In this week's episode of You Are What You Read, get to know Katie Couric as you never have in a conversation about the books that built her soul. Themes of culture, family, faith, and love will inspire and delight you. Katie is an award-winning journalist who has used her storytelling skills to bring us together. She is the ultimate cancer care advocate, the visionary behind Katie Couric Media (KCM), and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of her page-turning autobiography, Going There. Katie elevates our conversation with her curiosity, gusto, humor and grace. Listen to Katie's "Next Question" podcast and sign up for her daily "Wake-Up Call" newsletter from Katie Couric Media. 

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Katie Couric’s “You Are What You Read” Book List

Dr. Seuss 

Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman

Go, Dog, Go! by P.D. Eastman

Snow by Roy McKie

Miss Flora McFlimsey by Marian Foster Curtiss

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

The Trumpet Swan by E.B. White

Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne

A Thurber Carnival by James Thurber

The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen

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

A Patch of Blue by Elizabeth Kata

Light a Single Candle by Beverly Butler

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

The Luckiest Girl by Beverly Cleary

Fifteen by Beverly Cleary

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Jim Thorpe: Olympic Champion (Childhood of Famous Americans) by Guernsey Van Riper Jr.

Babe Didrikson: Girl Athlete (Childhood of Famous Americans) by Lena Young De Grummond and Lynn de Grummond Delaune

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Dopesick by Beth Macy

Expenses by Amy Blume

Signal Fire by Dani Shapiro

Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls

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