Episode 11 - A Series of Series with Rachel Kilthorne

Books with Betsy

On this episode, Rachel Kilthorne, a self-processed nerd’s nerd, discusses her love of both fantasy novels and going deep on a subject in non-fiction. She names many series and discusses how she determines when to re-read or when to let go of a series. I also get to go on a soapbox rant about reading diversely, especially in genre fiction.

Books mentioned in this episode:

What Betsy’s reading:

The Nix by Nathan Hill

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

Woodworm by Layla Martinez

We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer

Books Highlighted by Rachel:

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

The Wayfarer Series by Becky Chambers

The Sabriel Series by Garth Nix

Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez

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

The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.A. Schwab

A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik

Babel by R.F. Kuang

Saga by Brian K. Vaughn

American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West by Nate Blakeslee

The Dresden Files Series by Jim Butcher

The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu

The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism by Katherine Stewart

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Other Books Mentioned in the Episode:

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.

The Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan

The Essential Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

The Sandman by Neil Gaiman

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Death Valley by Melissa Broder

The Pisces by Melissa Broder

The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King

The First Law Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

The World We Make by N.K. Jemisin

Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Blackouts by Justin Torres

The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty

Zorrie by Laird Hunt

The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

The Poppy War Trilogy by R.F. Kuang

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

Erasure by Percival Everett

The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer