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

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