On this episode, I bring back Sam Wilmes from episode 1 to celebrate 100 episodes of Books with Betsy so she can interview me! I am the guest on this episode so if you’ve ever wanted to hear my answers to my interview questions, here it is! We talk about a ton of books and somehow I neglected to talk about Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel which is one of my absolute favorite books. I am sure I will continue to think about more and more books that I didn’t discuss because there are so many amazing books out there! 

Books mentioned in this episode: 

What Betsy’s reading: 

What We Can Know by Ian McEwan 

Heart the Lover by Lily King 

Books Highlighted by Betsy:

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 

1984 by George Orwell 

Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix 

No Exit by Taylor Adams 

Trust by Hernan Diaz 

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai 

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir 

Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

Seven Empty Houses by Samanta Schweblin 

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee 

Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman 

The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death by Daniel Pinkwater 

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.  

Other books mentioned in this episode:

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel 

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski 

Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli 

Redwall by Brian Jacques 

Amelia’s Notebook by Marissa Moss 

Sunny: Diary One, California Diaries by Ann M. Martin 

Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh 

Bloomability by Sharon Creech 

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech 

A Winkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle 

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata 

Earthlings by Sayaka Murata 

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix

Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 

Brawler by Lauren Groff 

Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin 

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell 

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis 

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis 

Matilda by Roald Dahl 

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankwiler by E.L. Konigsburg 

The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg 

The Hoboken Chicken Emergency by Daniel Pinkwater