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To celebrate the release of Daisy's new book Read Yourself Happy (out now!), here's a very special conversation with a returning champion. Daisy was interviewed by the great Nina Stibbe at Ink@84 in North London in front of a packed audience. There's lots of chat about books that bring you joy, the fear and ecstasy of reviews, book club horror stories and Nina's legendary pony story. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of Daisy's Read Yourself Happy by contacting The Margate Bookshop and visit DK RED to find out about her live dates.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

Nina Stibbe - Went to London Took The Dog

The Pound Project

Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Cazalet Chronicles

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Lili Anolik - Didion and Babitz

Eve Babitz - Eve's Hollywood

Pandora Sykes - What Writer's Read

Jean George - My Side of the Mountain

Rebecca F Kuang - Babel

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

The Beano Annual

Lizzy Stewart - Alison

Joff Winterheart - Days of the Bagnold Summer

Diana Henry - How To Eat a Peach

Bee Wilson - Consider the Fork

Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time

Laurie Colwin - Home Cooking

Laurie Colwin - More Home Cooking

Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry

Claire Tomalin - Charles Dickens

Anthony Trollope - Can You Forgive Her

Monica Dickens - My Turn To Make the Tea

Nina Hamnet - Laughing Torso

Barbara Comyns - Our Spoons Came From Woolworths

Catherine Newman - Sandwich

Catherine Newman - We All Want Impossible Things

Elspeth Barker - Notes From the Hen House

Jilly Cooper - Between the Covers

Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This

Patricia Lockwood - Priestdaddy

Nina Stibbe - Love Nina

Lauren Bravo - What Would the Spice Girls Do

Daisy Buchanan - How To Be a Grown Up

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Roger Lewis - Erotic Vagrancy

Deborah Moggach - Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

David Seabrook - All the Devils are Here

Danielle Steele - Joy

Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner - Freakonomics

Barbara Pym - Excellent Women

Noel Streatfeiled - Ballet Shoes

Fern Brady - Strong Female Character

Katherine May - Electricity of Every Living Thing

Katherine May - Wintering

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As a treat, we're resharing one of our most beloved and popular archive episodes from 2023. Author, book aficionado and YB favourite Sarra Manning joined us to help us with our reading resolutions. Featuring Kindle hacks, reading slump fixes, cosy reads and a whole slew of books to look forward to in the new year! Discover the books you'll be snapping up, a few tips to get you back on the reading path if you've strayed and some excellent advice for those struggling with the classics. Find out more about the books mentioned on the episode by visiting our bookshop.org shop.

BOOKS

Dale Shaw - Help! I Think My Baby Brother is Henry the Eighth!

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - How to be a Grown Up

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Sarra Manning - Unsticky

Sarra Manning - London With Love

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Hannah Dolby - No Life For a Lady

Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Tina Brown - Palace Papers

Kate Sawyer - This Family

Kate Sawyer - The Stranding

Various - Marple: 12 New Stories

JD Salinger: For Esme With Love and Squalor

Sylvia Plath - Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams

F Scott Fitzgerald - Diamond as Big as the Ritz

Dorothy Parker - Collected Stories

Various - Furies

Danielle Evans - The Office of Historical Corrections

Danielle Evans - Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self

Lucia Berlin - Manuel For Cleaning Women

Penelope Mortimer - Saturday Lunch with the Brownings

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Noel Streatfeild - Gemma

Sarra Manning - The Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp

Sarra Manning - Rescue Me

James Reeves - The Critical Sense

Sarra Manning - Guitar Girl

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

Holly Bourne - Pretending

Milly Johnson - Together Again

Marian Keyes - Again Rachel

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Anne Lamott - Bird By Bird

Catherine Newman - We All Want Impossible Things

Jojo Moyes - Someone Else's Shoes

Eva Rice - This Could Be Everything

Curtis Sittenfeld - Romantic Comedy

Katherine Heiny - Games and Rituals

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Katherine Heiny - Single Carefree Mellow

