Episode 43 - Insatiable Curiosity with Rebecca Schinsky and Jeff O’Neal

On this episode, Rebecca Schinsky and Jeff O’Neal of Book Riot sit down and talk to me about their reading lives. We talk about their professional work in the world of books, how Oliver Burkeman would feel about my bad bookish habit, and how any book can be interesting if you’re curious enough. 

 

Listen to the Book Riot Podcast 

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Better Living Through Books Newsletter (and the rest of the Book Riot Newsletters!) 

Jeff and Rebecca Live at Powells!

 

Books mentioned in this episode: 

 

What Betsy’s reading: 

B.F.F.: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found by Christie Tate 

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 

Madwoman by Chelsea Bieker

 

Books Highlighted by Rebecca & Jeff:

Sula by Toni Morrison 

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro 

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russel

The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt 

Lab Girl: A Memoir by Hope Jahren 

Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes 

We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry

The Street by Ann Petry

How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur

The Orchard: A Memoir by Adele Crockett Robertson

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman 

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice by Terry Tempest Williams 

Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Scott 

Conscious Business: How to Build Value through Values by Fred Kofman 

 

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.  

Other books mentioned in this episode:

Post-Traumatic by Chantal V. Johnson 

House of Cotton by Monica Brashears 

Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy 

Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros 

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Ingrained: The Making of a Craftsman by Callum Robinson 

Cabin: Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman by Patrick Hutchinson 

Life in Three Dimensions: How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life by Shigehiro Oishi 

Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts by Oliver Burkeman 

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card 

The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien 

The Shining by Stephen King 

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante 

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros 

It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover 

All Fours by Miranda July 

Passing by Nella Larsen