For the twenty-fourth episode of The Literary Edit podcast, I was joined by Namibia-based author, writer and all-round legend, Femi Kayode. You can read his list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in the episode are:

 

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

A Son of the Circus by John Irving

We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Razorblade Tears by S. A. Crosby

Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra

The Tradition by Jericho Brown

 

Other books we spoke about included A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Great Gatsby, Beloved and Harlem Shuffle.

 

If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice, who deliver all over the country.

 

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