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The Roundtable

Book Picks - The Odyssey Bookshop and The Bookstore in Lenox

By Joe Donahue
Published August 20, 2024 at 11:33 AM EDT
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This week's Book Picks come from Jesse Hassinger from The Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley, Massachusetts and Matt Tannenbaum from The Bookstore in Lenox, Massachusetts.

Jesse:

  • There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
  • Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
  • Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
  • There is a Rio Grande in Heaven by Ruben Reyes, Jr.
  • The Rich People Have Gone Away by Regina Porter

Matt:

  • When the News Broke by Heather Hendershot
  • The Bookshop by Evan Friss
  • Reading the Room by Paul Yamazaki
  • The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
  • Old Corfu by Maria Victoria Douka (photograph/art book)
  • Paradise Bronx by Ian Frazier
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