Bathing in Darkness with Sam Wilmes

Books with Betsy

Bathing in Darkness with Sam Wilmes

Episode 1

On this episode, Sam Wilmes and I discuss reading dark books including Stephen King, horror, and dark literary fiction. We find her book ick, a new-to-me source of books, and books that connect anxiety and depression and humor.

Books mentioned in this episode:

What Betsy’s reading:

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

A Better World by Sarah Langan

The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman

Books Highlighted by Sam:

The Shining by Stephen King

It by Stephen King

Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne

Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh

House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

Know My Name by Chanel Miller

Other Books Mentioned in the Episode:

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.

By Kristen Hannah:

• The Nightingale
• Great Alone
• The Four Winds

By Chuck Klosterman

• The Nineties: A Book
• X: A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the 21st Century
• Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota
• Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

We are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

I’m Glad my Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

The Woman in the Window by AJ Finn

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Townie by Andre Dubus III

The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III

By Hunter S. Thompson

• The Rum Diary
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72

By Samantha Irby

• We are Never Meeting in Real Life
• Meaty
• Quietly Hostile
• Wow, No Thank You

Broken (in the Best Possible Way) by Jenny Lawson

I’m Judging You by Luvvie Ajayi

Little Troublemaker Makes a Mess by Luvvie Ajayi Jones

Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss

Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity by Dan Berger