On this episode, Rachel Larkins, a listener of Books with Betsy, talks about her project to read all the winners of the Hugo award, so we talk about a lot of really great sci-fi books. We also dish about how great the Book Riot podcast universe is and we might convince you to pick up Dune.
Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
Ring by Michele Lerner
You Wanna Be On Top? by Sarah Hartshorne
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits
The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy
Books Highlighted by Rachel:
Enders Game by Orson Scott Card
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Red Rising by Pierce Brown
A Canticle for Liebowitz by Walter Miller
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
Among Others by Jo Walton
Network Effect by Martha Wells
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Dune by Frank Herbert
Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.
Other books mentioned in this episode:
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
Travel Team by Mike Lupica
Recursion by Blake Crouch
Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
