Episode 95 - Who Reads Books Anymore with Will Pass

On this episode, Will Pass, author and creator of Who Reads Books Anymore, talks about the joy of the library with his kids, how much he learns about books when talking to strangers, and the book that hooked him as a young reader. We also talk a lot about how people develop a rich reading life and I hope this inspires listeners to encourage a non-reader in their life!   Will’s Author Site  Who Reads Books Anymore The Second Smartest Dog That Ever Lived  Pre-Order The Whirlpool of Lebanon    Books mentioned in this episode:    What Betsy’s reading:  Culpability by Bruce Holsinger  Code Noir by Canisia Lubrin The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy    Books Highlighted by Will: Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki  Nest by Terry Goodkind A Little Like Magic by Sarah Kurpiel  Merle’s Door: Lessons From a Free-Thinking Dog by Ted Kerasote  Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal  Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal Train Dreams by Denis Johnson  The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist  The Stranger by Albert Camus   All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.   Other books mentioned in this episode: The Coin by Yasmin Zaher  The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien  Corner by Zo-O We Don’t Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins  Baby Talk by Stella Blackstone Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt  The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt French Exit by Patrick deWitt  The Stand by Stephen King  Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud  Heidi by Johanna Spyri  Angels by Denis Johnson  Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson  Death With Interruptions by José Saramago  Wizard’s First Rule by Terry Goodkind  The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein  I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal  Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson