Episode 20 - Based in Reality with Jordan Cross

On this episode, Jordan Cross, a resource librarian for a large interior design firm, discusses her love of audiobooks, books that are based on something true, and how memoirs about hard topics are important and meaningful. She also brings a topic to the show that I hadn’t thought to ask about!   The big list of books from NPR - best of the year since 2013!   Books mentioned in this episode:    What Betsy’s reading:  Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe  Mister Magic by Kiersten White  The Faculty Lounge by Jennifer Mathieu   Books Highlighted by Jordan:  The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian The Shining by Stephen King The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley  Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn  I’m Glad my Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy  Know my Name by Chanel Miller  Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage  Night Film by Marisha Pessl The Huntress by Kate Quinn All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller  Work in Progress by Leanne Ford & Steve Ford   All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.   Other books mentioned in this episode:  The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner and L. Kate Deal  Kristy’s Great Idea (the Baby-Sitter’s Club #1) by Ann M. Martin A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle  Left Behind the Kids by Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket and Brett Helquist  To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee  1984 by George Orwell  Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson 11/22/63 by Stephen King Pet Sematary by Stephen King Tom Lake by Ann Patchet  The Dutch House by Ann Patchett  Doctor Sleep by Stephen King  Dreamcatcher by Stephen King  The Push by Ashley Audrain  The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls  Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover  The Alice Network by Kate Quinn  Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid  Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty  Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty  The Green Mile by Stephen King  Misery by Stephen King  Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple