Episode 11 - A Series of Series with Rachel Kilthorne

On this episode, Rachel Kilthorne, a self-processed nerd’s nerd, discusses her love of both fantasy novels and going deep on a subject in non-fiction. She names many series and discusses how she determines when to re-read or when to let go of a series. I also get to go on a soapbox rant about reading diversely, especially in genre fiction. 

 

Books mentioned in this episode: 

 

What Betsy’s reading: 

The Nix by Nathan Hill 

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon 

Woodworm by Layla Martinez

We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer 

 

Books Highlighted by Rachel: 

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones 

The Wayfarer Series by Becky Chambers 

The Sabriel Series by Garth Nix

Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez 

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk 

The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein 

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.A. Schwab 

A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 

His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik 

Babel by R.F. Kuang 

Saga by Brian K. Vaughn

American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West by Nate Blakeslee 

The Dresden Files Series by Jim Butcher

The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu

The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism by Katherine Stewart

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler 

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

 

Other Books Mentioned in the Episode:

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.  

The Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan 

The Essential Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson 

The Sandman by Neil Gaiman 

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi 

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir 

Death Valley by Melissa Broder 

The Pisces by Melissa Broder 

The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King 

The First Law Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie 

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin 

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin 

The World We Make by N.K. Jemisin 

Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 

Blackouts by Justin Torres 

The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty 

Zorrie by Laird Hunt 

The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen 

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig 

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss 

The Poppy War Trilogy by R.F. Kuang 

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang 

Erasure by Percival Everett 

The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd 

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman 

Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer 

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer