© 2025

Donate

Play Live Radio

Next Up:

0:00

0:00

0:00 0:00

Available On Air Stations

The Roundtable

Book Picks - Merritt Bookstore

By Joe Donahue

Published January 14, 2025 at 11:33 AM EST

This week's Book Picks come from Kira Wizner of Merritt Bookstore in Millbrook, New York.

List:

Guillotine by Deliah S. Dawson
Playworld by Adam Ross
I’ll Come to You by Rebecca Kauffman
Dirtbag Queen by Andy Corren
King: A Life by Jonathan Eig
The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever by Lydia Reeder
Rental House: A Novel by Weike Wang
Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
Going Home by Tom Lamont

Tags

The Roundtable Book Picks merritt bookstore book reviews kira wizner

Joe Donahue

Joe talks to people on the radio for a living. In addition to countless impressive human "gets" - he has talked to a lot of Muppets. Joe grew up in Philadelphia, has been on the area airwaves for more than 25 years and currently lives in Washington County, NY with his wife, Kelly, and their dog, Brady. And yes, he reads every single book.

See stories by Joe Donahue

Related Content

The Roundtable

Book Picks - The Book House and Open Door Bookstore

Sarah LaDuke

This week's Book Picks come from Cheryl McKeon from The Book House in Albany, New York and Lily Bartels from Open Door Bookstore in Schenectady, New York.
The Roundtable

Book Picks - Golden Notebook and Chatham Bookstore

Joe Donahue

This week's Book Picks come from Jackie Kellachan from the Golden Notebook in Woodstock, New York and Amy Zimmerman from Chatham Bookstore in Chatham, New York for our selections for the week.
The Roundtable

"The Imposters" by Tom Rachman

Joe Donahue

In Tom Rachman's "The Imposters," Dora Frenhofer, a once successful but now aging and embittered novelist, knows her mind is going. She is determined, however, to finish her final book, and reverse her fortunes, before time runs out. Alone in her London home during the pandemic, she creates, and is in turn created by, the fascinating real characters from her own life.
The Roundtable

Dr. Shai L. Butler's "Better - NOT Perfect: From Hot Mess to Life Success"

Sarah LaDuke

A self-described recovering perfectionist, Dr. Shai Butler, author of "Better. Not Perfect-From Hot Mess To Life Success" is leading a movement of women who are learning to give the same grace to themselves that they so freely give to others.

Load More