Literary expert Alison Law sat down with “City Lights” to discuss the best books to give as gifts this holiday season.
Previously, Law was the communications director for the Decatur Book Festival. She was also the creator and host of the podcast “Literary Atlanta.”
Along with her recommendations below, she also suggests checking out the National Book Awards and the Georgia Center for the Book’s 2019 “Books all Georgians Should Read” and “Books All Young Georgians Should Read” lists.
Law’s 2019 Book Recommendations:
- “Just Ask! Be Different, Be Brave, Be You” by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor
- “The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls” by Emmy Award-winning Atlanta journalist Anissa Gray
- “The Magnetic Girl” by Atlanta author Jessica Handler
- “Unmarriageable” by Soniah Kamal
- “The Tradition” by Jericho Brown (collection of poems)
- “Still Life with Mother and Knife” by Georgia’s Poet Laureate Chelsea Rathburn (collection of poems)
- “Deaf Republic: Poems” by Ilya Kaminsky (collection of poems)
- “Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide” by Tony Horwitz
- “Inland” by Téa Obreht
- “Mobituaries” by Mo Rocca
- “The Dutch House” by Ann Patchett (audiobook narrated by Tom Hanks)
- “Daisy Jones & The Six” by Taylor Jenkins Reid (audiobook narrated by Jennifer Beals)
- “Chief Inspector Armand Gamache Series” by Louise Penny
If you prefer to listen to your book while on the go, Law recommends the audiobook app, Libro. It’s an audiobook company that allows you to buy audiobooks directly through your local bookstore.
