Episode 27 - Nobel Prize in Reading with Amie Medley

Books with Betsy

On this episode, Amie Medley, who loves a long book, discusses her big reading project, which is reading every author who has won a Nobel Prize in Literature, and what she has discovered through that endeavor. We also discuss the ups and downs of book clubs, the benefits she finds from ereaders, and her love for a book that I can’t help but roll my eyes at.

Books mentioned in this episode:

What Betsy’s reading:

Ghostroots by ‘Pemi Aguda

Nora Goes off Script by Annabel Monaghan

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

Books Highlighted by Amie:

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

Faith, Hope, and Carnage by Nick Cave and Seán O’Hagan

Satantango by László Krasznahorkai

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

North Woods by Daniel Mason

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

2666 by Roberto Bolaño

Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk

The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.

Other books mentioned in this episode:

The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet by Eleanor Cameron

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Jack by Marilynne Robinson

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen

The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

Erasure by Percival Everett

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesamyn Ward

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

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

Verity by Colleen Hoover

The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai

The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño

M Train: A Memoir by Patti Smith

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami