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Hurrah! We are very excited to bring you a guest we've being trying to get on the podcast for flipping ages. It's the wonderful Yomi Adegoke! Yomi is a podcaster, broadcaster, multi-award winning journalist and the author of Slay in Your Lane (with former YB guest Elizabeth Uviebinené) and The Offline Diaries (also with Elizabeth). Yomi's debut novel is the hotly anticipated The List, described as 'the book of the Summer' by Vogue and currently in development for TV. We talked to her about the icon that is Jackie Collins, books so good they make you want to give up, the joy of Jacqueline Wilson and the genius of Peep Show. Find out about Daisy's Limelight book tour on her Instagram page @TheDaisyBee. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Summer School Writing CourseHERE or email: creativeconfidenceclinic@gmail.com. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinené - Slay in Your Lane

Yomi Adegoke - The List

Jackie Collins - The World is Full of Divorced Women

Jackie Collins - Lucky

Omar Tyree - Flyy Girl

Eric Jerome Dickey - Milk in My Coffee

Jaqueline Wilson - The Story of Tracy Beaker

Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinené - Offline Diaries

Jaqueline Wilson - Dustbin Baby

Jaqueline Wilson - The Illustrated Mum

Robert Swindells - Brother in the Land

Robert C O'Brien - Z for Zachiariah

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

Malorie Blackman - Pig Heart Boy

Malorie Blackman - Noughts and Crosses

Malorie Blackman - Just Sayin'

Tayari Jones - An American Marriage

Margaret Atwood - Handmaid's Tale

Raven Leilani - Luster

Jenny Diski - Stranger on a Train

Naoise Dolan - Exciting Times

Naoise Dolan - Happy Couple

Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age

Rebecca F Kuang- Yellowface

Kiley Reid - Come and Get It

Harriet Gibsone - Is This Ok?

Katie Price - Being Jordan

Jodie Marsh - Keeping It Real

Barack Obama - Promised Land

Michelle Obama - Becoming

Nelson Mandela - Long Walk To Freedom

Jodie Chapman - Oh Sister

Fern Brady - Strong Female Character

Eliza Clark - Penance

Eliza Clark - Boy Parts

Megan Nolan - Ordinary Human Failings

Megan Nolan - Acts of Desperation

Lisa Jewell - Ralph's Party

Rebecca F Kuang- Babel

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

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We are delighted to invite one of our all-time favourite authors to the podcast this week. It's the sensational Lisa Jewell! Lisa is the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of twenty novels, which have sold over 10 million copies internationally and translated into 29 languages. Her debut (and YB fave) was Ralph's Party and subsequent releases include The Family Upstairs, Then She Was Gone, Invisible Girl and Watching You. Her latest is the eagerly anticipated None of This is True. We talked to her about her shelf of joy, curating your holiday read selection, 90s/Noughties favourites, the books that made her want to write and formative reads.

Find out about Daisy's Limelight book tour on her Instagram page @TheDaisyBee. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Summer School Writing CourseHERE or email: creativeconfidenceclinic@gmail.com. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to:FurtherReading.Substack.com.

BOOKS

Lisa Jewell - None of This is True

Ashley Audrain -The Push

Nick Hornby - High Fidelity

Lisa Jewell - Ralph's Party

Geoff Dyer - The Colour of Memory

Agatha Christie - Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Angela Banner - Ant and Bee

Sophie Kinsella - Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Patricia Highsmith - Talented Mr Ripley

John Fowles - The Collector

Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho

Carla McGuire - Perfect Victim

Brian Greenaway - Hell's Angels

George Orwell - Coming Up For Air

Bret Easton Ellis - Imperial Bedrooms

Rebecca F. Kuang - Yellowface

Caroline O'Donoghue - Rachel Incident

Colin Walsh - Kala

Kia Abdullah - Next of Kin

Fern Brady - Strong Female Character

Bonnie Garmus - Lesson in Chemistry

Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Isabelle Broom - The Beach Holiday

Candace Bushnell - Four Blondes

Anouchka Grose Forrester - Darling Daisy

Jane Owen - Camden Girls

Alain de Botton - Essays in Love

Dolly Alderton - Everything I Know About Love

Julie Myerson - The Stopped Heart

Alex Garland - The Beach

Louise Doughty - Apple Tree Yard

Harriet Lane - Alys Always

David Nicholls - One Day

Amy Jenkins - Honeymoon

William Sutcliffe - Are You Experienced

Andrea Levy - Small Island

Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees - Come Together

Kate Hamer - A Girl in the Red Coat

Paula Yates - The Autobiography

Caroline Kepnes - You

Lisa Jewell - Before I Met You

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Sabine Durrant - Lie With Me

Katherine Heiny - Games and Rituals

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Amanda Jennings - The Judas Tree

Tammy Cohen - The Wedding Party

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Comedian. Podcaster. Actor. Author. Is there anything that this woman can't do? Yes, we're welcoming the amazing Andi Osho to YB Towers this week. Andi is a talented stand-up, has starred or been involved with such TV and movie favourties as Line of Duty, Death In Paradise, Holby, I May Destroy You, Breeders, Good Omens and her own sketch show The Andi O Show. She hosts the Creative Sauce podcast and her debut novel Asking For a Friend was a bestseller! Her second novel is the highly anticipated Tough Crowd, set in the world of stand up. We talked to her about funny books, reading slump revitalisers, self-help, movie adaptations and how her mum is a creative inspiration. Find out about Daisy's Limelight book tour and the Ty the Beach Hut Guy Limelight competition on her Instagram page @TheDaisyBee. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Summer School Writing CourseHERE or email: creativeconfidenceclinic@gmail.com. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to:FurtherReading.Substack.com.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Andi Osho - Tough Crowd

Andi Osho - Asking For a Friend

Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy

Terry Pratchett - The Colour of Magic

Terry Pratchett - The Light Fantastic

Brit Bennett - Vanishing Half

Tayari Jones - American Marriage

Jesse Q. Sutanto - Dial A For Aunties

Lucy Vine - Seven Exes

Balli Kaur Jaswal - Now You See Us

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

David Nicholls - Us

David Nicholls - One Day

Dolly Alderton - Good Material

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Mark Manson - Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k

M Scott Peck - Road Less Travelled

Sarah Knight - The Life Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k

Sarah Knight - Grow the F**k Up

Susan Jeffers - Feel the Fear

Deepak Chopra - Seven Laws of Spiritual Success

Julia Cameron - Artists Way

Betty Herbert - 52 Seductions

Anne Lamott - Bird by Bird

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat Pray Love

Will Smith - Will

Blake Snyder - Save the Cat

Tembe Denton-Hurst - Homebodies

Candice Carty-Williams - Queenie

Zadie Smith - White Teeth

Diana Evans - 26a

Zadie Smith - Feel Free

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We are back at the Jaipur Literature Festival at Soneva Fushi in the Maldives for this freewheeling conversation with the legend that is DBC Pierre! Pierre's debut novel Vernon God Little was the winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread First Novel Award.He followed this with a series of acclaimed works in fiction and non-fiction including Ludmila's Broken English, Breakfast with the Borgias, Release the Bats and his latest Big Snake, Little Snake which is a meditation on fate, risk and luck. We talked to him about illicit reading in the barber's chair, writing tips and routines, hopeful books, debauchery, decadence and the necessary joy of plodding.

Find out about Daisy's Limelight book tour and the Ty the Beach Hut Guy Limelight competition on her Instagram page @TheDaisyBee. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Summer School Writing CourseHERE or email: creativeconfidenceclinic@gmail.com. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to:FurtherReading.Substack.com.

BOOKS

DBC Pierre - Vernon God Little

DBC Pierre -Big Snake Little Snake

William Golding - Lord of the Flies

James Michener - The Drifters

Naguib Mahfouz - Adrift on the Nile

Peter Frankopan - The Silk Roads

William Dalrymple - The Anarchy

Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall

James Salter - A Sport and a Pastime

Marquis De Sade - 120 Days of Sodom

Marquis De Sade - Juliette

Henri Charrière - Papillion

DBC Pierre - Release the Bats

Sarah Knight - Grow the F*** Up

Stephen King - On Writing

Stephen King - Dolores Claiborne

Anne Lamott - Bird By Bird

Viv Albertine -Clothes, Music, Boys

Alejandro Zambra - My Documents

Isabel Allende - House of the Spirits

Julio Cortazar - Hopscotch

James Joyce - Ulysses

Grigor Narekatsi - The Book of Sadness

Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser

Joris-Karl Huysmans - Against Nature

Jack Kerouac - Big Sur

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We are beyond honoured and excited to bring you this conversation with the legendary Christina LambOBE. Christina is the chief foreign correspondent ofThe Sunday Times and during her illustrious career she's reported from hot spots and war zones including Afghanistan, Nigeria, Zimbabwe and currently Ukraine. She's been named Foreign Correspondent of the Year on five occasions and winner of Europe’s top war reporting prize, the Prix Bayeux.

She is the bestselling, acclaimed author of 10 books including Our Bodies Their Battlefield, House of Stone, The Africa House, The Sewing Circles of Herat and co-writer of the global phenomenon I Am Malala. Her latest book, The Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless, looked at the pandemic response in the UK. Our interview with Christina took place during the Jaipur Literature Festival at Soneva Fushi in the Maldives and covers the joy of discovering new foreign authors, the wonders of poetry, books you can't put down and the importance of literature in a war zone.

Find out about Daisy's Limelight book tour on her Instagram page @TheDaisyBee. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence SubstackHERE. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to:FurtherReading.Substack.com.

BOOKS

Christina Lamb - The Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless

Christina Lamb - The Africa House

Christina Lamb - The Sewing Circles of Herat

Malala Yousafzaiwith Christina Lamb - I am Malala

Christina Lamb - Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women

Dennis Wheatley - The Devil Rides Out

Fyodor Dostoevsky - Brothers Karamazov

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Tove Jansson - Tales From Moominvalley

Various - The Fireside Book

Wisława Szymborska - View With a Grain of Sand

Jonny Steinberg - Winnie and Nelson

Ryszard Kapuściński - The Soccer War

Svetlana Alexievich - The Unwomanly Face of War

Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell To Arms

Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore

Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood

Andrey Kurkov - Death and the Peguin

Ann Patchett - The Dutch House

Claire Dederer - Love and Trouble

Virginia Woolf - Orlando

Alexander Pushkin - Eugene Onegin

Nadia Anjuman - Gule Dudi

Farzana Marie (Editor) - Load Poems Like Guns: Women's Poetry from Herat, Afghanistan

Claire Dederer - Monsters

William Boyd - The Romantic

Peter Frankopan -The Earth Transformed

William Boyd - Any Human Heart

Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry

Scholastique Mukasonga - Barefoot Woman

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Our love of Jane Austen should be painfully aware. But this week's guest might put our devotion to shame. The brilliant Andrew Hunter Murrayhosts two hit podcasts: No Such Thing as a Fish (Andrew is also a QI Elf) and Page 94: A Private Eye Podcast (Andrew also writes for the magazine). He was also part of the UK's premier (and possibly only) Jane Austen based comedy improv group Austentatious - so his devotion to the beloved author is assured. Andrew is also a bestselling author, his first novel The Last Day, was a Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller, and one of the top 10 fiction debuts of 2020. His new book The Sanctuary has been described as 'A brilliantly clever thriller' by Richard Osman. We talked to Andrew about Douglas Adams, fabulous first editions, the brilliance of Persephone books, rewriting classics, sex and science and, of course, Jane Austen. Find out more about Andrew's picks at our Bookshop.org store.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Andrew Hunter Murray - The Sanctuary

Andrew Hunter Murray - The Last Day

John Wyndham -Day of the Triffids

George Orwell - Coming Up For Air

Jane Austen - Emma

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen - Persuasion

Jane Austen - Mansfield Park

Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Wendy Cooling - Puffin Book of Stories for Eight-year-olds

Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Herman Melville - Moby Dick

Cervantes - Don Quixote

Dorothy Whipple - The Other Day

Dorothy Whipple - High Wages

Dorothy Whipple - Random Commentary

Dorothy Whipple - They Knew Mr Knight

Elizabeth Taylor - Angel

DH Lawrence - Lady's Chatterley's Lover

Winifred Watson - Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day

Lucy Vine - Seven Exes

Amor Towles - A Gentleman in Moscow

Nora Ephron - Crazy Salad

Douglas Adams - So Long and Thanks For All the Fish

Mary Roach - Stiff

Mary Roach - Bonk

Mary Roach - Animals, Vegetable, Criminal

Evelyn Waugh - Sword of Honour

Evelyn Waugh - Vile Bodies

Evelyn Waugh - Scoop

Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall

Amanda Craig - Three Graces

Simon Raven - The Rich Pay Late

Evelyn Waugh - Handful of Dust

Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love

Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time

Frank Herbert - Dune

PD James - Death Comes to Pemberley

Edith Wharton - House of Mirth

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Now this is a treat! Get ready for a fun, frank and fascinating conversation with the great Balli Kaur Jaswal! Balli is the author of five award-wining, bestselling novels, translated into fifteen languages. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widowswas picked by Reese Witherspoon for her book club, Sugarbreadwasa finalist for the Epigram Books Fiction Prize and the 2018 Singapore Literature Prize and her new novel Now You See Ushas just been released to international acclaim. We talked to her about formative reading adventures in Russia, Japan, Singapore and the Philippines, stories of female solidarity, the book that made her want to build worlds and the unfortunate consequences of starting your own detective club.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Balli Kaur Jaswal - Now You See Us

Balli Kaur Jaswal - Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

Roald Dahl - The Twits

Roald Dahl - The Witches

Francine Pascal - Sweet Valley Twins

Judy Blume - Forever

Beverly Cleary - Ramona Forever

Beverly Cleary - Fifteen

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House on the Prairie

Various - The Bookworm Club

Various - The Bookworm Gang

RL Stein - Goosebumps

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

RL Stein - Fear Street

Judith Krantz - Scruples

Shirley Conran - Lace

Samantha Irby - Quietly Hostile

Avni Doshi - Burnt Sugar

Abigail Burdess - Mother's Day

Tayari Jones - Silver Sparrow

Tayari Jones - An American Marriage

Elizabeth Gilbert - City of Girls

Kent Haruf - Plainsong

Coco Mellors - Cleo and Frankenstein

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

Patrick deWitt - French Exit

Ann M. Martin - Babysitter's Club

Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

Kayla Rae Whitaker - The Animators

Louise Bagshawe - Career Girls

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Hema Sukumar - Minor Disturbances at Grand Life Apartments

Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead

Charles Dickens - David Copperfield

Abi Dare - Girl With the Louding Voice

Madhuri Vijay - The Far Field

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We are so excited to welcome one of our absolute heroes to the podcast. It's Josie Long! Josie is an internationally renowned, beloved and multi-award-winning stand-up, podcaster, actor, playwright and radio presence. Her first short story collection, Because I Don't Know What You Mean and What You Don't has just been released. We talked to Josie about favourite short story collections, books to make you laugh on the bus, attempting sainthood, radical texts and trying to get your kids to love the books you love. Daisy will be attending the Queen's Reading Room Festival, look out for exclusive behind the scenes content on her Instagram page @TheDaisyBee. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence SubstackHERE. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to:FurtherReading.Substack.com.

BOOKS

Josie Long - Because I Don't Know What You Mean and What You Don't

Raymond Carver - What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Jean Rhys - Collected Short Stories

ZZ Packer - Drinking Coffee Elsewhere

Kelly Link - Get in Trouble

Dan Rhodes - Anthropology

Richard Yates - Collected Stories

Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451

John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men

Robin Cooper - Timewaster Letters

Frankie Boyle - Meantime

Shirley Hughes - Sally's Secret

Rumer Godden - The Doll's House

Arnold Lobel - Frog and Toad

Michael Rosen - Book of Very Silly Poems

Jacqueline Wilson - Story of Tracy Beaker

Rumer Godden - Miss Happiness and Miss Flower

Rumer Godden - Little Plum

Barbara Sleigh - Carbonel

Maurice Sendak - Where the Wild Things Are

Maurice Sendak - In the Night Kitchen

Maurice Sendak - Outside Over There

Dorothy Whipple - The Other Day

Tyler Feder - Bodies Are Cool

Roald Dahl - The Witches

Virginia Sole Smith - Fat Talk

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea

Fern Brady - Strong Female Character

Katherine May - Electricity of Every Living Thing

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

Elizabeth Smart - By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

Ann Patchett - The Dutch House

Ann Patchett - These Precious Days

Brit Bennet - The Vanishing Half

Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions

Kurt Vonnegut - Slapstick

Kurt Vonnegut- Timequake

Kurt Vonnegut- Jailbird

Kurt Vonnegut- Slaughterhouse 5

Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle

Kurt Vonnegut - Galapagos

Kurt Vonnegut - Man Without a Country

Anne Tyler - Saint Maybe

F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

Kate Pickett& Richard Wilkinson - The Spirit Level

Nesrine Malik - We Need New Stories

Lola Olufemi- Experiments in Imagining Otherwise

Rebecca Solnit - Hope in the Dark

Nathalie Olah- Steal As Much As You Can

Alan Lane - Club on the Edge of Town

James Schneider - Our Bloc

Rob Hopkins - From What Is To What If

Rius - Marx For Beginners

Martin Rowson/Karl Marx - Communist Manifesto

Howard Zinn - People's History of American Empire

Alison Bechdel - Fun Home

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

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This week we are welcoming legendary TV royalty to You're Booked Towers. It's Steve Jones! Steve is an instantly recognisable face to anyone with a telly, presenting T4 for many years, plus The X Factor USA, Hair, Drop Zone and F1 coverage on Channel 4. Steve has recently released his first novel the very funny Call Time to rave reviews (and as you'll hear, already has books 2 and 3 in the bag). We talked to him about loving Tolkien, having fun with Filth, writing routines, the power of Stephen King and living life as a Librocubicularist.

Daisy will be attending the Queen's Reading Room Festival, look out for exclusive behind the scenes content on her Instagram page @TheDaisyBee. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence SubstackHERE. For your chance to appear on the podcast, pre-order Daisy's next bookLimelight from Bookshop.org. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to:FurtherReading.Substack.com.

BOOKS

Steve Jones - Call Time

Nick Hornby - High Fidelity

JRR Tolkien - The Hobbit

JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

David Mack - Star Trek: Destiny

Jeff Lindsay - Dexter

Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Agatha Christie - Poirot: The Complete Short Stories

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Stephen King - On Writing

Stephen King - Carrie

Stephen King - Christine

Stephen King - Misery

Lauren Bravo - Preloved

Herman Melville - Moby Dick

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Anthony Shaffer and Robin Hardy - The Wicker Man

Gillian McAllister - Wrong Place Wrong Time

Stephen King - The Institute

Norman Mailer - American Dream

Norman Mailer - Executioner's Song

Katherine Heiny - Games and Rituals

Roald Dahl - Kiss Kiss

Roald Dahl - Tales of the Unexpected

Juno Dawson - Her Majesty's Royal Coven

Holly Bourne - Girl Friends

Stephanie Meyer - Twilight

Irvine Welsh - Filth

Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho

Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City

Gregg Hurwitz - The Last Orphan

Matthew Richardson - The Scarlet Papers

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Dream guest alert! We are very, very excited to welcome the wonderful Jenny Jackson to You're Booked! As well as being the author of smash hit novel Pineapple Street, Jenny has been a book editor for many years working with such YB faves as Katherine Heiny and Helen Fielding. So we had much to talk about. On the agenda is the genius of Laurie Colwin, the joy (and stress) of discovering new authors, some great, secret Katherine Heiny insight and Helen Fielding's paramedic skills (plus the recording is interrupted by a cheese alarm!) This conversation took place at the fabulous Mr B's Emporium bookshop in Bath.

Jenny Jackson - Pineapple Street

Amanda Boyden - Pretty Little Dirty

Patrick Somerville -The Cradle

Emily St John Mandel - Station Eleven

Lauren Fox - Still Life with Husband

CS Lewis - Chronicles of Narnia

Terry Jones - Erik the Viking

J. R. R. Tolkien - The Hobbit

J. R. R. Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

Francine Pascal - Sweet Valley Twins

Ann M. Martin - Babysitters Club

Francine Pascal - Sweet Valley University

Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time

Laurie Colwin - Home Cooking

Virginia Sole Smith - Fat Talk

Taffy Brodesser-Akner - Fleishman is in Trouble

Paul Auster - The New York Trilogy

Claire Messud - The Emperor's Children

Cecily von Ziegesar- Gossip Girl

Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth

Kevin Kwan - Crazy Rich Asians

Kevin Kwan - China Rich Girlfriend

Anita Brookner - Look at Me

Lee Israel - Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Free Love - Tessa Hadley

Jen Beagin - Big Swiss

Dawn Winter - Sedating Elaine

Katherine Heiny - Games and Rituals

Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

Helen Fielding -Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries

Helen Fielding - Cause Celeb

Helen Fielding - Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination

Curtis Sittenfeld - Romantic Comedy

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This week we are delighted to welcome superstar author Caleb Azumah Nelson to the YB airwaves. As I'm sure you're well aware, Caleb's first book Open Water was a massive, bestselling success and won the prestigious Costa First Book award. His follow-up is the highly-anticipated Small Worlds which Candice Carty-Williams calls 'Beautiful, unforgettable and all-consuming'. We talked to Caleb about the joys of the Scholastic book fair, writing routines, the beauty of rereading, love stories in all their forms, favourite poets and inspirational writing advice from Toni Morrison.

Daisy will be attending the JLF Soneva Fushiliterary festival and the Queen's Reading Room Festival, look out for exclusive behind the scenes content from both on her Instagram page @TheDaisyBee. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence SubstackHERE. For your chance to appear on the podcast, pre-order Daisy's next bookLimelight from Bookshop.org. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to:FurtherReading.Substack.com.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Caleb Azumah Nelson - Open Water

Caleb Azumah Nelson - Small Worlds

Malorie Blackman - Noughts and Crosses

EM Forster - A Room With a View

Bryan Washington - Memorial

Deborah Levy - Hot Milk

Elizabeth Strout - My Name is Lucy Barton

Danez Smith - Homie

James Baldwin - If Beale Street Could Talk

Toni Morrison - Jazz

Katie Kitamura - Intimacies

Donatella Di Pietrantonio - A Girl Returned

Andrew Sean Greer - Less

Eve Babitz - Slow Times Fast Company

Toni Morrison - The Source of Self Regard

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Ann Patchett - These Precious Days

C Pam Zhang - Land of Milk and Honey

Jessica George - Maame

Zadie Smith - NW

Zadie Smith - Swing Time

Candice Carty-Williams - People Person

Candice Carty-Williams - Queenie

Victoria Adukwei Bulley - Quiet

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We can't think of a better way to kick off a new series than a fabulously fun and illuminating chat with one of our favourite authors: Mhairi McFarlane! Mhairi has been mentioned frequently on the podcast since we began and she is the beloved author of Mad About You, You Had Me At Hello, Here’s Looking At You, It’s Not Me It’s You, Last Night, Who’s That Girl and her latest Between Us. We talked to her about illicit uses of Judy Blume's Forever, formatively reading Fay Weldon and Gloria Steinem, the social media life of Jane Austen and the highs and lows of holiday reading.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Mhairi McFarlane- Between Us

CS Lewis - Chronicles of Narnia

Fay Weldon - The Life and Loves of a She-Devil

Gloria Steinem - Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions

Judy Blume - Forever

Judy Blume - Deenie

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

Glenn Savan - White Palace

Roald Dahl - Fantastic Mr Fox

Roald Dahl - Matilda

Rachel Ingalls - No Love Lost

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen - Persuasion

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

David Nicholls - Sweet Sorrow

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Malibu Rising

David Nicholls - One Day

David Nicholls - The Understudy

Liane Moriarty - Apples Never Fall

Lisa Jewell - The Family Upstairs

Lisa Jewell - None of This is True

Lisa Jewell - Ralph's Party

Steig Larsson - The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Dan Brown - Da Vinci Code

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Book lovers everywhere, you are in for a treat! It's the brilliant, global sensation Emily Henry! Emily is the New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers, People We Meet on Vacation and Beach Read, as well as her latest, soon-to-be blockbuster: Happy Place. We talked to her about libraries as her Narnia, books as a curse (in a good way), reading crushes, and a deep dive into literary astrology. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack HERE. For your chance to appear on the podcast, pre-order Daisy's next book Limelight from Bookshop.org. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com.

BOOKS

Emily Henry - Happy Place

Emily Henry - Book Lovers

Emily Henry - Beach Read

CS Lewis - Chronicles of Narnia

Lois Lowry - The Giver

Lois Lowry - Anastasia Krupnik

E. L. Konigsburg - From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs.Basil E. Frankweiler

Cecsa Major - Maybe Next Time

Austin Siegemund-Broka and Emily Wibberley - The Roughest Draft

Jasmine Guillory - By the Book

Katherine Applegate - Anamorphs

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Ann M. Martin - Babysitters Club

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

Mhairi McFarlane - Just Last Night

Michael Cragg - Reach for the Stars

Carol Ann Duffy - Valentine

Leigh Bardugo - Shadow and Bone

Lauren Weisberger - Devil Wears Prada

Sarra Manning - Unsticky

Carson McCullers - Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Kirsten Miller - The Change

Catherine Steadman - The Family Game

Kate Alice Marshall - What Lies in the Woods

Kate Elizabeth Russell - My Dark Vanessa

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Mhairi McFarlane - Here's Looking at You

Holly Bourne - Girlfriends

Kennedy Ryan - Before I Let Go

Lauren Kung Jessen - Lunar Love

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

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This week we are incredibly excited to bring you a writing legend and, dare we say, international treasure to the podcast. It's Cecelia Ahern! Cecelia is the author of 19 books, that have sold 25 million copies in 30 languages, including PS I Love You, Where Rainbows End, The Time of My Life, How To Fall in Love, The Year I Met You, Flawed, Perfect, Lyrebird, ROAR, Postscript and Freckles. Her latest is the eagerly anticipated In a Thousand Different Ways. We talked to her about crime favourites, books that feel like a hug, perfect gift books and enormous turnips. Fine out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack HERE. For your chance to appear on the podcast, pre-order Daisy's next book Limelight from Bookshop.org. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com.

BOOKS

Cecelia Ahern - PS I love you

Cecelia Ahern - In a Thousand Different Ways

Ann M. Martin - Babysitters Club

Francine Pascal - Sweet Valley Twins

Francine Pascal - Sweet Valley High

Enid Blyton - Famous Five

Cecelia Ahern - Flawed

Cecelia Ahern - Perfect

Francine Pascal - Sweet Valley University

Marita Conlon-McKenna - Under the Hawthorn Tree

Steven Levenkron - Best Little Girl in the World

Enid Blyton - Magic Faraway Tree

James Redfield - Celestine Prophecy

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Charlie Mackesy - The Boy The Mole The Fox and The Horse

Adam Mansbach - Go the F*** to Sleep

Julia Donaldson - The Gruffalo

BJ Novak - Book With No Pictures

Vera Southgate - The Enormous Turnip

Helen Cresswell - The Piemakers

Alexander McCall Smith - The Perfect Hamburger

Andrew Kaufman - The Tiny Wife

Andrew Kaufman - Born Weird

Andrew Kaufman - Ticking Heart

Andrew Kaufman - All My Friends are Superheroes

James Acaster - Perfect Sound Whatever

Karin Slaughter - Blindsighted

Lee Child - Killing Floor

Jane Casey - The Burning

Caroline Corcoran - What Happened on Floor 34

Rupi Kaur - The Sun and Her Flowers

Rupi Kaur - Milk and Honey

Anne Frank - Diary of a Young Girl

Nina Stibbe - One Day I Shall Astonish the World

Curtis Sittenfeld - Romantic Comedy

Audrey Niffenegger - Time Travellers Wife

Cesca Major - Maybe Next Time

Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Claire Douglas - The Girls That Disappeared

Ciara Geraghty - Queen Bee

Toshikazu Kawaguchi - Before the Coffee Gets Cold

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This week, we are delighted to present a very funny, thoughtful and free-flowing conversation with a very old friend of the podcast, Nell Frizzell! We've been dreaming of having Nell appear on the show since it began, so we're delighted to finally get the chance to chat. Nell is an author, journalist and podcaster. Her first novel was the hilarious Square One, while her first book, The Panic Years, dealt with womanhood, motherhood and... panic. Her latest is Holding the Baby, a memoir on parenting that culminates in a manifesto. We talked to Nell about fantastic literary fathers, the forbidden fruit of Bridget Jones, great fictional witches and deliberately not finishing a book because you love it so much. For your chance to appear on the podcast, pre-order Daisy's next book Limelight from Bookshop.org. Details of Daisy's event in Bath with Pineapple Street author Jenny Jackson are here.

BOOKS

Nell Frizzell - Square One

Nell Frizzell - Holding the Baby

Nell Frizzell - The Panic Years

Melissa Fu - Peach Blossom Spring

Anne Bronte - Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Arundhati Roy - God of Small Things

Barbara Comyns - Our Spoons Came From Woolworths

Lemn Sissay - My Name is Why

Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

Rob Delaney - Heart That Works

Elizabeth Strout - Lucy By the Sea

David Nichols - Us

Elizabeth Strout - Oh William

Jonathan Coe - Bourneville

Jonathan Coe - Rotters Club

Jonathan Coe - What a Carve Up

Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

Helen Fielding - Cause Celebre

Jacqueline Susan - Valley of the Dolls

Tony Bradman - Sam the Girl Detective

Kaye Umansky - Pongwiffy

Spike Milligan - Badjelly

Korky Paul and Valerie Thomas - Winnie the Witch

Vikram Seth - Suitable Boy

Vikram Seth - Equal Music

Johanna Spyri - Heidi

Roald Dahl - Fantastic Mr Fox

Bill Bryson - Notes From a Small Island

Bill Bryson - The Body

Bill Bryson - Down Under

Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes

Michael Palin - Hemingway's Chair

Cesca Major - Maybe Next Time

Naomi Wood - Mrs Hemingway

Martha Gellhorn - Travels with Myself and Another

Dervla Murphy - Wheels Within Wheels

Freya Stark - Valleys of the Assassins

Rosita Boland - Elsewhere

Mary Wollstonecraft- Letters from Sweden, Norway and Denmark

Musa Okwonga - One of Them

Jilly Cooper - Class

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Josie Long - BecauseI Don't Know What You Mean And What You Don't

Jean Rhys - Voyage in the Dark

Nella Larsen - Passing

Sarah Gilmartin - Dinner Party

Philip Larkin - Whitsun Weddings

Rose Tremain - The Colour

AJ Pearce - Mrs Porter Calling

AJ Pearce - Dear Mrs Bird

Tim Burrows - Invention of Essex

Henry James - The Europeans

Clover Stroud - My Wild & Sleepless Nights

Katy Wix - Delicacy

Alice Vincent - Rootbound

Amy Liptrot - The Instant

Steve Jones - Call Time

Ian Fleming - Casino Royale

Chelsea Conaboy - Mother Brain

Rosie Kinchen - Ballast Seed

Paul Morgan-Bentley - Equal Parent

Philip Larkin - A Girl in Winter

Luiza Sauma - Everything You Ever Wanted

Luiza Sauma - Flesh & Bone & Water

Mary Beard - Good Working Mother's Guide

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This was so much fun! Get ready for a funny, frank and fulfilling conversation with the brilliant Nikki May! Nikki's debut novel Wahala was a former Steal of the Week and one of our favourite books in recent times. It's currently being adapted for TV and was recently shortlisted for the CWIP prize. We talked to Nikki about the problems associated with reading as a kid in Lagos, favourite food books, spies, crime and dystopias and what Nikki believes is the perfect book. For your chance to appear on the podcast, pre-order Daisy's next book Limelight from Bookshop.org. Visit Daisy's Instagram page to enter the Careering cover creation challenge! And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com. Details of Daisy's event in Bath with Pineapple Street author Jenny Jackson are here.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Nikki May - Wahala

Enid Blyton - Famous Five

Nigella Lawson - How To Be a Domestic Goddess

Nigel Slater - Toast

Grace Dent - Hungry

Sue Grafton - A is for Alibi

Jilly Cooper - Imogen

Liane Moriarty - Big Little Lies

Sophie Kinsella - The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Ian McEwan - Atonement

Jade Beer - The Last Dress From Paris

Agatha Christie - The Blue Train

Alistair MacLean - Ice Station Zebra

John Le Carre - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Enid Blyton - Malory Towers

Coco Mellors - Cleopatra and Frankenstein

Luke Jennings - Killing Eve

Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr Ripley

Mick Herron - Slow Horses

Percival Everett - The Trees

Percival Everett - Erasure

Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age

Anna Hope - Expectation

Candice Carty-Williams - Queenie

Wole Soyinka - Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth

Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart

Oyinkan Braithwaite - My Sister the Serial Killer

Damilare Kuku - Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

Nina Stibbe - Paradise Lodge

Abi Dare - The Girl with the Louding Voice

Ali Smith - How To Be Both

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Delia Owens - Where Did the Crawdads Sing

Kate Elizabeth Russell - My Dark Vanessa

Jeanine Cummins - American Dirt

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Reith Lecture

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Emily St John Mandel - Station 11

Bethany Clift - Last One at the Party

Laurie Colwin - Home Cooking

Laurie Colwin - More Home Cooking

Kazuo Ishiguro - Klara and the Sun

Kate Atkinson - Shrines of Gaiety

Monica Heisey - Really Good, Actually

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She's the writer of one of our favourite novels in recent times and one of the funniest people on the planet, so we are delighted to welcome Sunny author Sukh Ojla to the podcast! As well as being a fabulous novelist, Sukh is a comedian, actor and playwright. Her debut novel Sunny is a joyously funny story of love, loss and heartbreak. We talked to her about 90s cosplay, failing to impress Richard E Grant, books you must (and mustn't) read on holiday and the ongoing genius of Marian Keyes. For your chance to appear on the podcast, pre-order Daisy's next book Limelight from Bookshop.org. Visit Daisy's Instagram page to enter the Careering cover creation challenge! And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com. Details of Daisy's event in Bath with Pineapple Street author Jenny Jackson are here.

BOOKS

Sukh Ojla - Sunny

Jenny Jackson - Pineapple Street

Andrew Davidson - The Gargoyle

Marian Keyes - Sushi For Beginners

Marian Keyes - Last Chance Saloon

Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat Pray Love

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

RavinderRandhawa - Beauty and the Beast

Barbara Wersba - Fat, a Love Story

Ada Calhoun - Wedding Toasts We Never Gibe

Ada Calhoun - Why We Don't Sleep

Barbara Wersba- Beautiful Losers

Rani Manicka - The Rice Mother

Nell Frizzell - Holding the Baby

Rhik Samadder - I Never Said I Love You

Alex Smith - Paper Girls

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

Marian Keyes - Again Rachel

Marian Keyes - Grown Ups

Marian Keyes - The Break

Marian Keyes - The Other Side of the Story

Lisa Jewell - Ralph's Party

Barbara Trapido - Travelling Hornplayer

Lisa Jewell - After the Party

David Nicholls - Us

David Nicholls - One Day

Melvin Burgess - Junk

Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho

Jay McInerney - Bright Lights Big City

Sheryl Garratt - Adventures in Wonderland

Jilly Cooper - The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous

Dawn Winter - Sedating Elaine

Coco Mellors - Cleopatra and Frankenstein

Alice Slater - Death of a Bookseller

Emma Haughton - The Sanctuary

Lucy Vine - Seven Exes

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We've got Zott! Or the closest we're going to get until we can convince fictional characters to come onto the podcast. Yes, it's Lessons in Chemistryauthor Bonnie Garmus! Bonnie's book, about chemist turned TV cook Elizabeth Zott (and her dog Six-Thirty) has been a huge and already beloved international bestseller, translated into 39 languages and with a TV adaptation in the works. We talked to her about, unsurprisingly, dogs in literature, plus the importance of Harriet the Spy, how science could save the world in a myriad of ways and how poets have the roughest time in literature. For your chance to appear on the podcast, pre-order Daisy's next book Limelight from Bookshop.org. Visit Daisy's Instagram page to enter the Careering cover creation challenge! And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com.

BOOKS

Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry

Oscar Wilde - Only Dull People are Brilliant at Breakfast

Louise Fitzhugh - Harriet the Spy

Louise Fitzhugh - The Long Secret

Leslie Brody - Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh

Charles Schulz - Peanuts

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment

Kate Baer - What Kind of Woman

Ocean Vuong - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary

Joseph Heller - Catch 22

Jack Kerouac - On the Road

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

Donna Tartt - Secret History

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

Barbara Kingsolver - Poisonwood Bible

John Irving - World According To Garp

Steven Pinker - Rationality

Kevin Wilson - Now is Not the Time to Panic

Kevin Wilson - Nothing to See Here

Coco Mellors - Cleopatra and Frankenstein

Erich Remarque- All Quiet on the Western Front

EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady

Fern Brady - Strong Female Character

Katherine May - Electricity of Every Living Thing

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love

Charles Dickens - Christmas Carol

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Ed Yong - An Immense World

Eric Knight - Lassie Come Home

Jim Kjelgaard - Big Red

Ayisha Malik - The Movement

Aesop - Fables

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You're Booked is back! And this series is jam-packed with fabulous, unbelievable guests. And as a special treat, here's a sneak peek at just a few of them. Meg Mason discusses a surprising book that helped inform her writing style. Lucy Foley reveals the role that bonkbusters played in her life. And Andrew Sean Greer talks about funny books from childhood. Plus Daisy reveals the exciting details of her new book project. In Burn Before Reading, she explores the writers who have helped her through the toughest mental periods of her life and offers expert tips on how to cultivate your own reading habit. It's a must-read for all book lovers. BUT it is only available to order until September 27th - so head to The Pound Project to grab your copy now. CLICK HERE to get yours. You're Booked returns on September 26th with the wonderful Andrew Sean Greer. It's a conversation you won't want to miss. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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You're Booked is very proud to present Daisy's brand new podcast:Daisy is Careering. In Daisy is Careering, journalist and author Daisy Buchanan will be looking at one of the most complicated relationships of our lives: work. We all want to find jobs that we love, but what happens when we start to realise they are never going to love us back? How much of ourselves should we bring to our careers? What can we do when our ambition makes us feel anxious? Is there such a thing as a 'dream job'? In a series of intimate and revealing conversations, Daisy will ask her guests to explore how they navigate the highs and lows of their working lives, and how we can all survive and thrive, while making sure our professional passion doesn't turn into a bad romance. The first episode features the brilliant Emma Gannon and upcoming guests include Otegha Uwagba, Kat Brown, Natalie Lee, Bryony Gordon and many more!

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The podcast accompanies Daisy's latest novel, Careering.

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This week we are infinitely excited to present the bestselling literary phenomenon Adele Parks to You're Booked! Since releasing her first novel Playing Away in 2000, Adele has released a book a year with her latest the critically acclaimed Both of You. She is one of the biggest-selling women’s fiction writers in the UK, with 4 million books sold and her work translated into more than 30 languages. We talked to her about library love, Enid Blyton, formative reads, literary giants you wouldn't ask to dinner and the books that literally made Adele faint.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Adele Parks - Playing Away

Adele Parks - Both of You

Jackie Collins - Lady Boss

Shirley Conran - Lace

VC Andrews - Flowers in the Attic

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen - Emma

Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho

Dorothy Parker - Best Of

Gill Sims - Why Mummy Swears

Evelyn Waugh - Handful of Dust

Evelyn Waugh - Vile Bodies

Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

Andrew O'Hagan - Mayflies

Adele Parks - Young Wives tales

Adele Parks - Lies Lies Lies

Graeme Simsion - The Rosie Effect

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady

Amanda Jennings - The Haven

Lucy Foley - The Paris Apartment

Enid Blyton - Magic Faraway Tree

Enid Blyton - Wishing Chair

Enid Blyton - Mallory Towers

Enid Blyton - St Clare's

Enid Blyton - In the Fifth

Enid Blyton - Naughty Amelia Jane

Jessica Fellowes - The Mitford Murders

Abigail Dean - Girl A

Meg Mason - Sorrow and Bliss

Kate Atkinson - Behind the Scenes of the Museum

Alice Walker - The Color Purple

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This week we are truly honoured to welcome the legendary Susanna Clarke to You're Booked! Her debut novel was the beloved Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell which was longlisted for the Booker Prize and won the British Book Awards Newcomer of the Year, the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award. Her short story collection The Ladies of Grace Adieu, set in the world of Jonathan Strange, followed in 2006. Her latest is Piranesi, a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, and winner of this year's Women's Prize for Fiction. We talked to her about the lure of the library, reading and running away, magic, mysterious narrators and there's even a few bonus Christmas gift ideas!

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Susanna Clarke - Ladies of Grace Adieu

Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

Susanna Clarke - Piranesi

CS Lewis - Chronicles of Narnia

Reginald Hill - A Clubbable Woman

Jane Austen - Sanditon

Thomas Lovell Beddoes - Anthology

John Irving - The World According To Garp

Rosemary Sutcliffe - Eagle of the Ninth

Cynthia Harnett- The Great House

Barbara Leonie Picard - Ransom For a Knight

Ruth Manning Sanders - Book of Dwarves

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

Ursula K Le Guin - Wizard of Earthsea

William Shakespeare - Henry IV, Part 1

Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love

William Shakespeare - Hamlet

AA Gill - Pour Me

Albert Camus - The Plague

Joan G Robinson - Charley

William Shakespeare - The Tempest

William Shakespeare - King Lear

Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility

Dorothy L Sayers - Strong Poison

EM Delafield - Dairy of a Provincial Lady

Anne Lister - The Secret Diaries

Anthony Horowitz - Foyles War

Anthony Horowitz - The Word is Murder

Chris Packham - Fingers in the Sparkle Jar

Elizabeth Kostova - The Historian

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This week we are delighted to peruse the bookshelves of author, performer and podcaster Janina Matthewson! Janina created the acclaimed novel Of Things Gone Astray and co-created the Welcome to Night Vale affiliated podcast Within the Wires. Her latest book, co-written with Night Vale creator Jeffrey Cranoris You Feel It Just Below the Ribs. We talked to her about Bridget Jones picnics, suitable Jane Austen husbands, Susanna Clarke, Sarah Perry and the power of the Princess Diaries.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Janina Matthewson - Of Things Gone Astray

Janina Matthewson & Jeffrey Cranor - You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

Patricia Lockwood -Priestdaddy

Sarah Perry - Melmoth

Patricia Lockwood - No One is Talking About This

Meg Cabot - Princess Diaries

Sarah Perry - Essex Serpent

Sarah Perry - After Me Comes the Flood

Agatha Christie - Short Stories

Agatha Christie - Death on the Niles

Witi Ihimaera - The Whale Rider

Lynley Dodd - Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy

Patricia Grace - Potiki

Elizabeth Knox - The Vintner's Luck

Elizabeth Knox - The Absolute Book

Ali Smith - How To Be Both

Donna Tarrt - The Secret History

Eva Ibbotson - The Song for Summer

Eva Ibbotson - The Secret Countess

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Maeve Binchy - Circle of Friends

Maeve Binchy - Evening Class

Maeve Binchy - Tara Road

Brit Bennett - The Vanishing Half

Julia Quinn - Bridgerton

Bryan Lee O'Malley - Scott Pilgrim

Aka Akasaka - Kaguya-sama: Love Is War

Anita Brookner - Fraud

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey

Michael Crichton - Jurassic Park

Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

Jean Webster - Daddy-Long-Legs

Stephen King - Joyland

Stephen King - On Writing

Stephen King - The Shining

Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca

Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Terry Pratchett - Small Gods

Terry Pratchett - The Hogfather

Tom Robbins - Still Life With Woodpecker

Fannie Flagg - Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe

Cassandra Peterson - Yours Cruelly, Elvira

Allena Hansen - Chomp Chomp Chomp

Various - Make More Noise

Mark Manson - Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck

Sarah Knight - Life Changing Magic of Not Giving a Fuck

Isabel Allende - Daughter of Fortune

Isabel Allende - House of the Spirits

Isabel Allende - Paula

Diana Wynne Jones - Howl's Moving Castle

Susanna Clarke - Ladies of Grace Adieu

Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

Susanna Clarke - Piranesi

Louis de Bernieres - Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Henry James - Complete Short Stories

CS Lewis - The Last Battle

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This week we present a cosy fireside chat in the fabulous home of journalist, presenter and authorSophia Money-Coutts! Sophia is the former features editor at Tatler, Daily Telegraph columnist and the author of the bestselling comedies What Happens Now, The Plus One, The Wish List and her latest, the hilarious Did You Miss Me? We talked to her about interview technique, Roald Dahl's curious desserts, the joy of PG Wodehouse and, for the first time in You're Booked history, a special guest (and former guest) drops in!

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Sophia Money-Coutts - Did You Miss Me?

Maggie O'Farrell - Hamnet

Curtis Sittenfeld - American Wife

Elizabeth MacNeal - Doll Factory

Elizabeth MacNeal - Circus of Wonders

Sarah Waters - Tipping the Velvet

Sarah Waters - Fingersmith

Lynn Barber - Mostly Men

Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Roald Dahl - Matilda

Roald Dahl - James and the Giant Peach

Laura Freeman - Reading Cure

Charles Dickens - Christmas Carol

Evanna Lynch - Opposite of Butterfly Hunting

Elizabeth Graham - Vision of Love

Lindsay Armstrong - Spitfire

Sally Wentworth - Man For Hire

Elizabeth Graham - Highland Gathering

Sarah Ferguson - Heart For a Compass

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

Robinne Lee - Idea of You

Nancy Mitford - Don't Tell Alfred

Sarah Winman - Still Life

Sarah Winman - When God was a Rabbit

Meg Mason - Sorrow and Bliss

Sarah Winman - Tin Man

Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time

Laurie Colwin - Family Happiness

Jilly Cooper - Octavia

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Naoise Dolan - Exciting Times

Lucy Deedes - Little Book of Marmalade

Crispin Latymer - Where the Ocean Meets the Sky

Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Katherine Heiny - Single Carefree Mellow

Rachel Lehmann-Haupt - In Her Own Sweet Time

PG Wodehouse - Jeeves in the Offing

PG Wodehouse - Blandings Castle

F Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night

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This week we're delighted to present this fun and fascinating conversation with author and producer Miranda Cowley Heller! After a career in publishing and head honcho at HBO, Miranda's debut novel The Paper Palace has been a runaway bestseller, a Reese Witherspoon book club pick and is now being adapted as a TV mini-series. We talked to her about parenting in the 1970s, classic kids books, dream adaptations and naughty Victorian reads.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Miranda Cowley Heller - The Paper Palace

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Laurie Colwin - Family Happiness

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

F Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night

Mary Renault - The King Must Die

Mary Renault - The Bull From the Sea

Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird

Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie

Carson McCullers - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Mark Twain - Huckleberry Finn

Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin

Curtis Sittenfeld - American Wife

Walter - My Secret Life

George Eliot - Middlemarch

JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

Various - Illustrated Fairy Tales

Ada Calhoun - Why We Can't Sleep

The Editors - The Incomplete Framley Examiner

Mario Puzo - The Godfather

Garth Williams - The Rabbit's Wedding

Jane Austen - Persuasion

Thomas Hardy - Far From the Madding Crowd

Stephenie Meyer - Twilight

Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love

Joan Aiken - Wolves of Willoughby Chase

Joan Aiken - Necklace of Raindrops

James Fenimore Cooper - Last of the Mohicans

Alexander Dumas - Three Musketeers

Elizabeth George Speare - Witch of Blackbird Pond

Scott O'Dell - Island of the Blue Dolphins

Frances Hodgson Burnett - A Little Princess

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Little Lord Fauntleroy

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Diana Gabaldon - Outlander

Winston Graham - Poldark

MM Kaye - Far Pavilions

Anthony Doerr - All the Light We Cannot See

Ali Smith - Autumn

James Salter - Light Years

James Salter - A Sport and a Pastime

James and Kay Salter - Life is Meals

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This week we're delighted to present this late night, transatlantic phone chat with the legendary Dave Eggers! Dave is the author of many books including The Circle, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, A Hologram for the King, What Is the What, and The Museum of Rain. His latest if the tech satire The Every. He's also the founder of publishing house McSweeney's and co-founder of 826 National, a network of youth writing and tutoring centres around America. We talked to him about avoiding The Plague, deep-diving into Melville, timeless kids books and who the funniest writer in the world happens to be.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Dave Eggers - Heartbreaking Work...

Dave Eggers - The Every

Dave Eggers - The Circle

Albert Camus - The Plague

Herman Melville - Selected Writing

Herman Melville - Moby Dick

Frank Herbert - Dune

Walter Wangerin - Book of the Dun Cow

Richard Adams - Watership Down

Jason Reynolds - Long Way Down

L Frank Baum - Wizard of Oz

Hugh Lofting - Dr Dolittle

Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island

Florence and Richard Atwater - Mr Poppers Penguins

SE Hinton - The Outsiders

Beverley Cleary - Beezus and Ramona

Kenneth Grahame - Wind in the Willows

EB White - Trumpet of the Swan

EB White - Charlotte's Web

Katherine Ryan - The Audacity

EB White - Letters

EB White - One Man's Meat

Kurt Vonnegut - God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

John Brandon - Ivory Shoals

Peter Ferry - Old Heart

Vendela Vida - We Run The Tides

Lorrie Moore - Who Will Run Frog Hospital

Lorrie Moore - Birds of America

Richard Russo - Straight Man

Nick Hornby - How To Be Good

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This week we're delighted to present this frank, funny and thoroughly entertaining chat with author, journalist and podcaster Lindsey Kelk! Lindsey is the bestselling author of the I Heart series of books, plus In Case You Missed It, One in a Million and her latest On a Night Like This. Lindsey also co-hosts the beauty podcast, Full Coverage, and Tight and Fights, a wrestling podcast, We talked to her about James Herbert issues, the importance of Paula Danziger, a variety of vampires and the genius of Marian Keyes.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Lindsey Kelk - On a Night Like This

Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen - Style Secrets

Donna Tartt - Secret History

James Herbert - Magic Cottage

Barbara Taylor Bradford - Woman of Substance

VC Andrews - Heaven

VC Andrews - Flowers in the Attic

Lindsey Kelk - I Heart New York

Brett Easton Ellis - American Psycho

Lorrie Moore - Collected Stories

Gillian McAllister - That Night

Mhairi McFarlane - Last Night

Francine Pascal - Sweet Valley High

Charlaine Harris - Dead Until Dark

Stephenie Meyer - Twilight

Erin Sterling - Ex Hex

Emily Henry - Beach Read

KM Jackson - How to Marry Keanu Reeves in 90 Days

Sarah Macleane - Bombshell

Clare Finney - Female Chef

Megan Abbott - Dare Me

Megan Abbott - Turnout

Andie J Christopher - Hot Under His Collar

Paula Danziger - Remember Me To Harold Square

Paula Danziger - Pistachio Prescription

Paula Danziger - Cat Ate My Gym Suit

Marian Keyes - Last Chance Saloon

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

Marian Keyes - Watermelon

Lauren Weisberger - Devil Wears Prada

Caitlin Moran - How To Be a Woman

Marian Keyes - Grown Ups

Kathleen Tessaro - Elegance

Curtis Sittenfeld - Rodham

Kazuo Ishiguro - Klara and the Sun

Kazuo Ishiguro - Buried Giant

Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go

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It's our 100th episode! Sort of - we may have slightly lost count. But there is still plenty of cause for celebration as we are in the company of poet, author, memoirist and actor Yrsa Daley-Ward! Her poetry collection Bone was widely acclaimed while her memoir The Terrible won the PEN/Ackerley Prize. She co-wrote Black Is King with Beyonce and her latest book is The How described as "a gratifying exploration of the self". We talked to her about the best books to listen to, the genius of Jeanette Winterson, finding books on stoops and books that induce calm.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Yrsa Daley-Ward - The Terrible

Yrsa Daley-Ward - The How

Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Jeanette Winterson - Written on the Body

Helen Oyeyemi - Boy Snow Bird

Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels

Jenny Slate - Little Weirds

Ta-Nehisi Coates - Between the World and Me

Helen Oyeyemi - Peaces

Spike Milligan - Collected Poetry

Rolad Dahl - James and the Giant Peach

Roger McGough - Collected Potery

Vātsyāyana - Kama Sutra

Alice Walker - Colour Purple

Alice Walker - By the Light of my Father's Smile

Toni Morrison - Sula

Toni Morrison - Beloved

Jeanette Winterson - Sexing the Cherry

Samantha Hunt - The Seas

Phyllis Grant - Everything is Under Control

Annie Dillard - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

Ocean Vuong - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Kiese Laymon - Heavy

Patricia Lockwood - No One is Talking About This

Samantha Hunt - The Dark Dark

Alice Walker - Collected Stories

Carmen Maria Machado- Her Body and Other Parties

Carmen Maria Machado- In The Dream House

Akwaeke Emezi - Death of Vivek Oji

Akwaeke Emezi - Fresh Water

Kevin Wilson - Nothing To See Here

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