On this episode, Stephanie Bailey, a fellow Read & Runner, talks about her love of audiobooks, especially a favorite narrator, how much she enjoys graphic novels, and we discuss our shared love of sad books. She also has a surprising way that school helped her fall in love with reading. 

Books mentioned in this episode: 

What Betsy’s reading: 

This Here is Love by Princess Joy L. Perry

Brawler by Lauren Groff 

Our Last Resort by Clémence Michallon

Books Highlighted by Stephanie:

We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

It’s Okay to Laugh (Crying is Cool too) by Nora McInerny Purmort

Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant by Roz Chast

The Trees by Percival Everett 

Dream City by Brendan Short 

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein 

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death by Jean-Dominique Bauby

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.  

Other books mentioned in this episode:

Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr 

Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great by Judy Blume

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas 

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead 

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin 

Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon 

The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix 

The World According to Garp by John Irving 

The Water-Method Man by John Irving 

Setting Free the Bears by John Irving 

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo 

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney 

Angel Down by Daniel Kraus 

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai 

East of Eden by John Steinbeck 

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 

No Happy Endings by Nora McInerny

You by Caroline Kepnes 

Shopgirl by Steve Martin 

Erasure by Percival Everett 

James by Percival Everett 

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir 

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo