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Wrapping Up Holiday Recommendation Requests & Our Most Giftable Books of the Year

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Jeff and Rebecca handle a few last recommendation requests and then give some ideas for generally giftable books for 2023.
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Taste by Stanley Tucci
Walking with Sam by Andrew McCarthy
Oh My Mother! by Connie Wang
Alone Time by Stephanie Rosenbloom
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
From Scratch by Tembi Locke
How to Excavate a Heart by Jake Maia Arlow
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow
The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh
The English Understand Wool by Helen Dewitt
Bad Cree by Jessica Johns
The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz
Wild Girls by Tiya Miles
Sex, Death, and Fly-Fishing by John Gierach
Hidden Mountains by Michael Wejchert
Ross Gay
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters of Note by Shaun Usher (volumes on Art and Love)
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
World of Wonders by Johanna Basford
Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars by Kate Greene
Major Labels by Kelefa Sanneh
From Hollywood with Love by Scott Meslow
Cork Dork by Bianca Bosker
Airplane Mode by Shahnaz Habib
Sigrid Nunez
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
The Professor’s House by Willa Cather
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Blackouts by Justin Torres
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Going Infinite by Michael Lewis
The Wager by David Grann
The Book of (More) Delights by Ross Gay
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