to the audio. These pieces come alive. Like the holiday letter gone wrong. You know the letter you get in a Christmas card about a family’s achievements? This starts off as that and then goes terribly awry but in an achingly funny fashion.

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Seven Days of Us by Frances Hornak. A warm, wry, sharply observed debut novel about what happens when a family is forced to spend a week together in quarantine over the holidays… It’s Christmas, and for the first time in years the entire Birch family will be under one roof. Even Emma and Andrew’s elder daughter–who is usually off saving the world–will be joining them at Weyfield Hall, their aging country estate. But Olivia, a doctor, is only coming home because she has to. Having just returned from treating an epidemic abroad, she’s been told she must stay in quarantine for a week…and so too should her family. For the next seven days, the Birches are locked down, cut off from the rest of humanity–and even decent Wi-FI–and forced into each other’s orbits.

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Start Without Me: A Novel by Joshua Max Feldman. Two strangers  meet by chance in this mesmerizing tale that unfolds over one Thanksgiving Day. Adam is a former musician and recovering alcoholic who is home for Thanksgiving for the first time in many years. Surrounded by his parents and siblings, nieces and nephews–all who have seen him at his worst–he can’t shake the feeling that no matter how hard he tries,