Thank you so much for attending today’s Alta Live with Bookshop.org’s Kayla Kleinman, Book Passage’s Luisa Smith, and Elliott Bay Book Company’s Rick Simonson. If you missed any part of our conversation, you can catch up right here.
Here’s a roundup of Kleinman’s, Smith’s, and Simonson’s suggestions:
Fiction
- Lessons in Chemistry, by Bonnie Garmus
- Last Summer on State Street, by Toya Wolfe
- Every Summer After, by Carley Fortune
- One Italian Summer, by Rebecca Serle
- The Mermaid of Black Conch, by Monique Roffey
- The Immortal King Rao, by Vauhini Vara
- Song of a Captive Bird and The Bohemians, by Jasmin Darznik
Nonfiction/History
- We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power, by Caleb Gayle
- Who Killed Jane Stanford? A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits, and the Birth of a University, by Richard White
- Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet As We Know It, by Kaitlyn Tiffany
- Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays, by Barry Lopez
- Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest, by Suzanne Simard
Biography/Memoir
- Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me, by Ada Calhoun
- Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life, by Delia Ephron
- Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk, by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe
- Ma and Me, by Putsata Reang
Mystery/True Crime
- Bad Actors, by Mick Herron
- It Could Be Anyone, by Jaime Lynn Hendricks
- The Counselors, by Jessica Goodman
- Two Nights in Lisbon, by Chris Pavone
Travel Writing/Travel Books
- Everyday Adventures: 50 New Ways to Experience Your Hometown, by Lonely Planet
- The Forest Feast Road Trip: Simple Vegetarian Recipes Inspired by My Travels Through California, by Erin Gleeson
- The Catch Me If You Can: One Woman’s Journey to Every Country in the World, by Jessica Nabongo
Poetry
- Collected Poems, by Gary Snyder
- The Hurting Kind, by Ada Limón
- Cipota Under the Moon, by Claudia Castro Luna
Young Adult/Kids
- Skandar and the Unicorn Thief, by A.F. Steadman
- The Tea Dragon Society, by K. O’Neill
- The Summer I Turned Pretty, by Jenny Han
- I Kissed Shara Wheeler, by Casey McQuiston
Essays/Short Stories
- In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing, by Elena Ferrante
- Ghost Lover, by Lisa Taddeo
- You’ve Changed: Fake Accents, Feminism, and Other Comedies from Myanmar, by Pyae Moe Thet War
- Sleeping Alone, by Ru Freeman
And check out these related links:
- Visit Book Passage in Corte Madera and San Francisco and Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle. Shop online at Bookshop.org.
- Read “'A Horrible Death to Die',” by Julia Flynn Siler, about the murder of Jane Stanford.
- Read a review of Ada Limón’s The Hurting Kind by John Freeman in Alta Journal.
- Join the California Book Club, a monthly virtual gathering devoted to literature from and about the Golden State. •
