Episode 15 - Percival Everett Fan Club with Ben Ustick

On this episode, Ben Ustick, the taproom manager at Off Color Mousetrap and I discuss some of our shared favorite books, the excellence of contemporary fiction, and his goal to read Percival Everett’s entire oeuvre this year. Get ready to be shocked yourself when you hear the book that shocked Ben. If you want to visit us at Off Color Book Club, check my instagram for the information on the next meeting!

 

Books mentioned in this episode: 

 

What Betsy’s reading: 

The God of the Woods by Liz Moore 

Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay 

 

Books Highlighted by Ben: 

True Biz by Sara Nović

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank  

The Hustler by Walter Tevis  

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel 

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai 

Less by Andrew Sean Greer 

Victim by Andrew Boryga 

 

Other Books Mentioned in the Episode:

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.  

The Firm by John Grisham

A Time to Kill by John Grisham 

The Client by John Grisham 

The Chamber by John Grisham 

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton 

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster 

Different Seasons: Four Novellas by Stephen King 

The BFG by Roald Dahl 

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 

Erasure by Percival Everett 

James by Percival Everett 

Telephone by Percival Everett 

I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett 

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 

The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey 

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

Trust by Hernan Diaz 

The Color of Money by Walter Tevis 

The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis 

Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer 

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger