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 Keegan2- The Sentence by Louise Erdrich3- The Every by Dave Eggers4- The Circle by Dave Eggers5- Palmares by Gail Jones6- Tell the Bees That I'm Gone (Outlander 9) by Diana Gabaldon7- The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune8- Dune by Frank Herbert9- Foundation by Isaac Asimov10- Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr11- All the Light You Cannot See by Anthony Doerr12- Mordew by Alex Pheby13- A Fortnight in September by JC Sherriff14- Jim the Boy by Tony Earley15- The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin16- First Christmas: A Story of New Beginnings by Stephen Mitchell17- Secret Santa by Andrew Shaffer18- It's Beginning to Look a Lot like F*ck This by Andrew Shaffer19- Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris20- It's Beginning to Look Like Zombies: The Book of Zombie Christmas Carols by Michael Spradlin21- Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian22- Silverview by John Le Carre23- The Big Book of Victorian Mysteries by Otto Penzler24- Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village by Jay Cooper and Maureen Johnson25- Smile by Sarah Ruhl26- The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People by Rick Bragg27- The Prince of Frogtown by Rick Bragg28- Renegades: Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama29- The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones30- The 1619 Project: Born on the Water by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renee Watson31- Best Wishes, Warmest Regards by Dan Levy and Eugene Levy32- Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci33- Cooking at Home by David Chang and Priya Krishna34- Black Food by Bryant Terry35- Garlic and the Vampire by Bree Paulsen36- All the Marvels by Douglas Wolk37- The Beatryce Prophecy by Kate DiCamillo38- A Dark Room in Glitter Ball City by David Domine39- The Strange Case of Isaac Crawley by James Markert40- Doctors and Friends by Kimmery Martin41- Theft by Finding Diaries by David Sedaris42- The Wife Upstair by Rachel Hawkins43- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte45- Circe by Madeline Miller46- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee47- Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee48- Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys49- Eligible: A modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice by Curtis Sittenfeld50- Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson51- Shirley: A Novel by Susan Scarf Merrell52- The Letters of Shirley Jackson edited by Laurence Jackson Hyman53- The Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith54- Whiskey and Ribbons by Leesa Cross-Smith

Shows mentioned1- Foundation series (2021)2- Shirley (2020)

Podcasts mentioned1- Renegades