In this episode, Michelle Beckwith recommends books to gift others—or yourself! As a book reviewer Michelle reads A LOT, and she considers these books her "best of the best" of the past year. It's not too late to hop down to your local bookshop, and pick up a last-minute gift!

We also discuss literary versus contemporary fiction, the beauty of preordering a book, and Michelle's rather large one new thing.

In this episode, we reference:

Book Reporter

@caseygirlsread on Instagram

@booksandchicks on Instagram

Thoughts From a Page podcast

Net Galley

Books we discuss:

The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson

The Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson

The Glass Chateau by Stephen Kiernan

Go As a River by Shelley Read

Being Henry: The Fonz...and Beyond by Henry Winkler

Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

Falling by T.J. Newman

Drowning by T.J. Newman

A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny

The Last Orphan by Gregg Hurwitz

The Last Devil to Die  by Richard Osman

The Spy Coast by Tess Gerritsen

The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger

This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger

No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister

Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan

Same Time Next Summer by Annabel Monaghan

Where the Grass Grows Blue by Hope Gibbs

Pirate Hunters by Robert Kurson

Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson

The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins

The Women by Kristin Hannah

You can follow Michelle on Instagram @bookshelfbybeckwith

Follow along with me @PamelaLamp2 on Instagram and @PamelaLamp on Facebook

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