Published August 11, 2026 at 11:33 AM EDT

This week's Book Picks comes from Joan Grenier – owner of the Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley, MA and we also welcome Matt Tannenbaum from The Bookstore in Lenox, MA.

Matt Tannenbaum

• Solstice by Carol Gilligan 
• The First All-Star Game: Babe Ruth, FDR, and America at the Crossroads by Randall Sullivan   
• The Dreamlife of Teddy Baseball: Musings by Teddy Tannenbaum
• John Williams: A Composer's Life by Tim Grieving 
• The Man Who Read Everything: The Literary Letters of Harold Bloom by Harold Bloom 
• Little, Big: or, The Fairies Parliament by John Crowley 

Joan Grenier

• The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn by Dave Zirin
• Regime Changed: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by Maggie Haberman & Jonathan Swan
• The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss by Robert Macfarlane & Jackie Morris
• The News from Dublin: Stories by Colm Toibin
• End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World (September 15, 2026 pub date) by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor