Joanne Harris is the writer of the “Chocolat" series, which began with the famous Chocolat (also made into a movie with Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp) which spawned three sequels all continuing the story of the mysterious, talented and independent Vianne and her daughters as they struggle to find their place in the world. But in her newest contribution to the series, Vianne, she writes beautifully of Vianne’s prequel story. What brought Vianne to her love of chocolate and what spawns her to keep traveling the world, untethered and without roots? This is the story of her beginnings and her beginnings as the literary chocolatier that we have come to know and love. We also talk to an amazing bookstore that is over a century old, Andover Bookstore in Andover, Massachusetts. Tune in and find out how a bookstore can still be great…even after 100 years.

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https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/shop/story/book-case-podcast-reading-list-118433302 Books mentioned on this week's episode:

The Chocolat Series:

Vianne by Joanne Harris

Chocolat by Joanne Harris

The Lollipop Shoes by Joanne Harris

Peaches for Monsieur le Cure by Joanne Harris

The Strawberry Thief by Joanne Harris

Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris

Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris

Coastliners by Joanne Harris

Holy Fools by Joanne Harris

Honeycomb by Joanne Harris

Jigs and Reels by Joanne Harris

Maiden, Mother, Crone by Joanne Harris

The Moonlight Market by Joanne Harris

Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris

Different Class by Joanne Harris

Blueeyedboy by Joanne Harris

A Narrow Door by Joanne Harris

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang Goethe

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Joanne Harris and the Literary Beauty of Chocolat