The Bliss Group’s Book Gifting: 2023 Selections

Every year since The Bliss Group’s founding almost half a century ago, we have hosted a holiday book gifting event during which each team member receives a requested or surprise book from the agency. Continuous learning and avid reading are part of who we are, so it is a tradition that we are proud to carry on. This year’s books represent a wide range of genres but are all worth checking out. Grab your hot beverage of choice and curl up with one of these good reads this holiday season!

Fiction

• A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
• Fox Woman Get Out! by India Gonzalez
• Less by Andrew Sean Greer
• The Spy Coast by Tess Gerritsen *
• The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch by Melinda Taub
• Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
• Never Never by Colleen Hoover
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
• The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
• The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
• Trust by Hernan Diaz
• Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus *
• Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu
• The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
• The Things We Can Not Say by Kelley Rimmer
• Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
• The Alienist by Caleb Carr
• What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
• Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri *
• Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
• Happy Place by Emily Henry
• Before the Coffee Gets Cold: A Novel by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
• Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
• The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
• A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingslover
• The Tears That Taught Me by Morgan Richard Olivier
• How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
• Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
• The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
• I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye Watkins
• None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell
• The Right Kind of Wrong by Amy Edmonson
• The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer
• What the River Knows by Isabel Ibanez
• TransAtlantic by Colum McCann
• Other People’s Clothes by Calla Henkel
• The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom
• Nestlings by Nat Cassidy
• The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende
• The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
• Tu sueño imperios han sido by Alvaro Enrigue
• Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson

Nonfiction

• A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains by Max Bennett
• But What if We’re Wrong by Chuck Klostermann
• Saving Time: Discovering A Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell
• The Best of Me by David Sedaris
• The Path to Power by Robert Caro
• Dead Wake by Erik Larson
• The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
• To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery by Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Lindsey NYX Walker
• 100 Dream Trips Around the World by Barbara Ireland
• Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael Lewis
• Dave Grohl: The Storyteller by Dave Grohl
• Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
• The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever by Prudence Peiffer
• The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
• This Is Our City: Four Teams, Twelve Championships, and How Boston Became the Most Dominant Sports City in the World by Tony Massarotti
• Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice by Shunryu Suzuki
• Aztecs: An Interpretation by Inga Clendinnen
• Atlas of Improbable Places: A Journey to the World’s Most Unusual Corners by Travis Elborough
• The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America by Russell Shorto
• The Only Woman by Immy Humes
• The High 5 Habit: Take Control of Your Life with One Simple Habit by Mel Robbins
• The American Quilt: A History of Cloth and Comfort 1750 – 1950 by Roderick Kiracofe
• Just Kids by Patti Smith
• Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedes
• The Ideas Industry by Dan Drezner
• A Dictionary of Color Combinations Vol 1 by SEIGENSHA
• Formation by Brad Mehldau
• Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World by Irene Vallejo
• Financial Modeling in Excel for Dummies by Danielle Stein Fairhurst
• Dispatches by Michael Herr
• How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David Brooks
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Khaneman
• Harry Styles: And the Clothes He Wears by Terry Newman

Cookbooks

• That Sounds So Good by Carla Lalli Music
• Table for Two: Recipes for the Ones You Love by Bre Graham
• Mind Over Batter: 75 Recipes for Baking as Therapy by Jack Hazan
• Cook this Book by Molly Baz
• Ottolenghi Simple by Yotam Ottolenghi
• Tasting History: Explore the Past through 4,000 Years of Recipes by Max Miller
• Maydan by Rose Previte
• More Mandy’s: More Recipes We Love
• NYT Cooking No-Recipe Recipes by Sam Sifton
• Tenderheart: A Cookbook About Vegetables and Unbreakable Family Bonds by Hetty Lui McKinnon
• Joy of Cooking: 2019 Edition Fully Revised and Updated *

Coffee Table Books

• Walk With Me: New York by Susan Kaufman
• Dream Baby Dream by Jimmy Marble
• Modern New York: The Illustrated Story of Architecture by Lukas Novotny
• Paul Thomas Anderson: Masterworks by Adam Nayman
• Vogue: The Covers by Dodie Kazanjian
• Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs
• Black Archives: A Photographic Celebration of Black Life by Renata Cherlise
• Dior: The Legendary 30, Avenue Montaigne

Children’s Books

• The Princess in Black: Three Smashing Adventures
• Construction Site: Taking Flight! *
• Planting a Rainbow

* = CEO pick!