Episode 22 - A Little Bit of Everything with Leah @DishingonBooks

Books with Betsy

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