Show Notes
Kelly talks with New York Times bestselling author Gayle Forman about her new book, about the afterlife, and about the growth and evolution of YA as a category. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! A new year means a new Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons. To get recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. All Access subscribers get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. You can become an All Access member starting at $6 per month or $60 per year to get unlimited access to all members-only content in 20+ newsletters, community features, and the warm fuzzies of knowing you are supporting independent media. To join, visit bookriot.com/readharder. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Books Discussed After Life by Gayle Forman Our Town by Thornton Wilder Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin The Everafter by Amy Huntley The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold Not Nothing by Gayle Forman How to Read a Book by Monica Wood Lamar Giles on Hey YA When The World Tips Over by Jandy Nelson On a Wing and a Tear by Cynthia Leitich Smith One Day by David Nicholls Wicked by Gregory Maguire We Need Diverse Books Shoutouts to Lexapro and Zoloft
Gayle emailed the following additional recommendations from our segment on books about/related to the afterlife: The In Between by Hadley Vlahos, Briefly Perfectly Human by Alua Arthur, When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalinthi, and Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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