Whether you’re looking to get a jump on crafting your holiday wish list or just looking for a fantastic read, our literary experts have you covered!
Our very own Roxanne Coady recently had the pleasure of hosting a live event with Penguin Random House publishing powerhouses Michael Kindness, Jennifer Black and author, Matthew Dicks. The event, which took place at the JCC in West Hartford, Connecticut, was titled “Buzz About Books” and Just the Right Book Podcast was there every step of the way! If you’re trying to fill your holiday wish list with amazing titles, look no further!
Stay tuned after the events to hear what folks are reading, straight from the New York Public Library in New York City.
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
I Can’t Make This Up: Life Lessons by Kevin Hart
Al Franken, Giant of the Senate by Al Franken
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Georgia: A Novel of Georgia O’Keeffe by Dawm Tripp
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
You’re the Only One I Can Tell: Inside the Language of Women’s Friendships by Deborah Tannen
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper
Endurance: A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery by Scott Kelly
Spaceman: An Astronaut’s Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe by Mike Massimino
The Arrangement by Sarah Dunn
The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens’s a Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits by Les Standiford
The Match: The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever by Mark Frost
Dinner at the Center of the Earth by Nathan Englander
Forest Dark by Nicole Krauss
Einstein and the Rabbi: Searching for the Soul by Naomi Levy
The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
Underground Airlines by Ben Winters
Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg
Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice by Adam Makos
The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir by Jennifer Ryan
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life: Essays by Samantha Irby Neverwhere (Audio) by Neil Gaiman
Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo
Chemistry by Weike Wang
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression by Daphne Merkin
Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage by Dani Shapiro
A Grandfather’s Lessons: In the Kitchen with Shorey by Jacques Pepin
Dying: A Memoir by Cory Taylor
Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
Behold the Dreamers (Oprah’s Book Club) by Imbolo Mbue
If This Isn’t Nice, What Is?: Advice to the Young: The Graduation Speeches by Kurt Vonnegut
Rules for a Knight by Ethan Hawke
Smitten Kitchen Every Day: Triumphant and Unfussy New Favorites by Deb Perelman
The Whites by Richard Price
Fermat’s Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem by Amir D. Azcel
Natural Childbirth the Bradley Way: Revised Edition by Susan McCutcheon
