The Bookstore Challenge 2023 - hosted by beckyramone

April - as a librarian or bookseller for a recommendation
If your circumstances don't allow you to go into the world and ask someone in person, feel free to message your favorite bookstagrammer or podcaster, or if you don't feel comfortable asking a stranger, most bookstores and libraries have staff recommendation cards. 
All books added
Big Swiss by Jen Beagin

Big Swiss

Jen Beagin

325 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary dark funny medium-paced
All the Little Bird-Hearts by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow

All the Little Bird-Hearts

Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow

304 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction literary dark emotional mysterious slow-paced
Dingen die ik leerde van het vallen by Claire Nelson, Anne Jongeling

Dingen die ik leerde van het vallen

Claire Nelson, Anne Jongeling

256 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir travel
Blindness by José Saramago

Blindness

Blindness #1

José Saramago

352 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

fiction dystopian literary dark reflective tense medium-paced
Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone

Ernest Cunningham #1

Benjamin Stevenson

528 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction crime mystery dark funny mysterious medium-paced
The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen

The Golden Couple

Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen

329 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Café Neandertal: Excavating Our Past in One of Europe's Most Ancient Places by Beebe Bahrami

Café Neandertal: Excavating Our Past in One of Europe's Most Ancient Places

Beebe Bahrami

304 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews

All This Could Be Different

Sarah Thankam Mathews

312 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective medium-paced
Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins by Milan Kundera

Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins

Milan Kundera

403 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)

fiction classics literary romance reflective medium-paced
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

And the Mountains Echoed

Khaled Hosseini

14 hours • first pub 2012 (editions)

fiction contemporary historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced