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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This week we are delighted to welcome author, award-winner and Books to Nourish auction victor Emma Batchelor! Emma’s debut book, Now That I See You, is an acclaimed love story, told through letters and diary entries, reflecting Emma’s own experience of identity, gender and grief. The book won the Vogel Literary Award, Australia's most prestigious prize for an unpublished manuscript. We talked to her about great Australian literature, lady detectives, eroticism in Jane Austen and the genius of Nina Stibbe. For more on Books to Nourish visit bookstonourish.wordpress.com/ and discover more about FareShare at fareshare.org.

BOOKS

Emma Batchelor - Now That I See You

Torrey Peters - Detransition Baby

Alexandra Heminsley - Some Body To Love

Kerry Greenwood - Phryne Fisher Mysteries

Joan Lindsay - Picnic at Hanging Rock

Ruth Park - Harp in the South

Melina Marchetta - Looking for Alibrandi

Jessie Tu - Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Naoise Dolan - Exciting Times

Kabi Nagata - My Lesbian Year of Loneliness

Sophie Kinsella - Undomestic Goddess

Sophie Kinsella - Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Jane Austen - Emma

Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Helen Halstead - A Private Performance

Ella Baxter - New Animal

Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love

Sheila Heti - Motherhood

Nell Frizzell - Panic Years

Emma Jane Unsworth - Adults

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones’s Diary

Ruby Tandoh - Eat Up

Laurie Colwin - Home Cooking

Nina Stibbe - Love Nina

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This week we welcome a true publishing legend to the show. Judy Piatkus founded Piatkus Books from her Essex bedroom in 1979. She went on to release books by globally bestselling authors such as Danielle Steel, VC Andrews, Mary Berry and Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton series. Now Judy has released her own memoir, Ahead of Her Time. We talked to her about her glittering publishing career, the books that got away, the genius of Ann Patchett and the power of Feng Shui. 

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Judy Piatkus - Ahead of Her Time

Heather Morris - Tattooist of Auschwitz

Joseph Kanon - Defectors

Ann Cleeves - Hidden Depths

Ann Cleeves - Raven Black

Danielle Steel - The Promise

Cynthia Freeman - No Time For Tears

VC Andrews - Flowers in the Attic

Linda Grant - A Stranger City

Tessa Hadley - Late in the Day

VC Andrews - My Sweet Audrina

Margaret Mitchell - Gone With the Wind

VC Andrews - Petals on the Wind

Judy Blume - Forever

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

James Redfield - Celestine Prophecy

Harville Hendrix - Getting the Love You Want

Susan Jeffers - Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones’s Diary

Karen Kingston - Clear Your Clutter With Feng Shui

Marie Kondo - Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Benjamin Moser - Sontag

Nevil Shute - On The Beach

Alistair MacLean - Ice Station Zebra

Mary Renault - King Must Die

Leon Uris - Exodus

Lissa Evans - V For Victory

Anne Tyler - Redhead By The Side of the Road

Ann Patchett - State of Wonder

Ann Patchett - Dutch House

Ann Patchett - Bel Canto

Ann Patchett - Commonwealth

Daisy Buchanan - Sisterhood

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Maeve Binchy - Light a Penny Candle

Penny Vincenzi - Question of Trust

Nora Roberts - Song of the West

JD Robb - Forgotten in Death

Julia Quinn - Bridgerton

Georgette Heyer - Frederica

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This week we are delighted to present a funny, freewheeling conversation with author, actor, podcaster and comedy legend Charlie Higson! As well as co-creating The Fast Show and Down the Line, adapting Marple and Jekyll and Hyde for TV, hosting the Charlie Higson & Friends podcast and popping up in Broadchurch, he's the author of many books including the hugely successful Young Bond and The Enemy series. His latest is the sweet and hilarious kids book Worst Holiday Ever. We talked to him about Fungus, Octopi, Bond, diaries and Samuel Beckett’s influence on the Fast Show.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Charlie Higson - Young Bond

Charlie Higson - The Enemy

Charlie Higson - Worst Holiday Ever

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Ian Fleming - Thunderball

Cervantes - Don Quixote

Herman Melville - Moby Dick

Samuel Beckett - Three Novels

Samuel Beckett - Krapps Last Tape

Steve Martin - Born Standing Up

Michael Palin - Diaries

Andy Warhol - Diaries

EB White - Letters

Richard Burton - Diaries

Henry 'Chips' Channon - Diaries

Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love

Chris Kraus - I Love Dick

Peter Godfrey-Smith - Other Minds

Merlin Sheldrake - Entangled Life

Giulia Enders - Gut

Will Storr - Status Game

Will Storr - Science of Storytelling

Friends on the Shelf magazine

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This week we are in the esteemed company of novelist, journalist, broadcaster and all-around inspiration, the wonderful Dawn O'Porter! Dawn is the author of the bestselling mega-hits The Cows, So Lucky, Cat Lady and her latest is the highly anticipated sequel to Paper Aeroplanes and Goose, Honey Bee. She has presented a vast array of television documentaries and hosts the 'Dawn Loves' WH Smith book club. We talked to her about the genius of Jeanette Winterson, inappropriate honeymoon beach reading, books about farts and how deviating from the TBR pile can lead you to your new favourite book. 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 virtual appearances at Daisy's Substack. Find out more about Daisy's Read Yourself Happy retreat at Aweventurer.com/daisy.

BOOKS

Dawn O'Porter - Honey Bee

Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Jeanette Winterson - Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal

Dawn O'Porter - Paper Aeroplanes

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train

Paul Murray - The Bee Sting

Miriam Toews - All My Puny Sorrows

Miriam Toews -Fight Night

Chris Whitaker - All The Colours of the Dark

Jonathan Abrams - The Come Up

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Carrie Soto is Back

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Malibu Rising

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the Six

Eve Babitz - Eve's Hollywood

Eve Babitz - Two By Two

Eve Babitz - I Used to be Charming

Nora Ephron - Crazy Salad

Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

Emily St John Mandel - Station 11

James Carlisle - The Big Book of Farts

JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone

Lionel Shriver - We Need To Talk About Kevin

Lisa Jewell - None of This is True

Dawn O'Porter - Cat Lady

Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Miranda July - The First Bad Man

Miranda July - All Fours

Elaine Dundy - Dud Avocado

Asako Yuzuki - Butter

Kaveh Akbar - Martyr

Caleb Azumah Nelson - Open Water

Laura Dockrill - I Love You, I Love You, I Love You

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What a great way to start a new series! The brilliant Emma Jane Unsworth joins us down the line from Brighton. Emma is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Hungry, the Stars and Everything, Adults and Animals, which was turned into a lauded film. Her latest work is a memoir about motherhood: After the Storm. We talked to her about werewolves, living in Jane Eyre's world, dirty girl gangs and the redemptive qualities of Carrie Fisher.

BOOKS

Emma Jane Unsworth - Animals

Emma Jane Unsworth - Adults

Emma Jane Unsworth - After The Storm

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Agatha Christie - Collection

Carrie Fisher - Postcards From the Edge

Marian Keyes - Rachel’s Holiday

Edward St Aubyn - Bad News

Calla Henkel - Other People’s Clothes

Emer McLysaght & Sarah Breen - Oh My God What a Complete Aisling

Nikesh Shukla - Brown Baby

Candice Brathwaite - I Am Not Your Baby Mother

Sigrid Nunez - The Friend

Gayl Jones - Corregidora

Candice Carty-Williams - Queenie

Raven Leilani - Luster

Kristen Roupenian - You Know You Want This

Glen Duncan - Last Werewolf

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary

Maggie Nelson - Argonauts

Sinead Gleeson - Constellations

Maggie O’Farrell - I Am I Am I Am

Lynn Enright - Vagina

Kirstin Innes - Scabby Queen

Jenn Ashworth - Ghosted: A Love Story

Jenni Fagan - Luckenbooth 

Jenni Fagan -The Panopticon 

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser

Katherine Heiny - Single Carefree Mellow

Laurie Colwin - Happy All The Time

Jennifer Egan - Visit From the Good Squad

Chloe Caldwell - I'll Tell You in Person

Lorrie Moore - Gate at the Stairs

Lorrie Moore - Bark

Margaret Atwood - Cat’s Eye

Zadie Smith - White Teeth

Zadie Smith - Intimations

Patricia Lockwood - No One is Talking About This

Patricia Lockwood - Priestdaddy

Annie Proulx - Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay

Billy Mernit - Writing the Romantic Comedy

Syd Field - Screenplay

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This week's guest is a full-blown National Treasure. Mel Giedroyc is a versatile presenter, actor and comedian, who formed a formidable comedy partnership with Sue Perkins, hosted the iconic Great British Bake Off and has starred in West End musicals. And now Mel can add novelist to her list of achievements with her critically acclaimed debut The Best Things already topping the charts. We talked to her about her ferocious devotion to Jean Valjean, the funny book she always gives as a gift and the book so scary she'd only read it when other people were in the room.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Mel Giedroyc - The Best Things

Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind

Jane Austen - Persuasion

Victor Hugo - Les Miserables

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Nigel Planer & Christopher Douglas - I an Actor

Thomas Harris - Silence of the Lambs

Robert Goddard - Past Caring

Robert Goddard - The Fine Art of Invisible Detection

Alice Thomas Ellis - Unexplained Laughter

Charles Dickens - Nicholas Nickelby

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Laurie Colwin - Home Cooking

Laurie Colwin - More Home Cooking

Laurie Colwin - Happy All The Time

Elena Ferrante - Lying Life of Adults

Elena Ferrante - Neapolitan Quartet

Evelyn Waugh - Vile Bodies

Lissa Evans - V For Victory

Mary Wesley - Sensible Life

Mary Welsley - Camomile Lawn

Zadie Smith - Swing Time

Donatella Di Pietrantonio - A Girl Returned

Dante - Inferno

Georgia Pritchett - My Mess is a Bit of a Life

Nina Stibbe - Reasons To Be Cheerful

Fanny Craddock - Fanny Craddock Invites

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This week's guest may just hold the record for the You're Booked interviewee with the most books sold at a modest 500 million and counting. Dean Koontz's first book, Star Quest, was released in 1968 and since then he's produced over 100 more in a variety of genres. His books have been published in 38 languages and 14 have been New York Times number one bestsellers, with the latest being The Other Emily. We talked to Dean about dogs, self doubt, paperback binges, rereading and always hanging onto hope.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Dean Koontz - Star Quest

Dean Koontz - The Other Emily

Kazuo Ishiguro - Klara and the Sun

Kenneth Grahame - Wind in the Willows

Dean Koontz - Intensity

Donald Westlake - The Hot Rock

James Kirkwood - There Must Be a Pony

William Goldman - Marathon Man

William Goldman - The Colour of Light

William Goldman - Adventures in the Screen Trade

Eve Babitz - Sex and Rage

John Fante - Ask the Dust

John D MacDonald - Cape Fear

Charles Dickens - Tale of Two Cities

Kate DiCamillo - Tale of Despereaux

Kate DiCamillo - Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 

Kate DiCamillo - Magician’s Elephant

Benjamin Moser - Susan Sontag

Herman Wouk - Caine Mutiny

Robert Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land

Ray Bradbury - Collected Stories

Arthur C Clark - Collected Stories

Theodore Sturgeon - More Than Human

Jane Ions - Domestic Bliss and Other Disasters

David Mitchell - Bone Clocks

Dean Koontz - From the Corner of his Eye

Dean Koontz - Watchers

Jack London - Call of the Wild

Fred Gipson - Old Yeller

F Scott Fitzgerald - Great Gatsby

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This week we are delighted to have a genuine literary legend on the show: Patricia Cornwell! Patricia has sold over 100 million books in thirty-six languages in over 120 countries. Her most iconic character is medical examiner Kay Scarpetta who features in Patricia's next novel Autopsy - her latest novel is the space thriller Spin. She has also written non-fiction books concerning the Jack the Ripper case and a cookbook. We talked to her about AI reading lists, Queen Victoria's knickers, what books to take into space and Cleopatra. For more about Daisy's new podcast Daisy is Insatiable click HERE.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Patricia Cornwell - Spin

Patricia Cornwell - Food To Die For

Patricia Cornwell - Jack the Ripper

Stacy Schiff - Cleopatra

Bettany Hughes - Hemlock Cup

Gertrude Chandler Warner - Boxcar Children

Ernest Hemingway - Moveable Feast

Paul Hendrickson - Hemingway's Boat

Claire Tomalin - Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens - Dictionary of the Thames

Charles Dickens - Dictionary of London

Charles Dickens - Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist

Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City

Tayari Jones - American Marriage

AN Wilson - Victoria

Paula Hawkins - Girl On The Train

TS Eliot - Waste Land

Ernest Hemingway - Garden of Eden

Nora Ephron - Heartburn

Patricia Cornwell - Red Mist

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

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This week, we know you are going to enjoy this wonderful, nourishing conversation with the author Robert Jones, Jr. Robert's first dazzling novel, The Prophets, is a New York Times bestseller that Marlon James described as "devastating and glorious". As you'll hear, Robert is a wonderful, knowledgable advocate for books, authors and life in general. We talked to him about James Baldwin, Book Brothers, empathy, rereading and Wonder Woman. For more about Daisy's new podcast Daisy is Insatiable click HERE.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Robert Jones Jr - The Prophets

Mateo Askaripour - Black Buck

James Baldwin - Here Be Dragons

James Baldwin - Collected Essays

Toni Morrison - Sula

SS Prokofiev - Peter & the Wolf

Dr Seuss - Cat in the Hat

Terry McMillan - Mama

Deesha Philyaw - Secret Lives of Church Ladies

Maisy Card - These Ghosts are Family

RO Kwon - The Incendiaries

William Moulton Marston - Wonder Woman

Kelly Sue DeConnick - Wonder Woman Historia

NK Jemisin - Far Sector

Kiese Laymon - How To Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America

Kiese Laymon - Heavy

Kiese Laymon - Long Division

Morgan Parker - There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce

Kola Boof - Sexy Part of the Bible

Gayl Jones - Corregidora

Gayl Jones - Healing

NK Jemisin - City We Became

Raven Leilani - Luster

Brit Bennett - Vanishing Half

Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age

Ocean Vuong - On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic 

Chloe Benjamin - Immortalists

Tayari Jones - An American Marriage

Tayari Jones - Silver Sparrow

De'Shawn Charles Winslow - In West Mills

Maurice Carlos Ruffin - We Cast a Shadow

Brandon Taylor - Real Life

Bryan Washington - Memorial

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This week we are delighted to welcome the author of our of our favourite books in recent times, Naoise Dolan. Naoise's debut novel was the critically acclaimed Exciting Times, shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Sunday Times/University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award. We talked to her about memorable book deaths, the literary allure of London, Zadie Smith and sneaking sexy books. For more about Daisy's new podcast Daisy is Insatiable head HERE.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Naoise Dolan - Exciting Times

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

LM Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables

Brandon Taylor - Real Life

Raven Leilani - Luster

Anne Enright - Actress

Maeve Binchy - Light a Penny Candle

Patricia Scanlon - Divided Loyalties

Marian Keyes - Sushi for Beginners

Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime & Punishment

George Eliot - Mill on the Floss

Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure

Laurie Colwin - Home Cooking

Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser

Zadie Smith - On Beauty

Zadie Smith - Swing Time

Elena Ferrante - Neapolitan Quartet

Zadie Smith - NW

Caleb Azumah Nelson - Open Water

Brian Friel - Philadelphia Here I Come

Nicole Flattery - Show Them a Good Time

Molly Aitken - Island Child

Roisin Kiberd - Disconnect

Michelle Gallen - Big Girl Small Town

Patrick Freyne - Ok Let's Do Your Stupid Idea

Sinead Gleeson - Art of the Glimpse

Camilla Pang - Explaining Humans

Sayaka Murata - Earthlings

Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman

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It's the turn of one of our absolute heroes to get the Book Inspector treatment this week - the majestic Jill Mansell! Jill is the author of OVER 20 Sunday Times bestsellers, has sold millions of books and won numerous awards during her glittering career. Her latest is the wonderful And Now You're Back. We talked to her about rereading (and not rereading), Jilly Cooper, the genius of Marian Keyes and the dangers of reading online evaluations of your work. For more about Daisy's new podcast Daisy is Insatiable head HERE.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Jill Mansell - Head Over Heels

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House on the Prairie

Susan Howatch - Penmarric

PD James - Cover Her Face

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Jilly Cooper - Between the Covers

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Jilly Cooper - Imogen

Jilly Cooper - Harriet

Jill Mansell - Fast Friends

Jill Mansell - Two’s Company

Kate Quinn - Alice Network

Kate Quinn - Huntress

Kate Quinn - Rose Code

Gillian McAllister - How To Disappear

Jill Mansell - And Now You’re Back

Deborah Davis - Party of the Century

Raven Leilani - Luster

Helene Hanff - 84 Charing Cross Road

Lissa Evans - V For Victory

Mary Wesley - Camomile Lawn

Jilly Cooper - Common Years

Nicky Haslam - Impatient Pen

Jerrard Tickell - Odette

Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Jasper Rees - Victoria Wood: Let’s Do It

Erin Carlson - I’ll Have What She’s Having

Erin Carlson - Queen Meryl

Eloisa James - Paris In Love

Julia Quinn - Bridgerton

Jane Austen - Sense & Sensibility

Jane Austen - Pride & Prejudice

Emma Thompson - Sense & Sensibility Diaries

Marian Keyes - Rachel’s Holiday

Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca

Will Young - Funny Peculiar

Lisa Jewell - Invisible Girl

Lisa Jewell - Ralph’s Party

Lisa Jewell - One Hit Wonder

Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

Lucy Adlington - Red Ribbon

Ruth Druart - While Paris Slept

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This week we are giddy with excitement to welcome one of our longtime, beloved authors to the show: Simon Doonan. Writer, bon vivant, fashion icon and renowned TV judge - Simon's memoir Beautiful People was turned into an acclaimed BBC series, he's also the author of Eccentric Glamour, Gay Men Don't Get Fat, and many more. He's also a judge on the TV shows America's Next Top Model and Making It. His latest book is a biography of the artist Keith Haring. We talked to him about the wonders of retail, the glamour of James Bond, Iris Murdoch's fashion sense and Dawn Powell's alcoholic aquarium. More about Daisy's new podcast Daisy is Insatiable HERE.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Simon Doonan - Beautiful People

Simon Doonan - Eccentric Glamour

Simon Doonan - Keith Haring

Philip Norman - Jimi Hendrix: Wild Thing

Paul Trynka - Brian Jones

Keith Richards - Life

Luis Bunuel - My Last Breath

Keith Haring - Journals

JP Donleavy - Ginger Man

Ian Fleming - Goldfinger

Germaine Greer - Female Eunuch

Holly Madison - Down the Rabbit Hole

Judith Krantz - Scruples

Rona Jaffe - Best of Everything

Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls

Grace Metalious - Peyton Place

Craig Brown - Ma'am Darling

Craig Brown - One Two Three Four

David Bailey - Look Again

Viv Albertine - Clothes, Music, Boys

Cherie Currie - Neon Angel

Eve Babitz - Eve’s Hollywood

Brian Kellow - Can I Go Now: Sue Mengers

Sam Wasson - Big Goodbye: Chinatown

Robert Evans - Kid Stays in the Picture

Ira Levin - Rosemary’s Baby

Paul Mendez - Rainbow Milk

Iris Murdoch - Flight From the Enchanter

Judith Watt - Penguin Book of Fashion Writing

Patrick Dennis - Auntie Mame

Steve Martin - Shopgirl

Eve Babitz - Black Swans

Dawn Powell - Time To Be Born

Dawn Powell - Locust Have No King

Olivia Laing - Trip To Echo Spring

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You're Booked is very proud to present Daisy's brand new podcast: Daisy is Insatiable. Daisy is Insatiable is an intimate look at love, lust, life, and everything that makes sex fascinating. Why do we yearn for romance? How can we feel confident when it comes to our body image hang ups? What is the difference between sex and love? What happens when money gets involved? Each week, Daisy will be sharing a revealing conversation with a different guest - it's going to be fun, it's going to be explicit, and no-one is getting left in the dark. The first episode features a frank and funny conversation with writer and broadcaster Dolly Alderton. Listen out for future episodes with Paul Mendez, Andi Osho, Shahroo Izadi and many more...

Subscribe to Daisy is Insatiable on Acast: https://play.acast.com/s/daisy-is-insatiable

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The podcast accompanies the launch of Daisy’s debut novel – Insatiable, which has been receiving rave reviews.

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This week we are honoured and delighted to be talking to one of our favourite authors, the wonderful Patricia Lockwood. Patricia's memoir, Priestdaddy, was one of our most beloved books in recent years and her first novel, No One is Talking About This is equally enticing. We talked to her about Covid fever reading, problematic faves, forgotten kids books and, of course, Nabokov. You can find Daisy's brand new podcast, Daisy is Insatiable, right HERE.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Patricia Lockwood - Priestdaddy

Patricia Lockwood - No One is Talking About This

Andre Gide - Marshlands

Leonora Carrington - Hearing Trumpet

Paula Fox - Desperate Characters

Paula Fox - Borrowed Finery

EF Benson - Mapp & Lucia

Patrick Leigh Fermor - Time of Gifts

Patrick Leigh Fermor - Broken Road

Robert Walser - Berlin Stories

Leonora Carrington - Down Below

Sylvia Plath - Bell Jar

Joanne Greenberg - I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Elena Ferrante - Lying Life of Adults

Elena Ferrante - Neapolitan Quartet

Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest of Relaxation

Darcie Wilder - Literally Show Me a Healthy Person

Melissa Broder - Milk Fed

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov - Pnin

Vladimir Nabokov - Speak Memory

AS Byatt - Babel Tower

VC Andrews - My Sweet Audrina

Kate Elizabeth Russell - My Dark Vanessa

Vladimir Nabokov - Think Write Speak

Vladimir Nabokov - Pale Fire

Lucia Berlin - Manual For Cleaning Women

Nell Frizzell - Panic Years

Sheila Heti - Motherhood

Andre Gide - Counterfeiters

Rachel Ingalls - Mrs Caliban

Rachel Ingalls - Binstead's Safari

Sydney Taylor - All Of a Kind Family

Lore Segal - Tell Me a Mitzi

Tove Jansson - Moomin Comic Strips

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Secret Garden

LM Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables

LM Montgomery - Emily of New Moon

LM Montgomery - Selected Journals

Tomie dePaola - Helga’s Dowry

Mercer Mayer - Favourite Tales from Grimm

Patricia Highsmith - Price of Salt

Plum Sykes - Debutante Divorcee

Elena Ferrante - Lost Daughter

Elena Ferrante - Days of Abandonment

Elena Ferrante - Frantumaglia

Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love

Gerald Durrell - Family and Other Animals

Jessica Mitford - Hons & Rebels

Ada Limon - Carrying

Danez Smith - Homie

Kristen Arnett - With Teeth

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We're back! And we're kicking off series 16 in style with the brilliant author, journalist and broadcaster Bella Mackie! Bella is the author of the inspirational running book Jog On, the bestselling How To Kill Your Family and her highly anticipated latest What a Way To Go. We talked to her about the importance of Judy Blume, funny books, finding the right book at the right time and vanishing chickens. 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 virtual appearances at Daisy's Substack. Find out more about Daisy's Read Yourself Happy retreat at Aweventurer.com/daisy. This week's Steal of the Week is sponsored by Action Tutoring - to find out more at: https://actiontutoring.org.uk/

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

Bella Mackie - How To Kill Your Family

Bella Mackie - What a Way To Go

Amanda Prowse - Swimming to Lundy

George Eliot - Middlemarch

JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

JRR Tolkien - Hobbit

Ian Serraillier - Silver Sword

Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None

Dorothy L Sayers - Gaudy Night

Richie Tankersley Cusick - Point Horror: The Lifeguard

Judy Blume - Are You There God, It's Me Margaret

Judy Blume - Forever

Francine Pascal - Sweet Valley High: Perfect Summer

Holly Bourne - Girl Friends

Juno Dawson - Her Majesty's Royal Coven

Marina Hyde - What Just Happened

Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls

Lili Anolik - Didion & Babitz

Brene Brown - Gifts of Imperfection

Taffy Brodesser-Akner - Long Island Compromise

Bess Kalb - Nobody Will Tell You This But Me

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Taylor Jenkins-Reid - Carrie Soto is Back

Robert Harris - Precipice

William Boyd - Any Human Heart

Samantha Harvey - Orbital

Claire Keegan - Small Things Like These

Ann Patchett - The Dutch House

Anne Glenconner - Lady in Waiting

Craig Brown - Ma'am Darling

Jonathan Keates - La Serenissima: The Story of Venice

Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist

Sloane Crosley - Grief is For People

James Frey - A Million Little Pieces

Cathy Rentzenbrink - The Last Act of Love

PG Wodehouse - Jeeves and Wooster

Samantha Irby - Quietly Hostile

Joel Golby - Four Stars

Miriam Toews - Fight Night

Elizabeth Heichelbech - Chopin in Kentucky

Tom Lamont - Going Home

LP Hartley - The Go Between

Ian McEwan - On Chesil Beach

Kiley Reid - Come and Get It

Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age

EB White - Essays

EB White - Charlotte's Web

Gay Talese - Frank Sinatra Has a Cold

Calvin Trilling - The Chicken Vanishes

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This week we are spending some time with the author who has probably been discussed on the show more than any other and one of our favourite writers of all time - the legendary Marian Keyes. Marian is one of the most successful Irish novelists of all time, selling over 30 million books in 33 different languages, with the latest being the chart-topping Grown Ups. We talked to Marian about the pleasures of reading, the joys of Jilly Cooper, why she's craving fictional glamour and struggling with Jane Austen.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

Eva Ibbotson - Secret Countess

Marian Keyes - Grown Ups

Marian Keyes - The Break

Margaret Mitchell - Gone With the Wind

Truman Capote - In Cold Blood

Joseph Heller - Catch 22

Jilly Cooper - Octavia

Jane Austen - Persuasion

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Jilly Cooper - Man Who Made Husbands Jealous

Jilly Cooper - Polo

Shirley Conran - Lace

Fiona Walker - French Relations

Raven Leilani - Luster

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Katherine Heiny - Single, Carefree, Mellow

Taffy Brodesser-Akner - Fleishman Is in Trouble

Elinor Lipman - Good Riiddance

Elinor Lipman - On Turpentine Lane

Laurie Graham - Ten O’Clock Horses

Glennon Doyle - Untamed

Anne Lamott - Bird By Bird

Anne Lamott - Almost Everything

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the Six

Eve Babitz - Slow Days Fast Company

Eve Babitz - Eve’s Hollywood

Barbara Trapido - Travelling Hornplayer

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

Lee Tulloch - Fabulous Nobodies

Barbara Vine - Fatal Inversion

Tana French - In the Woods

Tana French - The Likeness

Jane Harper - The Dry

Tana French - The Searcher

Debra Dean - Madonnas of Leningrad

Jaclyn Moriarty - Gravity is the Thing

Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time

Lily King - Writers and Lovers

Lily King - Euphoria

Naoise Dolan - Exciting Times

Charlotte Wood - The Weekend

Bernardine Evaristo - Girl Woman Other

Ann Cleeves - Telling Tales

Philippa Gregory - Dark Tides

Frances Cha - If I Had Your Face

Louise O’Neill - After the Silence

Sarah Hilary - Fragile

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This week we are investigating the reading habits of a genuine superstar. Kate Mosse OBE is the award-winning author of nine books of fiction including the bestselling Languedoc trilogy and her latest novel City of Tears that is currently topping the bestseller charts. She is the co-founder of the Women's Prize for Fiction and a guest presenter of BBC Radio 4's A Good Read. We talked to Kate about the importance of libraries, vintage crime, meeting your public and the greatness of Toni Morrison.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Kate Mosse - City of Tears

Ngaio Marsh - Collection

Josephine Tey - Daughter of Time

Margery Allingham - Tiger in the Smoke

Patricia Wentworth - Listening Eye

Agatha Christie - Body in the Library

Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Purple Hibiscus 

Anna Burns - No Bones

Anna Burns - Milkman

Toni Morrison - Bluest Eye

Gayl Jones - Corregidora

Eimear McBride - Girl is a Half Formed Thing

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Susan Fromberg Schaeffer - Madness of a Seduced Woman

Lionel Shriver - We Need To Talk About Kevin

Agatha Christie - Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Melissa Broder - The Pisces

Melissa Broder - Milk Fed

Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Lucy Ellmann - Ducks, Newburyport

Leo Tolstoy- Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace

Ali Smith - Autumn

Margaret Atwood - Negotiating With The Dead

Naoise Dolan - Exciting Times

Russell Ash - Readers Digest Book of Folklore, Myths and Legends of Britain 

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This week we are incredibly excited to welcome the author of one of our, and Barack Obama's, favourite books. Raven Leilani's Luster has, quite rightly, taken the literary world by storm. As well as making Obama's 2020 book list, it's won the Kirkus Prize and been a New York Times bestseller. Sexy, funny and incredibly prescient, it is a book for our times and Raven is a writer of extreme skill and enormous promise. We talked to Raven about unlikeable characters, fantasy movie adaptations, fan fiction and sexy vampires.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Raven Leilani - Luster

Patricia Lockwood - No One is Talking About This

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov - Pnin

Dylan Thomas- Collected Poems

Allen Ginsberg - Howl

Morgan Parker - There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé

Zadie Smith - Intimations

Anne Rice - Interview With the Vampire

Richard Matheson - I Am Legend

Brian K. Vaughan - Saga

Alison Bechdel - Fun Home

Michael Chabon - Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay 

Jennifer Egan - Visit From the Goon Squad

Emily Nussbaum - I Like To Watch

Robert Jones Jr - The Prophets

Susan Choi - My Education

Halle Butler - New Me

Candice Carty-Williams - Queenie

Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Jia Tolentino - Trick Mirror

Maisy Card - These Ghosts are Family

Megan Giddings - Lakewood

Emily Temple - Lightness

Sarah Gerard - True Love

Alexandra Chang - Days of Distraction

Morgan Jerkins - Caul Baby

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Ann Patchett - State of Wonder

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This week we are nosing around the bookshelves of the author described as "the most talented new cookbook writer of a generation" by The Times, the wonderful Ella Risbridger! Ella is the author of Midnight Chicken, called "a manual for living and a declaration of hope" by Nigella Lawson. Ella is also the editor of the poetry anthology Set Me On Fire and her first book for children The Secret Detectives will be released later this year. We talked to her about nourishing poetry, smoking in the bath and why she still has Daisy's copy of Brother of the More Famous Jack.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Ella Risbridger - Midnight Chicken

Ella Risbridger - Secret Detectives

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Secret Garden

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

Ian McEwan - Atonement

Sylvia Plath - Bell Jar

Sarra Manning - Unsticky

James Rebanks - English Pastoral

Ada Limon - Bright Dead Things

Hera Lindsay Bird - Hera Lindsay Bird

Kaveh Akbar - Calling a Wolf a Wolf

Richard Scott - Soho

Kayo Chingonyi - Kumukanda

Morgan Parker - There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé

Ellen Bass - Human Line

Gabrielle Calvocoressi - Rocket Fantastic

Marie Howe - What The Living Do

Mary Wesley - Camomile Lawn

Mary Wesley - Haphazard House

Mary Wesley - Speaking Terms

Mary Wesley - Sixth Seal

Mary Wesley - Harnessing Peacocks

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

Deborah Davis - Party of the Century

Barbara Trapido - Travelling Hornplayer

Sarra Manning - You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me

Sarah Dessen - Lock and Key

Robin Stevens - Murder Most Unladylike

Louise Rennison- Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging

Tana French - Secret Place

Donna Tartt - Secret History

Bret Easton Ellis - Rules of Attraction

Eva Ibbotson - Journey To The River Sea

Eva Ibbotson - Secret Countess

Eva Ibbotson - Song For Summer

Laura Wood - Snowfall of Silver

Laura Wood - Under a Dancing Star

Judith Kerr - Small Person Far Away

Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit 

Judith Kerr - Bombs on Aunt Dainty

Eva Ibbotson - Morning Gift

Penelope Mortimer - Pumpkin Eater

Laurie Colwin - Happy All The Time

Lorrie Moore - Who Will Run The Frog Hospital

Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle

Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm

Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Jill Mansell - Millie’s Fling

Jill Mansell - Fast Friends

Ross Gay - Book of Delights

JB Priestley - Delight

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For this year's festive special, we are in the company of comedy royalty. It's the undisputed national treasure: Dawn French! As well as being part of the groundbreaking comedy duo French and Saunders, Dawn is the author of two books of memoir and four novels with the latest being the bestselling Because Of You. We talked to her about the funniest book she has ever read, fictional families, Ab Fab, Carrie Fisher, Beatrix Potter and unusual research methods.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Dale Shaw - Painfully British Haikus

Dawn French - Because of You

Beatrix Potter - Tale of Mrs Tiggywinkle

Beatrix Potter - Tale of Peter Rabbit

Roald Dahl - The BFG

Eve Garnett - Family From One End Street

Carrie Fisher - Postcards From the Edge

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Ruth Jones - Us Three

Dawn French - Dear Fatty

Diablo Cody - Candy Girl

Dawn French - Oh Dear Silvia

Robert McFarlane - Old Ways

John Williams - Stoner

Pete Paphides - Broken Greek

Jessica Mitford - Letters

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Charles Dickens - Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens - David Copperfield

Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist

Spike Milligan - Puckoon

Spike Milligan - Silly Verse For Kids

Jane Hirshfield - The Beauty

Brene Brown - Gifts of Imperfection

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Dorothy Wordsworth - Letters

John Lanchester - Debt to Pleasure

John Berger - And our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

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For this very special festive episode, we have enlisted the help of former guest, Twitter's resident book concierge and one of our favourite people in the whole world - the great Sarra Manning - to help you select the perfect book for everyone in your life (including yourself). Whether you're looking for that ideal last minute present for an awkward relative, or want to get something delightful to read for yourself, Sarra has a title for you. Sarra's new book Rescue Me and out early next year and available for pre-order now.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Dale Shaw - Painfully British Haikus

Sarra Manning - Rescue Me

David Sedaris - Best of Me

David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day

David Sedaris - Santaland Diaries

Craig Brown - Ma’am Darling

Hugo Vickers - Elizabeth, Queen Mother

Tina Brown - Diana Chronicles

Craig Brown - One, Two, Three, Four

Andre Leon Talley - Chiffon Trenches

Jasper Rees - Victoria Wood: Let's Do It

Victoria Wood - Chunky

Becky Brown - Blitz Spirit

Nigella Lawson - Nigella Christmas

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

Laura Wood - A Snowfall of Silver

Laura Wood - A Sky Painted Gold

Laura Wood - Under a Dancing Star

Lissa Evans - Old Baggage

Lissa Evans - Crooked Heart

Lissa Evans - V For Victory

Anthony Quinn - Curtain Call

Anthony Quinn - Freya

Anthony Quinn - Eureka

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Darren Coffield - Tales From the Colony Room

Terence Blacker - Willie Donaldson: You Cannot Live As I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This

Nina Stibbe - Almost Perfect Christmas

Nina Stibbe - Love Nina

Kate Young - Little Library Christmas

Kate Young - Little Library Cookbook

Kate Young - Little Library Year

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Jilly Cooper - Between the Covers

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This week we are delighted to have a rummage around the bookshelves of writer and presenter C.D. (Cesca) Major! Cesca is the prolific author of the bestselling thriller The Other Girl and also writes under the pseudonyms Rosie Blake and Ruby Hummingbird, producing a variety of brilliant books. We talked to her about Jilly Cooper, literary sisters, funny books, Christmas reads and writing something so scary you can't read it yourself.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

CD Major - The Other Girl

Holly Miller - Sight of You

Rosamund Lupton - Three Hours

Kate Elizabeth Russell - My Dark Vanessa

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

Jodi Picoult - Spark of Light

Jodi Picoult - Book of Two Ways

Erin Kelly - Stone Mothers

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Enid Blyton - Faraway Tree

Enid Blyton - Malory Towers

Enid Blyton - St Clares

Jean Webster - Daddy Long Legs

Henry James - Portrait of a Lady

Kirsty Greenwood - It Happened on Christmas Eve

Jilly Cooper - Between the Covers

Craig Brown - Maam Darling

Baroness Glenconner - Lady in Waiting

Daisy Buchanan - Sisterhood

Marian Keyes - Grown Ups

 Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows - Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

William Boyd - Any Human Heart

Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall

CD Major - Thin Place

RL Stine- Babysitter

Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Shirley Jackson - Haunting of Hill House

Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

JK Rowling - Harry Potter

Philip Pullman - Northern Lights

Kirsty Greenwood - He Will Be Mine

Curtis Sittenfeld - Man of My Dreams

Nina Stibbe - Love Nina

Natasha Solomon - Mr Rosenblum’s List

Ayisha Malik - Green and Pleasant Land

Natasha Solomon - Novel in the Viola

Natasha Solomon - Gallery of Vanished Husbands

Rosie Blake - Gin O’Clock Club

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This week we're giddy with excitement to speak with the author of one of our favourite book's of recent times, Patrick Freyne! Patrick is a journalist, musician and the author of the essay collection Ok, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea which is hilariously funny, wise and deeply moving. We talked to him about apocalypse strategies, the joy of short books and the power of Adrian Mole. To learn more or donate to the charity FareShare visit FareShare.org.uk

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Patrick Freyne - Ok, Let’s Do Your Stupid Idea

Hilary Mantel - Mantel Pieces

Emily Pine - Notes To Self

Lorrie Moore - See What Can Be Done

Muriel Spark - Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie

Muriel Spark - Memento Mori

Max Porter. - Lanny

JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

Stephen King - The Stand

George RR Martin - Game of Thrones

Terry Pratchett - Discworld

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Lorrie Moore - Gate at the Stairs

Kristen Roupenian - You Know You Want This

Sally Rooney - Conversations With Friends

Naoise Dolan - Exciting Times

CS Lewis - Prince Caspian

Taffy Brodesser-Akner - Fleishman Is in Trouble

Robert Swindells - Brother in the Land

Robert C O'Brien - Z for Zachariah

Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

Sue Townsend - Growing Pains of Adrian Mole

Ali Smith - Winter

Gene Wolfe - Book of the New Sun

John Wyndham - Chrysalids

John Wyndham - Day of the Triffids

Emily St John Mandle - Station 11

Cormac McCarthy - The Road

Brian K Vaughan - Y The Last Man

Daisy Buchanan - Sisterhood

Nuala O'Faolain - Are You Somebody

Cat Marnell - How To Murder Your Life

Zadie Smith - Intimations

Deborah Levy - Cost of Living

Ray Bradbury - Stories

Anna Carey - Boldness of Betty

Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

Neil Gaiman - Sandman

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This week we're delighted to delve into the reading habits of a genuine living legend: Irvine Welsh! Irvine is an acclaimed and frequently controversial novelist, playwright, director screenwriter and short story writer. His first novel was the massively popular Trainspotting (turned into an equally popular film) and he has produced 10 more novels with the latest being The Seal Club, a collaboration with Alan Warner and John King. We talked to him about rereading, music books, the joys of a chunky read, the importance of Evelyn Waugh and how he may have inadvertently killed Waugh's son, Auberon. To learn more or donate to the charity FareShare visit FareShare.org.uk

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting

Irvine Welsh - Seal Club

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

Alan Warner - Kitchenly 434

Michel Faber - Crimson Petal and the White

Don DeLillo - Underworld

James Joyce - Ulysses

Alasdair Gray - Lanark

William Burroughs - Naked Lunch

Raven Leilani - Luster

Jenni Fagan - Luckenbooth

Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall

Evelyn Waugh - Men at Arms

Penelope Lively - Perfect Happiness

JT Leroy - Heart is Deceitful Above All Things

James Frey - A Million Little Pieces

James Frey - Bright Shiny Morning

F Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night

Jenni Fagan - Sunlight Pilgrims

Mark Lanegan - Sing Backwards and Weep

Cat Marnell - How To Murder Your Life

Irvine Welsh - Glue

Irvine Welsh - Marabou Stork Nightmares

Irvine Welsh - Skag Boys

Ned Beauman - Boxer Beetle

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We are ending series 15 in style with one of our all-time favourite authors Catherine Newman! Catherine wrote the memoirs Catastrophic Happiness and Waiting for Birdy, novel for kids One Mixed-Up Night, craft book Stitch Camp and the acclaimed novels We All Want Impossible Things and Sandwich. We talked to her about food in books, Laurie Colwin, disaster reading, the importance of pretension and reading the Ikea catalogue for fun. 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 at Daisy's Substack. Find out more about Daisy's Read Yourself Happy retreat at Aweventurer.com/daisy. This week's Steal of the Week is sponsored by Action Tutoring - to find out more at: https://actiontutoring.org.uk/

Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

Catherine Newman - We All Want Impossible Things 

Catherine Newman - Sandwich

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Laurie Colwin - Home Cooking

Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time

Laurie Colwin - Shine On Bright and Dangerous Object

Nora Ephron - Most of Nora Ephron

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House on the Prairie

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House in the Big Woods

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Farmer Boy

Coco Mellors - Blue Sisters

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

F Scott Fitzgerald - Great Gatsby

Kristi Coulter - Nothing Good...

Joan Aiken - Black Hearts in Battersea

Joan Aiken - Wolves of Willoughby Chase

Madeleine L'engle  - Wrinkle in Time

Roald Dahl - James and the Giant Peach

Anne Lamott - Almost Everything

JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Enid Blyton - Naughtiest Girl in the School

William Golding - Lord of the Flies

Arthur Ramsome - Swallows and Amazons

E Nesbit - The Lark

Michelle Magorian - A Little Love Song

Michelle Magorian - Goodnight Mr Tom

Eva Ibbotson - Dragonfly Pool


Eva Ibbotson - Journey to the River Sea

Roald Dahl - Henry Sugar

Miye Lee - DallerGut Dream Department Store

Stephen King - Carrie

Stephen King - The Shining

Lily King - Writers & Lovers

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Nina Stibbe - Went To London Took the Dog

Samantha Irby - Wow, No Thank You

James Joyce - Ulysses

Milan Kundera - Unbearable Lightness of Being

Jorge Luis Borges - Labyrinths

Italio Calvino - If On a Winter's Night...

Charles Baudelaire - Flowers of Evil

Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

Ann Patchett - State of Wonder

Carol Shields - Larry's Party

Sue Miller - Monogamy

Tessa Hadley - After the Funeral

Tessa Hadley - Free Love

Miriam Toews - Fight Night

Miriam Toews - All My Puny Sorrows

Alison Espach - The Wedding People

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Carrie Soto is Back

Donna Freitas - Wishful Thinking

Rufi Thorpe - Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe - The Knockout Queen

Nussaibah Younis - Fundamentally

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This week we are honoured to be talking to the astounding author Nikita Lalwani! Nikita's first book, Gifted, was long-listed for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and won the Desmond Elliott Prize. Her next novel The Village won the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered award. Her latest novel is the breathtaking, You People, which has been widely critically acclaimed. We talked to her about fictional secrets, the power of the single line, literary families and pretending to be Stig of the Dump.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Nikita Lalwani - Gifted

Nikita Lalwani - You People

Mary Norton - Borrowers

Clive King - Stig of the Dump

Salman Rushdie - Midnight’s Children

Bharati Mukherjee - Wife

James Salter - Light Years

James Salter - Sport and a Pasttime

James Salter - Life is Meals

James Salter - Hunters

James Salter - Last Night

Doris Lessing - Stories

Maeve Brennan - Rose Garden

Mavis Gallant - Stories

Grace Paley - Stories

Doris Lessing - Winter in July

Doris Lessing - Martha Quest

Tessa Hadley - Bad Dreams

Tessa Hadley - Late in the Day

Sue Miller - Monogamy

Carol Shields - Larry’s Party

Sonia Faleiro - Good Girls

Janet Malcolm - Journalist & the Murderer

Toni Cade Bambara - Gorilla My Love

Zadie Smith - Intimations

Sinead Gleeson - Constellations

Patrick Freyne - Ok Let’s Do Your Stupid Idea

John Irving - World According To Garp

Don DeLillo - White Noise

Tillie Olsen - Tell Me a Riddle

Darcy O’Brien - A Way of Life Like Any Other

CS Lewis - Chronicles of Narnia

Arthur Ransome - Swallows & Amazons

Enid Blyton - Malory Towers

Enid Blyton - Enchanted Wood

Vivek Shanbhag - Ghachar Ghochar

Zaina Arafat - You Exist Too Much

Muriel Spark - Far Cry From Kensington

Mary Wesley - Imaginative Experience

Pamela Frankau - Wreath For the Enemy

F Scott Fitzgerald - Great Gatsby

Zadie Smith - NW

Anita Brookner - Look At Me

Anita Brookner - Friend From England

Andrew O’Hagan - Mayflies

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This week we are snuffling around the bookshelves of comedian and author Mark Watson! Mark is a well-known face on British TV, appearing on show such as QI and Taskmaster and he's renowned as an award-winning stand-up. He's also the author of nine books including the graphic novel Dan and Sam, the non-fiction work Crap at the Environment and novels including Eleven, Hotel Alpha and his latest Contacts (which deals with issues surrounding suicide and mental health - if you're affected by this then the Samaritans are always there). We talked to him about loving Agatha Christie, bookshop positioning, reading on planes and why you should never trust a book that features a map. For details on how you can bid to be a guest on You're Booked (and win lots of lovely books) head to Books To Nourish.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Mark Watson - Contacts

Derren Brown - Happy

Derren Brown - A Little Happier

James Smythe - I Still Dream

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the Six

Sarah Waters - Little Stranger

Sarah Waters - Fingersmith

Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express

Agatha Christie - A Murder is Announced

Richard Powers - The Overstory

Lucy Ellmann - Ducks, Newburyport

Ros Barber - Marlowe Papers

Ann Patchett - State of Wonder

Ann Patchett - Dutch House

Jilly Cooper - Between the Covers

EL Doctorow - Ragtime

Mohsin Hamid - How To Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

Mohsin Hamid - Exit West

Mohsin Hamid - Reluctant Fundamentalist

George Orwell - 1984

Extinction Rebellion - This is Not a Drill

Jonathan Safran Foer - We Are The Weather

Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything is Illuminated

Daphne Du Maurier - Rule Britannia

David Nicholls - One Day

Flann O’Brien - Third Policeman

John Fowles - Magus

Flann O’Brien - At Swim Two Birds

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This week we are in the fine company of writer, performer and former doctor Adam Kay! Adam's first book This is Going To Hurt spent over a year at number one in the bestseller list. It became the bestselling non-fiction title of the decade, the bestselling non-fiction e-book of all time and the winner of four National Book Awards. His next three titles, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas, Dear NHS and his new book for children Kay's Anatomy have become instant bestsellers. We talked to Adam about the therapy of reading and writing, bizarre bodily functions, funny books and why you should never read on the toilet.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - How To Be a Grown Up

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Adam Kay - This is Going To Hurt

Adam Kay - Kay’s Anatomy

Adam Kay (Editor) - Dear NHS

Mark Watson - Contacts

F Scott Fitzgerald - Great Gatsby

Alan Bennett - Lady in the Van

Graham Greene - Brighton Rock

Victoria Wood - Plays

Jasper Rees - Victoria Wood: Let's Do It

Alan Partridge - I, Partridge

Alan Partridge - Nomad

Richmal Crompton - Just William

PG Wodehouse - Jeeves and Wooster

Elinor Lipman - On Turpentine Lane

Eric Carle - Very Hungry Caterpillar

Jonathan Coe - What a Carve Up

Jonathan Coe - Middle England

Jonathan Coe - House of Sleep

Jonathan Coe - Rotter’s Club

Matthew Walker - Why We Sleep

Nina Stibbe - Love Nina

Sue Townsend. - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

Norton Juster - Phantom Tollbooth

Lucy Mangan - Bookworm

Cathy Rentzenbrink - Dear Reader

Cathy Rentzenbrink- Last Act of Love

Cathy Rentzenbrink - Manual for Heartache

Nick Hornby - How To Be Good

Zadie Smith - Intimations

Zadie Smith - White Teeth

JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones’s Diary

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With around 300 million books sold in 97 countries and translated into 33 languages, who wouldn't want to know about the reading habits and writing tips of Jeffrey Archer? Since writing his first book, Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less, in 1974, Jeffrey has written nearly 50 titles, the latest being Hidden in Plain Sight, and is the only author to have been number 1 in fiction, non-fiction and short stories. We talked to him about his favourite author, being huge in India, being disappointed by book sales and prison reading.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Jeffrey Archer - Hidden in Plain Sight

Ian Fleming - Casino Royale

Amor Towles - Gentleman in Moscow

Heather Morris - Tattooist of Auschwitz

Dickens - Tale of Two Cities

Dickens - Christmas Carol

Dumas - Count of Monte Cristo

Dumas - Three Musketeers

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Jeffrey Archer - Kane and Abel

