On this episode, Will Pass, author and creator of Who Reads Books Anymore, talks about the joy of the library with his kids, how much he learns about books when talking to strangers, and the book that hooked him as a young reader. We also talk a lot about how people develop a rich reading life and I hope this inspires listeners to encourage a non-reader in their life!

Will’s Author Site 

Who Reads Books Anymore

The Second Smartest Dog That Ever Lived 

Pre-Order The Whirlpool of Lebanon 

Books mentioned in this episode: 

What Betsy’s reading: 

Culpability by Bruce Holsinger 

Code Noir by Canisia Lubrin

The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy 

Books Highlighted by Will:

Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki 

Nest by Terry Goodkind

A Little Like Magic by Sarah Kurpiel 

Merle’s Door: Lessons From a Free-Thinking Dog by Ted Kerasote 

Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal 

Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal

Train Dreams by Denis Johnson 

The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist 

The Stranger by Albert Camus

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.  

Other books mentioned in this episode:

The Coin by Yasmin Zaher 

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien 

Corner by Zo-O

We Don’t Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins 

Baby Talk by Stella Blackstone

Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt 

The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt

French Exit by Patrick deWitt 

The Stand by Stephen King 

Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud 

Heidi by Johanna Spyri 

Angels by Denis Johnson 

Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson 

Death With Interruptions by José Saramago 

Wizard’s First Rule by Terry Goodkind 

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein 

I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal 

Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson