Happy Independent Bookstore Day!
"An amazing place to find signed copies and first editions from your favorite authors, or just to stumble across books you never realized you needed in your life."
Suggested by Jean-Luc Bouchard
Suggested by Nina Mohan
"It's Louise Erdrich's bookstore!"
Suggested by Molly Hensley-Clancy
(So far.)
Below are the books that have been highest-rated by users, and that are also getting added to tons of "Want to Read" lists.
Yanagihara's novel follows a friendship over decades — four college classmates move from Massachusetts to New York, and their relationships change and grow as they live through heartbreak, ambition, addiction, and professional success. But it's one member of the group, the magnetic litigator Jude, whose troubled childhood keeps rearing its head.
Doubleday
Christopher Scotton gives us the coming-of-age tale of 14-year-old Kevin, who spends a summer in Kentucky with his mother after witnessing the tragic death of his brother. He ends up befriending a local boy named Buzzy who teaches him how to survive in this rundown Appalachian town as it's threatened by a powerful company looking to plunder it.
Grand Central Publishing
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31 Independent Bookstores That Are Every Book Lover's Dream