This Month's Picks From Indie Booksellers

From: Penguin Random House - Tuesday Dec 28,2021 05:31 pm

We asked indie booksellers what books they're reading and loving this month!

Whitehead's expert crafting of this book cannot be overstated. His characters, setting, and depth of feeling are what will carry this, and all his work, into the immortal canon of American literature.

—Jamie Southern, Bookmarks

Harlem Shuffle
By Colson Whitehead

Harlem Shuffle's ingenious story plays out in a beautifully recreated New York City of the early 1960s. It's a family saga masquerading as a crime novel, a hilarious morality play, a social novel about race and power, and ultimately a love letter to Harlem.

But mostly, it's a joy to read, another dazzling novel from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning Colson Whitehead.
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What kid (or kid at heart) doesn’t enjoy a trip to the circus? And mix in a mystery, even better! I thoroughly enjoyed investigating the Hart and Halloway circus crew.

—Janice Rhine, Bookworm

Murder Under Her Skin
By Stephen Spotswood

The new Pentecost and Parker Mystery is a delightfully hard-boiled high-wire act starring two daring heroines dead set on justice as they set out to solve a murder at a traveling circus.
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Jodi Picoult continues to amaze us with her masterful storytelling. I feel she captured the loneliness, isolation, and heartbreak we have all experienced in the last year and a half, but also added hope, strength, and resilience.

—Kathy Morrison, Newtown Bookshop

Wish You Were Here
By Jodi Picoult

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and The Book of Two Ways comes “a powerfully evocative story of resilience and the triumph of the human spirit” (Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Malibu Rising).
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