Episode 27 - Nobel Prize in Reading with Amie Medley

On this episode, Amie Medley, who loves a long book, discusses her big reading project, which is reading every author who has won a Nobel Prize in Literature, and what she has discovered through that endeavor. We also discuss the ups and downs of book clubs, the benefits she finds from ereaders, and her love for a book that I can’t help but roll my eyes at.    Books mentioned in this episode:    What Betsy’s reading:  Ghostroots by ‘Pemi Aguda Nora Goes off Script by Annabel Monaghan  Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro    Books Highlighted by Amie: Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace  The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein  The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich  Tom Lake by Ann Patchett Faith, Hope, and Carnage by Nick Cave and Seán O’Hagan  Satantango by László Krasznahorkai Beloved by Toni Morrison  Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison  Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel  North Woods by Daniel Mason  Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin  2666 by Roberto Bolaño  Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama    All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.   Other books mentioned in this episode: The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet by Eleanor Cameron Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White  The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White  A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle  Animal Farm by George Orwell  The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Gilead by Marilynne Robinson  Jack by Marilynne Robinson Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson  Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen  The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk  The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann  My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante  Erasure by Percival Everett  Exit West by Mohsin Hamid  Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesamyn Ward  Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk  Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson  The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich  Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe  Verity by Colleen Hoover  The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai  The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño  M Train: A Memoir by Patti Smith  The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami