Episode 109 - A Slow Burn to a Big Fire with Brady Parkin

On this episode, Brady Parkin, @booksbybrady on Instagram, is a bookseller who enjoys reading broadly but focuses on literary fiction. We talk about the seemingly magical access he has as a bookseller, how awards lists impact reading, and he gives a lot of really great book recommendations.    Books mentioned in this episode:    What Betsy’s reading:  The Renovation by Kenan Orhan  Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius    Books Highlighted by Brady: Babel by R.F. Kuang  The Book of Luke by Lovell Holder  The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver  A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar  Things We Lost to the Water by Eric Nguyen  In Memoriam by Alice Winn  Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin  The Magnificent Ruins by Nayantara Roy  Sisters of a Halved Heart by Nayantara Roy The End of Drum Time by Hanna Pylväinen Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin  The Secret History by Donna Tartt  Kaikeyi by Vishnavi Patel  Middle Spoon by Alejandro Varela  The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang  Orbital by Samantha Harvey    All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.   Other books mentioned in this episode: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli  The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee  Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky  Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte  Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke  Theo of Golden by Allen Levi