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This week we are welcoming podcast, comedy and writerly royalty to the show. It's the amazing Cariad Lloyd! Cariad is the host of the podcasts Weirdos Book Club, alongside former guest Sara Pascoe, and the award-winning Griefcast, plus a book based on the podcast You Are Not Alone. She is an actor, comedian and improviser and has just released her first children's book The Christmas Wish-tastrophe (plus another one soon - revealed exclusively during the show!) We talked to her about helpful reading habits, the importance of a great booklight, good books about grief and a surprising literary obsession (with a former guest). Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Preorder your copy of Daisy's Read Yourself Happy by contacting The Margate Bookshop and visit Daisy's Substack to find out about her live dates. The episode is sponsored 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
Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy
Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party
Cariad Lloyd - You Are Not Alone
Cariad Lloyd - The Christmas Wishtastrophe
Lili Anolik - Didion and Babitz
JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings
JRR Tolkien - The Hobbit
Brian Jacques - Mossflower
Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes
AA Milne - Winnie the Pooh
Brothers Grimm - Fairy Tales
Lynne Reid Banks - Fairy Rebel
Anne Fine - Diary of a Killer Cat
Terry Pratchett - Colour of Magic
Tove Jansson - Tales from Moominvalley
Astrid Lindgren - Pippi Longstocking
Nadia Shireen - Grimwood
Nadia Shireen - Billy and the Beast
Nadia Shireen - Bumblebear
Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Jill Murphy - Worst Witch
Philip Pullman - Northern Lights
Jeffrey Archer - As the Crow Flies
Roger Lewis - Erotic Vagrancy
Lucy Ellmann - Ducks Newburyport
George Saunders - Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders - Swim in the Pond in the Rain
Guadalupe Nettel - Still Born
Madeline Linford - Out of the Window
Tessa Hadley - Free Love
Joe Heap - Rules of Seeing
Hilary Mantel - Mirror and the Light
Charles Darwin - Bleak House
George Eliot - Middlemarch
Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life
Douglas Stuart - Young Mungo
John Ransom - The Whale Tattoo
John Ransom - The Gallopers
Cariad Lloyd - Where Did She Go
Tom Percival - Ruby's Worry
Tom Percival - Meesha Makes Friends
Tom Percival - Perfectly Norman
Julia Donaldson - Paper Dolls
Oliver Jeffers - Heart and the Bottle
Frances Hodgson Burnett - Secret Garden
Nikki May - This Motherless Land
Jane Austen - Mansfield Park
Nikki May - Wahala
Ann Patchett - Tom Lake
Ann Patchett - Bel Canto
Octavia Butler - Kindred
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This week we're delighted to bring you this delicious and delectable conversation with the amazing Rukmini Iyer! Rukmini is the visionary behind the multi-million-selling Roasting Tin series of cookbooks with the latest being the Green Roasting Tin. She is also a voracious and wide-ranging reader. We talked to her about Jilly Cooper, early, eye-popping reads, life-changing food writing and she reveals her secret, and surprising passion. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of The Book Lovers Journal HERE. Find out more about Daisy's Read Yourself Happy retreat at Aweventurer.com/daisy. The episode is sponsored 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
Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party
Rukmini Iyer - The Roasting Tin
Rukmini Iyer - The Green Roasting Tin
Miye Lee - Dallergut Dream Department Store
Gabrielle Zevin - Storied Life of AJ Fikry
Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
TS Eliot - Waste Land Facsimile
Much Ado Bookshop
Taffy Brodesser-Akner - Fleishman is in Trouble
Robert Lowell - Imitations
Homer (Trans: Emily Wilson) - Odyssey
Donna Tartt - The Secret History
Roberto Bolano - 2666
Paul Beatty - The Sellout
Philip Pullman - Northern Lights
Francesa Segal - Welcome to Glorious Tuga
Jilly Cooper - Rivals
John Lanchester - The Debt To Pleasure
MFK Fisher - Gastronomical Me
Bee Wilson - Consider the Fork
Bee Wilson - The Way We Eat Now
Tim Spector - Food For Life
Chris van Tulleken - Ultra Processed People
Sanjana Modha - Sanjana Feasts
Lucy Mangan - Bookworm
Eve Garnett - Family At One End Street
David Niven - Moon's a Balloon
Caitlin Moran - How To Be a Woman
Stewart Granger - Sparks Fly Up
Roger Lewis - Erotic Vagrancy
Kate Andersen Brower - Elizabeth Taylor
Stefan Zweig - Beware of Pity
Various - Book Lovers Journal 2025
Noel Streatfeild - Saplings
Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes
Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry
Noel Streatfeild - A Vicarage Family
Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle
Lizzy Stewart - Alison
Jane Oliver - Business as Usual
Dorothy Whipple - High Wages
Min Jin Lee - Free Food for Millionaires
Min Jin Lee - Pachinko
Laurie colwin - Home Cooking
Laurie Colwin - More Home Cooking
Laurie Colwin - Happy all the Time
India Knight - Darling
Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love
Rukmini Iyer - Quick Roasting Tin
Rukmini Iyer - Green Barbecue
Time Life Editors - Patisserie
Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary
Rukmini Iyer - Sweet Roasting Tin
Bee Wilson - Swindled
Rukmini Iyer - Roasting Tin Around the World
Ruby Tandoh - Cook as You Are
Ruby Tandoh - Eat Up
Diana Vreeland - DV
Diana Vreeland - Memos
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This week we welcome another publishing legend onto the podcast. It's the amazing Liane Moriarty! Liane has sold over 20 million books worldwide and her novels have been translated into forty languages. Her blockbusters Big Little Lies, Apples Never Fall and Nine Perfect Strangers have been adapted into hugely successful TV shows. Her latest novel is the gripping, mysterious Here One Moment. We talked to her about her fellow novelist sisters, extended literary universes, the first book to make her cry and a particularly disturbing sex scene from Jaws. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of The Book Lovers Journal HERE. Preorder your copy of Daisy's Read Yourself Happy by contacting The Margate Bookshop and find out about Daisy's Creative Confidence Clinic writing course at Daisy's Substack.
BOOKS
Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy
Liane Moriarty - Nine Perfect Strangers
Liane Moriarty - Big Little Lies
Liane Moriarty - Here One Moment
Anna Quindlen - After Annie
Barbara Comyns - Our Spoons Came From Woolworths
Ethel Turner - Seven Little Australians
PL Travers - Mary Poppins
Peter Benchley - Jaws
Michael Coleman - One, Two, Three, Oops!
LM Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables
LM Montgomery - Emily of New Moon
Joanna Trollope - The Choir
Alice Winn - In Memoriam
Rebecca Makkai - Great Believers
Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life
Catherine Newman - Sandwich
Maeve Binchy - Light a Penny Candle
Michelle Gallen - Factory Girls
Claire Lombardo - Same as it Ever Was
Claire Lombardo - Most Fun We Ever Had
Anne Tyler - Accidental Tourist
Shelia Heti - Motherhood
Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable
Karen Joy Fowler - Booth
Mary Wesley - A Sensible Life
Mary Wesley - Camomile Lawn
Daisy Buchanan - Careering
Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party
Lizzy Stewart - Alison
Barbara Trapido - Noah's Ark
Barbara Trapido - Traveling Hornplayer
Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack
Marian Keyes - My Favourite Mistake
Marian Keyes - Rachels Holiday
Marian Keyes - Again Rachel
Marian Keyes - Anybody Out There
Nicola Moriarty - You Need To Know
Jaclyn Moriarty - Gravity is the Thing
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Kate Atkinson - Life After Life
Audrey Niffenegger - Time Traveler's Wife
Dorothy Whipple - High Wages
Barbara Pym - Excellent Women
Nina Stibbe - Love Nina
Jane Harper - The Dry
Sally Hepworth - The Family Next Door
Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train
Patricia Highsmith - Diaries
Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation
Lionel Shriver - We Need To Talk About Kevin
Sally Rooney - Intermezzo
Emma Forrest - Father Figure
Matt Haig - Midnight Library
Cesca Major - Maybe Next Time
Bella Mackie - What a Way to Go
Mary Beth Keane - The Half Moon
Mary Lawson - Crow Lake
Elizabeth Berg - Say When
Jo Jo Moyes - Someone Else's Shoes
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This week on the podcast we're entertaining one of our favourite writers and one of our favourite people. The brilliant Holly Williams! Holly is a journalist and author who writes about books and theatre for everyone from The Observer to the New York Times and is the author of two fantastic novels, What Time is Love and The Start of Something. We traveled to Holly's wonderful Sheffield home and talked to her about the Tolstoy family dynasty, cosy planning. life lessons from Marian Keyes, generating a poetry habit and books so engrossing you miss your train connection. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of The Book Lovers Journal HERE. Preorder your copy of Daisy's new book Read Yourself Happy.
BOOKS
Holly Williams - What Time is Love
Holly Williams - Start of Something
Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace
Holly Williams - Living With Leo
Ali Smith - Winter
Ali Smith - How To Be Both
Zadie Smith - On Beauty
Ted Hughes - Selected Poems
Seamus Heaney - Selected Poems
Paul Muldoon - Selected Poems
Don Paterson - Selected Poems
Julia Cameron - Artist's Way
Ocean Vuong - Time is a Mother
Ocean Vuong - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Helen Mort - Illustrated Woman
Hannah Sullivan - Three Poems
Sharon Olds - Stag's Leap
Ross Gay - The Book of Delights
JB Priestly - Delight
RC Sherriff - Fortnight in September
Lauren Bravo - Preloved
Claire Keegan - Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan - So Late in the Day
Daisy Buchanan - Limelight
Bernadine Evaristo - Girl Woman Other
Katherine Heiny - Games and Rituals
Katherine Heiny - Single, Carefree, Mellow
Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation
Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
Marian Keyes - This Charming Man
Marian Keyes - Again Rachel
Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday
Celia Paul - Self-Portrait
Gary Shteyngart - Super Sad True Love Story
Daisy Buchanan - Careering
Arthur Schnitzler - La Ronde
Victoria Wood - Chunky
Jesse Armstrong - Succession scripts
JB Priestly - An Inspector Calls
Christopher Marlowe - Doctor Faustus
Timberlake Wertenbaker - The Love of the Nightingale
Timberlake Wertenbaker - Our Country's Good
Peter Barnes - The Ruling Class
Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf - Diaries
Virginia Woolf - Letters
Charles Dickens - Bleak House
Various - Weird Walk
Jilly Cooper - Riders
Kathryn Scanlan - Kick the Latch
Rita Bullwinkel - Headshot
Ottessa Moshfegh - Lapvona
Jen Calleja - Vehicle
Akwaeke Emezi - You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty
Lizzy Stewart - Alison
Adrian Tomine - New York Drawings
Ella Frears - Goodlord
Philip Pullman - Book of Dust
Philip Pullman - Northern Lights
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More legends of literature are dropping by as we welcome bestselling author and crime icon Paula Hawkins! Paula's first book was the phenomenal The Girl on the Train which sold over 20 million copies and was translated into over 50 languages. She followed it up with the bestsellers Into the Water and A Slow Fire Burning. Her latest is the highly anticipated The Blue Hour. We talked to her about art books, the writers so good they make you want to give up, great authors from Zimbabwe and being disappointed by a lack of Wombles. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Preorder your copy of Daisy's new book Read Yourself Happy by contacting The Margate Bookshop and see book tour dates and find out about Daisy's Creative Confidence Clinic writing course at Daisy's Substack.
BOOKS
Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy
Paula Hawkins - The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins - The Blue Hour
Eleanor Clayton - Barbara Hepworth
Celia Paul - Self Portrait
Patrick Elliot - Joan Eardley
Walter De La Mare - The Three Royal Monkeys
Enid Blyton - The Famous Five
Enid Blyton - Mallory Towers
Elisabeth Beresford - The Wombles
Joan Aiken - Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Geoffrey of Monmouth - History of the Kings of Britain
Ali Smith - Autumn
Zadie Smith - Intimations
Sarah Moss - The Fell
Sigrid Nunez - The Friend
Sigrid Nunez - What Are You Going Through
Sigrid Nunez - The Vulnerables
Benjamin Moser - Sontag
Sigrid Nunez - Sempre Susan
Kate Atkinson - Life After Life
Pat Barker - The Regeneration Trilogy
Pat Barker - Life Class
Pat Barker - Silence of the Girls
Pat Barker - The Women of Troy
Pat Barker - Voyage Home
Penelope Lively - Moon Tiger
Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr Ripley
Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train
Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None
Ruth Rendell - A Judgement in Stone
Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl
Rebecca F Kuang - Yellowface
Molly Keane - Good Behaviour
Caroline Kepnes - You
Oyinkan Braithwaite - My Sister the Serial Killer
George Eliot - Middlemarch
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
Colleen Hoover - It Ends With Us
Sally Rooney - Conversations With Friends
Sally Rooney - Normal People
Claire Keegan - Small Things Like These
Carys Davies - Clear
Jonathan Abrams - The Come Up
Craig Brown - Ma'am Darling
Anne Glenconner - Lady in Waiting
Tsitsi Dangarembga - This Mournable Body
Tsitsi Dangarembga - Nervous Conditions
Petina Gappah - An Elegy for Easterly
Petina Gappah - Rotten Row
Raymond Carver - Cathedral
Kate Atkinson - Normal Rules Don't Apply
Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge
Evie Wyld - The Echoes
Evie Wyld - All the Birds Singing
Charlotte Wood - Stone Yard Devotional
Charlotte Wood - The Weekend
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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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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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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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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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This week we are entertaining crime writing royalty on the podcast as we welcome the legend that is Dr Kathy Reichs! Kathy is a forensic anthropologist and academic who, amongst many other things, taught FBI agents how to detect and recover human remains. She used her forensic knowledge to create the character Temperance Brennan and the first Temperance book, Deja Dead, won the 1997 Ellis Award for Best First Novel. Many other novels followed including Death du Jour, Deadly Decisions, Fatal Voyage, Monday Mourning and many more. She also co-authored the Virals young adult series with her son, Brendan Reichs. Her latest thriller is Fire and Bones. Kathy also produced and wrote the hit TV series, Bones, which is based on her work and her novels. We talked to her about the mystery of the mobile library, the joy of audio books and the best forensic science books for kids! 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
Kathy Reichs - Fire and Bones
Kathy Reichs - Deja Dead
Ian Rankin - A Heart Full of Headstones
Michael Connelly - Desert Star
Karin Slaughter - Pieces of Her
Dennis Lehane - Small Mercies
Kathy Reichs - Virals
Carolyn Keene - Nancy Drew
Howard Pyle - Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Michael Connelly - Concrete Blond
Siri Hustvedt - What I Loved
Douglas P. Lyle - Forensics For Dummies
Chris Cooper - Forensic Science
Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes
HA Rey - Curious George
JRR Tolkien - The Hobbit
Cixin Liu - The Three Body Problem
Erik Larson - Devil in the White City
Erik Larson - Isaac's Strom
Truman Capote - In Cold Blood
Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's
Brene Brown - Daring Greatly
Kathy Reichs - Death Du Jour
Jacqueline Winspear - The Comfort of Ghosts
Alex Finlay - The Night Shift
Joseph Finder - Oligarch's Daughter
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This week on the show we're delighted to present the legend that is Robin Ince! Robin is an acclaimed stand-up, star of Infinite Monkey Cage, podcast host and the author of Importance of Being Interested, I'm a Joke, Bibliomaniac and more! We talked to him outside the Tom Thumb Theatre in Margate (sorry about the extraneous noise) about obsessive book collecting, Kurt Vonnegut's library, the importance of art and what to say when you meet Patti Smith. 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...
BOOKS
Robin Ince - Bibliomaniac
Rosie Dixon - Confessions from a Package Tour
Rosie Dixon - Confessions of a Physical WRAC
Jeremy Cooper - Brian
Geoff Dyer - Zona
Geoff Dyer - Colour of Memory
Geoff Dyer - But Beautiful
Lisa Jewell - Ralph's Party
Boris and Arkady Strugatsky - Roadside Picnic
Geoff Dyer - Broadsword Calling Danny Boy
Various - For Ian Charleson: A Tribute
Nancy Friday - My Secret Garden
Margaret Rutherford - Autobiography
Margaret Rutherford - A Blithe Spirit
Robert Helpmann - Album
Kenneth Williams - Diaries
William Hughes - Performance
Henry Williamson - Tarka the Otter
Josie Long - Because I Don't Know What You Mean and What You Don't
Fern Brady - Strong Female Character
Katherine May - Wintering
Jean Rhys - Good Morning Midnight
Sinead O Connor - Rememberings
Diana Athill - Stet
Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea
Miranda Seymour - Haunted Life of Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys - Letters
Camilla Grudova - Children of Paradise
Camilla Grudova - Dolls Alphabet
Octavia Butler - Parable of the Sower
Toni Morrison - Beloved
Margaret Atwood - Handmaid's Tale
Lewis Hancox - Welcome To St Hell
Natasha Walter - Living Dolls
Natasha Walter - Before the Light Fades
The Cut - Assisted Suicide...
Miranda July - All Fours
Laura Bates - Men Who Hate Women
Natalie Haynes - Divine Might
Sam Hunter - Robert Rauschenberg
Olivia Laing - Funny Weather
John Updike - More Matter
William Burroughs - Junky
Alexander Trocchi - Cain's Book
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 100 Years of Solitude
Michael Blair & Joe Bucciero - Young Marble Giants' Colossal Youth
Martin Ed Myrone - Gothic Reader
Colin MacInnes - Absolute Beginners
Sinead Gleason & Kim Gordon - This Woman's Work
Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train
Patricia Highsmith - Price of Salt
Arundhati Roy - AZADI
Alan Moore - Lost Girls
John Hegley - New & Selected Potatoes
John Le Carre - Letters
Polly Barton - Fifty Sounds
Polly Barton - Porn
Ronan Hession - Leonard & Hungry Paul
Maggie Nelson - Bluets
Edna O'Brien - Country Girls
Claire Keegan - Foster
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This week on the podcast, we visit the home of one of our favourite authors and favourite people, the brilliant Ericka Waller! Ericka is an award-winning columnist and the author of the acclaimed novels Dogs Days and Goodbye Birdie Greenwing. And, as you will hear, she is a voracious reader. We talked to her about filthy books, snacks in kids books and the genius of John Shuttleworth. Find out more about the books Ericka mentioned at our Bookshop.org store. Order Daisy's new novel Pity Party HERE. More about the London Writer's Salon Podcast HERE.
BOOKS
Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party
Ericka Waller - Dog Days
Ericka Waller - Goodbye Birdie Greenwing
Cathy Rentzenbrink - Everyone is Still Alive
V. V. Ganeshananthan - Brotherless Night
Ann Morgan - Reading the World
Kristin Hannah - The Women
Isabella Hammad - Enter Ghost
Sarah Moss - The Good Bright Wolf
Sophie Kinsella - Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic
Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes
Hans Christian Andersen - Matchstick Girl
Joanna Quinn - Whalebone Theatre
Michelle Magorian - Back Home
Michelle Magorian - A Little Love Song
Tayari Jones - An American Marriage
Ann Patchett - State of Wonder
Eva Ibbotson - Journey To the River Sea
Anne Tyler - Accidental Tourist
Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser
Rebecca Makkai - The Great Believers
Ruth Coker Burks - All the Young Men
Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City
Armistead Maupin - Logical Family
Emma Donoghue - The Pull of the Stars
Jerry Zucker - True Story of Airplane!
Maeve Binchy - Scarlet Feather
Maeve Binchy - Circle of Friends
Maeve Binchy - Evening Class
Maeve Binchy - The Return Journey
Colm Toibin - Brooklyn
Colm Toibin - Long Island
Tommy Cooper - Joke Book
John Shuttleworth - Two Margarines
EL James - 50 Shades of Grey
Rachel Ingalls - Mrs Caliban
Melissa Broder - The Pisces
Crystal Jeans - The Inverts
Paullina Simons - Bronze Horseman
Paullina Simons - Girl in Times Square
Marian Keyes - My Favourite Mistake
Marian Keyes - Sushi For Beginners
Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable
Nathan Hill - Wellness
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos - Liaisons Dangereuse
Philippe Djian - Betty Blue
Penelope Douglas - Bully
LJ Shen - Hunter
Sebastian Faulks - Birdsong
Ali Hazelwood - Love Hypothesis
Sally Thorne - Hating Game
Lindsey Kelk - Love Story
Emily Henry - Beach Read
Casey McQuiston - Red White and Royal Blue
Anthony Doerr - Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr - All The Light...
Claire Lombardo - Most Fun We Ever Had
Claire Lombardo - Same As It Ever Was
Catherine Newman - We All Want...
Tish Delaney - Before My Actual Heart Breaks
Miriam Toews - Fight Night
Mhairi McFarlane - Between Us
Jane Green - Jemima J
Freya North - Sally
Andy Weir - Project Hail Mary
Louise Beech - Lion Tamer Who Lost
Emma Jane Kirby - Optician of Lampedusa
Harriet F Townson - D is for Death
Coco Mellors - Blue Sisters
Brianna Labuskes - Librarian of Burned Books
Liz Hyder - The Illusions
Joseph O'Connor - Star of the Sea
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Our series 15 cavalcade of champions continues with the wonderful Catherine Gray! Catherine is an award-winning author, editor and podcaster whose writing has been seen in the Guardian, Stylist, Telegraph, Grazia and Stella. Catherine's hit debut book, The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober, became a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller, followed by the acclaimed The Unexpected Joy of the Ordinary, The Unexpected Joy of Being Single and Sunshine Warm Sober. Her debut novel Versions of a Girl has just been released. We talked to her about sobriety memoirs, formative reads, historical troublemakers, David Sedaris writing advice and more on the often fraught Fanny Price debate.Find out more about all the books Catherine mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store.
Order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and enter the Pity Party competition and see book tour dates at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic...
BOOKS
Catherine Gray - Versions of a Girl
Catherine Gray - The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober
Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca
Augusten Burroughs - Dry
Sarah Hepola - Blackout
Mark Williams and Denny Penman - Mindfulness
Sasha Scoblic - Unwasted
Rolad Dahl - James and the Giant Peach
Lois Lowry - Anastasia Krupnik
The School of Life - How To Overcome Your Childhood
Jilly Cooper - Rivals
Philip Pullman - Northern Lights
Anne Helen Petersen - Can't Even
Vendela Veda - We Run the Tides
Catherine Newman - Sandwich
Celeste Ng - Little Fires Everywhere
Coco Mellors - Blue Sisters
Kiley Reid - Come and Get it
Jane Austen - Mansfield Park
Jane Austen - Emma
Nikki May - Wahala
Nikki May - This Motherless Land
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Sylvia Townsend Warner - Lolly Willowes
Katherine May - The Electricity of Every Living Thing
Elspeth Barker - O Caledonia
Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary
Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable
Jean Rhys - Good Morning Midnight
Jay McInerney - Bright Lights Big City
Jay McInerney - The Story of My Life
George Eliot - Middlemarch
Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser
Catherine Newman - We All Want Impossible Things
Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Curtis Sittenfeld - American Wife
David Sedaris - The Best of Me
Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy
Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Joan Didion - Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Clare Keegan - Foster
Frances Quinn - That Bone Setter Woman
Jodi Picoult - By Any Other Name
Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry
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Here's a bonus treat! And what a treat! To celebrate the release of Daisy's brand new book Pity Party, here's a very special live edition of You're Booked recorded at the glorious Bath Assembly Halls. Three returning champions - Nikki May, AJ Pearce and Andrew Hunter Murray - talk about their favourite Persephone Books in front of an audience of rabid Persephone fans, at the recent Persephone Festival, celebrating 25 years of the UK's premier publishing house. Each author picked and discussed their Persephone faves, plus other Persephones they love, consider the books they'd love to reissue and reveal the influence that authors such as Dorothy Whipple, RC Sherriff, Winifred Watson and DE Stevenson have had on their writing. Be warned - this episode will add many tomes to your TBR pile.
Order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and enter the Pity Party competition and see book tour dates at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic...
BOOKS
Nikki May - Wahala
Nikki May - This Motherless Land
AJ Pearce - Dear Mrs Bird
AJ Pearce - Yours Cheerfully
AJ Pearce - Mrs Porter Calling
Andrew Hunter Murray - A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering
Andrew Hunter Murray - The Sanctuary
DE Stevenson - Miss Buncle's Book
RC Sherriff - Fortnight in September
Winifred Watson - Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day
RC Sherriff - The Hopkins Manuscript
Bill Bryson - Notes From a Small Island
Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable
Dorothy Whipple - High Wages
Lauren Weisberger - The Devil Wears Prada
Dorothy Whipple - Somewhere at a Distance
Andy McNabb - Bravo Two Zero
Jane Austen - Mansfield Park
Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Cazelet Chronicles
DE Stevenson - The Two Mrs Abbots
Dorothy Whipple - Random Commentary
RC Sherriff - Greengates
RC Sherriff - Journey's End
Eleanor Graham - The Children Who Live in a Barn
E Nesbit - The Lark
Michelle Magorian - A Little Love Song
Dorothy Whipple - Short Stories
RF Kuang - Yellowface
Percival Everett - Erasure
Marghanita Laski - To Bed With Grand Music
Rachel Ferguson - Alas Poor Lady
Vere Hodgson - Few Eggs and No Oranges
Mollie Panter-Downes - War Notes
Noel Streatfeild - Saplings
DE Stevenson - Miss Buncle Married
Monica Dickens - Marianna
George Eliot - Middlemarch
Richmal Crompton - Family Roundabout
PD James - Children of Men
Mollie Panter-Downes - Good Evening Mrs Craven
Dorothy Whipple - They Knew Mr Knight
Mary Wesley - Harnessing Peacocks
Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole
Pauline Burgess - Pony Party
Ruby Ferguson - Jill's Gymkhana
Emily St John Mandel - Station 11
Virginia Graham - Consider the Years
Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Marian Keyes - My Favourite Mistake
Dorothy Whipple - Young Anne
Dorothy Whipple - They Were Sisters
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The series 15 litany of legends continues with the man commonly known as Dr Buckles - yes, it's Adam Buxton! As you are all aware, Adam is a writer, comedian, massively successful podcast host, Bowie aficionado and the author of the bestselling memoir Ramble Book (with the sequel on its way - as you will hear). He's also responsible for You're Booked, as the podcast was 'inspired' by the Vinyl Justice segment of The Adam and Joe Show. We talked to him about Bowie book choices, trying to sleep with Edgar Allen Poe, funny books and saucy dreams involving June Whitfield. Find a full list of the books Adam mentioned at our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and enter the Pity Party competition and see book tour dates at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic... The episode is sponsored 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
Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party
Adam Buxton - Ramble Book
Nina Stibbe - Went to London, Took the Dog
Nina Stibbe - Love Nina
Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose
Patrick O'Brian - Master and Commander
Roger Hargreaves - Mister Men
Enid Blyton - Magic Faraway Tree
CS Lewis - The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
Roald Dahl - James and the Giant Peach
Major P R Reid - Colditz
MR James - Ghost Stories
Edgar Allen Poe - The Black Cat
Edgar Allen Poe - Pit and the Pendulum
George Eliot - Middlemarch
Thomas Hardy - Mayor of Casterbridge
Virginia Woolf - To The Lighthouse
JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye
David Bowie's Top 100 Favourite Books
Charles Baudelaire - Flowers of Evil
Vance Packard - The Hidden Persuaders
Neil Postman - Amusing Ourselves To Death
George Orwell - 1984
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
Colin Wilson - The Outsider
Nik Cohn -Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom
Sarah Waters - Fingersmith
Craig Marks & Rob Tannenbaum - I Want My MTV
Zadie Smith - Feel Free
Adam Gopnik - A Thousand Small Sanities
Frederick Douglass - Narrative of Frederick Douglass
Bayard Rustin - Time on Two Crosses
Michel De Montaigne - Complete Essays
Winifred Watson - Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
R.C. Sherriff - Fortnight in September
DE Stevenson - Miss Buncle's Book
Tessa Norton & Bob Stanley - Excavate!: The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall
David Sedaris - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Fran Lebowitz - The Fran Lebowitz Reader
Steve Martin - Born Standing Up
Tim Key - He Used Thought For a Wife
Tim Key - Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
Daniil Kharms - Russian Absurd
Julian Fellowes - Snobs
Susan Sontag - On Photography
Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy
Benjamin Moser - Sontag
Judith Schalansky - An Inventory of Losses
