🎁📚 A holiday gift guide for every literary taste
Hey, listeners!
Today we are sharing our first every holiday gift guide! Chelsey and I both love recommending books and bookish goodies so we had a blast putting this together. The guide includes some great giftable reads for every literary taste alongside pairings to help you create thoughtful gift bundles for all of the book lovers in your life. You can also see all of the gifts mentioned in today’s episode and shop through our affiliate links on today’s blog post!
In addition to today’s episode, we’ll also be going LIVE on Instagram tonight at 7:00pm EST to share the six classics we’ll be covering this winter. Tune in to share in our excitement or catch it later on our Instagram feed.
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Coming up:
Next week, we’re chatting about The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley. For the first time ever, we have a special guest helping us unpack this classic and sharing some seriously good pairings. The episode features the brilliant Traci Thomas of The Stacks Podcast discussing why she loves this particular classic, whether it’s a good book to read in school, and why Malcolm X is a genius storyteller. You’re going to love this episode!
Then on November 24th we’ll release our quarterly favorites episode where we’ll share the best books we read this fall. I know Chelsey and I both had really great reading months in September and October so we’ll have some wonderful recommendations coming your way.
Currently Reading:
Right now I’m reading one of my own pairings from our And Then There Were None episode, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton. While this is very much a “puzzle book,” I’m enjoying it for the creepy manor house atmosphere. I’m also listening to N.K. Jemison’s The City We Became on Libro.fm*. Chelsey loved this fantasy novel when she read it this summer and I’m really looking forward to being able to discuss it with her!
Listeners, we’re excited to be partnering with Libro.fm to offer you two audiobooks for the price of one. Just click this link to get two audiobooks for $15 all while supporting the pod and independent bookstores!
Or click here to give the gift of audiobooks to your favorite bookworm.
Where to find us:
Download episodes of Novel Pairings wherever you get your podcasts. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter. Check out our blog for bonus pairings, reading tips, and book recommendations. Find Chelsey at @chelseyreads or @hereadsheread. Find me at @fictionmatters and my newsletter. We love hearing what you’re reading, so feel free to tag us in your #bookstagram posts!
We declare after all, there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!
See you next time, listeners!
-Sara