On this episode, Amy Smalley and Carrie Vittitoe, co-hosts of the Perks of Being a Book Lover Podcast, discuss their sometimes opposite book preferences, how having a podcast has changed their reading lives, and we laugh a lot. If you enjoy this conversation, definitely check out their show, which has a lot of their fun banter.
The Perks of Being a Book Lover
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Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips
Mina’s Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa
Books Highlighted by Amy & Carrie:
The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science by Kate McKinnon
You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith
Gone Girl by Gyllian Flynn
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
What Ben Franklin Would Have Told Me by Donna Gordon
I Am The Messenger by Markus Zusak
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
American Ghost: A Family’s Extraordinary History on the Desert Frontier by Hannah Nordhaus
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
Paris Letters by Janice McLeod
All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.
Other books mentioned in this episode:
The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise by Colleen Oakley
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Circe by Madeline Miller
Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris
Border Crossings by Emma Fick
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
American Sniper by Chris Kyle
Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky
It by Stephen King
The Changeling by Victor LaValle
The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
The Marmalade Diaries by Ben Aitken
Clay’s Quilt by Silas House
Ulysses by James Joyce
How to Read Ulysses and Why
Morning Glory Milking Farm by C.M. Nascosta
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
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