Best Of December 2018 (Plus Winter and Christmas Kids Books)
This week, Jenn and María Cristina discuss Revolution Sunday, Here Comes Jack Frost, Once Upon a River, A Loud Winter’s Nap, and more great books.
This episode was sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Riddance; or, The Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children by Shelley Jackson, and Third Love.
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BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW:
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats (video read aloud)
Here Comes Jack Frost by Kazuno Kohara
Revolution Sunday by Wendy Guerra, translated by Achy Obejas
Goodbye Autumn, Hello Winter by Kenard Pak
Hex Vet: Witches in Training by Sam Davies (Dec 18)
Little Santa by Jon Agee
Santa Duck by David Milgrim
My Favorite Half-Night Stand by Christina Lauren
A Loud Winter’s Nap by Katy Hudson
Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield (tw: domestic violence, suicide, harm to children)
WHAT WE’RE READING
Guidebook to Relative Strangers by Camille T. Dungy (Persist Instagram Book Club!)
MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK
The Dakota Winters by Tom Barbash
Hong Kong Noir (Akashic Noir Series) by Jason Y. Ng and Susan Blumberg-Kason
North of Dawn: A Novel by Nuruddin Farah
Strange Days by Constantine J. Singer
Hearts of the Missing by Carol Potenza
The Songbird by Marcia Willett
King of the Road by R. S. Belcher
Milkman by Anna Burns
Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful by Arwen Elys Dayton
At the End of the Century: The stories of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Fire & Heist by Sarah Beth Durst
Queen of Air and Darkness (The Dark Artifices) by Cassandra Clare
Once a King (Clash of Kingdoms) by Erin Summerill
Radiant Shimmering Light by Sarah Selecky
Unpresidented: A Biography of Donald Trump by Martha Brockenbrough
How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning by George Lakey
The Accidental Beauty Queen by Teri Wilson
The Mansion: A Novel by Ezekiel Boone
The Great War in America: World War I and Its Aftermath by Garrett Peck
King of the Dinosaur Hunters: The Life of John Bell Hatcher and the Discoveries that Shaped Paleontology by Lowell Dingus
The Deadly Deep: The Definitive History of Submarine Warfare by Iain Ballantyne
Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War II by John Strausbaugh
For the Sake of the Game: Stories Inspired by the Sherlock Holmes Canon by Laurie R. King (editor), Leslie S. Klinger (editor)
Murder at the Mill: A Mystery (The Iris Grey Mysteries) by M. B. Shaw
The Man Who Would Be Sherlock: The Real-Life Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle by Christopher Sandford
Theater of the World: The Maps that Made History by Thomas Reinertsen Berg
