Holiday Book Suggestions from the Books & Books Buying Team
Gaël LeLamer: Head Book Buyer
Fathoms: The World in the Whale By: Rebecca Giggs
Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own By: Eddie Glaude, Jr.
The Bear By: Andrew Krivak
American Utopia By: David Byrne
Via Negativa: A Novel By: Daniel Hornsby
Vesper Flights By: Helen MacDonald
Wow, No Thank You: Essays By: Samantha Irby
To Be a Man: Stories By: Nicole Krauss
Cleanness By: Garth Greenwell
Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir By: Rebecca Solnit
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Todos los cuentos By: Gabriel García Márquez
The Lying Life of Adults By: Elena Ferrante
Piranesi By: Susannah Clarke
The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers By: Eric Weiner
Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise By: Scott Eyman
A Promised Land By: President Barack Obama
Caste (Oprah’s Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents By: Isabel Wilkerson
El arquero By: Paolo Coelho
Línea de fuego / Line of Fire By: Arturo Pérez Reverte
Nasla’s Dream By: Cécile Roumiguire
Digging for Words: José Alberto Gutiérrez and the Library He Built By: Angela Burke Kunkle
Mythopedia: An Encyclopedia of Mythical Beasts and Their Magical Tales By: Good Wives and Warriors
Muse Squad: The Cassandra Curse By: Chantel Acevedo
Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky) By: Rebecca Roanhorse
Legendborn By: Tracy Deonn
Lobizona: A Novel (Wolves of No World #1) By: Romina Garber
A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow By: Laura Taylor Namey
Cristina Russell: Children’s & YA Book Buyer
The Year of Dangerous Days: Riots, Refugees, and Cocaine in Miami 1980 By: Nicholas Griffin
The Last Resort: Jewish South Beach, 1977-1986 By: Gary Monroe
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry By: Joy Harjo, Jennifer Elise Foerster, LeAnne Howe
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (LOA #333): A Library of America Anthology By: Kevin Young
I Am Children’s Books By: Brad Meltzer
Deacon King Kong: A Novel By: James McBride
Squeeze Me: A Novel By: Carl Hiaasen
Homeland Elegies: A Novel By: Ayad Akhtar
His Only Wife By: Peace Adzo Medie
What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era By: Carlos Lozada
Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art By: Antwaun Sargent (Editor), Thomas Lax (Text by (Art/Photo Books)
The Look of the Book: Jackets, Covers, and Art at the Edges of Literature By: Peter Mendelsund and David J. Alworth
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book By: James Raven
Rodham: A Novel By: Curtis Sittenfeld
A Burning: A Novel By: Megha Majumdar
Accidentally Wes Anderson By: Wally Koval and Wes Anderson
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family By: Robert Kolker
Mitchell Kaplan: Owner, Books & Books