The Literary Lookbook for January-May 2025 is live! This is a comprehensive but not exhaustive collection of 584 upcoming 2025 releases curated by @kellyhook.readsbooks and @thoughtsfromapage. The Lookbook includes titles releasing January-May 2025 from a variety of genres and features cover designs organized by publication date. Click on this link to purchase it.

Mary Webber O'Malley and Pamela Klinger-Horn - Winter 2024 Recommended Reads

Mary Webber O'Malley and Pamela Klinger-Horn - Winter 2024 Recommended Reads

Mary and Pamela join me to discuss their recommended reads for Winter 2024.

Mary’s Selections:

  1. Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
  2. You Only Call When You're In Trouble by Stephen McCauley
  3. Mercury by Amy Jo Burns
  4. Family Family by Laurie Frankel
  5. The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett
  6. Splinters by Leslie Jamison
  7. Bunyan and Henry by Mark Cecil
  8. Say Hello To My Little Friend by Jennine Capo Crucet
  9. A Short Walk Through a Wide World by Douglas Westerbeke


Pamela’s Selections:

  1. The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan 
  2. True North by Andrew Graff
  3. The Still Point by Tammy Greenwood
  4. Where Rivers Part by Kao Kalia Yang
  5. The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
  6. The Flower Sisters by Michelle Collins Anderson
  7. Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth 
  8. Days of Wonder by Caroline Leavitt
  9. Clear by Carys Davies


Pamela's Shoutouts: The Young of Other Animals by Chris Cander, The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers by Samuel Burr, I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger


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Pamela Klinger-Horn

Event Coordinator - Valley Bookseller

Pamela Klinger-Horn has been a literary event planner since 2012. She has been on the Board of Directors of Rain Taxi Literary Review and the Excelsior Friends of the Library. Pamela has experience as a children’s Book Club facilitator at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic School and the Excelsior Public Library. Pamela enjoys attending and promoting literary events throughout the Twin Cities and beyond, and has been nicknamed the “Local Literary Fairy Godmother.” She is currently the literary event coordinator at Valley Bookseller in Stillwater, MN; and the creator and host of the monthly literary program Literature Lovers' Night Out™️ .

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Mary OMalley

Mary OMalley is the Free-Range Virtual Bookseller at Large for Skylark Bookshop; Author Liaison and Scheduling Producer for A Mighty Blaze; Mary is also a writer, grandmother, and chicken-wrangler. She lives outside of Chicago with her husband and menagerie of pets.