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Book Picks - Oblong Books and Chatham Bookstore

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This week's Book Picks come from Amy Zimmerman from Chatham Bookstore in Chatham, New York and Suzanna Hermans of Oblong Books in Rhinebeck and Millerton, New York.

Combined list:

  • The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
  • Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
  • Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
  • Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan
  • Shanghailanders by Juli Min
  • Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin
  • Vladivostok Circus by Elisa Shua Dusapin, translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins
  • Leaving by Roxana Barry Robinson
  • After Annie by Anna Quindlen
  • Shopkeeping: Stories, Advice, and Observations by Peter Miller
  • Reading the Room: A Bookseller's Tale by Paul Yamazaki
  • Ten Bridges I've Burnt by Brontez Purnell
  • And Then? And Then? What Else? by Daniel Handler
  • Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All by Chanel Miller
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