Episode 56 - Feels Folkloric with Meara McNitt

On this episode, Meara McNitt, a social media professional who loves stories of all types, discusses her love for all kinds of books, including an interest that her friends suggest she doesn’t yell about in the bookstore. She talks about a lot of books that haven’t appeared on the show yet and I go on a bit of a rant about one of my favorite hot takes. 

 

Meara on TikTok 

 

Books mentioned in this episode: 

 

What Betsy’s reading: 

There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak 

Last Summer on State Street by Toya Wolfe 

 

Books Highlighted by Meara:

Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell 

That Self-Same Metal by Brittany N. Williams 

Guillotine by Delilah S. Dawson 

Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker

The Thirteenth Child by Erin A. Craig 

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

Lost in the Never Woods by Aiden Thomas 

The End of Men by Christina Sweeney-Baird

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 

 

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.  

Other books mentioned in this episode:

Perfume and Pain by Anna Dorn

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 

Divergent by Veronica Roth 

Matched by Ally Condie 

Vampires Don’t Wear Polka Dots: Bailey School Kids #1 by Debbie Dadey 

Magic Treehouse by Mary Pope Osborne 

The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis 

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz & Stephen Gammell 

Unwind by Neal Shusterman 

Scythe by Neal Shusterman 

House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig 

Hose of Roots and Ruin by Erin A. Craig 

Small Favors by Erin A. Craig 

The Belladonna Collection by Adalyn Grace 

All the Stars and Teeth by Adalyn Grace 

A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen 

Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi 

The Christmas Murder Game by Alexandra Benedict 

Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell 

My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite 

Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite 

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins 

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros 

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh 

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas 

The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas 

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel 

Severance by Ling Ma

Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson 

The Lamb by Lucy Rose 

A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers 

Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda 

1984 by George Orwell 

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 

Julia: A Retelling of George Orwell’s 1984 by Sandra Newman