Episode 11 - A Series of Series with Rachel Kilthorne

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