Episode 22 - A Little Bit of Everything with Leah @DishingonBooks
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On this episode, Leah, @Dishingonbooks on Instagram, and I discuss our shared love of intense reads, how to find more books that open up the world, and her love for the Women’s Prize. We also give a lot of recommendations for books that are not for everyone but hit both of us in just the right spot.
Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliot
Trust by Hernan Diaz
Books Highlighted by Leah:
The Street by Ann Petry
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn
Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica, trans. Sarah Moses
The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagahara
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagahara
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Men we Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
Girls Burn Brighter by Shoba Rao
The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson
All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.
Other books mentioned in this episode:
The Babysitters Club by Ann M. Martin
Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews
Little Girl Lost by Drew Berrymore
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin, trans. Megan McDowell
Bright I Burn by Molly Aitken
Entitlement by Rumaan Alam
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
White Tears by Hari Kunzru
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
Yr Dead by Sam Sax
Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
The 1618 Project: A New Origin Story by Caitlin Roper, Irena Silverman, et al
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Keisha N. Blain & Ibram X. Kendi
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Iasbel Wilkerson
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