Episode 45 - TBR Snowball with Deedi Brown

On this episode, Deedi Brown, who runs The Booker of the Month book club, and I discuss the crossover love of literary fiction and genre, getting sucked in by award lists, and how being more involved in books turns into a snowball! 

 

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Books mentioned in this episode: 

 

What Betsy’s reading: 

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 

Kingdom of No Tomorrow by Fabienne Josaphat 

Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis 

 

Books Highlighted by Deedi:

An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

Crescent City Series by Sarah J. Maas

The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo 

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller 

The Actual Star by Monica Byrne

The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez 

Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton

Fed is Best: The Unintended Harms of the “Breast is Best” Message and How to Find the Right Approach for You and Your Baby by Christie del Castillo-Hegyi, B. Jody Segrave-Daly, & Lynnette Hafken 

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

 

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Other books mentioned in this episode:

Choosing to Run by Des Linden, Bonnie D. Ford 

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride 

Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann 

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo 

Lenny by Max Porter 

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead 

Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James 

Disappearing Earth by Julia Philips 

Trust Exercise by Susan Choi 

Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange 

This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud 

Playground by Richard Powers 

Bel Canto by Ann Pachett 

The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht 

Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros 

Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros 

Circe by Madeline Miller 

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens