Twelve Days Of Christmas: 12 Great Books With Alabama Connections For Holiday Gift-giving

By Jake Reiss

For Alabama readers, the holidays are a great season to snuggle up with a good book. They are also the ideal time to give a book. But here’s the dilemma: If you’re seeking a great book with Alabama connections, the choices are overwhelming – and growing by the day.

To help sort through the options, Alabama NewsCenter asked Jake Reiss, longtime owner of The Alabama Booksmith in Homewood, to give us 12 recommendations. Why 12? Well, 13 sounded like too many, and 12 ties in nicely with that classic gift-giving-themed Christmas song, “The 12 Days of Christmas.”

Here are Jake’s picks, in (mostly) his own words:Trying to select only 12 Alabama writers out of thousands, from every part of the state, with wonderful books for readers of all ages and tastes is an impossible task! So, when we submit the list below, we also offer a challenge to go to your local bookstore and find another hundred for each of these dozen and make this an Alabama Readers’ Christmas.

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