On this episode, Madi Badger, a PhD student, discusses the book series that changed her reading life, the reading challenge that has taken over her reading life, and some amazing bookstore stories. We discuss a shared love of paperbacks and how many different ways there are to use the library, including as a bad bookish habit. 

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Books mentioned in this episode: 

What Betsy’s reading: 

Skeleton Crew by Stephen King

Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips 

Severance by Ling Ma

Books Highlighted by Madi:

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins 

Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin 

Broken Horses by Brandi Carlisle 

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 

Medicine Wheel for the Planet by Dr. Jennifer Grenz

ADHD for Smart Ass Women by Tracy Otsuka

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.  

Other books mentioned in this episode:

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman 

The Third Gilmore Girl by Kelly Bishop & Amy Sherman-Palladino 

Rainbow Magic Rainbow Fairies by Daisy Meadows & Georgie Ripper 

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller 

Circe by Madeline Miller 

One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune 

A Monetary History of the United States by Anna Jacobson Schwartz & Milton Friedman

Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy