Episode 20 - Based in Reality with Jordan Cross
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On this episode, Jordan Cross, a resource librarian for a large interior design firm, discusses her love of audiobooks, books that are based on something true, and how memoirs about hard topics are important and meaningful. She also brings a topic to the show that I hadn’t thought to ask about!
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Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
Mister Magic by Kiersten White
The Faculty Lounge by Jennifer Mathieu
Books Highlighted by Jordan:
The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian
The Shining by Stephen King
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
I’m Glad my Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Know my Name by Chanel Miller
Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage
Night Film by Marisha Pessl
The Huntress by Kate Quinn
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller
Work in Progress by Leanne Ford & Steve Ford
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Other books mentioned in this episode:
The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner and L. Kate Deal
Kristy’s Great Idea (the Baby-Sitter’s Club #1) by Ann M. Martin
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Left Behind the Kids by Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket and Brett Helquist
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
1984 by George Orwell
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Pet Sematary by Stephen King
Tom Lake by Ann Patchet
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
Dreamcatcher by Stephen King
The Push by Ashley Audrain
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
The Green Mile by Stephen King
Misery by Stephen King
Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
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