Today, we’re setting up Nicole Brinkley, bookseller and manager at Oblong Books in Rhinebeck, NY, where she is the resident specialist in children’s literature and SciFi/Fantasy. Nicole is also host of the Misshelved podcast, which puts independent booksellers in conversation with authors they love.
Recently, Nicole read and loved Year of the Witching and A Spindle Splintered. She loves autumn and is impressed by other people’s generosity with their friends. She could give an on-the-spot TED talk about why frontline booksellers should make more money (We agree!).
Nicole wants to expand her reading list outside of her usual genres, and we’re more than happy to help. Press play to discover which books this industrious bookseller chooses!
Round 1 Picks
Neon Gods by Katee Robert
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales, edited by Kate Bernheimer
Well Matched by Jen DeLuca
Round 2 Picks
The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina by Zoraida Cordova
White Is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
Kill the Farm Boy by Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne
Featured Bookstores
Unabridged Bookstore, Chicago, IL
Lit. Bar, Bronx, NY
Pilsen Community Books, Chicago, IL
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