Hi there, you are listening to The Lazy Genius Podcast. I'm Kendra Adachi and I'm here

to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't.

Today is episode 328, my 10 most memorable books. Most lazy genius podcast episodes are

pretty practical, right? I like to share things that you can take with you into your own

life. This is one of those episodes, it's just something a little different. When we reflect

on things from the past that have meant something to us, that ran us joy, that are just

lovely to remember, it's good for us. It's fun. And since books are fairly universal as

a thing that people love, especially here, I'm going to share my 10 most memorable books.

They're not necessarily my favorites, although some are. But these are books that I remember

where I read them, how they made me feel, what they were about, and I still think of them

often. So I hope this inspires you to either look back at your own memorable books, another

memorable thing, or just use this episode to learn more about me if you don't care about books.

That could be a thing. All right, these books are in chronological order of when I read them.

So we're going to start with one of my first solo reading experiences that led me to discover

that reading was more fun than just about anything else I could be doing. And that is the secret

of the old clock by Carolyn Keane. This is the first novel in the Nancy Drew series. And when I got

that yellow spined book from the library in the late eighties, it was like life started. I

remember loving the mystery aspect and mysteries and thrillers are still one of my favorite

genres to this day. That book opened up reading for me and was my first real binge because I read

every single Nancy Drew book in order multiple times during my twin and teen years. That first

one though is still really special. I have a super old fabric hardcover of it, like one that's

not with the yellow spine. I founded it a book sale a couple of years ago. It's one of my favorite

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