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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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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We are back! And we are starting the new series off with a bang! It's the legendary broadcaster, podcaster, author and now novelist Fearne Cotton! Fearne is the host of the massively successful Happy Place podcast and the author of many books including Sunday Times bestsellers Happy, Cook Eat Love, Speak Your Truth, Bigger Than Us and many more. She has just released her first novel: Scripted. We talked to her about inspirational reading, classic rock biographies, generating confidence, Californian literary road trips and tortoises. Find a full list of the books Fearne mentioned at our Bookshop.org store. Pre-order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and enter the Pity Party competition and book tour dates at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic... The episode is sposored by Serious Readers. To get £100 off your HD Serious Readers reading lamp (and free delivery), visit seriousreaders.com/booked and use the code: BOOKED at checkout.

BOOKS

Fearne Cotton - Happy

Fearne Cotton - Scripted

Sue Perkins - Spectacles

Paloma Faith - MILF

Katherine May - The Electricity of Every Living Thing

Katherine May - Wintering

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Priscilla Presley - Elvis and Me

Rita Marley - No Woman No Cry

Pamela Des Barres - I'm With the Band

Anjelica Huston - A Story Lately Told

Anjelica Huston - Watch Me

Rupert Everett - Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins

Rupert Everett - Vanished Years

Zandra Rhodes - Iconic: My Life in Fashion in 50 Objects

Tina Brown - The Vanity Fair Diaries

Alan Rickman - Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries

Elton John - Me

Debbie Harry - Face It

Pamela Des Barres - Take Another Little Piece of my Heart

Pamela Des Barres - Let's Spend the Night Together: Backstage Secrets of Rock Muses and Supergroupies

Eve Babitz - Eve's Hollywood

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the Six

Brian Hiatt - Springsteen: Stories Behind the Songs

Miki Berenyi - Fingers Crossed

Lucy Vine - Date with Destiny

Diana Cooper - A New Light on Angels

Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None

Francine Pascal - Sweet Valley High

Enid Blyton - The Magic Faraway Tree

Brene Brown - Gifts of Imperfection

Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

Don Miguel Ruiz - The Four Agreements

Erling Kagge - Silence

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Carrie Soto is Back

Yungblud - You Need to Exist

Helene Hanff - Letter from New York

Matt Haig - Impossible Life

Lisa Taddeo - Three Women

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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...

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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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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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We're delving back into the archives and bringing you another of our favourite episodes. This week we're visiting the beautiful home (including glorious bookshelves with a library ladder that made us green with envy) of Elif Shafak. Elif is a celebrated and award-winning novelist and the most widely read female author in Turkey. She has published many books including the bestselling Island of Missing Trees, The Bastard of Istanbul, The Forty Rules of Love, Three Daughters of Eve and the critically acclaimed 10 Minutes, 38 Seconds in this Strange World. Her new book There Are Rivers in the Sky is released on 8th August. Elif is also an activist advocating for women's rights, LGBT rights and freedom of speech. We talked to her about baklava, politics, Death Metal and stationery obsessions. Find a full list of the books Elif mentioned at our Bookshop.org store. Pre-order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and read an exclusive extract from the book at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic...

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Elif Shafak - 10 Minutes, 38 Seconds in this Strange World 

Elif Shafak - Three Daughters of Eve

Marco Pierre White - The Devil in the Kitchen

Samin Nosrat - Salt Fat Acid Heat

Jason Goodwin - Yashim Cooks Istanbul

Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities

Virginia Woolf - Orlando

Rowan Coleman - We Are All Made of Stars

Elena Ferrante - My Brilliant Friend

Thomas Page McBee - Amateur

Elif Shafak - Honour

Donna Tartt - The Secret History

Esquire - Oral History of Bennington

Bret Easton Ellis - Rules of Attraction

David Sedaris - Calypso

Laura Esquivel - Like Water For Chocolate

Rumi - Selected Poems

Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall

Matthew Sperling - Astroturf

Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Sarah Krasnostein - The Trauma Cleaner

Will Eaves - Murmur

Cervantes - Don Quixote

Marian Keyes - The Break

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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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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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We're diving into the archives while we're on a little break and this week it's the novelist, essayist and New York Times Bestselling author Curtis Sittenfeld! Curtis is the author of the YB faves Prep, Eligible, American Wife, Romantic Comedy and a fictional look at Hilary Clinton: Rodham. We talked to her about First Ladies, short stories, writing like there's nobody watching and trying to make your kids like Laura Ingalls Wilder. Find a full list of the books Curtis mentioned at our Bookshop.org store. Pre-order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and read an exclusive extract from the book at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic...

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Curtis Sittenfeld - Rodham

Curtis Sittenfeld - The Nominee

Hilary Clinton - Living History

Curtis Sittenfeld - American Wife

Emily Gould - Perfect Tunes

Emily Gould - And the Heart Says Whatever

Lily King - Writers & Lovers

Lily King - Euphoria

Susan Choi - Trust Exercise

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House on the Prairie 

Carol Ryrie Brink - Caddie Woodlawn

Gertrude Chandler Warner - Boxcar Children

EL Konigsburg - From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frank Weiler

Becky Albertalli - Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

Curtis Sittenfeld - You Think It I’ll Say It

Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge

Alice Munro - Selected Stories

Tessa Hadley - The Past

Susanna Daniel - Stiltsville

Susanna Daniel - Sea Creatures

Marisa Meltzer - This is Big

Sue Miller - Monogamy

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Sally Rooney - Conversations With Friends

Curtis Sittenfeld - Eligible

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Demi Moore - Inside Out

Curtis Sittenfeld - Prep

Rebecca Lee - Bobcat

Joseph O’Neill - Good Trouble

Laura van den Berg - I Hold a Wolf by the Ears

Ali Smith - How To Be Both

Raymond Carver - Where I'm Calling From

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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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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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While we're taking a little break, we're sharing some of our favourite episodes from previous series. This week, it's the amazing stand-up, author, actor and all around inspiration Sara Pascoe! Sara is one of the most heralded comedians working today and the immensely talented author of the books Animal, Sex Power Money and the novel Weirdo. We talked to her about reading habits during quarantine (the episode was recorded during lockdown), big lies involving hamsters, unspeakable acts committed against libraries and the saddest book she has ever read. Find a full list of the books Sophie mentioned at our Bookshop.Org store. Pre-order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and read an exclusive extract from the book at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic...

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Sara Pascoe - Animal

Sara Pascoe - Sex Money Power

Bernadine Evaristo - Girl Woman Other

Anbara Salam - Belladonna

Hilary Mantel - The Mirror and the Light

Lynne Reid Banks - I Houdini

Kathy Reichs - The Bone Collection

Robert Sapolsky - Behave

Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Jeanine Cummins - American Dirt

DH Lawrence - Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Kate Elizabeth Russell - My Dark Vanessa

Lisa Taddeo - Three Women

Alissa Nutting - Tampa

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Graham Greene - End of the Affair

Andrew Sean Greer - Less

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Dodie Smith - I Capture The Castle

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood

Jackie Collins - The Stud

JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

George Orwell - Keep The Aspidistra Flying

Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffanys

Sarra Manning - Unsticky

Marian Keyes - Grown Ups

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This week we're riffling through the shelves of author, broadcaster, journalist and podcast superstar Pandora Sykes! Pandora is the co-host of the smash hit The High Low and her own chart-topping new podcast Doing It Right. Her first essay collection is the hotly anticipated How Do We Know We're Doing It Right. We talked to her about formative reading, High Low favourites and Jilly Cooper's nether regions.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Pandora Sykes - How Do We Know We’re Doing It Right?

William Davies - Nervous States

Paul Bloom - Against Empathy

William Davies - Happiness Industry

Gary Shteyngart - Super Sad True Love Story

Robert Swindells - Brother in the Land

Clare Chambers - Small Pleasures

Candice Brathwaite - I am Not Your Baby Mother

Candice Carty-Williams - Queenie

Zadie Smith - White Teeth

Claire Lombardo - Most Fun We Ever Had

Britt Bennett - Vanishing Half

Tayari Jones - Silver Sparrow

Britt Bennett - The Mothers

Nell Zink - Mislaid

Tayari Jones - An American Marriage

Meg Wolitzer- The Interestings

Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age

Nesrine Malik - We Need New Stories

Jess Walter - Beautiful Ruins

Zadie Smith - NW

Mary Gaitskill - Lost Cat

Mary Gaitskill - Bad Behaviour

Mary Gaitskill - Veronica

Mary Gaitskill - Two Girls Fat & Thin

Deborah Levy - Cost of Living

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones & the Six

Curtis Sittenfeld - Prep

Jessica Knoll - Luckiest Girl Alive

Emma Morgan - Love Story For Bewildered Girls

Melissa Bank - Girls Guide To Hunting & Fishing

Melissa Bank - Wonder Spot

John Boyne - Ladder To The Sky

John Boyne - Heart’s Invisible Furies

Patricia Highsmith - Talented Mr Ripley

Jilly Cooper - Polo

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls

Betty Friedan - Feminine Mystique

Abi Dare - Girl With the Louding Voice

Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott - Swan Song

Truman Capote - In Cold Blood

Nikesh Shukla - Brown Baby

Nikesh Shukla - Good Immigrant

Nikesh Shukla - Good Immigrant USA

Nikesh Shukla - One Who Wrote Destiny

Rhik Samadder - I Never Said I loved You

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This week we are Shelf Isolating with the journalist, columnist and author Gavanndra Hodge! Gavanndra has worked in newspapers and magazines for over twenty years at publications such as Tatler, Sunday Times, Independent and ES Magazine. Her memoir, The Consequences of Love, has received widespread critical acclaim. We talked to her about rereading, food in books, Lace and being led astray by the Chalet School books.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Gavanndra Hodge - Consequences of Love

Vladimir Nabokov - Speak Memory

Sybille Bedford - Jigsaw

Elinor M. Brent-Dyer - Chalet School

JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

Virgil - Aenid

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

Rose Macaulay - Towers of Trebizond

Diana Henry - How To Eat a Peach

Anbara Salam - Belladonna

Barbara Trapido - Frankie and Stankie

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

Deborah Levy - Swimming Home

Ali Smith - How To Be Both

Cathy Rentzenbrink - Dear Reader

Cathy Rentzenbrink - Last Act of Love

Justine Picardie - If the Spirit Moves You

JK Rowling - Harry Potter

Sophie Heawood - Hungover Games

Ursula Le Guin - The Dispossessed

Daniel Kehlmann - Tyll

Shirley Conran - Lace

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We're still stuck at home and Shelf Isolating this week - but we have a fabulous guest to share all that isolation with: Sali Hughes! Sali is a podcast host, broadcaster, Guardian Weekend's resident beauty expert and the author of the books Pretty Honest, Pretty Iconic and Our Rainbow Queen. We talked to her about the great Nora Ephron, the joy of reading about parties, fraternal favourites and the best literary families. Head to Instagram and search for #BlackOutBestSellerList to find out more about the campaign.

BOOKS

Abi Daré - Girl With the Louding Voice

Angela Makholwa - Blessed Girl

Sali Hughes - Pretty Honest

Sali Hughes - Pretty Iconic

Sali Hughes - Our Rainbow Queen 

Nora Ephron - Heartburn

Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time

Andrew Sean Greer - Less

Phyllis Grant - Everything is Under Control

Nora Ephron - Scribble Scribble

Delia Ephron - Hanging Up

Noras Ephron - Wallflower at the Orgy

John Irving - Hotel New Hampshire

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Jeffrey Eugenides - Virgin Suicides

Mario Puzo - The Godfather

Gordon Burn - Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son

Truman Capote - In Cold Blood

Tara Westover - Educated

Leah Remini - Troublemaker

Beau Donelly, Nick Toscano - Woman Who Fooled The World

Darren Coffield - Tales From the Colony Room

Greg Sestero - Disaster Artist

Andre Leon Talley - Chiffon Trenches

Terri White - Coming Undone

Cathy Rentzenbrink - Dear Reader

Armistead Maupin - Maybe the Moon

Armistead Maupin - Night Listener

Deborah Davis - Party of the Century

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We couldn't be happier to be Shelf Isolating with this week's guest - author, journalist and all around book guru Sarra Manning! Sarra is one of our favourite people on the planet as well as a brilliant former guest who has impeccable book taste. We talked to her about foisting favourite books, rigorous rereading, investigating the aristocracy and there are many, many book recommendations.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Sisterhood

Sarra Manning - Rescue Me

Anne de Courcy - Debs at War

Anne de Courcy - Viceroy’s daughters

Nicolas Coleridge - Glossy Years

PG Wodehouse - Indiscretions of Archie

Barbara Pym - Jane and Prudence

Dorothy Whipple - They Were Sisters

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady

Susie Steiner - Missing Presumed

Jane Casey - The Burning

Louise Cavendish - Our House

Penny Vincenzi - No Angel

RC Sherriff - Fortnight in September

Angela Thirkell - Before Lunch

Victoria Wood - Chunky

Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age

Cathy Rentzenbrink - Dear Reader

Sara Davidson - Loose Change

Lisa Taddeo - Three Women

Cathleen Schine - Grammarians

Virginia Andrews - Flowers in the Attic

Jane Oliver - Business as Usual

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Eva Ibbotson - Morning Gift

Eva Ibbotson - Secret Countess

Georgette Heyer - Regency Buck

LM Montgomery - Blue Castle

Noel Streatfeild - Vicarage Family

Artemis Cooper - Elizabeth David

Hannah Tovey - Education of Ivy Edwards

Sarra Manning - Unsticky

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

Marian Keyes - Grown Ups

Holly Bourne - Pretending

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

Sarra Manning - Let’s Get Lost

Sarra Manning - Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp

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It's another Shelf Isolation bonus episode this week, where we peruse the bookshelves of a favourite author from a safe distance. This week it's a ridiculously entertaining chat with the wonderful Clare Mackintosh. Clare is the bestselling and multi-award-winning author of I

Let You Go, Let Me Lie and her latest After The End. We talked to her about providing a retirement home for books, her secret library, Just William and who, from books, she'd hate to be locked down with.

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BOOKS

Layla F Saad - Me & White Supremacy

Clare Mackintosh - I Let You Go

Clare Mackintosh - After The End

Kate Elizabeth Russell - My Dark Vanessa

Jodi Picoult - Small Great Things

Jodi Picoult - A Spark of Light

Jilly Cooper - Imogen

Eleanor H. Porter - Pollyanna

Susan Coolidge - What Katy Did

George & Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody

Richmal Crompton - William Carries On

HV Morton - Traveller in Rome

Edward Lear - Complete Nonsense

Kate Atkinson - Life After Life

Nikesh Shukla (ed) - Good Immigrant

Jasbinder Bilan - Asha & the Spirit Bird

Arthur Ransome - Swallows and Amazons

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones’s Diary

Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

George Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London

Mark Haddon - Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

James Goodhand - Last Lesson

AA Dhand - Darkness Rising

John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men

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We are still somewhat locked down this week, but rather than binge watching old episodes of Keeping Up Appearances we are talking to out nearest and dearest about literary life in quarantine. This week it's the mega-selling author and critic Louise Doughty! Louise is the author of nine novels, with her most recent being Platform Seven. Her previous book, Black Water, was a New York Times Notable Book and Apple Tree Yard was adapted into a successful TV series starring Emily Watson. We talked to her about which character she'd like to be in lockdown with, Ursula Le Guin and holidaying vicariously via books.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Louise Doughty - Platform Seven

Louise Doughty - Whatever You Love

Hillary Mantel - Mirror and the Light

Sandra Horley - Power And Control: Why Charming Men Can Make Dangerous Lovers

Alice Jolly - Dead Babies and Seaside Towns

Gavanndra Hodge - Consequences of Love

Stephanie Scott - What’s Left of Me Is Yours

Polly Samson - Theatre for Dreamers

Ursula Le Guin - Wizard of Earthsea

Ursula Le Guin - Left Hand of Darkness

CS Lewis - The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe

Celeste Ng - Little Fires Everywhere

Toni Morrison - Beloved

Alice Walker - The Colour Purple

Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man

Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Son

Louise Doughty - Apple Tree Yard

Louise Doughty - Stone Cradle

Amanda Craig - The Golden Rule

Michael Arditti - The Anointed

Paul Mendez - Rainbow Milk

Guinevere Glasfurd - The Year Without Summer

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We are beyond excited to bring you this week's very, very special guest. An individual whose work we adore and consume with gusto; the novelist, essayist and New York Times Bestselling author Curtis Sittenfeld! Curtis is the author of six novels and a short story collection including including YB faves Prep, Eligible and American Wife. Her latest is the highly anticipated fictional look at Hilary Clinton: Rodham. We talked to her about First Ladies, short stories, writing like there's nobody watching and trying to make your kids like Laura Ingalls Wilder.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Curtis Sittenfeld - Rodham

Curtis Sittenfeld - The Nominee

Hilary Clinton - Living History

Curtis Sittenfeld - American Wife

Emily Gould - Perfect Tunes

Emily Gould - And the Heart Says Whatever

Lily King - Writers & Lovers

Lily King - Euphoria

Susan Choi - Trust Exercise

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House on the Prairie 

Carol Ryrie Brink - Caddie Woodlawn

Gertrude Chandler Warner - Boxcar Children

EL Konigsburg - From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frank Weiler

Becky Albertalli - Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

Curtis Sittenfeld - You Think It I’ll Say It

Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge

Alice Munro - Selected Stories

Tessa Hadley - The Past

Susanna Daniel - Stiltsville

Susanna Daniel - Sea Creatures

Marisa Meltzer - This is Big

Sue Miller - Monogamy

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Sally Rooney - Conversations With Friends

Curtis Sittenfeld - Eligible

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Demi Moore - Inside Out

Curtis Sittenfeld - Prep

Rebecca Lee - Bobcat

Joseph O’Neill - Good Trouble

Laura van den Berg - I Hold a Wolf by the Ears

Ali Smith - How To Be Both

Raymond Carver - Where I'm Calling From

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We are Shelf Isolating once again this week, where we talk to some of our favourite former guests, friends of the YB family and people we adore about how books and reading are helping them get through the lockdown. This week's guest falls into all three categories as we pay a return visit to journalist and author Lauren Bravo! Lauren is the author of How to Break Up with Fast Fashion and What Would the Spice Girls Do? We talked to her about her funniest ever reads, cookery books as fiction, the genius of Barbara Trapido and YA comfort reads.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Lauren Bravo - How To Break Up With Fast Fashion

Lauren Bravo - What Would The Spice Girls Do

Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age

Jean Ure - Jo in the Middle

Jaqueline Wilson - Girls in Tears

Jaqueline Wilson - Girls Out Late

Jaqueline Wilson - Story of Tracey Beaker

Jaqueline Wilson - Suitcase Kid

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

Marian Keyes - Other Side of the Story

Marian Keyes - Last Chance Saloon

Bill Bryson - Notes From a Big Country

EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady

George and Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody

Lauren Bravo - Litmus Test Books

Mary Wesley - An Imaginative Experience

Mary Wesley - Camomile Lawn

Laura Goodman - Carbs

Anna Jones - A Modern Cook’s Year

David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day

Ottessa Moshfegh - Year of Rest and Relaxation

Mary Norton - Borrowers

Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge

Nina Stibbe - Man at the Helm

Nina Stibbe - Reasons to be Cheerful

Hilary McKay - The Exiles

Hilary McKay - The Exiles at Home

William Golding - Lord of the Flies

Lisa Owens - Not Working

Anthony Buckeridge - Jennings at Large

Patrick Hamilton - Hangover Square

Evelyn Waugh - Vile Bodies

Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall

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As the current situation is keeping us away from people's bookshelves (and people in general) we're launching a You're Booked mini spin off called Shelf Isolation where we talk to (remotely) some of our beloved former guests, friends of the YB family and people we adore about how books and reading are helping them get through the lockdown. And we couldn't be happier with our first guest! It's the amazing stand-up, author, actor and all around inspiration Sara Pascoe. Sara is one of the most heralded comedians working today and the immensely talented author of the books Animal and Sex Power Money. We talked to her about reading habits during quarantine, big lies involving hamsters, unspeakable acts committed against libraries and the saddest book she has ever read.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Sara Pascoe - Animal

Sara Pascoe - Sex Money Power

Bernadine Evaristo - Girl Woman Other

Anbara Salam - Belladonna

Hilary Mantel - The Mirror and the Light

Lynne Reid Banks - I Houdini

Kathy Reichs - The Bone Collection

Robert Sapolsky - Behave

Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Jeanine Cummins - American Dirt

DH Lawrence - Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Kate Elizabeth Russell - My Dark Vanessa

Lisa Taddeo - Three Women

Alissa Nutting - Tamper

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Graham Greene - End of the Affair

Andrew Sean Greer - Less

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Dodie Smith - I Capture The Castle

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood

Jackie Collins - The Stud

JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

George Orwell - Keep The Aspidistra Flying

Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffanys

Sarra Manning - Unsticky

Marian Keyes - Grown Ups

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As a special treat, here's our interview with the fabulous Lissa Evans, which we were planning to be the first episode in our sixth season, but that might have to wait for a while. But we didn't dare sit on this any longer as it's such a warm, wonderful, informative episode. Lissa is the author of many fantastic books including Old Baggage and Their Finest Hour and a Half. We talked to her about cosy reads, Father Ted, British movie scandals, funny books and her appearance in the Kenneth Williams diaries! For more information about Daisy's new newsletter Further Reading visit: https://furtherreading.substack.com/p/coming-soon

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Holly Bourne - Pretending

Lissa Evans - Old Baggage

Lissa Evans - Their Finest

Lissa Evans - Wed Wabbit

John Costello - Love, Sex and War

Norman Longmate - How We Lived Then

Rodney Ackland - The Celluloid Mistress

Emlyn Williams - George

DH Lawrence - Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Céleste Albaret - Monsieur Proust

Józef Czapski - Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp

Mary Bergstein - In Looking Back One Learns to See

Alain De Botton’s - How Proust Can Change Your Life

Marcel Proust - Swann’s Way

Victoria Wood - Barmy

Victoria Wood - Up To You Porky

Geoffrey Willans - Molesworth

Jessica Mitford - American Way of Death

Jessica Mitford - Hons and Rebels

Evelyn Waugh - Loved One

Jessica Mitford - Makings of a Muckraker

John Carey - Faber Book of Reportage

Elizabeth Taylor - The Devastating Boys

Dorothy Whipple - They Were Sisters

Various - The Girl’s Budget

Barbara Nixon - Raiders Overhead

John Strachey - Post D

Roger Deakins - Waterlog

WG Sebald - Rings of Saturn

Nicholas Parsons - Dipped in Vitriol

June Havoc - Early Havoc

Armistead Maupin - More Tales of the City

Armistead Maupin -Further Tales of the City

Armistead Maupin - Mary Ann in Autumn

Neil Gaiman - Graveyard Book

Annie Proulx - Shipping News

Anita Brookner - Latecomers

Anita Brookner - Look At Me

Anita Brookner - Hotel Du Lac

Florence King - Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady

Helen Ellis - Southern Lady Code

Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle

Liam Fay - Beyond Belief

Peter Nichols - A Voyage For Madmen

Walter Lord - Night to Remember

Kenneth Anger - Hollywood Babylon

Matthew Sweet - Shepperton Babylon

Laurens van der Post - Flamingo Feather

Kenneth Williams - Diaries

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Flora Thompson - Lark Rise To Candleford

Various - English Hymnal

Lissa Evans - Small Change for Stuart

Gerald Durrell - My Family and Other Animals

Jane Gardam - Queen of the Tambourine

Jane Gardam - Old Filth

Lissa Evans - Crooked Heart

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While we take a little break, we're sharing just a few of our favourite ever episodes from the archives. This week we're 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. When we chatted to Marian, she was about to release the brilliant, chart-topping Grown Ups. Since then we've seen a sequel to Rachel's Holiday, Again Rachel and her latest My Favourite Mistake. 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. And as this episode was released on the week Daisy's novel Insatiable was launched, there's a bonus, exclusive (and steamy!) clip from the audiobook. Find a full list of the books Sophie mentioned at our Bookshop.Org store. Pre-order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and read an exclusive extract from the book at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic...

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 6

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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For the grand finale of our fifth season American adventure (and our 50th episode!), we find ourselves in... Bloomsbury. But we are there for a wonderful reason. To meet the legendary novelist, feminist, and philanthropist Isabel Allende! Isabel is the internationally renowned, bestselling author of works such as House of the Spirits, Of Love and Shadows, Eva Luna, Daughter of Fortune, and her latest breathtaking epic A Long Petal of the Sea. We talked to her about illicit reads, writing superstitions, dogs, poetry and Elvis. For more information about Daisy's new newsletter Further Reading visit: https://furtherreading.substack.com/p/coming-soon

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Isabel Allende - Long Petal of the Sea

Peter Christen Asbjørnsen - Fairytales From the Far North

Various - Arabian Nights

Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Water Dancer

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Isabel Allende - House of the Spirits

Johnston McCulley, - Zorro

Henri Troyat -Tant Que La Terre Durera (While the Earth Endures)

Cherie Currie - Neon Angel

The Isabel Allende Foundation

Isabel Allende - Paula

Jeanine Cummins - American Dirt

Colum McCann - Let the Great World Spin

Colum McCann - Apeirogon

Pablo Neruda - Memoirs

Pablo Neruda - Selected Poems

Isabel Allende - Ripper

Anne Lamott - Bird By Bird

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This week we are heading to Brooklyn and the home of Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Ada Calhoun! Ada wrote the fantastic history of New York St Marks is Dead and the hugely popular memoir Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give. Her new book is the already bestselling Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis. We talked to her about New York writers, the New York Post, true crime, memoir, Dolly Parton and rediscovering classic YA. For more information about Daisy's new newsletter Further Reading visit: https://furtherreading.substack.com/p/coming-soon

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Ada Calhoun - Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give

Ada Calhoun - Why We Can’t Sleep

Dawn Powell - Wicked Pavilion

Dawn Powell - Locusts Have No King

Ada Calhoun - St Marks is Dead

Eilert Sundt - Sexual Customs in Rural Norway

Lisa Sliwa - Attitude

Susannah Cahalan - Great Pretender

Susannah Cahalan - Brain on Fire

Karen Abbott - Ghosts of Eden Park

Lisa Carver - Dancing Queen

Derek Jarman - Chroma

N. Whittal-Perry - Treasury of Traditional Wisdom

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Barbara Wersba - Beautiful Losers

Barbara Wersba - Fat A Love Story

Francesca Lia Block - Weetzie Bat

Melissa Broder - The Pisces

M Masters - Case of the Clever Computer Crooks

PG Wodehouse - Psmith in the City

PG Wodehouse - Right Ho Jeeves

Wilkie Collins - Woman in White

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Jane Austen - Emma

Mildred Gilman - Sob Sister

Nora Ephron - Scribble Scribble

Jane Gardam - Old Filth

Annie Baker - John

Annie Baker - Flick

Michael Ondaatje - Warlight

Michael Ondaatje - English Patient

Oscar Wilde - Decay of Lying

Maureen Callahan - American Predator

David Carr - Night of the Gun

Joe Coomer - Flatland Fable

Lewis Shiner - Glimpses

Lewis Shiner - Slam

Salman Rushdie - Quichotte

Olivia Laing - Lonely City

Gilbert King - Beneath a Ruthless Sun

Gilbert King - Devil in the Grove

Barbara Ehrenreich - Nickel and Dimed

James Leo Herlihy - Season of the Witch

Sarah Hepola - Blackout

Richard Ford - The Sportswriter

Tara Allmen - Menopause Confidential

Miranda Sawyer - Out of Time

Daniel Lipkowitz - Lego Ideas Book

Abby Frucht - Liquorice 

Marilynne Robinson - Housekeeping 

Dolly Parton - My Life and Other Unfinished Business

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This week we are back in LA, not far from The Getty, visiting the beautiful home of bestselling author Jessica Knoll! Jessica wrote the mega-hits The Luckiest Girl Alive (soon to be a film) and The Favourite Sister (soon to be a TV series). We talked to her about inspirational books, favourite book shops, scary reads and the the best book to read if you want to write a screenplay. For more information about Daisy's new newsletter Further Reading visit: https://furtherreading.substack.com/p/coming-soon

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Jessica Knoll - Luckiest Girl Alive

Jessica Knoll - Favourite Sister

Steph Cha - Your House Will Pay

Anthony Horowitz - Magpie Mysteries

Caroline Kepnes - You

Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Ottessa Moshfegh - Eileen

Shirley Jackson - Dark Tales

LS Hilton - Maestra

Jay McInerney - Bright Lights Big City

Sylvia Plath - Bell Jar

Cheryl Strayed - Wild

Anthony Minghella - Minghella on Minghella

Kamila Shamsie - Home Fire

Donna Tartt - Secret History

Bret Easton Ellis - Rules of Attraction

Esquire - History of Bennington

Donna Tartt - Goldfinch

Elaine Dundy - Dud Avocado

Matt Ruff - Bad Monkeys

Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge

Elizabeth Strout - Olive Again

Ruth Franklin - Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

Sun Tzu - Art of War

Anais Nin - Diaries

Anais Nin - Delta of Venus

Anais Nin - Henry and June

Stephen King - On Writing

Ann Lamott - Bird By Bird

Tana French - In The Woods

Michelle McNamara - I’ll Be Gone in the Dark

Adrienne Brodeur - Wild Game

Judith Rossner - Looking For Mr Goodbar

Sebastián Edwards - Untold Story of FDR

Anne Knoll - Secret Life of Thomas Bradford

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