This is our holiday gift-giving episode with Sam Miller from Carmichael’s Bookstore. Sam always gives us great recommendations for what to buy from literary fiction to cookbooks to picture books.

To see Carmichael’s Holiday Gift guide visit their website at www.carmichaelsbookstore.com.

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Books Mentioned in This Episode:

1- We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman

2- Galatea by Madeline Miller

3- Toad by Katherine Dunn

4- Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

5- The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy

6- Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy

7- The Whalebone Theater by Joanna Quinn

8- All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

9- Marple: Twelve New Mysteries by Agatha Christie

10- Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

11- White Horse by Erika T. Wurth

12- Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng

13- Lark Ascending by Silas House

14- Leech by Hiron Ennes

15- The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama

16- Year of the Tiger by Alice Wong

17- Disability Visibility by Alice Wong

18- Inciting Joy: Essays by Ross Gay

19- The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff

20- And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle by Jon Meacham

21- The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: Paul Newman by Paul Newman

23- Gateau: The Surprising Simplicity of French Cakes by Aleksandra Crapanzano

24- Home is Where the Eggs Are by Molly Yeh

23- Dinner in One by Melissa Clark

24- Go-To-Dinners by Ina Garten

25- Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

26- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

27- Runaway: Notes On the Myths That Made Me by Erin Keane

28- Landings: A Crooked Creek Farm Year by Arwen Donohue

29- Waverly Hills Sanatorium: A History by Lynn Pohl

30- How It Went: Thirteen More Stories of the Port William Membership by Wendell Berry

31- Farmhouse by Sophie Blackall

32- Stinky Cheese Man by Jon Scieszka

33- The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka

34- The Real Dada Mother Goose by Jon Scieszka

33- This Story is Not About a Kitten by Randall de Seve

34- The Stars Did Wander Darkling by Colin Meloy

35- The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander

36- The Crossover by Kwame Alexander

37- Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults by Robin Wall Kimmerer

38- The Wolf Suit by Sid Sharp

39- The Nightmare Man by J.H. Markert

40- A White Wind Blew by James Markert

41- Babel by R.F. Kuang

42- Happy Go Lucky by David Sedaris

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