Patrick Freyne - Ok Let's Do Your Stupid Idea

Jeffrey Archer - Prison Diaries

James Joyce - Finnegans Wake

Lampedusa - Leopard

Jane Austen - Emma

Agatha Christie - Poirot

Jeffrey Archer - Clifton Chronicles

PG Wodehouse - Jeeves

Alberto Moravia - Woman of Rome

Siri Hustvedt - What I Loved

Lissa Evans - V for Victory

Bill Bryson - The Body

Stefan Zweig - Beware of Pity

Jeffrey Archer - Paths of Glory

Elif Shafak - Three Daughters of Eve 

Stefan Sweig - Farewell to Europe

Abi Dare - Girl With the Louding Voice

Jung Chang - Wild Swans

Richard Adams - Watership Down

CS Lewis - Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Roald Dahl - BFG

Jeffrey Archer - Not a Penny More

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This week we are delighted to spend some time with the author, playwright, screenwriter, performer and all-around inspiration Alex Wheatle MBE! Alex's first book was 1995's award-winning Brixton Rock and he has followed that with numerous critically acclaimed works for adults, young adults and children with the latest being Cane Warriors. We talked to Alex about the importance of music in his work, being inspired by the Beano, learning to love reading while in prison and the experience of having your life story turned into a film by the Oscar-winning Steve McQueen. You can find the Dialogue Books Black History Month reading list HERE.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Alex Wheatle - Cane Warriors

CLR James - Black Jacobins

Malcolm X - Autobiography

Alex Haley - Roots

Langston Hughes - Collected Poems

Chester Himes - Rage in Harlem

James Baldwin - Fire Next Time

Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Linton Kwesi Johnson - Selected Poems

Marcia Williams - Baby Mother

Naomi King - OPP

Karline Smith - Moss Side Massive

Courttia Newland - The Scholar

Stephen Thompson - Toy Soldiers

Peter Kalu - Lick Shot

Alex Wheatle - Brixton Rock

Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe

EA Ritter - Shaka Zulu

Alex Wheatle - Liccle Bit 

Alex Wheatle - Crongton Knights

Danielle Jawando - And The Stars Were Burning Brightly

Raymond Chandler - Big Sleep

Colleen McCullough - Thorn Birds

Vivien M Goldman - Book of Exodus

Marlon James - Brief History of 7 Killings

Timothy White - Catch a Fire

Steve McQueen - Small Axe

Patrice Lawrence - Eight Pieces of Silva

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This week we are delighted to be joined by the internationally bestselling and multi award winning Louise O'Neill! Louise's novel Asking for It won Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards and Only Ever Yours won Newcomer of the Year at the Irish Book Awards and the Bookseller YA Prize. Her latest is the already acclaimed thriller After the Silence. We talked to her about diversifying your reading, being an obsessive child reader, living in New York and how ideas can be magical.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - How To Be a Grown Up

Daisy Buchanan - Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Dale Shaw - Painfully British Haikus

Louise O’Neill - After the Silence

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Francine Pascal - Sweet Valley High

Enid Blyton - St Clare's

Enid Blyton - Secret Seven

Enid Blyton - Magic Faraway Tree

Joyce Lankester Brisley - Marigold in Godmother's House

Rhonda Byrne - Secret

Mildred D. Taylor - Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah

Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age

William Boyd - Any Human Heart

Louise O’Neill - Almost Love

Belinda McKeon - Tender

Belinda McKeon - Solace

Eva Ibbotson - Secret Countess

Lauren Weisberger - Devil Wears Prada

Muriel Spark - Girls of Slender Means

Ann Patchett - Dutch House

Ann Patchett - Bel Canto

Ann Patchett - Commonwealth

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Ann Patchett - State of Wonder

Dolly Alderton - Ghosts

Lucy Foley - Guest List

Stephen King - Carrie

Curtis Sittenfeld - Eligible

Louise O’Neill - Surface Breaks

Jane Austen - Emma

Louise O’Neill - Only Ever Yours

Erin Kelly - We Know You Know

Tana French - Searcher

Liane Moriarty - Big Little Lies

Caroline Corcoran - Baby Group

Caroline Corcoran - Through the Wall

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This week we are in the hilarious, wise and fascinating hands of author, publisher, teacher and essayist Emily Gould! Emily is the author of And The Heart Says Whatever, Friendship, and Perfect Tunes, as well as contributing to Bookforum, The New Yorker, Elle, The Cut and many others. She also runs Emily Books, which sells and publishes books by women. We discussed great books about music, the darkness of kid's books, the joys and pain of being a publisher and separating art from the artist.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - How To Be a Grown Up

Daisy Buchanan - Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Emily Gould - Perfect Tunes

Madeline Miller - Circe

Demi Moore - Inside Out

Lauren Oyler - Fake Accounts

Eileen Myles - Inferno

Patti Smith - Just Kids

Anna Wiener - Uncanny Valley

Emily Gould - Replaying My Shame

EB White - Charlotte’s Web

EB White - Letters

Madeleine L'Engle - Wrinkle in Time

Caroline Corcoran - Baby Group

Caroline Corcoran - Through The Wall

Chad Harbach - Art of Fielding

Susan Choi - Trust Exercise

Susan Choi - My Education

Susan Choi - American Woman

Walter Scott - Wendy Master of Art

Lizzy Goodman - Meet Me in the Bathroom

Sheila Weller - Girls Like Us

Cherie Curry - Neon Angel

Kim Gordon - Girl in a Band

Debbie Harry - Face It

Meghan Daum - Problem With Everything

Allison Pearson - I Don’t Know How She Does It

Allison Pearson - How Hard Can It Be

Sigrid Nunez - The Friend

Sigrid Nunez - What Are You Going Through

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Both of Brit Bennett's sensational bestselling novels, The Mothers and The Vanishing Half, have been on heavy rotation at YB towers for months, so we are delighted to bring you this fascinating conversation with her, covering adapting books for the screen, how writing changes the way you read, the dark world of celebrity tell-alls and the dangers of novel recommendation.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - How To Be a Grown Up

Daisy Buchanan - Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Brit Bennett - Vanishing Half

Brit Bennett - The Mothers

Myla Goldberg - Feast Your Eyes

Bernadine Evaristo - Girl Woman Other

Anne Enright - Actress

Toni Morrison - Song of Solomon

SE Hinton - The Outsiders

Toni Morrison - The Bluest Eye

Richard Wright - Native Son

Tayari Jones - Silver Sparrow

Ann Patchett - Bel Canto

Ann Patchett - Dutch House

Ann Patchett - Commonwealth

Raven Leilani - Luster

Tayari Jones - American Marriage

Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Sue Miller - Monogamy

Darcy Eveleigh - Unseen: Unpublished Black History

Nicholas Smith - Kicks: Great American Story of Sneakers

Nichelle Gainer - Vintage Black Glamour

Yaa Gyasi - Transcendent Kingdom

Yaa Gyasi - Homegoing

Penny Valentine - Dancing with Demons: Dusty Springfield

Busy Phillips - This Will Only Hurt a Little

Mariah Carey - Meaning Of

Zadie Smith - Swing Time

Margo Jefferson - On Michael Jackson

Craig Marks - I Want My MTV

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones & the Six

Joyce Carol Oates - Blonde

Curtis Sittenfeld - Rodham

Rebecca Makkai - Great Believers

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Get ready for a fun, thorough and frequently mirth-filled conversation with the internationally bestselling author Jessie Burton! Jessie's first book was the monster hit The Miniaturist, followed up by the exceptional The Muse and her latest, the chart-topping The Confession. We talked to Jessie about the joys of living with a bookseller, the particular pain associated with rereading, her favourite funny books and the all-around inspiration that is Princess Margaret.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - How To Be a Grown Up

Daisy Buchanan - Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Jessie Burton - Miniaturist

Jessie Burton - Confession

Baroness Glenconner - Lady in Waiting

Craig Brown - Maam Darling

Octavia Butler - Kindred

Marlon James - Book of Night Women

Andrea Levy - Long Song

Gayl Jones - Corregidora

Sheila Heti - Motherhood

Lauren Groff - Fates & Furies

Tracy Chevalier - Girl With a Pearl Earring

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca

Roald Dahl - Matilda

LP Hartley - Go Between

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Margaret Atwood - Cats Eye

Thom Gunn - Selected Poems

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Jessie Burton - Restless Girls

