Friends at the Library

Young Love | Normal People by Sally Rooney


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Do you like a Happily Ever After ending? Jenn Martin and Jennifer Wong discuss what they personally enjoy in a love story before looking at a complicated novel about young love, Normal People by Sally Rooney.

Authors and books mentioned in this episode

  • Bookthingo Romance Blog: http://bookthingo.com.au/
  • Mr Impossible by Loretta Chase
  • The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
  • Bellwether by Connie Willis
  • Dubliners by James Joyce
  • The Flywheel by Erin Gough
  • One Day by David Nicholls
  • If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
  • An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
  • Normal People by Sally Rooney
  • I Want to Get High My Whole Life With You by Hera Lindsay Bird
  • How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
  • Possession by A.S. Byatt
  • Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Cruise

Reading suggestions for Anna from Sydney

Anna loved:

  • The Milkman by Anna Burns
  • The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by Holly Ringland

Jenn's suggestions:

  • Idaho by Emily Ruskovich
  • Everything Under by Daisy Johnson
  • Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
  • All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld

Music by Blue Dot Sessions. New episode every Saturday. Join us on Facebook to chat more about books and to get your own reading suggestions from Jenn: facebook.com/friendsatlibrary

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Friends at the LibraryBy Jenn Martin and Jennifer Wong