Today Maile and I are joined by our son Cade who occasionally works in the bookshop this summer while home from college. He shares the book series that changed his mind about chapter books when he was young, the first four books Shawn gave him when he was old enough for the general market, and we do a deep-dive into one of his favorite authors: Fredrik Backman (and his latest book, My Friends).
Books mentioned during the conversation:
The Original Adventures of Hank the Cow Dog by John Erickson
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
Us Against You by Fredrik Backman
The Winners by Fredrik Backman
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
My Friends by Fredrik Backman
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
The Antidote by Karen Russell
The Brothers K by David James Duncan
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Here One Moment by Lianne Moriarty
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
This is Happiness by Niall Williams
All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Florida by Lauren Groff
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