Lauren Bravo - Preloved

Emily Henry - Happy Place

Bella Mackie - How To Kill Your Family

Katy Brent - How To Kill Men and Get Away With It

Alice Slater - Death of a Bookseller

Rebecca F Kuang - Yellowface

Jennifer Saint - Atalanta

Costanza Casati - Clytemnestra

Katherine Bradley - The Sisterhood

Isabelle Schuler - Lady Macbethad

Eleanor Catton - Birnam Wood

Niamh Hargan - The Break-Up Clause

Sophie Irwin - A Lady's Guide to Scandal

Sarra Manning - The Man of Her Dreams

Cesca Major - Maybe Next Time

Lucy Vine - Seven Exes

Nina Stibbe - Went to London, Took the Dog

Nina Stibbe - Love, Nina

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We are graced with undeniable literary royalty this week. It's the stupendous, legendary Jodi Picoult! Jodi Picoult is the New York Times bestselling author of 29 novels, including Mad Honey, Wish You Were Here, The Book of Two Ways, A Spark of Light, Small Great Things, Leaving Time, The Storyteller, Lone Wolf, Sing You Home, House Rules, Handle with Care, Change of Heart, and My Sister's Keeper, and, with her daughter Samantha van Leer, two young adult novels, Between the Lines and Off the Page. She has won numerous awards, including a lifetime achievement award from the Romance Writers of America, and her work has been translated into 34 languages. Her latest is the highly anticipated By Any Other Name. We talked to her about erotic Shakespeare poetry, the book that inspired her to be a writer, perfect books to swim to and the message Judy Blume wrote in Jodi's copy of Forever. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and see book tour dates and find out about Daisy's Creative Confidence Clinic writing course at Daisy's Substack. Find out more about Daisy's Read Yourself Happy retreat at Aweventurer.com/daisy.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

Jodi Picoult - By Any Other Name

William Shakespeare - Complete Works

Elizabeth Winkler - Shakespeare Was a Woman

Maurice Sendak - Where the Wild Things Are

Sydney Taylor - All-of-a-Kind Family

Margaret Mitchell - Gone With the Wind

Lauren Groff - The Vaster Wilds

William Shakespeare - Complete Sonnets and Poems

Judy Blume - Forever

Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises

Martin Amis - The Rachel Papers

Rebecca Makkai - The Great Believers

Don DeLillo - Underworld

Lindsey Kelk - Love Story

Emily Henry - Beach Read

Brigid Kemmerer - A Curse So Dark and Lonely

Scarlett St. Clair - A Touch of Darkness

Amanda Bouchet - A Promise of Fire

Maria Vale - Molly Molloy and the Angel of Death

Edmond Rostand - Cyrano De Bergerac

Leigh Bardugo - The Familiar

Miranda July - All Fours

Miranda July - No One Belongs Here More Than You

William Thackeray - Vanity Fair

Rebecca F Kuang - Yellowface

Isak Dinesen - Babette's Feast and Other Stories

Karen Blixen/Isak Dinesen - Out of Africa

Karen Blixen/Isak Dinesen - Shadows in the Grass

Joyce Carol Oates - Blonde

LM Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables

LM Montgomery - Emily of New Moon

Alice Hoffman - The Dovekeepers

Alice Hoffman - The World That We Knew

Jojo Moyes - Me Before You

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For our series finale, we are thrilled to present this conversation with author, podcaster and all-round inspiration Otegha Uwagba! Otegha is the author of the bestselling career guide Little Black Book and the essay collection Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods which was picked as one of the Guardian’s Books of The Year. Her latest book is the memoir We Need To Talk About Money. We talked to her about Enid Blyton deep cuts, books about families, jumping aboard the Ferrante bandwagon and why some books are like catnip.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Otegha Uwagba - Little Black Book

Otegha Uwagba - Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods

Otegha Uwagba - We Need To Talk About Money

Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey - She Said

Enid Blyton - Famous Five

Enid Blyton - Secret Seven

Enid Blyton - Five Find-Outers

CS Lewis - Chronicles of Narnia

JK Rowling - Harry Potter

Mary Wesley - Sensible Life

Elena Ferrante - Lying Life of Adults

Elena Ferrante - Neapolitan Quartet

Gerald Durrell - My Family and Other Animals

Elaine Castillo - America is Not the Heart

Julian Fellowes - Snobs

Katherine Heiny - Single Carefree Mellow

Dolly Alderton - Everything I Know About Love

Meg Mason - Sorrow and Bliss

Meg Wolitzer - The Interestings

Meg Wolitzer - The Female Persuasion

Deborah Levy - Real Estate

Deborah Levy - Cost of Living

Lisa Taddeo - Three Women

Alain de Botton - Course of Love

Ada Calhoun - Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah

Torrey Peters - Detransition Baby

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This week we welcome a genuine literary legend to YB: Nick Hornby! Nick is the bestselling author of eight novels, including High Fidelity, About a Boy and, most recently, Just Like You. He’s also published non-fiction such as Fever Pitch, and has written numerous award-winning screenplays for film and television including Brooklyn, Wild and Love Nina. We talked to him about Rin Tin Tin, the pain of rereading, the definition of a classic and why his dad kept Fanny Hill in his boot.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Nick Hornby- Just Like You

Marilynne Robinson - Gilead

Marilynne Robinson - Housekeeping

Lucy Ellmann - Ducks Newburyport

Geoffrey Willans - Compleet Molesworth

Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

Albert Camus - The Stranger

Zadie Smith - White Teeth

Martin Amis - Money

Nick Hornby - Fever Pitch

EM Forster - Passage To India

George Orwell - Essays

Charles Dickens - David Copperfield

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

Joseph Heller - Catch 22

Nina Stibbe - Love Nina

Paul Ewen - Francis Plug

George & Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody

Auberon Waugh - Diaries 72-76

Nick Hornby - Stuff I’ve Been Reading

David Kynaston - Austerity Britain

PG Wodehouse - Letters

Angus Calder - Myth of the Blitz

Rickie Lee Jones - Last Chance Texaco

Jane Allen - I Lost My Childish Laughter

Mark Harris - Mike Nichols

Carter & Kashner - Mike Nichols: Life Isn't Everything

Nora Ephron - Crazy Salad

Mark Harris - Pictures at a Revolution

Tracey Thorn - My Rock and Roll Friend

Daniel Coffield - Tales From the Colony Room

Stefan Kanfer - Lucille Ball

Susan Orlean - Rin Tin Tin

Susan Orlean - Library Book

Eve Babitz - Eve’s Hollywood

Mary Ann Shaffer - Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Tannenbaum & Marks - I Want My MTV

Lucy Mangan - Bookworm

Francis Spufford - Child That Books Built

John Cleland - Fanny Hill

DH Lawrence - Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Erich Kästner - Emil and the Detectives

Erich Kästner- Lottie and Lisa

Anne Tyler - Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

Ann Patchett - Dutch House

Gayl Jones - Palmares

Jonathan Wilson - History of Football Tactics

Dean Windass - Deano

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This week we are thrilled to present an illuminating chat with one of our favourite all-time writers: Olivia Laing! Olivia is the author of To the River, The Trip to Echo Spring, The Lonely City and Funny Weather. Her novel Crudo was a Sunday Times bestseller, a New York Times notable book, shortlisted for the Goldsmiths and Gordon Burn Prizes and winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Her latest book is Everybody: A Book About Freedom. We talked to her about Warhol’s wigs, Kathy Acker as a teenage totem, Jilly Cooper revelations and a Henry James slam courtesy of John Cheever.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Olivia Laing - Lonely City

