Fiction: 
Small Mercies: by Dennis Lehane
The Guest: by Emma Cline
The Lincoln Highway: by Amor Towles
Demon Copperhead: by Barbara Kingsolver
Murder Your Employer: by Rupert Holmes
The East Indian: by Brinda Charry**
Tom Lake: by Ann Patchett
The Lonely Hearts Club: by Lucy Gilmore
Happy Place: by Emily Henry

Fiction recommended by ReadLocalNH listeners
Looking for Jane: by Heather Marshall
Our Missing Hearts: by Celeste Ng
I Have Some Questions for You: by Rebecca Makkai
Hello Beautiful: by Ann Napolitano

Other fiction that came up in conversation:
A Gentleman in Moscow: by Amor Towles
In Her Boots: by K.J. Dell’Antonia**
Middlemarch: by George Eliot
War and Peace and Anna Karenina: both by Leo Tolstoy

Non-fiction recommended by Gibson’s
Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma: by Claire Dederer
Deliver Me from Nowhere: by Warren Zanes**
The Wager: by David Grann
Poverty, by America: by Matthew Desmond
Hiking with Kids New England: 50 Great Hikes for Families: by Sarah
Lamagna
Growing up in Concord, New Hampshire: by Kathleen Bailey**
Raw Dog: The Naked Truth about Hot Dogs: by Jamie Loftus
Solito: A Memoir: by Javier Zamor
Where You’ll Find Me and The Last Traverse: both by Ty Gagne**

Non-fiction recommended by ReadLocalNH listeners:
The Genius of Sitting Bull: 13 Heroic Strategies for Today’s Business
Leaders: by Emmett Murphy and Michael Snell
The Great Displacement: by Jake Bittle

Children’s/Young Adult books recommended by Gibson’s*:
Little Kids:
The Book of Turtles: by Sy Montgomery**
When You Can Swim: by Jack Wong
Middle Grade:
Skandar and the Phantom Rider: by A.F. Steadman
Young Adult:
Live Your Best Lie: by Jessie Weaver

*For more on children’s books, listen to April’s ReadLocalNH with Concord
Public Library’s Youth Services Manager Becky Kasten

**NH Author

Fiction: 
*Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus 
*World of Curiosity by Louise Penny
*The Last Chairlift by John Irving
*Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
*Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett 
*Babel by R.F. Kuang 
*The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven by Nathaniel Ian Miller 

Sci-Fi/Fantasy: 
*The Chorus of Dragons series by Jenn Lyons (5 books)

Non-fiction:
*Song of the Cell by Siddharta Mukherjee
*The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff
*The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan
*The Light We Carry: Overcoming Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama
*An Immense World by Ed Yong

Cookbooks: 
*Go-To Dinners by Ina Garten
*Half-Baked Harvest Every Day: Recipes for Balanced, Flexible, Feel-Good Meals by Tieghan Gerard

Debut authors: 
*Shutter by Ramona Emerson
*Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
*Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean

Outdoor recreation:
*The AMC White Mountain Guide (new edition)
*Not Without Peril by Nicholas Howe
*Where You’ll Find Me and The Last Traverse by Ty Gagne

NH Authors:
*NH’s Kancamagus Highway: A History and Guide by Glen Knoblock
*The Covered Bridges of New Hampshire by Kim Varney Chandler
*White Mountains State by Keith Gentili

Maine Authors:
*Bruce Robert Coffin’s entire Detective Byron series 

One Book, One Valley Book of the Year for 2022:
*Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty (Maine author)

What Laura Cummings will read once the holidays are over:  
*Any book by Louise Penny

What White Birch staff are looking forward to next year: 
*Hidden Mountains: Survival and Reckoning after a Climb Gone Wrong by Michael Wejchert