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Created: 12/22/2022, 5:14 p.m
Tips for Christmas Eve: Marc Schürhoff from the Gautinger Buchhandlung Kirchheim can strongly recommend these books.
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Last-minute gifts from the bookstore: experts name their favourites.
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– For young and old, for women and men, for bookworms and picture lovers: there will be plenty of books under the Christmas trees again this year.
The donors often take the opportunity to get a nice gift at the last minute.
But what?
Which titles are popular this year?
The Starnberger Merkur asked booksellers from the district for their tips for the festival.
Marc Schürhoff from the Gautinger Buchhandlung Kirchheim has a title ready for every age.
“I can heartily recommend these books,” he says.
For young adults he recommends "Lincoln Highway" by Amor Towles: "An atmospherically dense novel about young people who want to go to San Francisco in the mid-1950s but end up in New York." Guide to Becoming Another” by Edouard Louis correctly.
"A great book about what you leave behind when you find yourself," says Schürhoff.
"Fabulous Rebels" by Andrea Wulf is for readers interested in history and intellectual history who want to deal with Goethe, Schiller, Novalis, Hegel and many others.
The bookseller recommends Rob Biddulph's "Peanut Jones and the City of Pictures" for children aged eight and over.
"It's about a wonderful heroine with a magic pencil who you just have to love." Older children will enjoy reading "Lupus Noctis" by Melissa Hill and Anja Stapor.
It's about six teenagers who descend into an underground, abandoned bunker hospital.
The Gilchinger bookseller Ursula Hohenester and Melanie Hartmann from the bookstore "Lesenlust" recommend novels as Christmas presents.
For example, “Across the Sea” by Mariette Navarro, “The Glow of the Reindeer” by Ann-Helén Laestadius or “The Art of Disappearing” by Melanie Raabe.
It is also worth reading "Twelve rooms for oneself: Twelve women writers in conversation".
Martin Held from the Held bookstore in Tutzing recommends the novel "Stay away from Gretchen: EineImpossible Liebe" by Susanne Abel to readers aged 20 and over.
According to Held, the illustrated book “Terra: Faces of the Earth” by Michael Martin contains “impressive images of our earth”.
He also recommends reading aloud and for beginning readers Bjørn F. Rørvik's "Fox and Piglet - Cake on Recipe".
Also recommended are "Our Vanished Hearts" by Celeste Ng, "Hard Land" by Benedict Wells and "The Search for Home: Mascha Kaléko's Shining Years" by Indra Maria Janos.
Karina Trübner from the book island in Herrsching has reading and gift tips ready for children and young people.
"'The BilderBuchBande celebrates Christmas' is a wonderful anthology for children aged four and over," she says.
"'London Whisper' by Aniela Ray is a tumultuous, addictive time travel story for readers aged twelve and over." She recommends "Aquitania: The Blood of Kings" by Eva Garcia Saénz as an exciting historical novel.
Karina Trüber describes the novel “A Question of Chemistry” by Bonnie Garmus as the absolute hit this year.
The bestseller is about a fearless woman who fights for women's rights in the early 1960s, regardless of her own injuries.
Wolfgang Bartelmann from the book dinghy in Starnberg recommends "The Extension" by Robert Menasse: "A witty and captivating work on the Western Balkans policy of the European Union." read about the rise of the deli.
Anyone who likes crime fiction is well advised to try "Breton Nights" by Jean-Luc Bannalec, the eleventh case of the popular Inspector Dupin.
"The Nature Docs - My Best Joint Cures.
Arthrosis, Rheumatism and Pain” by Andreas Michalsen is high up in the health titles.
"Terra Mediterranea" by bestselling author Daniel Speck is a culinary journey around the Mediterranean.
Children from the age of four will enjoy the lovingly quirky story "Christmas with Gisela" by Rieke Patwardhan.
Carina Schmotz from the Rupprecht bookstore in Starnberg has tips ready for readers with different interests.
"Takis Würder's 'Innocence' is suitable for anyone interested in social grievances," she says.
Anyone who wants to understand the world better or has wanderlust should read Juan Moreno's melancholic short stories in "Happiness is No Place".
"'The Odyssey' by Lara Williams is a dark, Kafkaesque novel outside of the mainstream," says the bookseller.
For lovers of historical novels, she recommends "Heumahd", the fourth novel by the Stockdorf historian and author Susanne Betz.
"It is set in Werdenfelser Land at the time of Ludwig II and is suitable for anyone who likes to think outside the box when reading." "Feuerwanzen" by Stefanie Höfler is a book for young people aged 14 and over.
"The award-winning author of young people's books takes on the topic of poverty among young people with great warmth, empathy and wit," says Schmotz.
She recommends Marie Hermanson's "The Plague Island" to crime lovers with a penchant for good language.
The book is set in Sweden in the 1920s.
Philip Trabert
