First book of 2016

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin. (2014)

Books listed on the in between chapter pages: 
Lamb to Slaughter by Roald Dahl (1953)
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1922)
The Luck of Roaring Camp by Bret Harte (1868)
What feels Like the World by Richard Bausch (1985)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor (1953)
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain (1865)
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses by Irwin Shaw ( 1939)
A Conversation with My Father by Grace Paley ( 1972)
A Perfect Day for Bananafish by J.D. Salinger ( 1948)
The Tell-Tale Heart by E.A. Poe ( 1843)
Ironhead by Aimee Bender ( 2005)
What We Talk about When We Talk about Love by Raymond Carver (1980)
The Bookseller by Roald Dahl (1986)

Everything else involved

This novel is hard to explain. When I was reading it on my lunch break a coworker asked what it was about. "A guy who owns a bookstore." I told her.
"That sounds boring." She replied.
"Well, he finds a baby."
Eye roll.

There is something about the rhythm and ebb and flow of this novel that entranced me. Things happened chapters opened and without telling us the gory details the author moves you into the aftermath. You have your own ah hah moments that at times leaded me to internal jaw drops. (When we found out Maya's paternity!)

One thing I have found, at least for myself, is that book people like to read about book people. It just makes sense. Everyone wants to relate to the characters and how better to do that than have a book about book people...