Sloan Crossley - Grief is for People
Jarvis Cocker - Good Pop Bad Pop
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Our series of legends continues with the novelist, short story writer, playwright and podcaster Irenosen Okojie MBE! Irenosen's debut, Butterfly Fish, won the Betty Trask Award and her short story collection, Speak Gigantular was shortlisted for the Edgehill Short Story Prize, the Saboteur Awards and nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award. Her collection Nudibranch was selected as one of the best books of the year in the Guardian. She was a judge for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2023 and in 2021 she was awarded an MBE For Services to Literature. Her latest work is the highly anticipated novel Curandera. We talked to her about poetry, charity shop finds, inspirational short stories and the inside scoop on the Women's Prize Whatsapp group. Find a full list of the books Irenosen 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 sponsored 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
Irenosen Okojie - Curandera
Irenosen Okojie - Nudibranch
Rachel Ingalls - Mrs Caliban
June Jordan - Essential
Lemn Sissay - Let the Light Pour In
Sylvia Plath - Collected
Katherine May - Wintering
Maggie O'Farrell - I Am I Am I Am
Sinead Gleason - Hagstone
Margaret Atwood - Cat's Eye
Jamaica Kincaid - At the Bottom of the River
Lauren Groff - Matrix
Toni Morrison - Beloved
Jackie Collins - The Stud
Maggie Nelson - Bluets
Maggie Nelson - Argonauts
Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy
David Nicholls - Us
Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation
Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time
Carol Shields - Larry's Party
Laline Paull - Pod
Camilla Grudova - Doll's Alphabet
Camilla Grudova - Coiled Serpent
Jacqueline Crooks - Fire Rush
Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead
Lauren Bravo - Probably Nothing
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Son
Torrey Peters - Detransition Baby
Andrea Lawlor - Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
Octavia Butler - Parable of the Sower
Octavia Butler - Wild Seed
Miranda July - Nobody Belongs Here More Than You
Deborah Levy - Black Vodka
Rachel Ingalls - No Love Lost
Leone Ross - Come Let Us Sing Anyway
Leone Ross - This One Sky Day
Denis Johnson - Jesus' Son
Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train
J. California Cooper - Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime
Raymond Carver - Cathedral
Tawseef Khan - Determination
Victoria Kennefick - Egg/Shell
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This week we're delighted to share a conversation with an absolute legend, the punk singer, writer, artist, activist and all-around inspiration Kathleen Hanna! Kathleen is the iconic front-woman of the bands Bikini Kill and Le Tigre and the inspiration behind of the clothing company tees4togo which benefits the Peace Sisters charity. Kathleen has just released her memoir Rebel Girl which became an instant New York Times bestseller. We talked to her about the brilliance of Viv Albertine, the genius of Gabor Maté and the formative influence of Lyle, Lyle Crocodile. 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 sponsored 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
Kathleen Hanna - Rebel Girl
Viv Albertine - Clothes, Music, Boys
Viv Albertine - To Throw Away Unopened
Tiffany Haddish - The Last Black Unicorn
Chris L. Terry & James Spooner (Editors) - Black Punk Now
Jeffrey Gibson (Editor) - An Indigenous Present
Sarah Schulman - Conflict is Not Abuse
Sarah Hoagland - Lesbian Ethics
Ann Morgan - Reading the World
Gabor Maté - The Myth of Normal
Stephanie Foo - What My Bones Know
Jennie Godfrey - The List of Suspicious Things
ANN M Martin - Babysitter's Club
Francine Pascal - Sweet Valley High
Sarah J Maas - A Court of Thorns and Roses
Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy
Judy Blume - Are You There God, It's Me Margaret
Bernard Waber - Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
Don Freeman - Corduroy
Louise Fitzhugh - Harriet the Spy
Donald J. Sobol - Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
Carolyn Keene - Nancy Drew
Roger Steffens - So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley
Arthur Ashe - Days of Grace
Sarah Royal - A.K.A. Lucy: The Dynamic and Determined Life of Lucille Ball
Tina Turner - My Love Story
Hanif Abdurraqib - There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
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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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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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