From picture books read to us as children to our first visits to the public library to the school-assigned reading that ended up changing out lives, all of us can point to books that have made us the people we have grown to be. This week, Meg welcomes Sorta Awesome regular for books and reading Katie Proctor back to the show, and they each bring a list of books that have shaped the people (and the readers) they are today. Don’t miss this conversation about their most meaningful reads!

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Katie’s AotW: Liquid IV

Meg’s AotW: Sephora #LIPSTORIES Lipstick

Katie’s list:

Babysitter’s Club Series by Ann M Martin Amazon | Bookshop

American Girl Series Amazon

Absolutely Normal Chaos by Sharon Creech Amazon | Bookshop

The Iliad by Homer Amazon

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Amazon | Bookshop

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Amazon | Bookshop

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares Amazon | Bookshop

The Hurried Child by David Elkind Amazon | Bookshop

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving Amazon | Bookshop

Daring Greatly by Brené Brown Amazon | Bookshop

Inspired by Rachel Held Evans Amazon | Bookshop

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer Amazon | Bookshop

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Amazon | Bookshop

Meg’s list

Face on the Milk Carton by Carolyn B Cooney Amazon | Bookshop

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin Amazon | Bookshop

The Road from Home by David Kherdian Amazon | Bookshop

Beloved by Toni Morrison Amazon | Bookshop

Complete Poems of ee. Cummings Amazon | Bookshop

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold Amazon | Bookshop

Jesus for President by Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw Amazon

Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning Amazon | Bookshop

Jesus Feminist by Sarah Bessey Amazon | Bookshop

Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosch Amazon | Bookshop

Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson Amazon | Bookshop

The Universal Christ by Richard Rohr Amazon | Bookshop

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