Sarah Enni is the author of Tell Me Everything and the creator and host of the podcast First Draft with Sarah Enni. She joins us today to talk about writing Young Adult books that don’t talk down to her audience, dream podcast guests, and why it can be a huge compliment when we hate a book.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.

Books

• Tell Me Everything by Sarah Enni
• The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Jane Austen
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• William Shakespeare
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scotts Fitzgerald
• Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
• Permanent Record by Mary H. K. Choi
• The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
• I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
• I Am Malala (Young Reader’s Edition) by Malala Yousafzai
• Who is Michelle Obama? by Megan Stein and Who HQ
• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
• The Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins
• Dean Koontz
• James Patterson
• Kate White
• Tana French
• In the Woods by Tana French
• The Chain by Adrian McKinty
• Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
• Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
• The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
• The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
• The Cheerleaders by Kara Thomas
• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. Tolkien
• The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
• Catherynne M. Valente
• The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
• So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
• Them by Jon Ronson
• N. K. Jemisin
• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
• We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
• H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
• The Once and Future King by T. H. White
• The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
• A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. Martin
• Winds of Winter by George R. Martin
• Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth
• The Passage by Justin Cronin
• Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
• Tell Me More by Kelly Corrigan
• Uprooted by Naomi Novik
• The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
• Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
• Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds
• How High the Moon by Karen Parsons
• Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcom X and Alex Haley
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• Bad with Money by Gaby Dunn
• These Truths by Jill Lepore
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
• How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones
• The Reckonings by Lacy M. Johnson
• Roxane Gay
• Educated by Tara Westover

Everything Else

• First Draft with Sarah Enni (Sarah Enni)
• “Mary H. K. Choi on Why the Future Is So Horrifying” (Mary H. K. Choi, Wired)
• LA Festival of Books
• Silicon Valley (HBO)
• Mark Zuckerberg
• The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010)
• Facebook
• SoundCloud
• BuzzFeed
• National Merritt Scholarship Corporation
• Harry Styles
• “Ambition and Acceptance with D.C. Pierson” (First Draft with Sarah Enni)
• Nina Totenberg
• WTF with Marc Maron Podcast (Marc Maron)
• You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes (Pete Holmes)
• Fresh Air (NPR)
• “Ep 170: Sarah Dessen” (First Draft with Sarah Enni)
• “Ep 18: Libba Bray” (First Draft with Sarah Enni)
• “Ep 70: Maurene Goo” (First Draft with Sarah Enni)
• “Ep 36: Veronica Roth” (First Draft with Sarah Enni)
• “Ep 158: Nic Stone” (First Draft with Sarah Enni)
• “Ep 164: Andy Weir” (First Draft with Sarah Enni)
• “Ep 185: Rhett Miller” (First Draft with Sarah Enni)
• Old 97s
• “Ep 198: Jonny Sun” (First Draft with Sarah Enni)
• Tawny Newsome
• “Ep. 41 Comedy, Race, Travel and Books with Tawny Newsome” (The Stacks)
• Into the Woods (Stephen Sondheim)
• The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (HBO)
• Antoni Porowski
• Queer Eye (Netflix)
• The Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature
• American Library Association
• Game of Thrones (HBO)
• “Ep. 58 Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed — The Stacks Book Club (Keltie Knight)” (The Stacks)
• Oprah Winfrey
• Karyn Parsons
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (NBC)
• “Ep. 50 Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister — The Stacks Book Club (James J. Sexton)” (The Stacks)
• Politics and Prose (Washington DC)
• Kramerbooks and Afterwords (Washington DC)
• Malaprop’s Books (Ashville, NC)
• Book People (Austin, TX)
• Bookshop Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA)
• Gold Beach Books (Gold Beach, OR)
• Cosmopolitan Magazine
• YM Magazine
• By The Book (The New York Times)
• “Obama Shares His Summer Reading List” (Arit John, The New York Times)

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