Episode Description
On this episode, Lauren Oliver, author of many books, comes on to talk about her new book that was just released, What Happened to Lucy Vale. We also have a great conversation about mysteries, the magic of Agatha Christie, and how even when you’re plugged-in to the book world it can be hard to decide what to read.
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Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
The Phoenix Pencil Company by Allison King
Books Highlighted by Lauren:
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Not Nothing by Gayle Forman
The Secret Place by Tana French
The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
Breathing Underwater by Richard Rohr
The Wisdom Pattern by Richard Rohr
All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.
Other books mentioned in this episode:
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Matilda by Roald Dahl
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Curiosity House: The Shrunken Head by H.C. Chester & Lauren Oliver
The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
The Boy from the Woods by Harlan Coben
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
True Biz by Sara Novic
Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis