On this episode, Rachel Rolland, a hobby-enthusiast, discusses her love for weird books, including two authors with a decently large backlist that I’ve never heard of. We discuss how a book about accounting can help investigate the way we see the world, how some books just shouldn’t be adapted to screen, and her love for the bookstores where she worked.

Books mentioned in this episode:

What Betsy’s reading:

The Nix by Nathan Hill

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

No One Can Know by Kate Alice Marshall

None of This is True by Lisa Jewell

Books Highlighted by Rachel:

Milkman by Anna Burns

Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

A Song of Ice & Fire by George R.R. Martin

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Watership Down by Richard Adams

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Keeping the House by Ellen Baker

13 ½ Lives of Captain Blue Bear by Walter Moers

The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers

Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris

Less by Andrew Sean Greer

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance by Jane Gleeson-White

Other Books Mentioned in the Episode:

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime by Jasper Fforde

Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron by Jasper Fforde

Jonathan Strange & MR Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

Dune by Frank Herbert

Grant by Ron Chernow

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence by Amy Sedaris