Welcome to Episode 8, all about holiday gift giving recommendations! I brought Jenn Northington back to be my guest host for this one because she’s a book recommendation MACHINE, I tell you. Jenn is our Events Director here at Book Riot, cohost of the Bookrageous podcast, part-time bookseller at Word, and member of five book groups. Find her on Twitter @jennIRL.

This episode is sponsored by Penguin Random House Audio and DK’s Holiday Gift Generator.

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Books Discussed on the Show!

Penguin Drop Caps or the Clothbound Coralie Bickford-Smith collection

Peter Sis’s illustration of The Conference of the Birds

The Graphic Canon

Stiff by Mary Roach

The Skeleton Crew by Deborah Halber

K Blows Top by Peter Carlson

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Hammer Head by Nina MacLaughlin

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

Louise Erdrich’s Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country

A Good American by Alex George

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

Georgette Heyer

The Beekeeper’s Apprentice series by Laurie R. King

Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Wallbanger by Alice Clayton

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

Longbourn by Jo Baker

The Martian by Andy Weir

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Never Surrender (new Churchill bio) by John Kelly

The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 by Alistair Horne

Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

A More Unbending Battle: The Harlem Hellfighters’ Struggle for Freedom in W.W. I and Equality at Home by Peter N Nelson

The Warmth of Other Suns by  Isabel Wilkerson

Into the Blizzard by Michael Winter

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