2023 Holiday Recommendation Show, Part 1

Jeff and Rebecca respond to listener book recommendation requests.
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Discussed in this episode:
TBR!
First Edition!
The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
From Strength to Strength by Arthur C. Brooks
Together by Vivek H. Murthy
The Other Significant Others by Rhaina Cohen
LitHub’s list of Midlife Coming-of-Age Novels
Inciting Joy by Ross Gay
Joan is Okay by Weike Wang
All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
Me (Moth) by Amber McBride
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
Snacking Bakes by Yossy Arefi
The King Arthur Baking School by King Arthur Baking Company
How to Bake Everything by Mark Bittman
No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol
Women Without Kids by Ruby Warrington
Self, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed edited by Meghan Daum
Regretting Motherhood by Orna Donath
Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
Erasure by Percival Everett
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
There’s a Book Riot list for that!
The Hike by Drew Magary
The Last Final Girls by Stephen Graham Jones
Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughan
Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Good Life by Robert Waldinger & Marc Schulz
I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
The Perfectionists by Simon Winchester
The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
Celeste Ng
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal
Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor
"15 LGBTQ Haunted Horror Novels"
"8 of the Best Queer Horror Books"
"Great New Queer Horror To Read This Fall"
Queer Comics Database is a thing and has a list for this!
A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy
Andy Weir
Michael Lewis
S.A. Cosby
In the Shadow of the Mountain by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
The Guide by Peter Heller
The Lost Man by Jane Harper
The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman
A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraquib
Cultish by Amanda Montell
Paved Paradise by Henry Grabar
Empire of the Sum by Keith Houston
The Mysterious Case of Rudolph Diesel by Douglas Brunt
Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt
How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson
The Alchemy of Us by Ainissa Ramirez
The Barbarian Nurseries by Héctor Tobar
The Searcher by Tana French
The collected Patrick O’Brien on audio
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
NK Jemisin
Pico Iyer
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