Olivia Laing - Funny Weather

Olivia Laing - Crudo

Olivia Laing - Everybody

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Jilly Cooper - Imogen

Jilly Cooper - Man Who Made Husbands Jealous

Jane Austen - Persuasion

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

William Burroughs - The Cat Inside

Kathy Acker - Great Expectations

JD Salinger - Nine Stories

TH White - Once and Future King

Siri Hustvedt - What I Loved

Derek Jarman - Modern Nature

Derek Jarman - Chroma

Patricia Highsmith - Talented Mr Ripley

Patricia Highsmith - Ripley Under Ground

Olivia Laing - Trip to Echo Spring

Jessica Anya Blau - Mary Jane

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the Six

Hermione Lee - Virginia Woolf

Andy Warhol - Diaries

Tina Brown - Diaries

Linda Rosenkrantz - Talk

Andy Warhol - A

Josephine Tey - Franchise Affair

Margery Allingham - Crime at Black Dudley

Len Deighton - Ipcress File

Len Deighton - Horse Under Water

Len Deighton - SS-GB

Christopher Isherwood - Goodbye to Berlin

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

Denton Welch - Maiden Voyage

Anthony Powell - Dance To The Music of Time

Rosamond Lehmann - Invitation To The Waltz

Rosamond Lehmann - Weather in the Streets

Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle

Lucy M. Boston - Green Knowe

Dodie Smith - 101 Dalmations

Dodie Smith - Look Back With Love

Henrietta Moraes - Henrietta

Darren Coffield - Tales From the Colony Room

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This week we’re delighted to welcome the author of one of our favourite novels of recent times Clare Chambers! Clare’s novel Small Pleasures was a Women’s Prize nominee and a book of the Year in The Times, Daily Telegraph, Evening Standard, Daily Express, Metro and many more and beloved over here at You’re Booked towers. We talked to her about Katherine Heiny, out of print revelations, slow reading and using Nina Stibbe as a friendship barometer.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Clare Chambers - Small Pleasures

Amor Towles - Gentleman in Moscow

Ann Patchett - Bel Canto

Tara Westover - Educated

Jeannette Walls - Glass Castle

Gerald Durrell - My Family and Other Animals

Nina Stibbe - Love Nina

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House on the Prairie

Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Alexander Dumas - Count of Monte Christo

Thomas Hardy - Mayor of Casterbridge

Thomas Hardy - Return of the Native

Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d’Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy - Far From the Madding Crowd

Alain-Fournier - Grand Meaulnes 

Jane Austen - Persuasion

Paulette Jiles - News of the World

Tayari Jones - American Marriage

Tayari Jones - Silver Sparrow

Charles Palliser - Quincunx 

Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Winifred Holtby - South Riding

Josephine Tey - Franchise Affair

Josephine Tey - Brat Farrar

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Mr Wrong

Ingrid Persaud - Love After Love

Zoe Pilger - Eat My Heart Out

Michael Frayn - Towards the End of the Morning

Marian Keyes - Sushi For Beginners

Marika Cobbold - On Hampstead Heath

RC Sherriff - Fortnight in September

Ronan Hession - Leonard and Hungry Paul

Dorothy Baker - Cassandra at the Wedding

Anna Hope - Expectation

Claire Lombardo - Most Fun We Ever Had

Maria Semple - Where'd You Go Bernadette

Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Shirley Jackson - Life Among the Savages

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

Alan Wildsmith - Summer at 45 Acres

DH Lawrence - Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Jilly Cooper - Imogen

Jilly Cooper - Harriet

Jilly Cooper - Prudence

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Cathleen Schine - Love Letter

Cathleen Schine - They Do Not Mean To But They Do

Cathleen Schine - Grammarians

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This week, we're delighted to sit down and chat with the multi-award winning author, speaker, podcaster and Financial Times columnist Elizabeth Uviebinené! Elizabeth's first book was the groundbreaking Slay In Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible, co-written with her best friend Yomi Adegoke. She also co-edited Loud Black Girls with Yomi and co-presented Slay in Your Lane: The Podcast. Her latest book is The Reset, a fundamental rethink of how we work and live. We talked to her about the genius of Jacqueline Wilson, the fun of delving into awkward subjects and reading Danielle Steel on the bus.

BOOKS

Elizabeth Uviebinené - The Reset

Elizabeth Uviebinené and Yomi Adegoke - Slay In Your Lane

Elizabeth Uviebinené and Yomi Adegoke - Loud Black Girls

Sheryl Sandberg - Lean In

Caleb Azumah Nelson - Open Water

Jacqueline Wilson - Dustbin Baby

Jacqueline Wilson - Suitcase Kid

Danielle Steel - The Promise

Tasmina Perry - Gold Diggers

Tasmina Perry - Daddy's Girls

Tasmina Perry - Guilty Pleasures

Louise Bagshawe - Career Girls

Tilly Bagshawe - Adored

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Jonathan Coe - House of Sleep

Sophie Kinsella - Undomestic Goddess

Malcolm Gladwell - Outliers

Malcolm Gladwell - Tipping Point

Malcolm Gladwell - Blink

Jilly Cooper - Man Who Made Husbands Jealous

Sophie Mort - Manual For Being Human

Otegha Uwagba - We Need to Talk About Money

Clare Seal - Real Life Money

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This week we're delighted to welcome the legendary novelist, playwright, performer, journalist and teacher Esther Freud to You're Booked. Esther is the author of nine novels, her first Hideous Kinky was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys prize and turned into a hit film starring Kate Winslet. Her latest is the captivating I Couldn't Love You More. We talked to her about the pain of book gifting, the genius of Jean Rhys, the power of poetry and the hilarity of Maria Semple.

BOOKS

Esther Freud - Hideous Kinky

Esther Freud - I Couldn’t Love You More

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Slipstream

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House in the Big Woods

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House on the Prairie

Tracy Chevalier - Girl With a Pearl Earring

Jean Rhys - Voyage in the Dark

Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea

George Orwell - Essays

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Nicole Krauss - To Be a Man

Nicole Krauss - History of Love

Sylvia Townsend Warner - English Climate

Elizabeth Bowen - Collected Stories

Tessa Hadley - Bad Dreams

David Szalay - Turbulence

Lucia Berlin - Manual for Cleaning Women

Mhairi McFarlane - Here’s Looking at You

Jane Ions - Domestic Bliss and Other Disasters

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

Jon McGregor - Reservoir 13

Andrew Sean Greer - Less

Evelyn Waugh - Handful of Dust

Evelyn Waugh - Vile Bodies

Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love

Maria Semple - Where'd You Go Bernadette

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives

Maria Semple - This One is Mine

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

Robert Louis Stevenson - Jekyll and Hyde

Armistead Maupin - Days of Anna Madrigal

Ann Patchett - State of Wonder

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Ann Patchett - Dutch House

Ann Patchett - Commonwealth

Jay Bernard - Surge

WB Yeats - Collected Poems

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We are so excited to welcome one of our favourite ever authors to the You're Booked airwaves this week. Katherine Heiny is the author of the novels Standard Deviation and Early Morning Riser, plus the short story collection Single, Carefree, Mellow. Her books are funny, moving, wise and just fantastic. We talked to her about rice pudding, espionage, the pain of dinner parties, unnerving Judy Blume and rereading Nora Ephron.

BOOKS

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Katherine Heiny - Single Carefree Mellow

Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser

Alice Thomas Ellis - Other Side of the Fire

Alice Thomas Ellis - Summer House

Alice Thomas Ellis - Unexplained Laughter

Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm

Laurie Colwin - Home Cooking

Nigella Lawson - Feast

Nora Ephron - Heartburn

Nora Ephron - Most of...

Nell Zink - Mislaid

Thomas Harris - Silence of the Lambs

Thomas Harris - Red Dragon

Stephen King - Carrie

Dorothy Parker - Complete Stories

Barbara Trapido - Noah’s Ark

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House on the Prairie

Lacy Crawford - Notes on a Silencing

Naoise Dolan - Exciting Times

Elif Batuman - The Idiot

Carmen Maria Machado - In The Dream House

Nina Renata Aron - Good Morning Destroyer of Men’s Souls

Deborah Kay Davies - True Things About Me

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones’s Diary

Nick Hornby - High Fidelity

Margaret Mitchell - Gone With the Wind

F Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night

F Scott Fitzgerald - Great Gatsby

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

Norma Klein - Beginner’s Love

Judy Blume - Forever

Judy Blume - Then Again Maybe I Won’t

Judy Blume - Are You There God It’s Me Margaret

VC Andrews - Flowers in the Attic

Colleen McCullough - Thorn Birds

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