Season 5 Ep. 112 Early Bird Holiday Book Buys with Bookseller Sam Miller 11-10-21

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast

In this week’s episode, we talk to our favorite bookseller, Sam Miller from Carmichael’s Books, about the holiday gift giving season. You’ve probably heard the warning to “shop early’ this holiday season because of shortages. So we are giving you the gift of new book ideas for all the booklovers in your life.

We love inviting Sam on the show twice a year to tell us all about books to look forward to for summer reading and holiday gift buying. She gives us suggestions in all the categories.

1- Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
2- The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
3- The Every by Dave Eggers
4- The Circle by Dave Eggers
5- Palmares by Gail Jones
6- Tell the Bees That I'm Gone (Outlander 9) by Diana Gabaldon
7- The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
8- Dune by Frank Herbert
9- Foundation by Isaac Asimov
10- Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
11- All the Light You Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
12- Mordew by Alex Pheby
13- A Fortnight in September by JC Sherriff
14- Jim the Boy by Tony Earley
15- The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
16- First Christmas: A Story of New Beginnings by Stephen Mitchell
17- Secret Santa by Andrew Shaffer
18- It's Beginning to Look a Lot like F*ck This by Andrew Shaffer
19- Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
20- It's Beginning to Look Like Zombies: The Book of Zombie Christmas Carols by Michael Spradlin
21- Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian
22- Silverview by John Le Carre
23- The Big Book of Victorian Mysteries by Otto Penzler
24- Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village by Jay Cooper and Maureen Johnson
25- Smile by Sarah Ruhl
26- The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People by Rick Bragg
27- The Prince of Frogtown by Rick Bragg
28- Renegades: Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama
29- The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones
30- The 1619 Project: Born on the Water by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renee Watson
31- Best Wishes, Warmest Regards by Dan Levy and Eugene Levy
32- Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
33- Cooking at Home by David Chang and Priya Krishna
34- Black Food by Bryant Terry
35- Garlic and the Vampire by Bree Paulsen
36- All the Marvels by Douglas Wolk
37- The Beatryce Prophecy by Kate DiCamillo
38- A Dark Room in Glitter Ball City by David Domine
39- The Strange Case of Isaac Crawley by James Markert
40- Doctors and Friends by Kimmery Martin
41- Theft by Finding Diaries by David Sedaris
42- The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins
43- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
45- Circe by Madeline Miller
46- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
47- Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
48- Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
49- Eligible: A modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice by Curtis Sittenfeld
50- Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson
51- Shirley: A Novel by Susan Scarf Merrell
52- The Letters of Shirley Jackson edited by Laurence Jackson Hyman
53- The Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith
54- Whiskey and Ribbons by Leesa Cross-Smith

Shows mentioned
1- Foundation series (2021)
2- Shirley (2020)

Podcasts mentioned
1- Renegades