Books with Betsy
Books with Betsy is a podcast that celebrates the reading life of all readers. Each week, Betsy interviews a different person about their reading life. Listen for book recommendations, reading tips, and to join in the joy that reading brings. And remember, anyone who reads is a reader.
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On this episode, Shakia Perry, a very creative book lover who creates amazing book-related experiences for friends and family, discusses how she loves fiction to get into the messiness of other people. We also discuss our love for the library, reading pretty much wherever, and how much Libby can stress you out.
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Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
All Fours by Miranda July
Books Highlighted by Shakia:
Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams
Reel by Kennedy Ryan
Saving Noah by Lucinda Berry
Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi
Perfect Peace by Daniel Black
Someday, Maybe by Onyi Nwabineli
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Mrs. Wiggins by Mary Monroe
I’m Glad my Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Soothe Your Nerves: The Black Woman’s Guide to Understanding and Overcoming Anxiety, Panic, and Fears by Dr. Angela Neal-Barnett
All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.
Other books mentioned in this episode:
Kristy’s Great Idea by Ann M. Martin
The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah
Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest by Fawn Weaver
Curvy Girl Summer by Danielle Allen
The Final Revival of Opal and Nev by Dawnie Walton
The Teacher by Frieda McFadden
Isaac’s Song by Daniel Black
The Housemaid by Frieda McFadden
It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
Will by Will Smith & Mark Manson
Bits and Pieces: My Mother, my Brother, and Me by Whoopi Goldberg
Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis
Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell
Monday Jan 06, 2025
Monday Jan 06, 2025
On this episode, past guests of Books with Betsy and I share our favorite books of 2024! Listen to hear about lots of great 2024 books and the excellent backlist we got to this year.
Books mentioned in this episode:
Betsy’s Top 11 Books (in no particular order):
Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe
My Friends by Hisham Matar
Punk Rock Karaoke by Biana Xunise
Headshot by Rita Bullwinkle
Shred Sisters by Betsy Lerner
We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer
Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
James by Percival Everett
Books Highlighted by Guests:
Sam Luchsinger
The Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig
Wellness by Nathan Hill
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice
Francesca Musumeci
Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout by Laura Jane Grace
One of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon
Nestlings by Nat Cassidy
Cynthia Okechukwu
Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
Last Summer on State Street by Toya Wolfe
Rachel Kilthorne
The Expanse Series by James S.A. Corey
There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib
Anyone’s Ghost by August Thompson
The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors by Erika Howsare
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Annette LaPlaca
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living by Alan Noble
Slough House by Mick Herron
Mind’s Eye by Hakan Nesser
The Penderwicks on Gardam Street by Jeanne Birdsall
Allison Yates
Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer
Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date by Ashley Herring Blake
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr
The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality by Amanda Montell
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Jenn Moland-Kovash
Shark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Habeck
Take What You Need by Idra Novey
The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect by Will Guidara
Just For the Summer by Abby Jimenez
Mike Finucane
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders
The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions by Jonathan Rosen
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Come, Have Breakfast: Meditations on God and the Earth by Elizabeth Johnson
Couldn’t Keep it to Myself: Testimonies from our Imprisoned Sisters ed. Wally Lamb
Carolyn Latshaw
The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric
That Time I got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf by Kimberly Lemming
All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales by Nathan Hale
Monika Janas
Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs
Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
When Among Crows by Veronica Roth
The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
Tim Mueller
The Thirteen Ways we Turned Darryl Datson into a Monster by Kurt Fawver
Helliconia Spring by Brian Wilson Aldiss
The Room by Hubert Selby
The Terror by Dan Simmons
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Monday Dec 30, 2024
Monday Dec 30, 2024
On this episode, past guests of Books with Betsy and I share our favorite books of 2024! Listen to hear about lots of great 2024 books and the excellent backlist we got to this year.
Books mentioned in this episode:
Betsy’s Best Categorically (books that…):
Shocked me:
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
None of This is True by Lisa Jewell
The Night House by Jo Nesbø
Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra
Made me Cry:
North Woods by Daniel Mason
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
Underrated:
God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer by Joseph Earl Thomas
Witness by Jamel Brinkley
Victim by Andrew Boryga
Fire Exit by Morgan Talty
Recommend Widely:
Erasure by Percival Everett
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
Hard to Recommend:
Yr Dead by Sam Sax
Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina
Made me Think About my Life Differently:
When Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era by Donovan X. Ramsey
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
Books Highlighted by Guests:
Mawuli Grant Agbefe:
Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel and Ebert Changed Movies Forever by Matt Singer
Having and Being Had by Eula Bliss
Your Face Belongs to Us: A Tale of AI, a Secretive Startup, and the End of Privacy by Kashmir Hill
Mean Girl Feminism: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss by Kim Hong Nguyen
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance by Kellie Carter Jackson
Mapping the Stars: Celebrity, Metonymy and the Networked Politics of Identity by Claire Sisco King
Sam Wilmes:
Such Kindness by Andre Dubus III
We Spread by Iain Read
We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro
Amie Medley:
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
North Woods by Daniel Mason
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
Tanima Kazi:
The Lantern of Lost Memories by Sanaka Hiiragi
One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig
Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig
Home is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose
The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose
Stacy Jezerowski:
We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
Beautiful Villain by Rebecca Kenney
Sarah Sabet:
Klara & The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Men Have Called Her Crazy by Anna Marie Tendler
The Housemaid by Frieda McFadden
The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
Anna Deem:
The Nix by Nathan Hill
Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk by Kathleen Hanna
Cat Shieh:
Give Me Space But Don’t Go Far: My Unlikely Friendship with Anxiety by Haley Weaver
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber
Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Sehee
Mo Smith:
The Truth About Melody Browne by Lisa Jewell
The Lightning Bottles by Marissa Stapley
The Third Gilmore Girl by Kelly Bishop
All The Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
Is She Really Going Out With Him? by Sophie Cousens
Leah @Dishingonbooks:
Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
Grief is For People by Sloane Crosley
Clean by Alia Trabucco Zerán
James by Percival Everett
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Emily McClanathan:
Babel by R.F. Kuang
Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood by Gretchen Sisson
Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan
A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy by Tia Levings
Monday Dec 23, 2024
Monday Dec 23, 2024
On this episode, Stephanie Majercik, a reader who reads widely, and I discuss our shared tricks for Book of the Month, why passing around books is great, and how her reading chair revolutionized her reading life. We also discuss her book club and the bookish names she has for her collection of house plants.
Read & Run Chicago - The Great Believers
Stephanie’s Reading Chair
Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
Good Material by Dolly Alderton
Books Highlighted by Stephanie:
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
Shark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Habcek
The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
People Like Her by Ellery Lloyd
Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life by Christie Tate
Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain
All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.
Other books mentioned in this episode:
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Sleeping Murder: Miss Marple’s Last Case by Agatha Christie
Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel by Jeannette Walls
Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls
BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found by Christie Tate
Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes
The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
Monday Dec 16, 2024
Monday Dec 16, 2024
On this episode, Bernie Lombardi, a professor and researcher, discusses how his popular bookstagram and award lists are intertwined, along with his experiences reading the lists and even getting to go to the final ceremonies of a few awards! We also hear about his new author obsession and a very cool way that he tracks his reading each year.
Bernie’s Instagram
The Read & Run Chicago Gift Guide
Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
Held by Anne Michaels
Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
Books Highlighted by Bernie:
Milkman by Anna Burns
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
We the Animals by Justin Torres
The Promise by Damon Galgut
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellman
Beautiful World, Where are You by Sally Rooney
All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.
Other books mentioned in this episode:
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Atonement by Ian McEwan
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
James by Percival Everett
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Martyr! By Kaveh Akbar
Blackouts by Justin Torres
Monday Dec 09, 2024
Monday Dec 09, 2024
On this episode, Jenn Moland-Kovash and I discuss our shared interest in thrift-store book sections, the joy of walking around a bookstore and pointing out the books we have read, and her theories about why romantasy is popular. Jenn also gets me on a roll about the difference between book collecting and reading and why sprayed edges mean nothing to me.
The Mail-a-Book program is still alive and well!
The Read & Run Chicago Gift Guide
Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
The City and It’s Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
Yr Dead by Sam Sax
Not my Father’s Son by Alan Cumming
Still Life by Louise Penny
Books Highlighted by Jenn:
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
Us Against You by Fredrik Backman
The Winners by Fredrik Backman
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston
The God of Endings by Jacqueline Holland
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil & Fumi Nakamura
Take What You Need by Idra Novey
The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing by Kevin Young
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies that I’ve Loved by Kate Bowler
All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.
Other books mentioned in this episode:
Nora Goes off Script by Annabel Monaghan
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger
The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey
The Abominable by Dan Simmons
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Shark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Habeck
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow
Martyr! By Kaveh Akbar
How to Say Babylon: A Memoir by Safiya Sinclair
The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels by Beth Lincoln & Claire Powell
The Wren in the Holly Library by K.A. Linde
Monday Dec 02, 2024
Monday Dec 02, 2024
On this episode, Cynthia Okechukwu, the founder of Black Girls Read Chicago, and I discuss books that make you cry, her love of hardcover books, and what kinds of audiobooks work for both of us. She also gets to share an incredible story of getting a critical book put into her hands at a young age.
Black Girls Read Chicago Instagram
The Read & Run Chicago Gift Guide
Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
The City and It’s Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
Books Highlighted by Cynthia:
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.
Other books mentioned in this episode:
Little House Box Set by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Last Summer on State Street by Toya Wolfe
Original Sins: The (Mis)Education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism by Eve L. Ewing
Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side by Eve L. Ewing
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
Running While Black: Finding Freedom in a Sport that Wasn't Built for Us by Alison Mariella Désir
Will by Will Smith & Mark Manson
The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey
Caucasia by Danzy Senna
It by Stephen King
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Monday Nov 25, 2024
Monday Nov 25, 2024
On this episode, Susanna Chapman, an illustrator who loves picture books, discusses her career in books, her love for an audiobook mausoleum, and why she loves the beginning of a book. We also destigmatize her concern around her main reading format and she tricks me into answering one of my own questions.
The Fastest Drummer: Clap Your Hands for Viola Smith
Pre-Order Dragonflies of Glass: the True Story of Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls
Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
The City and It’s Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
Books Highlighted by Susanna:
Dim Sum Palace by X. Fang
Twenty Questions by Mac Barnett & Christian Robinson
This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki & Jillian Tamaki
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst & Ray Cruz
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
The Bear & The Moon by Matthew Burgess & Catia Chien
I Talk Like a River by Jordan Scott & Sydney Smith
Fish is Fish by Leo Lionni
Daughters & Rebels by Jessica Mitford
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Where Butterflies Fill the Sky: A Story of Immigration, Family, and Finding Home by Zahra Marwan
It Came From the Trees by Ally Russel
This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work by Tiffany Jewel & Aurelia Durand
Life’s Too Short to Pretend You’re Not Religious by David Dark
Exvangelical & Beyond: How American Christianity Went Radical and the Movement That’s Fighting Back by Blake Chastain
How to Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
The People’s Plaza: Sixty-Two Days of Nonviolent Resistance by Justin Jones
Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams & William Nicholson
After the Fall by Dan Santat
Roaming by Jillian Tamaki & Mariko Tamaki
All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.
Other books mentioned in this episode:
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Snail and Worm: Three Stories about Two Friends by Tina Kügler
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander & Dawud Anyabwile
Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
Winnie-The-Pooh by A.A. Milne
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Seeing, Saying, Doing, Playing by Taro Gomi
Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
Spinning by Tillie Walden
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
The Napping House by Audrey Wood & Don Wood
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir by Malaka Gharib
It Won’t Always Be Like This: A Graphic Memoir by Malaka Gharib
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshefgh
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl
Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss by Margaret Renkl
Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña & Christian Robinson
Milo Imagines the World by Matt de la Peña & Christian Robinson
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster & Jules Feiffer
Monday Nov 18, 2024
Monday Nov 18, 2024
On this episode, Annette LaPlaca, a self-proclaimed church lady who loves mysteries and thrillers, discusses her career in editing, how she developed a love of reading in her children, and why it’s ok to have a lot of books. We also discuss the moral and empathetic benefits of a murder book and why people shouldn’t shy away from them.
Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
Dearest by Jacqui Walters
Ghostroots by ‘Pemi Aguda
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
Books Highlighted by Annette:
Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers
Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt
The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey
The Schwa Was Here by Neal Shusterman
The Storied Life A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.
Other books mentioned in this episode:
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
Matilda by Roald Dahl
1984 by George Orwell
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Leap Over a Wall by Eugene H. Peterson
The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta
Puritan Pleasures of the Detective Story by Erik Routley
Nancy Drew: The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene
Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Many Waters by Madeleine L’Engle
Freaky Deaky by Elmore Leonard
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun
Moby-Dick by Herman Mellville
Trust by Hernan Diaz
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey
Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey
The Schwa Was Here by Neal Shusterman
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Emma by Jane Austen
The Keeper of Lost Causes: The First Department Q Novel by Jussi Adler-Olsen
The Troubled Man by Henning Mankell
Father Brown: The Essential Tales by G.K. Chesterton
Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit by John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
Monday Nov 11, 2024
Monday Nov 11, 2024
On this episode, Amie Medley, who loves a long book, discusses her big reading project, which is reading every author who has won a Nobel Prize in Literature, and what she has discovered through that endeavor. We also discuss the ups and downs of book clubs, the benefits she finds from ereaders, and her love for a book that I can’t help but roll my eyes at.
Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
Ghostroots by ‘Pemi Aguda
Nora Goes off Script by Annabel Monaghan
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Books Highlighted by Amie:
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
Faith, Hope, and Carnage by Nick Cave and Seán O’Hagan
Satantango by László Krasznahorkai
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
North Woods by Daniel Mason
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
2666 by Roberto Bolaño
Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk
The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama
All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.
Other books mentioned in this episode:
The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet by Eleanor Cameron
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Jack by Marilynne Robinson
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Erasure by Percival Everett
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesamyn Ward
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
Verity by Colleen Hoover
The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
M Train: A Memoir by Patti Smith
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami