Looking for some holiday purchases for friends or loved ones? On the hunt for some interesting booktalks?
Authorpods asked Northshire Bookstore what books are trending, what they’d recommend, and upcoming events they’re excited about scheduling for 2022.
Peruse their lists and consider purchasing your book through them in person; via Bookshop.org in the following links; or visit their online bookstore.
What Vermont authors are catching your eye at the moment?
We are fortunate to live in a state–even just a region of the state– with a host of wonderful authors.
- Mystery writer Archer Mayor returned with his 32nd Joe Gunther novel Marked Man.
- Eric Rickstad celebrated thriller writer released I Am Not Who You Think I Am.
- Brad Kessler, whose memoir Goat Song is a perennial staff and customer favorite, released North, a new novel that has been getting lots of attention and great reviews.
- And finally Nathaniel Ian Miller a debut Vermont author recently published The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven, named the #1 Indie Next Pick of November, and praised in a Northshire staff review as “a stunning meditation on friendship, compassion and familial love…this [is a] beautiful, heart-swelling novel.”
What upcoming book talk events are you most excited about?
Well, Northshire has not hosted in store book events with a presentation or seated audience in a long time. We’re tentatively scheduling events in 2022, and can’t wait to host authors in the store again. There are certainly a few things to get excited about: acclaimed Vermont writers like Chris Bohjalian and Meghan Mayhew Bergman, Booktopia the intimate weekend long literary festival will return in May, and on the top of my TBR list is Vermont writer Caren Beilin’s darkly hilarious Revenge of the Scapegoat scheduled for publication and reading in April!
What are popular genres among Vermont book buyers right now?
Fiction, History, Cookbooks, Mystery, SciFi.
What books within those genres would you recommend?
Fiction
Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land
Amor Towles’ The Lincoln Highway
Honorée Fanonne Jeffer’s The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Louise Erdrich’s The Sentence
Dolly Alderton’s Ghosts
History
Nathaniel Philbrick’s Travels with George
Katherine Howe and Anderson Cooper’s Vanderbilt
Toya Miles’ All That She Carried
Mary Crow Dog’s Lakota Woman
Cookbooks and Books about Food
Cecily Wong, Dylan Thomas and Atlas Obscura’s Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer’s Guide
David Chang and Priya Krishna’s Cooking at Home
Bryant Terry’s Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora
Mystery and Thriller
John Banville’s Snow and April in Spain
S.A. Cosby’s Razorblade Tears and Blacktop Wasteland
Louise Penny’s The Madness of Crowds
Hilary Clinton & Louise Penny’s State of Terror
Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club & The Man Who Died Twice
SciFi
Frank Herbert’s Dune
TJ Klune’s The House in the Cerulean Sean & Under the Whispering Door
Alix E. Harrow’s A Spindle Splintered
Martha Wells’ The MurderBot Diaries Series
About Northshire Bookstore
Northshire Bookstore is a family-owned, independent bookstore, with locations in Manchester Center, Vermont, and Saratoga Springs, New York and online.
With over 300,000 titles and treasures in each physical store, Northshire also offers over 10 million titles available for quick and convenient delivery to your home from our campus in the green hills of Vermont. Founded in 1976 by Ed & Barbara Morrow, Northshire Bookstore moved into the landmark Colburn House in 1985 and expanded again in 2003 adding another 10,000 square feet of books, events space and a café. In 2021, as the Morrow family moved to retirement, Clark & Lu French of Manchester, Vermont took over the ownership and stewardship of the Northshire Bookstores.
For a Northshire Book talk with AuthorPods author, Elizabeth Wilcox, about her book The Long Tail of Trauma, watch here.
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