On this episode, Katie Erdman, a lifelong reader who finds comfort in books, talks about the mystery series she particularly loves, ways that technology have made her reading life better and funnier, and she tells a great story about her Aunt Jan and Grandma doing her a reading solid. 

 

Books mentioned in this episode: 

 

What Betsy’s reading: 

Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep by Paul Tremblay 

The Mad Wife by Meagan Church

Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo 

 

Books Highlighted by Katie: 

Attachments by Rainbow Rowell 

Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid 

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini 

The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson 

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

Bossed Up: A Grown Woman’s Guide to Getting Your Shit Together by Emilie Aries 

And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts

 

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.  

Other books mentioned in this episode:

Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis 

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annier Barrows 

Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear 

Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore 

One for the Money by Janet Evanovich 

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell 

The Women by Kristin Hannah 

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah 

It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey 

Hook, Line, and Sinker by Tessa Bailey 

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes 

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