Christmas Reads for a Cynical Listener

Jeff and Rebecca are back with another holiday recommendation show. Part 2 coming on Monday.

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Little Blue Truck

Little Pea by Amy Rosenthal

I Love You, Stinky Face by Lisa McCourt

Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

Real Americans by Rachel Khong

A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst

The Lost Man by Jane Harper

Highway 59 series by Attica Locke

Tilt by Emma Pattee

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl

Katabasis by R. F. Kuang

The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin

The Wright Brothers by David McCullough

The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

We the People by Jill Lepore

Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

It’s Only Drowning by David Litt

The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt

The Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung

Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood

Blob by Maggie Su

The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff

Matrix by Lauren Groff

The Princess in Black by Shannon Hale

Survivor’s Guilt by Robyn Gigl

Jinx Ballou series by Dharma Kelleher

How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe by Charles Yu

Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway

The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway

Perfect Little World by Kevin Wilson

Audition by Katie Kitamura

A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar

Palaver by Bryan Washington

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff

Mr. Ives' Christmas by Oscar Hijuelos

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Winter by Ali Smith

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