This week our American series continues with a visit to Brooklyn and stopping by the book and pop culture ephemera crammed apartment of Gabrielle Moss! Gabrielle is the author of the fabulous book Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction which is a must read for any You're Booked fans. We talked to her, obviously, about Sweet Valley High and Babysitter's Club, plus spooky reads, murderous memoirs, Peg Bundy and finding forgotten cheques in unexpected books.

BOOKS

Gabrielle Moss - Paperback Crush

Susy Smith - Prominent American Ghosts

Laura Nathanson - Trouble With Wednesdays

RL Stine - Fear Street

RL Stine - Goosebumps

Erica Jong - Fear of Flying

Robert Tralins - Clairvoyance in Women

Lois Duncan - I Know What You Did Last Summer

Lois Duncan - Ransom

Lois Duncan - Who Killed My Daughter

Craig Marks - I Want My MTV

John Taylor - In The Pleasure Groove

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the Six

Dianne Lake - Member of the Family

Sandra Shevey - Ladies of Pop and Rock

Judy Blume - Judy Blume Diary

Estelle Jelinek - Ladies Own Erotica

Xaviera Hollander - Xaviera Goes Wild

Shere Hite - Sexual Honesty

Ann M Martin - Babysitters Club

Francine Pascal - All Night Long

Caroline B Cooney - Nice Girl’s Don’t

Caroline B Cooney - Face on the Milk Carton

Bill Cunningham - On The Street

Joan Didion - Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Shirley Jackson - Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Ruth Franklin - Shirley Jackson

Tracy Daugherty - Last Love Song

Janet Malcolm - Journalist and the Murderer

Susanna Kaysen - Girl Interrupted

James St James - Party Monster

Siri Hustvedt - What I Loved

Cat Marnell - How To Murder Your Life

Jeannette walls - The Glass Castle

Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

Anonymous - Go Ask Alice

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones’s Diary

Periel Aschenbrand - The Only Bush I Trust Is My Own

Annabel Gat - Astrology of Love & Sex

Patricia Lockwood - Priestdaddy

Philip Roth - Plot Against America

Gay Talese - Thy Neighbour’s Wife

Gilda Radner - It’s Always Something

Gilda Radner - Paper Doll Book

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