Ep 74: Best Books Lately with Sarah Bessey

This episode is a midsummer reading check-in. 

It's time for another episode about BOOKS and this time I'm joined by my good friend Sarah Bessey. Sarah is a writer, speaker, and all around woman of wisdom. She is the author of Jesus Feminist, Out of Sorts, and the spiritual memoir Miracles and Other Reasonable Things. She is also the cofounder of the Evolving Faith conference. 

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On this episode, Sarah and I each share the best books we've read lately, including popular novels, Canadian authors that fly under the radar, and social justices resources.

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Sarah’s favorite writers:

Barbara Brown Taylor

Madeline L’engle

Kathleen Norris

Richard Wagamese

Rachel Held Evans

Hannah Coulter

Wendell Barry

L.M. Montgomery

Sarah’s favorite books:

The Crosswick’s Series by Madeline L’Engle

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery

The Inspector Gamach books by Louise Penny

Sarah’s Best Books Lately:

The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall

Five Wives by Joan Thomas

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad 

Try Softer by Aundi Kolber

Laura’s Best Books Lately:

A Good Marriage by Kimberly McCreight 

The Mother-In-Law by Sally Hepworth 

Here For It by R. Eric Thomas

Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold

Writers and Lovers by Lily King

The Knockout Queen by Rufi Thorpe

Other books mentioned on this episode:

Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead

Blake Crouch’s book Recursion

Women Talking by Miram Toews 

Native by Kaitlin Curtice

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