How do you work out what to read next?  Jenn Martin and Jennifer Wong discuss the concept of ‘Reading Doorways’ and why certain books appeal to certain readers, then Jenn shares a favourite novel that has a language doorway - Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban.

Authors and books mentioned in this episode

• Nancy Pearl’s Reading Doorways: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/nancy-pearl/article/51109-check-it-out-with-nancy-pearl-finding-that-next-good-book.html
• Extinctions by Josephine Wilson
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• Normal People by Sally Rooney
• Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
• Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
• The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
• Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
• The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman
• The Wolf Border by Sarah Hall
• Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang
• The Wayfarer series by Becky Chambers
• Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
• Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• Vernon God Little by D.B.C. Pierre
• Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce
• A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chamber
• Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel

Reading suggestions for Kristy

Kristy loved:

• Wild by Cheryl Strayed
• Becoming by Michelle Obama

Jenn’s suggestions:

• Educated by Tara Westover
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
• The Light of the World by Elizabeth Alexander
• Dear Sugar - https://therumpus.net/sections/dear-sugar/
• Dear Sugars - https://www.wbur.org/dearsugar
• Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
• How to Be a Person in the World by Heather Havrilesky
• Ask Polly - http://nymag.com/tags/ask-polly/

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