Lykke Book's Picks - 2023 Recommended Reads

Con Crazy

By: Addison J. Chapple
Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

The con is on.Prewitt Patry is an expert in European art and antiquities, and he used to be the best con artist in New York City. But fate has left him divorced and broke, with his glory days behind him.Then a golden opportunity falls into his lap.Ranger du Courtemanche is the aging patriarch of the centuries-old French aristocratic Courtemanche... Read more

What She Left Behind

By: Ellen Marie Wiseman
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Ten years ago, Izzy Stone's mother fatally shot her father while he slept. Devastated by her mother's apparent insanity, Izzy, now seventeen, refuses to visit her in prison. But her new foster parents, employees at the local museum, have enlisted Izzy's help in cataloguing items at a long-shuttered state asylum. There, amid piles of abandoned... Read more

Strong Towns

A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity

By: Charles L. Marohn, Jr.
Narrated by: Matthew Boston
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he cofounded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle... Read more

Tribe

On Homecoming and Belonging

By: Sebastian Junger
Narrated by: Sebastian Junger
Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

We have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and understanding--"tribes." This tribal connection has been largely lost in modern society, but regaining it may be the key to our psychological survival.

Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin lamented that English settlers were constantly fleeing... Read more

The Shadow of the Wind

By: Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 18 hours 4 minutes

“The Shadow of the Wind is set in Spain, specifically Barcelona, and Zafon’s beautiful and rich writing makes the city sound downright irresistible. And on top of THAT, it’s also a love letter to the world of books! I have many favorite quotes from this book, but here’s one that has stuck with me over the years: 'Every book, every volume you see... Read more

The Orphan Collector

By: Ellen Marie Wiseman
Narrated by: Rachel Botchan
Length: 15 hours 51 minutes

Ellen Marie Wiseman, acclaimed author of What She Left Behind and The Life She Was Given, weaves the
stories of two very different women into a page-turning novel as suspenseful as it is poignant, set amid one of
history’s deadliest pandemics.

In the fall of 1918, thirteen-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphia’s... Read more

How to Resist Amazon and Why

Concrete Steps for Booksellers

By: Danny Caine & Joe Biel
Narrated by: Danny Caine & Joe Biel
Length: 55 minutes

Booksellers naturally understand the dangers of Amazon and the need to resist its growing power, but what can they do about it? How do we have conversations with our customers and communities about resisting Amazon without alienating potential allies in the fight for small businesses? Join Danny Caine and Microcosm Publishing founder Joe Biel to... Read more