Episode 20 - Based in Reality with Jordan Cross

On this episode, Jordan Cross, a resource librarian for a large interior design firm, discusses her love of audiobooks, books that are based on something true, and how memoirs about hard topics are important and meaningful. She also brings a topic to the show that I hadn’t thought to ask about!

 

The big list of books from NPR - best of the year since 2013!

 

Books mentioned in this episode: 

 

What Betsy’s reading: 

Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe 

Mister Magic by Kiersten White 

The Faculty Lounge by Jennifer Mathieu

 

Books Highlighted by Jordan: 

The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian

The Shining by Stephen King

The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley 

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn 

I’m Glad my Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy 

Know my Name by Chanel Miller 

Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage 

Night Film by Marisha Pessl

The Huntress by Kate Quinn

All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller 

Work in Progress by Leanne Ford & Steve Ford

 

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Other books mentioned in this episode: 

The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner and L. Kate Deal 

Kristy’s Great Idea (the Baby-Sitter’s Club #1) by Ann M. Martin

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle 

Left Behind the Kids by Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye

A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket and Brett Helquist 

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 

1984 by George Orwell 

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain

Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson

11/22/63 by Stephen King

Pet Sematary by Stephen King

Tom Lake by Ann Patchet 

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett 

Doctor Sleep by Stephen King 

Dreamcatcher by Stephen King 

The Push by Ashley Audrain 

The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls 

Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover 

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn 

Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid 

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty 

Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty 

The Green Mile by Stephen King 

Misery by Stephen King 

Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple