The Laydown Podcast

Bonus Episode! Ryan sat down remotely with Kid Conservationist, Jack Dalton, to talk about his book Kawan the Orangutan: Lost in the Rainforest!

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We are fully vaccinated and recording in person again! (Wow, we've missed that). Elisabeth joined Ryan and Hillary this month to discuss author events during a pandemic and what the future of events may look like. Plus a whole bunch of book recommendations and some fun bookstore news!

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Books Mentioned During This Episode

RECENT READS

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

Goblin by Josh Malerman (audiobook)

Bird Box by Josh Malerman (audiobook)

My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix (audiobook)

Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw (audiobook)

The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec (audiobook)

Elisabeth, https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/elisabeth-jewell

Playing the Palace by Paul Rudnick (audiobook)

Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell (audiobook)

First Comes Like Alisha Rai (audiobook)

Hillary, https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/staff/hillary

The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark (audiobook)

A Master of Djinn  by P. Djèlí Clark (audiobook)

Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark (audiobook)

Rabbits: A Novel by Terry Miles (audiobook) (podcast)

Dead by Dawn by Paul Doiron (audiobook)

The Betrayals by Bridget Collins (audiobook)

A Most Remarkable Creature by Jonathan Meiburg (audiobook)

The Secret to Super Human Strength by Alison Bechdel

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Bonus Episode! Ryan sat down remotely with Josh Malerman to discuss his new horror novel, GOBLIN - out now!

Bird Box 

Malorie 

Inspection 

A House at the Bottom of a Lake 

Goblin 
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Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson 

Come With Me by Ronald Malfi 

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Bonus Episode! 
Ryan sat down remotely with Andy Weir to discuss his new SciFi novel, PROJECT HAIL MARY! 

The Martian Artemis

Project Hail Mary 

Cheshire Crossing

Andy Weir

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Other Books Mentioned During This Episode:

Isaac Asimov

I, Robot (audiobook)

Caves of Steel (audiobook)

Robert A. Heinlein

Tunnel in the Sky (audiobook)

Arthur C. Clarke

• Rendezvous with Rama

Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (audiobook)

Recursion by Blake Crouch (audiobook)

The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

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This month, we're sharing the audio of a virtual event we did for Indie Bookstore Day featuring a group of New England Booksellers chatting about all things literary! Special thanks to Elisabeth for hosting, and to Julie, Jess, Lily, and Steph for joining us!

Click the link to purchase the book from our store, or click the (audiobook) link to get the Audiobook on Libro.fm. Thanks for shopping local!

Books Mentioned During This Episode

Watch the video of this event here: https://youtu.be/3H9MC6QvAx0

MEET THE BOOKSELLERS

Julie
Jess
Steph
LilyElisabeth
BOOKS MENTIONED DURING THIS EPISODE

The Unbroken by C L Clark (audiobook) 

The Others Series by Anne Bishop (audiobook)

When The Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo (audiobook)

The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo (audiobook)

The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo (audiobook) 

The Hating Game by Sally Thorne (audiobook)

Happily Ever Afters by Elise Bryant (audiobook)

Tweet Cute by Emma Lord (audiobook)

A Pho Love Story by Loan Le (audiobook)

The Chicken Sisters by KJ Dell’antonia (audiobook)

Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert (audiobook)

She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan (audiobook)

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (audiobook)

The Midnight Bargain by C L Polk (audiobook)

Second First Impressions by Sally Thorne (audiobook)

Skunk and Badger by Amy Timberlake & Jon Klassen (audiobook)

The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow (audiobook)

The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow (audiobook)

Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden (audiobook)

Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams (audiobook)

While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams (audiobook)

Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X Kendi (audiobook)

Stamped by Ibram X Kendi & Jason Reynolds (audiobook)

Stamped (for Kids) by Ibram X Kendi & Jason Reynolds (audiobook)

Ace of Spades by Faridah Abike-Iyimide (audiobook)

Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune (audiobook)

Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley (audiobook)

I Sang You Down from the Stars by Tasha Spillet-Sumner

The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri (audiobook)

Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri (audiobook)

Master of Djinn by P Djeli Clark (audiobook)

The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P Djeli Clark (audiobook)

Happy Endings by Thien-Kim Lam (audiobook)

Whiteout by Adriana Anders (audiobook)

Uncharted by Adriana Anders (audiobook)

The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren (audiobook)

Neon Gods by Katee Roberts (audiobook)

Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe 

INDIE BOOKSTORE DAY
Copper Dog Books
Gibson’s Bookstore

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As readers, we often fall into a bubble of reading the same type of book over and over, and our hosts are no stranger to that, which is why during this episode Ryan, Hillary, and Kelso temporarily set aside the Sci-Fi, the Fantasy, the Horror, the Queer Lit, and instead recommend "anything but fiction"!

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Books Mentioned During This Episode

RECENT READS

Kelso, https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/staff/kelso

The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel (May 4th)

Hillary, https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/staff/hillary

We Need New Stories: The Myths that Subvert Freedom by Nesrine Malik (May 11th)

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

My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones (August 31st) (audiobook)

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones (audiobook)
ANYTHING BUT FICTION

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (audiobook)

Hamilton: The Revolution by Jeremy McCarter & Lin-Manuel Miranda (audiobook)

Running with Sherman by Christopher McDougall (audiobook)

Disney’s Land by Richard Snow (audiobook)

Mousejunkies! by Bill Burke

Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World by Matt Parker (audiobook)

Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension by Matt Parker

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson (audiobook)

Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (audiobook)

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost 

The Painted Bed by Donald Hall

The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman (audiobook)

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier (audiobook)

You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier (audiobook)

24/6: Giving up Screens One Day a Week to Get More Time, Creativity, and Connection by Tiffany Shlain (audiobook)

Zed by Joanna Kavenna (audiobook)

The Circle by Dave Eggers (audiobook)

The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel (audiobook)

Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell (audiobook)

You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington by Alexis Coe (audiobook)

Meet Me In the Bathroom by Lizzy Goodman (audiobook)

Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature by Angus Fletcher (audiobook)

The Cycles of Constitutional Time by Jack M. Balkin

The Plague Cycle by Charles Kenny (audiobook)

Adventures in Eden by Carolyn Mullet

Murder Maps: Crime Scenes Revisited by Dr. Drew Gray

Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon Winchester (audiobook) (event recording)

A Good War is Hard to Find: The Art of Violence in America by David Griffith

POETRY FOR PEOPLE WHO THINK THEY DON'T LIKE POETRY
Buddy Wakefield
Taylor Mali
Amanda Gorman
Poetry Society of New Hampshire
Slam Free or Die
Conversations with Granite State Poets:

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Bonus Episode!
Ryan sat down remotely with local author Gledé Browne Kabongo to chat about her latest domestic thriller, OUR WICKED LIES, the New Hampshire Writers' Project, and more! Enjoy!

Gledé Browne Kabongo
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Our Wicked Lies

Swan DeceptionConspiracy of Silence
Learn more about the New Hampshire Writers' Project here: https://nhwritersproject.org/

Writing Background Noise: https://noises.online/

Other Books Mentioned During This Episode

Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers

Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene

The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks

The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

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Bookworms - you know the ones. Books that burrow into your heart and brain and stick with you long after you've turned the final page. In this episode, our hosts (with a little help from our listeners) examine their own favorite Bookworms to try and nail down exactly what makes a book stick with you!

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Books Mentioned During This Episode

RECENT READS

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

The Bright Lands by John Fram (audiobook)

The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey (audiobook)

Amari and the Night Brothers by B. B. Alston (audiobook)

The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo (June 1, 2021) (audiobook)

Kelso, https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/staff/kelso

Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn (audiobook)

Last Night at the Telegraph Club - Malinda Lo (audiobook)

Hillary, https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/staff/hillary

The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey (audiobook)

Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob by Russell Shorto (audiobook)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by JK Rowling (audiobook)

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (audiobook)

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (audiobook)

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern (audiobook)

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab (audiobook)

Kindred by Octavia Butler (libro.fm)

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt (audiobook)

