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Books mentioned in The Writing Habits Behind 50 Million Books Sold (Jodi Picoult Interview)
From How I Write · 2026-10-14
All matched books in this episode
“Spark of Light. That is a book about abortion rights in America that was”
“on teenager finding Gone with the Wind, memorizing things and then later on”
“reading Gatsby and thinking through an unreliable narrator and how that works.”
“>> And um Life of Pie is one of them, for example. The Invisible Life of Addy”
“example. The Invisible Life of Addy Laroo is another one. And those are two”
“small great things that I went and revisited that and I was like oo oo”
“Keeping Faith. That's one of the ones where um the mother uh functions like an”
“was on Out of Africa by Esak Dennison. Okay? And if you know her work, she is”
“Shadows of the Grass, which are the two companion pieces of her biography, it's”
“Perfect Match. Um, Perfect Match is about this uh prosecutor who finds out”
“people have read 19 minutes, which is about a school shooting in America and”
“me. Um, her new book, Witches of Cambridge, is fantastic. I mean, not”
“book by any other name. And of all of my books, I think this is my personal”
“Harvest in the Heart and there was a scene in there where that happens and”
“>> So, um, for my book, Second Glance, uh, I wanted to write a ghost story and I”
“theme right so like in Hollow Bones um the reason it's called that is because”
“Sing You Home, which is about gay rights. Um I did research with Focus on”
“Jenny Boland to write Mad Honey, um, before I was writing for theater. And”
“author. or the ones who read the pact and say, you know, I was feeling”