This might be the ultimate gift-giving episode for all the Bookmarked listeners out there. This week, Danielle gets to sit down with two book bosses and indie bookstore owners, Lucy Yu (Yu and Me Books in New York City) and Emma Straub (Books Are Magic in Brooklyn, NY). Danielle gets to find out what books are hitting their stores’ best-of lists for the year, what books are surprising them, and what books they can't stop thinking about. Danielle also gets to ask Lucy and Emma to come up with books that fit some very specific shopping requests from Bookmarked listeners. This episode is also for everyone out there who has romanticized the dream of owning a bookstore, whoever pictured themselves as Meg Ryan in You've Got Mail (I know you all have). Find out what it's really like to run a little shop around the corner.

BOOKS MENTIONED:

Adult Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers by Stephanie M. Kriesberg PsyD 

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay Gibson

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

The City in Which I Love You by Li-young Lee

Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy

Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts by Margaret Atwood

Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte

The Village Beyond the Mist by Sachiko Kashiwaba

Strange Pictures by Uketsu

Strange Houses by Uketsu

Murder on Sex Island: A Luella Van Horn Mystery by Jo Firestone

Audition by Katie Kitamura

Heart the Lover by Lily King

All Fours by Miranda July

How Stella Got Her Groove Back by Terry McMillan

A Merry Little Meet Cute by Julie Murphy 

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa

 

We’ll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida

I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying by Youngmi Mayer

Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Jo-tzu

Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

A Couple by Eliette Abécassis

Bad Bad Girl by Gish Jen

Go Gentle by Maria Semple

The Great Reclamation by Rachel Heng

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

Flirting Lessons by Jasmine Guillory

Bahn Mi for Two by Trinity Nguyen

Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu

All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews

The Art Thief by Michael Finkel

The Details by Ia Genberg

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