We're very excited to announce that for season 5 of You're Booked we're jetting off to the USA for an entire series featuring our favourite American writers. And we're even more excited to start off in Baltimore at the home of the legendary author and auteur John Waters! John is the director of 18 films including the classics Pink Flamingos and Hairspray and the author of 10 books, the latest being Mr Know-It-All. We perused just a tiny section of his his vast 12,000 volume book collection and discussed shoplifting, porn parodies, and, scoop alert, John's first novel, which is currently being written.

BOOKS

John Waters - Mr Know-It-All

Evelyn Waugh - The Loved One

Witold Gombrowicz - Diaries

Jacqueline Susan - Valley of the Dolls

Pauline Kael - I Lost It At The Movies

Siv Holm - I, a Woman

Nick Mays - Proper Care of Fancy Rats

Phil Shaw - Extreme Ironing

Anonymous - Break Dance Hunks

Dean Starkey - Mondo Sexo

Joseph Jenkins - Slate Roof Bible

Ugo Mulas - New York: The New Art Scene

Dian Hanson - Big Book of Pussy

Dian Hanson - Big Book of Breasts

Zandha Rhodes - 50 Fabulous Year of Fashion

Brigid Berlin - Polaroids

Tim Coghlan - Notre Damned

Jean-Claude Lebensztejn - Pissing Figures

Julia Hall - Slaves of Christo

Hubert Selby - Last Exit To Brooklyn

John Rechy - City of Night

William Burroughs - Naked Lunch

William Burroughs Jr - Speed

Sheila Weller - Carrie Fisher

Augusten Burroughs - Toil and Trouble

John Waters - Role Models

Denton Welch - Journals

Norris Mailer - Windchill Summer

Norris Mailer - Ticket to the Circus

Anne Lamot - Almost Everything

Lucy Ellman - Ducks, Newburyport

Karl Ove Knausgaard - My Struggle

Richard Tuttle - Art of

Amanda Lepore - Doll Parts

John Kennedy Toole - Confederacy of Dunces

Grace Metalious - Peyton Place

Grace Metalious - Return To Peyton Place

Grace Metalious - Tight White Collar

Candy Darling - My Face For The World To See

David Rank - Bend Over Pig

Klaus Kinski - All I Need is Love

Linda Russell - My Daughter Susan Smith

Deborah Spungen - And I Don't Want To Live This Life

Lionel Dahmer - Father's Story

Jane Bowles - Two Serious Ladies

Tennessee Williams - Memoirs

Tennessee Williams - Suddenly Last Summer

Lili Anolik - Hollywood's Eve

Ricki Lake - Never Say Never 

Julian Barnes - Only Story

John Rechy - About My Life and the Kept Woman

John Waters - Carsick

Christopher Bonanos - Making of Weegee

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