Episode 13 - Book Hunting with Tanima Kazi

Books with Betsy

On this episode, Tanima Kazi, a writer (get her novel here!) who loves language, shares her love of romance novels, favorite parts of her favorite books, and how her day job helps her build ideas for her own writing. She describes how books speak to her and even shares excerpts from her favorite books.

Books mentioned in this episode:

What Betsy’s reading:

The Nix by Nathan Hill

Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange

The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church by Sarah McCammon

Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne

Books Highlighted by Tanima:

Circe by Madeline Miller

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

How to Order the Universe by María José Ferrada, trans. Elizabeth Bryer

Siddartha by Herman Hesse

The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron

How to Escape an Arranged Marriage in High Heels by Tanima Kazi

Elinor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Addicted by Zane

Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Other Books Mentioned in the Episode:

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.

The Babysitters Club by Anne M. Martin

Are You There God? It’s me, Margaret by Judy Blume

Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

Wedding Night by Sophie Kinsella

Rachel’s Holiday by Marian Keyes

Watermelon by Marian Keyes

This Charming Man by Marian Keyes

London Seance Society by Sarah Penner

Jezebel by Megan Barnard

Becoming by Michelle Obama

Know My Name by Chanel Miller

Vengeance by Zane