Season 5 Ep. 112 Early Bird Holiday Book Buys with Bookseller Sam Miller 11-10-21

In this week’s episode, we talk to our favorite bookseller, Sam Miller from Carmichael’s Books, about the holiday gift giving season. You’ve probably heard the warning to “shop early’ this holiday season because of shortages. So we are giving you the gift of new book ideas for all the booklovers in your life. We love inviting Sam on the show twice a year to tell us all about books to look forward to for summer reading and holiday gift buying. She gives us suggestions in all the categories. 1- Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 2- The Sentence by Louise Erdrich 3- The Every by Dave Eggers 4- The Circle by Dave Eggers 5- Palmares by Gail Jones 6- Tell the Bees That I'm Gone (Outlander 9) by Diana Gabaldon 7- The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune 8- Dune by Frank Herbert 9- Foundation by Isaac Asimov 10- Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr 11- All the Light You Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 12- Mordew by Alex Pheby 13- A Fortnight in September by JC Sherriff 14- Jim the Boy by Tony Earley 15- The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin 16- First Christmas: A Story of New Beginnings by Stephen Mitchell 17- Secret Santa by Andrew Shaffer 18- It's Beginning to Look a Lot like F*ck This by Andrew Shaffer 19- Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris 20- It's Beginning to Look Like Zombies: The Book of Zombie Christmas Carols by Michael Spradlin 21- Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian 22- Silverview by John Le Carre 23- The Big Book of Victorian Mysteries by Otto Penzler 24- Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village by Jay Cooper and Maureen Johnson 25- Smile by Sarah Ruhl 26- The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People by Rick Bragg 27- The Prince of Frogtown by Rick Bragg 28- Renegades: Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama 29- The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones 30- The 1619 Project: Born on the Water by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renee Watson 31- Best Wishes, Warmest Regards by Dan Levy and Eugene Levy 32- Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci 33- Cooking at Home by David Chang and Priya Krishna 34- Black Food by Bryant Terry 35- Garlic and the Vampire by Bree Paulsen 36- All the Marvels by Douglas Wolk 37- The Beatryce Prophecy by Kate DiCamillo 38- A Dark Room in Glitter Ball City by David Domine 39- The Strange Case of Isaac Crawley by James Markert 40- Doctors and Friends by Kimmery Martin 41- Theft by Finding Diaries by David Sedaris 42- The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins 43- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 45- Circe by Madeline Miller 46- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 47- Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee 48- Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 49- Eligible: A modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice by Curtis Sittenfeld 50- Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson 51- Shirley: A Novel by Susan Scarf Merrell 52- The Letters of Shirley Jackson edited by Laurence Jackson Hyman 53- The Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith 54- Whiskey and Ribbons by Leesa Cross-Smith Shows mentioned 1- Foundation series (2021) 2- Shirley (2020) Podcasts mentioned 1- Renegades