Episode 27 - Nobel Prize in Reading with Amie Medley

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