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The Roundtable

Book Picks: The Bookloft and Open Door Bookstore

By Joe Donahue
Published March 25, 2025 at 11:33 AM EDT
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This week's Book Picks come from Giovanni Boivin from The Bookloft in Great Barrington, MA and Lily Bartels from Open Door Bookstore in Schenectady, NY.

Giovanni:

  • Haunting of Room 904 by Erika T. Wurth
  • The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
  • Rose of Jericho by Alex Grecian
  • 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
  • Dinotopia by James Gurney

Lily:

  • The Jackal's Mistress by Chris Bohjalian
  • Waiting on the Moon by Peter Wolf
  • Taking Manhattan by Russell Shorto
  • Paradise Logic by Sophie Kemp
  • Deep Cuts by Holly Brickley
  • Black Woods Blue Sky by Eowyn Kivey
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