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Well-Loved Books with Giorgia Riddell
Episode 89
Monday, 19 January, 2026
On this episode, Giorgia Riddell, of Fostered Fiction, talks about her love for used books, especially those that are already annotated, her memories of listening to books on road trips, and we get into the current reading stats from last year and encourage anyone who wants to talk about reading online to go out there and do it. Fostered Fiction on TikTok Fostered Fiction on Instagram Books mentioned in this episode: What Betsy’s reading: Pick a Color by Souvankham Thammavongsa Tilt by Emma Pattee Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Books Highlighted by Giorgia: Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar The Secret History by Donna Tartt You Weren’t Meant to be Human by Andrew Joseph White The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah Lie With Me by Phillipe Besson What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez Creep by Emma van Straaten Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon The Will of the Many by James Islington Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page. Other books mentioned in this episode: A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket The Merchant of Death by D.J. MacHale Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins The Friend by Sigrid Nunez Interesting Facts About Space by Emily Austin Is This a Cry For Help? by Emily Austin Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Seascraper by Benjamin Wood Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Seven Days in June by Tia Williams You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones The Housemaid by Freida McFadden This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone The Only One Left by Riley Sager Gone Girl by Gilian Flynn Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk Endling by Maria Reva The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
