Episode 109 - A Slow Burn to a Big Fire with Brady Parkin

On this episode, Brady Parkin, @booksbybrady on Instagram, is a bookseller who enjoys reading broadly but focuses on literary fiction. We talk about the seemingly magical access he has as a bookseller, how awards lists impact reading, and he gives a lot of really great book recommendations. 

Books mentioned in this episode: 

What Betsy’s reading: 

The Renovation by Kenan Orhan 

Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius 

Books Highlighted by Brady:

Babel by R.F. Kuang 

The Book of Luke by Lovell Holder 

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 

A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar 

Things We Lost to the Water by Eric Nguyen 

In Memoriam by Alice Winn 

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin 

The Magnificent Ruins by Nayantara Roy 

Sisters of a Halved Heart by Nayantara Roy

The End of Drum Time by Hanna Pylväinen

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 

The Secret History by Donna Tartt 

Kaikeyi by Vishnavi Patel 

Middle Spoon by Alejandro Varela 

The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang 

Orbital by Samantha Harvey 

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.  

Other books mentioned in this episode:

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli 

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee 

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke 

Theo of Golden by Allen Levi