Ask a Bookseller: What’s the Best Book You’ve Read This Year?
Because you might be interested to ask your pharmacist what she takes for a headache, we asked booksellers at three independent Brooklyn bookstores what the best book they’ve read this year is.
“The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. by Adelle Waldman. It’s awesome.”
—Christien, BookCourt
—Nikkitha, BookCourt
“I’m not sure yet, but I think it’s going to be Murder in Memoriam by Didier Daeninckx, put out by Melville House. Put that down as tentative.”
—Dante, Greenlight Bookstore
—Halley (“Spelled like the comet.”), Greenlight Bookstore
—John, Community Bookstore
—Sam, Community Bookstore
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—the aforementioned John and Sam, Community Bookstore
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So there you have it: a partial guide to the subjective opinions of six or seven of the borough’s most dedicated and approachable bookmongers.
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