Gift Recommendations for Moms, Dads, and Grads
In this special episode, Jeff and Rebecca field listener book recommendation requests for gifts for moms, dads, and grads. This episode is sponsored by Oyster and our own summer tshirt.
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Book Riot Podcast Holiday Gift Guide
Books Mentioned
Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Cinnamon and Gunpowder by Eli Brown
Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway
Doc by Mary Doria Russell
The Sister Brothers by Patrick deWitt
The Snowman by Jo Nesbo
Dare Me by Megan Abbott
Out by Natsuo Kirino
The Hunters by James Salter
Zone One by Colson Whitehead
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
Possession by A.S. Byatt
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan
An Offer From a Gentleman by Julia Quinn
The Martian by Andy Weir
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
Deployment by Phil Klay
What It Is Like To Go To War by Karl Marlantes
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison
Living with a Wild God by Barbara Ehrenreich
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple
Arcadia by Lauren Groff
When Women Were Birds by Terry Tempest Williams
Cowboys Are My Weakness by Pam Houston
The Siren by Tiffany Reisz
The Rules of Scoundrels series by Sarah MacLean
Provenance by Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo
You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney
The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Stiff by Mary Roach
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson
Ask the Passengers by A.S. King
Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
The Group by Mary McCarthy
Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Beowulf on the Beach by Jack Murnighan
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