May I Recommend: Episode 3: Spring 2020 Recs Recap! 

The stakes could not be higher: Can best buds who also run a bookstore guess one another's top five books pubbing in spring 2020 that they are most excited to read? Failing to do so might mean reevaluating both their chosen profession and abiding friendship, so tune in to see if all's well that ends well.

EPISODE 3: Spring 2020 Recs Recap! 

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The stakes could not be higher: Can best buds who also run a bookstore guess one another’s top five books coming out in spring 2020 they are most excited to read? Failing to do so might mean reevaluating both their chosen profession and abiding friendship, so tune in to see if all’s well that ends well. Note: Linda erroneously refers to the short story collection F*ckface by Leah Hampton as a novel, but this in no way diminishes her eagerness to read the collection as soon as possible. 

The full list of books below:

  • A Luminous Republic, Andrés Barba, translated by Lisa Dillman

  • Strange Hotel by Eimear McBride

  • Little Eyes, Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell

  • All the Gay Saints by Kayleb Rae Candrill

  • Officer Clemmons: A Memoir by Dr. François S. Clemmons

  • Shiner by Amy Jo Burns

  • Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing

  • On Lighthouses by Jazmina Barrera

  • Pew by Catherine Lacey

  • Rodham: A Novel by Curtis sittenfield

  • Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity by Porochista Khakpour

  • F*ckface by Leah Hampton

  • Latitudes of Longing: A Novel by Shubhangi Swarup  

  • The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist by Adrian Tomine

  • Minor Detail by Adania Shibli, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette

  • Nine moons by Gabriella Wiener, translated by Jessica Powell

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