Episode 15 - Percival Everett Fan Club with Ben Ustick

Books with Betsy

On this episode, Ben Ustick, the taproom manager at Off Color Mousetrap and I discuss some of our shared favorite books, the excellence of contemporary fiction, and his goal to read Percival Everett’s entire oeuvre this year. Get ready to be shocked yourself when you hear the book that shocked Ben. If you want to visit us at Off Color Book Club, check my instagram for the information on the next meeting!

Books mentioned in this episode:

What Betsy’s reading:

The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay

Books Highlighted by Ben:

True Biz by Sara Nović

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Hustler by Walter Tevis

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

Less by Andrew Sean Greer

Victim by Andrew Boryga

Other Books Mentioned in the Episode:

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.

The Firm by John Grisham

A Time to Kill by John Grisham

The Client by John Grisham

The Chamber by John Grisham

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Different Seasons: Four Novellas by Stephen King

The BFG by Roald Dahl

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Erasure by Percival Everett

James by Percival Everett

Telephone by Percival Everett

I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey

Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Trust by Hernan Diaz

The Color of Money by Walter Tevis

The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis

Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger