The Book Riot Podcast, #50: Gift Recommendations for Moms, Dads, and Grads
The Book Riot Podcast, Episode #50: 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. You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (click here) or via RSS (link here). You can also download a free dedicated app for iOS or for Android. Links discussed in the show: Book Riot Podcast Holiday Gift Guide Swiss Army Recommendations 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 ____________________________Browse previous episodes of The Book Riot Podcast.
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