Ann Patchett - Dutch House

Lissa Evans - V For Victory

Eva Ibbotson - Secret Countess

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazelet Chronicles

Penelope Mortimer - Saturday Lunch with the Brownings

Jessie Burton - Muse

Edward St Aubyn - Patrick Melrose

Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim

Patricia Lockwood - Priestdaddy

EB White - Letters

Sarah Moss - Summerwater

Elizabeth Strout - Oliver Kitteridge

Elizabeth Strout - Olive Again

Anna Hope - Expectation

Siri Hustvedt - What I Loved

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This week we're talking to the astonishingly prolific Anthony Horowitz! Anthony has written extensively for young adults, (especially his Alex Rider series), for adults (the Magpie and Moonflower Murder books), for the screen (Including the creation of Foyle's War) and updating both Sherlock Holmes and James Bond legacies with new stories plus many, many more. We discussed forgotten crime authors, funny books, writing inspiration, novels about writers and the sadness of finishing a beloved book.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - How To Be a Grown Up

Daisy Buchanan - Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Dale Shaw - Haunted Underpants

Dale Shaw - Haunted Underpants on WFMU

Anthony Horowitz - Stormbreaker

Anthony Horowitz - Magpie Murders

Anthony Horowitz - Moonflower Murders

Don Winslow - Power of the Dog

Don Winslow - Cartel

Don Winslow - Border

John Dickson Carr - Hag's Nook

Soji Shimada - Tokyo Zodiac Murders

Soji Shimada - Crooked House

AE Ellis - The Rack

Albert Camus - Plague

Laurie Colwin - Happy All The Time

Anthony Horowitz - Oblivion

Anthony Horowitz - Switch

LP Hartley - Go-Between

William Golding - Spire

William Golding - Lord of the Flies

George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman

Thomas Hughes - Tom Brown’s Schooldays

Herman Wouk - Caine Mutiny

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

Erich Remarque - All Quiet On the Western Front

TH White - Once and Future King

George Gissing - New Grub Street

George Gissing - Nether World

George Gissing - Unclassed

George Orwell - Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Lissa Evans - V For Victory

Lissa Evans - Crooked Heart

Lissa Evans - Old Baggage

Angus Calder - People’s War

Norman Longmate - How We Lived Then

John Lukacs - Five Days in May

PG Wodehouse - Jeeves & Wooster

Tom Sharpe - Blott on the Landscape

Andrew Sean Greer - Less

Craig Brown - 1, 2, 3, 4

Craig Brown - Imaginary Friends

Craig Brown - One on One

Craig Brown - Maam Darling

Bill Bryson - The Body

Bill Bryson - Short History of Nearly Everything

Anthony Horowitz - Russian Roulette

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We are so, so excited about this one. Abi Daré wrote one of our favourite books of all time, the unforgettable novel The Girl with the Louding Voice. She has just released a sequel And So I Roar, which is just as compelling and delightful as the original. In a fascinating, revealing conversation, Abi discusses the contents of her 'Do Not Delete' folder, the importance of showing up for work, the power of the Famous Five, inspirational re-reads and the happiness experienced when a character's voice returns to you. 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 at Daisy's Substack. Find out more about Daisy's Read Yourself Happy retreat at Aweventurer.com/daisy

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

Abi Daré - The Girl with the Louding Voice

Abi Daré - And So I Roar

Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Zadie Smith - White Teeth

Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge

Enid Blyton - Famous Five

Sidney Sheldon - The Other Side of Midnight

Carolyn Keene - Nancy Drew

Enid Blyton - Mallory Towers

James Patterson - Roses Are Red

John Grisham - The Rainmaker

Oyinkan Braithwaite - My Sister the Serial Killer

Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart

Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns

Alice Walker - Colour Purple

Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle

Tara Westover - Educated

Nadia Owusu - Aftershocks

Safiya Sinclair - How To Say Babylon

Ocean Vuong - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry

Emily St John Mandel - Station 11

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

Catherine Newman - Sandwich

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Balli Kaur Jaswal - Now You See Us

William Boyd - Mirror and the Road

William Boyd - Brazzaville Beach

William Boyd - Any Human Heart

Julia Cameron - The Artist's Way

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Charmaine Wilkerson - Good Dirt

Foluso Agbaje - Parlour Wife

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This week we are perusing the bookshelves of human rights campaigner, former Explosive Ordnance Disposal Officer, Love Island inhabiter and all-round inspiration Camilla Thurlow! Camilla has worked for land mine charity The Halo Trust, she's a vociferous reader and has recently published her first book, a memoir, called Not The Type. During a highly revealing conversation, we talked to her about the double-edged sword that is social media, the genius of Elizabeth Day, the appeal of old books and allowing stories to leak into your life.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Camilla Thurlow - Not The Type

David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day

Lisa Taddeo - Three Woman

David Sedaris - Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls

Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age

Elizabeth Macneal - The Doll Factory

Jessie Burton - The Muse

Alan Huffman - Here I Am

Paul Conroy - Under the Wire

Sebastian Junger - Tribe

David Nott - War Doctor

Anna Hope - Expectation

Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Ken Follett - Pillars of the Earth

Elizabeth Day - The Party

Elizabeth Day - How To Fail

Abbi Waxman - Bookish Life of Nina Hill

Donatella Di Pietrantonio - A Girl Returned

Candice Brathwaite - I Am Not Your Baby Mother

Nimko Ali - What We’re Told Not To Talk About

Dolly Alderton - Everything I Know About Love

Daisy Buchanan - How To Be a Grown Up

Marian Keyes - Other Side of the Story

Jamie Bartlett - The People Vs Tech

Rachel DeLoache Williams - My Friend Anna

Lemn Sissay - My Name is Why

George Orwell - 1984

Alain De Botton - School of Life

Bella Mackie - Jog On

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We are beyond excited to bring you this honest and illuminating conversation with author, influencer, blogger and founder of Make Motherhood Diverse - Candice Brathwaite! Candice's first book, You Are Not My Baby Mother was a former YB Steal of the Week and a critically lauded Sunday Times bestseller that unflinchingly looks at being a black British mother and strives to redefine the whole idea of motherhood in the 21st Century. We talked to Candice about the pressures of success, the delights of Oprah's Book Club, the genius of Toni Morrison and the importance of woo.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Candice Brathwaite - I Am Not Your Baby Mother

Lupita Nyong’o - Sulwe 

Sister Soulja - Coldest Winter Ever

Nelson Mandela - Long Road To freedom

Ilona Staller (Ed) - Erotic Tales

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Secret Garden

Ann M. Martin - Babysitters Club

Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird

Tayari Jones - An American Marriage

Jacqueline Woodson - Red at the Bone

Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age

Nicholas Sparks - The Notebook

Bernadine Evaristo - Girl, Woman, Other

EB White - Charlotte’s Web

Clare Chambers - Small Pleasures

Toni Morrison - The Bluest Eye

Gary Zukav - Seat of the Soul

Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist

Rhonda Byrne - The Secret

Paul Harrington - Secret to Teen Power

Jen Sincero - You Are a Badass

Shahroo Izadi - Kindness Method

Shahroo Izadi - Last Diet

Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat Pray Love

bell hooks - All About Love

Pandora Sykes - How Do We Know We're Doing It Right

Emma Gannon - Olive

Kenya Hunt - Girl

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We're delighted to bring you this frank, revealing and fascinating interview with the author and journalist Lisa Taddeo. Lisa's book Three Women is a Sunday Times #1 bestseller, winner of the narrative non-fiction book of the year at the British Book Awards and one of the most frequently spotted titles on the bookshelves of You're Booked guests. We talked to her about the negative effects of fame, Lucia Berlin, the genius of Elena Ferrante and the cinematic legacy of Anthony Hopkins.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Lisa Taddeo - Three Women

Elena Ferrante - Lost Daughter

Elena Ferrante - My Brilliant Friend

Elena Ferrante - Days of Abandonment

Elena Ferrante - Troubling Love

John Grisham - Camino Winds

Stephen King - Rose Madder

Stephen King - Misery

Stephen King - The Stand

Stephen King - Hearts in Atlantis

Lucia Berlin - Manual For Cleaning Women

Grace Paley - Collected Stories

Joy Williams - Visiting Privilege

William Trevor - Collected Stories

Natalia Ginzburg - Dry Heart

James Salter - Sport and a Pasttime

Barry Hannah - Long Last Happy

Nicholson Baker - House of Holes

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos - Liaisons dangereuses

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

Kay Thompson - Eloise in Moscow

JM Barrie - Peter Pan

Candice Brathwaite - I am Not Your Baby Mother

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Scott Stossel - My Age of Anxiety

David Foster Wallace - The Depressed Person

William Goldman - Princess Bride

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Secret Garden 

JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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