Episode 17 - Book Clubs will Save the World with Allison Yates and Fernanda Wetzel

On this episode, Allison Yates and Fernanda Wetzel come on to talk about their organization, Read and Run Chicago, a book and run club that features specific books with coordinated runs in Chicago. They describe how accessible their organization is, open to anyone who might be interested in participating, and we get to talk about some incredible books that feature information and stories that open and affirm experiences that have been historically ignored. 

 

Read and Run Chicago Fall Event Calendar 

Allison’s Small Pack Camping Chair 

Italic Type book tracking 

 

Books mentioned in this episode: 

 

What Betsy’s reading: 

Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas 

Koresh by Stephan Talty 

The Stranger Upstairs by Lisa M. Matlin

 

Books Highlighted by Allison and Fernanda: 

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

The Change by Kirsten Miller

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig 

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara 

The Idea of You by Robinne Lee

Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng 

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer 

Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language by Amanda Montell

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo 

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai 

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Letters from Cuba by Ruth Behar 

The Push by Ashley Audrain

 

Other Books Mentioned in the Episode:

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.  

Temper by Layne Fargo 

The Women by Kristin Hannah 

Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See 

Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski

The Hundred Year House by Rebecca Makkai 

Fieldwork: A Forager’s Memoir by Iliana Regan 

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang 

Erasure by Percival Everett 

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez