Happy holidays, podworld! The Jennys are here to suggest gifts for you to buy for your loved ones — not just those who love books but those who love books slightly less than infinity! Wow such variety, we are podcast geniuses.
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Episode 110
Here are the time signatures if you want to skip around.
1:04 – What we’re reading
2:40 – Jennys’ Holiday Gift Guide
3:30 – Gifts for listeners’ loved ones
What We’re Reading
World War Z, Max Brooks
Wives of the Leopard: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey, Edna Bay
Whiskey Jenny’s Gift Ideas
A subscription to The Second Shelf
Prints from The Great British Baking Show (by Tom Hovey)
Literary Classics Calendar
Gmorning, Gnight: Little Pep Talks for Me & You, by Lin-Manuel Miranda
the cast recordings of Hadestown and Six: The Musical
Gin Jenny’s Gift Ideas
postcards by Paul Lewin and the Public Domain Review
Giant Microbes
Castle Hangnail, by Ursula Vernon
a mulled wine kit!
book embossers from The Print Mint
Book Gifts for Listeners
Ellen’s 11-year-old:
Escape to Witch Mountain, Alexander Key
Dactyl Hill Squad, Daniel Jose Older
Larklight, Philip Reeve
Book of Enchantments, Patricia C. Wrede
Ellen’s older kid:
Archer’s Goon or The Dark Lord of Derkholm, Diana Wynne Jones
The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy, Mackenzi Lee
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (novel), Shannon Hale and Dean Hale
Where’d You Go, Bernadette, Maria Semple (with the spoiler that Whiskey Jenny recommends)
Ellen’s mom:
A Curious Beginning, Deanna Raybourn
Vanessa and Her Sister, Priya Parmar
The Sirens Sang of Murder, Sarah Caudwell
Magpie Murders, Anthony Horowitz
Chelsea:
Amberlough, Lara Elena Donnelly
Lonely Werewolf Girl, Martin Millar
The Ensemble, Aja Gabel
I’ll Give You the Sun, Jandy Nelson
Good and Mad, Rebecca Traister
Renay’s mom:
The Convenient Marriage, Georgette Heyer
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, Helen Simonson
Overturned, Lamar Giles
Six Wakes, Mur Lafferty
Renay’s partner:
The Liminal People, Ayize Jama-Everett
The Rook, Daniel O’Malley
(The Hot Ones on YouTube)
Leviathan Wakes, James S. A. Corey
Endurance, Alfred Lansing
The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
Renay’s friend:
Fingersmith, Sarah Waters
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt
White Tears, Hari Kunzru
Confessions of the Fox, Jordy Rosenberg
Jane Doe, Victoria Helen Stone
I Can’t Date Jesus, Michael Arceneaux
Glynis’s husband:
Karen Memory, Elizabeth Bear
Patsy Walker, AKA Hellcat
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (comics)
The Vela, Yoon-Ha Lee, Rivers Solomon, S. L. Huang, and Becky Chambers
Endurance, Alfred Lansing
Mars Evacuees, Sophia MacDougall
Glynis:
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, Holly Black
Pyromantic, Lish McBride
Zero Sun Game, S. L. Huang
Borderline, Mishell Baker
Maureen’s mom:
Love Walked In, Marisa de los Santos
The Beautiful Ones, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
A Curious Beginning, Deanna Raybourn
All Creatures Great and Small, James Herriot
The Camelot Caper, Elizabeth Peters
David’s wife:
The Spellman Files, Lisa Lutz
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley, Hannah Tinti
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler
Fangirl, Rainbow Rowell
Free-floating recs from Whiskey Jenny:
The Mothers, Brit Bennett
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
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Credits
Producer: Captain Hammer
Photo credit: The Illustrious Annalee
Theme song by: Jessie Barbour
Transcripts by: Sharon of Library Hungry
Transcript is available under the jump!
