The Book Riot Podcast, Episode #30: The Nerdiest of Elves
The Book Riot Podcast, Episode #30: The Nerdiest of Elves
This week, Jeff and Rebecca take a break from the news to talk about what books to give as gifts this holiday season. They answer listener recommendation requests, give general recommendations, and even give recommendations for each other. This episode is sponsored by Random House’s 2013 Holiday Guide.
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Here are the books we recommended, for a whole range of readers:
Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell
The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
Charlatan by Pope Brock
Harry Truman’s Excellent Adventure by Matthew Algeo
Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
A Rogue by Any Other Name by Sarah Maclean
Fables by Bill Willingham
Provence, 1970 by Luke Barr
Born Round by Frank Bruni
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice
Anything That Moves by Dana Goodyear
L.A. Son by Ray Choi
Life is Meals by James and Kay Salter
The Passage by Justin Cronin
Reality Boy by A.S. King
Ask the Passengers by A.S. King
Everybody Sees the Ants by A.S. King
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Troubled Man by Henning Menkel
Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
The Sparrow by Maria Dora Russell
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Home by Marilynne Robinson
Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
When Women Were Birds by Terry Tempest Williams
Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway
Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
She Matters by Susanna Sonnenberg
This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
Diving Belles by Lucy Wood
Saga by Brian K. Vaughn
Hawkeye by Matt Fraction
The Paris Architect by Charles Baudelaire
The Two Hotels Francfort by David Leavitt
The Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Department of Speculation by Jenny Offill
I Married You For Happiness by Lily Tuck
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