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (audiobook)

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx (audiobook)

We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker (March 2, 2021) (audiobook)

Hamlet by William Shakespeare (audiobook)

Richard II by William Shakespeare (audiobook)

How to Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran (audiobook)

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (audiobook)

The Elegance of The Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (audiobook)

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (audiobook)

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (audiobook)

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (audiobook)

The Patience of a Dead Man by Michael Clark

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Welcome to 2021! We’re kicking off our third season with a look back at the best books we read in 2020! 
Click the link to purchase the book from our store, or click the "Libro.fm" link to get the Audiobook on Libro.fm. Thanks for shopping local!
Books Mentioned During This Episode

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

A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske (November 2021) (libro.fm)

Devolution by Max Brooks (libro.fm)

Kelso, https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/staff/kelso

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (libro.fm)

Kindred by Octavia Butler (libro.fm)

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston (libro.fm)

Hillary, https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/staff/hillary

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders (libro.fm)

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (libro.fm)

The Postscript Murders by Elly Griffiths (libro.fm)

The Agitators by Dorothy Wickenden (libro.fm)

Real Life by Brandon Taylor (libro.fm)

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (libro.fm)

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid (libro.fm)

The Unwilling by Kelly Braffett (libro.fm)

Sword in the Stars by A.R. Capetta & Cory McCarthy (libro.fm)

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin (libro.fm)

A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow (libro.fm)

A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green (libro.fm)

You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson (libro.fm)

Wonderland by Zoje Stage (libro.fm)

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth (libro.fm)

Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots (libro.fm)

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab (libro.fm)

Close to the Knives by David Wojnarowicz

Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier (libro.fm)

These Women by Ivy Pochoda (libro.fm)

Axiom’s End by Lindsay Ellis (libro.fm)

True Grit by Charles Portis (libro.fm)

Under the Rainbow by Celia Laskey (libro.fm)

Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke 

The Bright Lands by John Fram (libro.fm)

Dune by Frank Herbert (libro.fm)

The Way Back by Gavriel Savit (libro.fm)

Long Bright River by Liz Moore (libro.fm)

True Story by Kate Reed Petty (libro.fm)

The Cold Millions by Jess Walter (libro.fm)

Deacon King Kong by James McBride (libro.fm)

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke 

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (libro.fm)

Afterland by Lauren Beukes (libro.fm)

The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson (libro.fm)

Enter the Aardvark by Jessica Anthony (libro.fm)

You Let Me In by Camilla Bruce (libro.fm)

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It's the last episode of 2020, and we've got a fun one for you! Ryan, Hillary, and Kelso dissect their dauntingly huge To Be Read piles, they gush about Taylor Swift a little bit, and they go off on a tangent about Squishables. It's a grand old time! Enjoy!  

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Books Mentioned During This Episode

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

Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots (libro.fm)

A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske (November 2, 2021)

Pumpkin by Julie Murphy (May 25, 2021)

The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake (libro.fm)

Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi (libro.fm)

The Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke

Hillary, https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/staff/hillary

Every Vow You Break by Peter Swanson (libro.fm) (March 23, 2021)

Master of the Revels by Nicole Galland (libro.fm) (February 23, 2021)

The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen (March 2, 2021)

Wedding Station by David Downing (March 2, 2021)

The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr. (libro.fm) (January 5, 2021)

Four Hundred Souls by Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain (libro.fm) (February 2, 2021)

The Historians by Cecilia Ekbäck (libro.fm) (January 12, 2021)

The Invention of Miracles by Katie Booth (libro.fm) (April 6, 2021)

Kelso, https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/staff/kelso

The Power of Cute by Simon May (libro.fm) 

The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood (libro.fm)

Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension by Matt Parker

In The Woods by Tana French (libro.fm)

City of Brass by SA Chakraborty (libro.fm)

The Circle by Dave Eggers (libro.fm)

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (libro.fm)

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (libro.fm)

The Cold Millions by Jess Walter (libro.fm)

Deacon King Kong by James McBride (Book Club: March 1, 2021) (libro.fm)

Gibson's Bookstore Website
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