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The holiday shopping season is well underway.
As we inch closer to December, stores become busier every single day with shoppers looking for gifts, decorations, seasonal food and beverages, and other items they need to make the holidays memorable.
My thoughts are with the sales associates, clerks, receivers, delivery drivers, merchandisers, and other workers who make all of this possible.
After all, there aren’t any elves out there (so far as we know 😉 ) who are baking bread, decorating sugar cookies, delivering trucks filled with holiday items, unpacking boxes, displaying merchandise, mopping floors, dusting shelves, running cash registers, and training new employees among countless other tasks.
People do all of that and so much more. If you’re one of them, I’m cheering you on and hoping every customer you have is a friendly one.
In recognition of all of the hard work happening behind the scenes right now, let’s talk about books that are set in stores.
1. Pawsitively Poisonous (Witch of Edgehill, #1) by Melissa Erin Jackson
2. Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix
3. Paddington Bear and the Christmas Surprise by Michael Bond
4. The Mist by Stephen King
5. A Scone to Die For by H.Y. Hanna
6. The Department Store Ghost by Bill Brown
7. Mallory’s Christmas Wish (The Baby-Sitters Club, #92) by Ann M. Martin
8. Secrets of the Shopping Mall by Richard Peck
9. Rest Ye Murdered Gentlemen (A Year-Round Christmas Mystery #1) by Vicki Delany
1o. Shaun of the Dead by Chris Ryall
Horrorstör is one of my favorites! I need to pick up more Grady Hendrix books.
How cool! I hope you enjoy Grady’s other books, too.
I used to love The Baby-Sitters Club books! My grandma had a ton of them, so I would borrow one to take home every time I went to her house.
Aww, I love this story.
There need to be elves! 🙂 But Horrorstor is one I wanted to read, and PAddington! Nice pick 🙂
I hope you like them! Thanks.
Paddington Bear and the Christmas Surprise looks so cute, i need to check it out this christmas
May you enjoy them.
Ooooh, that is a very unique topic! I love it. Have a great day!
Thank you.
You chose such a unique setting, I love it! I really enjoyed Horrorstor and The Mist.
Thanks. Weren’t those good books?
This is a great topic idea!! Loved the Babysitters Club when I was young! 🙂
It was such a fun series. And thanks.
I love your take on this week’s topic!
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Thank you!
I’ve read A Scone To Die and quite like that series! I think I’d also like to read Horrorstor too, it looks so interesting.
Great take on this week’s topic.
Thank you. Horrorstor was super interesting.
This is such a great idea for a list. And Horrorstor is the perfect book!
Thank you. And, yeah, it was pretty good.
I loved Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix!
Great list
Yay! Thanks.
What a great setting idea! I used to be obsessed with The Babysitter’s Club books! Thanks for the trip down memory lane this week.
Me, too! 🙂 And thanks.
I love the look of the books on this list! I want to read Horrorstor.
Have a great week!
May you enjoy it. 🙂
Love this idea for a book list!
Thank you. 🙂
Oh! Really clever theme for a list! I really love cozy mysteries set in super quirky or niche stores. I sometimes wonder how’d they’d ever stay in business (!) but I loved seeing something unique.
Thanks! I like those sorts of mysteries, too.
Fabulous idea for a list! 🙌 some intriguing titles here!
Thank you!
Oh I love the choice of setting you went with. I’ve never heard of Pawsitively Poisonous. I’m going to look that one up.
Thank you. I hope you like that one.
Ahhh, interesting choice! I can think of a couple of books set in bookshops… but less than I expected to, somehow. 🤔
Thanks. You’d think there would be more!
This idea is SO much fun! I may have to borrow it sometime. 😉 As someone who just watched the five-part seasonal comedy The Holiday Shift, finding books that are also set in a store sounds like a fun time. Thanks so much for visiting my website list on this week!
Yes, please feel free to borrow this for the future! that would be fun.
I’m adding The Holiday Shift to my watch list. Sounds great.
What a lovely post! You’re absolutely right–it’s all the people behind the scenes that deserve recognition. I’m always thinking about the people delivering all our online shopping packages. I like to create a snack bucket to leave on the front porch for them and keep it stocked with goodies. 🙂 Happy reading!