Episode 54 - Take My Books Where They Belong with Chelsey Stone

On this episode, Chelsey Stone, a freelance writer and book tour leader, describes herself as someone who reads to learn. She brings a lot of really great non-fiction books to the show, and while some of them can be a bit of a bummer, these books help Chelsey learn more about herself and the world while facing reality through reading. 

 

NatGeo article about the Chicago River

Read and Run on the Road in DC 

Guided Tour of Lemont’s Waterways 

 

Book Talk and Signing for The Kat Bunglar with Tanima Kazi 

 

Books mentioned in this episode: 

 

What Betsy’s reading: 

The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich 

West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge 

 

Books Highlighted by:

Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe 

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barabara Demick

The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of WWII by Iris Chang

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning 

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson 

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb 

Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos 

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque 

How to Read a Book by Charles Van Doren and Mortimer J. Adler 

 

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.  

Other books mentioned in this episode:

Instagram for Dummies by Corey Walker, et al 

Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe 

Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe 

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck 

To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck 

Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck 

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo 

The Address Book by Deirdre Mask 

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders 

A Woman’s Place Is in the Brewhouse by Tara Nurin & Teri Fahrendorf 

Life of Pi by Yann Martel 

Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard 

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 

The Fate of Africa by Martin Meredith 

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 

The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler