On this episode, Ben Ustick, the taproom manager at Off Color Mousetrap and I discuss some of our shared favorite books, the excellence of contemporary fiction, and his goal to read Percival Everett’s entire oeuvre this year. Get ready to be shocked yourself when you hear the book that shocked Ben. If you want to visit us at Off Color Book Club, check my instagram for the information on the next meeting!
Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay
Books Highlighted by Ben:
True Biz by Sara Nović
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Hustler by Walter Tevis
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
Victim by Andrew Boryga
Other Books Mentioned in the Episode:
All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.
The Firm by John Grisham
A Time to Kill by John Grisham
The Client by John Grisham
The Chamber by John Grisham
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Different Seasons: Four Novellas by Stephen King
The BFG by Roald Dahl
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Erasure by Percival Everett
James by Percival Everett
Telephone by Percival Everett
I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Trust by Hernan Diaz
The Color of Money by Walter Tevis
The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis
Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger
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