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The Roundtable

Book Picks - Bennington Bookshop and The Bookstore in Lenox

By Joe Donahue
Published October 1, 2024 at 11:35 AM EDT
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This week's Book Picks come from are Phil Lewis from Bennington Bookshop in Bennington, Vermont and Matt Tannenbaum from The Bookstore in Lenox, Massachusetts.

Matt:

  • Prisoner of Lies: Jack Downey's Cold War by Barry Werth
  • Our Green Heart: The Soul and Science of Forests by Diana Beresford-Kroeger
  • Playground by Richard Powers
  • The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker by Amy Reading
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (100th anniversary coming up!)

Phil:

  • Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
  • Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson
  • The Women on Platform Two by Laura Anthony
  • The Bookbinder by Pip Williams
  • The River is Waiting by Wally Lamb
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