2021 Holiday Gift Recommendations from the Booksellers at Books & Books

On today’s episode of The Literary Life, Mitchell Kaplan talks to three members of his bookselling team at Books & Books, Cristina Nosti, Cristina Russell, and Gaël LeLamer, about the books to give this holiday season.

Selections from the Books & Books Team:

Soled Out by Simon Wood · Kaws: What Party by Brian Donnelly · A Small Book of Jewish Comedians by Bobby Slayton and Tony Nourmand · Colorization: 100 Years of Black Films in a White World by Will Haygood · The Tiny Sea and The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle · Godlis: Miami by David Godlis · The Year of Dangerous Days by Nicholas Griffin · Bewilderment by Richard Powers · The Between by Tananarive Due · Frida Kahlo: The Complete Paintings by Luis Martin Lozano, Andres Kettenmann, and Marina Vazquez Ramos · A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraqib · Battle for the Big Top: PT Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus by Les Standiford · Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could by Adam Schiff · Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane by Paul Auster · Stephen Crane: Prose & Poetry from Library of America · Matrix by Lauren Groff · Forgone by Russell Banks · 100 Things We’ve Lost to the Internet by Pamela Paul · The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present by Paul McCartney, Edited by Paul Muldoon · Renegades: Born in the USA by Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen · Will by Will Smith · Orwell’s Roses by Rebecca Solnit · I AM Series by Brad Meltzer

Check out the full list at the Books & Books’ Bookshop.org page.

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