Episode 105 - The Absolute Most with Vanessa Diaz

On this episode, Vanessa Diaz, managing editor with Book Riot, talks about how her reading life is affected by her job, recommends woman-led mysteries, and talks about her current favorite authors. If you like witchy books, you have a lot of really great recommendations in this episode. 

Books mentioned in this episode: 

What Betsy’s reading: 

Kin by Tayari Jones

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke 

The Girls Who Grew Big by Leila Mottley 

Books Highlighted by Vanessa:

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman 

Gods of Jade and Shadow by Sylvia Moreno Garcia 

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley 

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel 

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie 

The Scammer by Tiffany D. Jackson 

An Ember in the Ashes by Saba Tahir 

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller 

Liliana’s Invincible Summer by Christina Rivera Garza 

A Tip for the Hangman by Allison Epstein

You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom by Vincent Tirado 

Murder in G Major by Alexia Gordon 

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas 

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw

We Need No Wings by Ann Dávila Cardinal 

The Widow of Rose House by Diana Biller 

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.  

Other books mentioned in this episode:

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe 

London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth by Patrick Radden Keefe 

The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe 

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell 

The Correspondent by Virginia Evans 

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt 

The Secret History by Donna Tartt