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If she hasn't read any Richard Osman, she should read Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club. It's so funny.

It's just a good old fashioned, you know, mystery.

Ta-Nehisi Coates, of course, is the author of the National Book Award winner Between the World and Me, the Oprah Book Club pick The Water Dancer

One of his favorite things to watch was an anime adaptation of Anne Of Green Gables. She was an outsider just like him.

I read many books of people that were very uneasy with hunting. Like Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams. Had a huge impact on me.

What first drew us to Rinella was the provocative argument he put forth in his best-selling book, "Meat Eater."

To abhor hunting, he wrote, "is to hate the place from which you came, which is akin to hating yourself in some distant, abstract way."

You write a book about buffalo. And then you write what I consider to be your manifesto, Meat Eater.

To abhor hunting is to. To hate something about yourself.

I also like children books, Winnie the Pooh, Harry Potter, those books.

You cohost a show, podcast. You were one of the journalists who helped winnow this wisdom of the crowd that Sasha mentioned down to the 30 best living American songwriters... and the author of "Rap Capital: An Atlanta Story."

One of my best reading experiences, uh, was no surprise was a translated novel translated from the Swedish. This is, uh, The Colony by Annika Norlin.

This was the kind of book that was so well drawn. It was so unexpected. Every single turn took me by surprise.

I do. Although surprisingly, I think not a great favorite of yours. Um, this is Perfection by Vincenzo Letranico. And this is in fact his re-imagination of another book originally written in French. Um, a book by Georges Parec from the 60s called Things, which I also recommend.

And it is a novel, which although a rewrite of the 60s novel could only have been written this year.

Um, this is Perfection by Vincenzo Letranico. And this is in fact his re-imagination of another book originally written in French. Um, a book by Georges Parec from the 60s called Things, which I also recommend.

This has been like 20 years in the making. This is by Kiran Desai. And this is what you think of as an, like, you know, old fashioned, sweeping, time spanning, continent jumping, rich kind of romantic epic.

It's lush. It's sensual. It's completely absorbing. There's a real wit to this book.

I was so absorbed in this book that I did not notice that the neighbor's orchard was on fire.

It's a book called The Director. I think this is the book that I have actually recommended the most to people this year. It's by Daniel Kelman. This is a novel. It's essentially historical fiction, but like elevated literary historical fiction.

I had the feeling of like when I was a kid and I was reading something that I could comprehend on like a word level, but emotionally it was above my pay grade. It was just, it was stunning.

Another big, fun novel, immersive novel that I think I will be giving to a number of people this year for the holidays and which I've already given to a bunch of people just for pleasure is Adam Ross's Playworld.

It is about growing up too fast. It is about parental ego. It is about what memory does to how we think about youth.

I think I said to you, like, it's not often we run across a book which is sweet. And there is a sweetness to this book.

And so this becomes then both a story of survival, the day-to-day quotidian horror of survival. And that much more than that, it becomes, in this author's hands, a portrait of marriage.

Yes, okay, so maybe close to 12 years ago, I myself was a retail reporter who needed to learn about Ralph Lauren and I borrowed a book and Jeff, who we're going to go meet, who runs the morgue, told me explicitly, like, you have to return this and I never did.

Oh, I know that book.

And so this is a book on Ralph Lauren. So I have some of the culture section's fashion books.

And then I think the end, which I won't give away such as it is, is actually one of the more moving things I've read in the past couple of years. I cried.

Here's the other thing. The person who has everything does not yet have a window into how you look at them. So when you hand them a book and you say, I thought of you because of X, they're never going to read it, but they're going to think like, oh, that person pays attention to me.

Here's a good one, if you're building up a shelf like this, Entertaining is Fun by Dorothy Draper. Oh, that's so good.

Old New York and early photographs. Can I see this?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's Dover Publications' book. This is like Django.

These are black and white photos of New York City.

I really think you have to read them as books. They require your full attention and your full concentration and they reward it.

She does different things in each one, but it could be everything from a phone transcript to a bunch of text messages to, in short, it's ingenious.

I would start with Toast by Nigel Slater. Odds are that Nigel might be new to this foodie. He's a British food writer and cook, vegetable savant. Toast is really about his childhood and his development of his taste and palate and sort of like coming alive.