This might be the ultimate gift-giving episode for all the Bookmarked listeners out there. This week, Danielle gets to sit down with two book bosses and indie bookstore owners, Lucy Yu (Yu and Me Books in New York City) and Emma Straub (Books Are Magic in Brooklyn, NY). Danielle gets to find out what books are hitting their stores’ best-of lists for the year, what books are surprising them, and what books they can't stop thinking about. Danielle also gets to ask Lucy and Emma to come up with books that fit some very specific shopping requests from Bookmarked listeners. This episode is also for everyone out there who has romanticized the dream of owning a bookstore, whoever pictured themselves as Meg Ryan in You've Got Mail (I know you all have). Find out what it's really like to run a little shop around the corner. BOOKS MENTIONED: Adult Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers by Stephanie M. Kriesberg PsyD Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay Gibson The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott The City in Which I Love You by Li-young Lee Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts by Margaret Atwood Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte The Village Beyond the Mist by Sachiko Kashiwaba Strange Pictures by Uketsu Strange Houses by Uketsu Murder on Sex Island: A Luella Van Horn Mystery by Jo Firestone Audition by Katie Kitamura Heart the Lover by Lily King All Fours by Miranda July How Stella Got Her Groove Back by Terry McMillan A Merry Little Meet Cute by Julie Murphy Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa We’ll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying by Youngmi Mayer Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Jo-tzu Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens A Couple by Eliette Abécassis Bad Bad Girl by Gish Jen Go Gentle by Maria Semple The Great Reclamation by Rachel Heng A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Flirting Lessons by Jasmine Guillory Bahn Mi for Two by Trinity Nguyen Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews The Art Thief by Michael Finkel The Details by Ia GenbergSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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