On this episode, Amy Smalley and Carrie Vittitoe, co-hosts of the Perks of Being a Book Lover Podcast, discuss their sometimes opposite book preferences, how having a podcast has changed their reading lives, and we laugh a lot. If you enjoy this conversation, definitely check out their show, which has a lot of their fun banter. 

The Perks of Being a Book Lover 

Follow The Perks of Being a Book Lover on Instagram

Books mentioned in this episode: 

What Betsy’s reading: 

Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips 

Mina’s Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa

Books Highlighted by Amy & Carrie:

The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science by Kate McKinnon

You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith

Gone Girl by Gyllian Flynn

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

What Ben Franklin Would Have Told Me by Donna Gordon

I Am The Messenger by Markus Zusak

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

American Ghost: A Family’s Extraordinary History on the Desert Frontier by Hannah Nordhaus

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain

Paris Letters by Janice McLeod

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.  

Other books mentioned in this episode:

The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise by Colleen Oakley 

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch 

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

Circe by Madeline Miller 

Ariadne by Jennifer Saint 

My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris

Border Crossings by Emma Fick 

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

American Sniper by Chris Kyle 

Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky 

It by Stephen King

The Changeling by Victor LaValle 

The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin 

The Marmalade Diaries by Ben Aitken 

Clay’s Quilt by Silas House 

Ulysses by James Joyce 

How to Read Ulysses and Why

Morning Glory Milking Farm by C.M. Nascosta 

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk 

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 

Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert