Reading Envy 072: Books are my Bag

Jenny sits down in the Reading Envy pub with another new guest she recruited from Litsy - Sarah K. We discuss medicine, Man Booker Prize runners up, book swaps, and genres people don't read all that often. (But we think they should!)

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Books discussed:



Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
Now You See Me by Sharon Bolton
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
My Misspent Youth: Essays by Meghan Daum
The Sea of Light by Jennifer Levin

Other mentions:

Karin Slaughter
Mo Yan
Nobel Prize for literature
The Blackhouse by Peter May
Fringe Festival (Edinburgh)
International Book Festival (Edinburgh)
Internal Medicine: A Doctor's Stories by Terrence Holt
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
Man Booker Prize
Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson
Alex Delaware series by Jonathan Kellerman
The Americans (tv show)
Dr. Who (tv show)
The Troop by Nick Cutter
The Many by WYl Menmuir 
Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids edited by Meghan Daum
Unspeakable by Meghan Daum
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Books on the Nightstand podcast
Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Frasier
Orphans at the Carnival by Carol Birch
A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines by Janna Levin

Related episodes:

Episode 063 - Desolation Road (book speed dating and books on grief)


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