As a special treat, here's our interview with the fabulous Lissa Evans, which we were planning to be the first episode in our sixth season, but that might have to wait for a while. But we didn't dare sit on this any longer as it's such a warm, wonderful, informative episode. Lissa is the author of many fantastic books including Old Baggage and Their Finest Hour and a Half. We talked to her about cosy reads, Father Ted, British movie scandals, funny books and her appearance in the Kenneth Williams diaries! For more information about Daisy's new newsletter Further Reading visit: https://furtherreading.substack.com/p/coming-soon

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Holly Bourne - Pretending

Lissa Evans - Old Baggage

Lissa Evans - Their Finest

Lissa Evans - Wed Wabbit

John Costello - Love, Sex and War

Norman Longmate - How We Lived Then

Rodney Ackland - The Celluloid Mistress

Emlyn Williams - George

DH Lawrence - Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Céleste Albaret - Monsieur Proust

Józef Czapski - Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp

Mary Bergstein - In Looking Back One Learns to See

Alain De Botton’s - How Proust Can Change Your Life

Marcel Proust - Swann’s Way

Victoria Wood - Barmy

Victoria Wood - Up To You Porky

Geoffrey Willans - Molesworth

Jessica Mitford - American Way of Death

Jessica Mitford - Hons and Rebels

Evelyn Waugh - Loved One

Jessica Mitford - Makings of a Muckraker

John Carey - Faber Book of Reportage

Elizabeth Taylor - The Devastating Boys

Dorothy Whipple - They Were Sisters

Various - The Girl’s Budget

Barbara Nixon - Raiders Overhead

John Strachey - Post D

Roger Deakins - Waterlog

WG Sebald - Rings of Saturn

Nicholas Parsons - Dipped in Vitriol

June Havoc - Early Havoc

Armistead Maupin - More Tales of the City

Armistead Maupin -Further Tales of the City

Armistead Maupin - Mary Ann in Autumn

Neil Gaiman - Graveyard Book

Annie Proulx - Shipping News

Anita Brookner - Latecomers

Anita Brookner - Look At Me

Anita Brookner - Hotel Du Lac

Florence King - Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady

Helen Ellis - Southern Lady Code

Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle

Liam Fay - Beyond Belief

Peter Nichols - A Voyage For Madmen

Walter Lord - Night to Remember

Kenneth Anger - Hollywood Babylon

Matthew Sweet - Shepperton Babylon

Laurens van der Post - Flamingo Feather

Kenneth Williams - Diaries

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Flora Thompson - Lark Rise To Candleford

Various - English Hymnal

Lissa Evans - Small Change for Stuart

Gerald Durrell - My Family and Other Animals

Jane Gardam - Queen of the Tambourine

Jane Gardam - Old Filth

Lissa Evans - Crooked Heart

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For the grand finale of our fifth season American adventure (and our 50th episode!), we find ourselves in... Bloomsbury. But we are there for a wonderful reason. To meet the legendary novelist, feminist, and philanthropist Isabel Allende! Isabel is the internationally renowned, bestselling author of works such as House of the Spirits, Of Love and Shadows, Eva Luna, Daughter of Fortune, and her latest breathtaking epic A Long Petal of the Sea. We talked to her about illicit reads, writing superstitions, dogs, poetry and Elvis. For more information about Daisy's new newsletter Further Reading visit: https://furtherreading.substack.com/p/coming-soon

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Isabel Allende - Long Petal of the Sea

Peter Christen Asbjørnsen - Fairytales From the Far North

Various - Arabian Nights

Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Water Dancer

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Isabel Allende - House of the Spirits

Johnston McCulley, - Zorro

Henri Troyat -Tant Que La Terre Durera (While the Earth Endures)

Cherie Currie - Neon Angel

The Isabel Allende Foundation

Isabel Allende - Paula

Jeanine Cummins - American Dirt

Colum McCann - Let the Great World Spin

Colum McCann - Apeirogon

Pablo Neruda - Memoirs

Pablo Neruda - Selected Poems

Isabel Allende - Ripper

Anne Lamott - Bird By Bird

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This week we are heading to Brooklyn and the home of Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Ada Calhoun! Ada wrote the fantastic history of New York St Marks is Dead and the hugely popular memoir Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give. Her new book is the already bestselling Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis. We talked to her about New York writers, the New York Post, true crime, memoir, Dolly Parton and rediscovering classic YA. For more information about Daisy's new newsletter Further Reading visit: https://furtherreading.substack.com/p/coming-soon

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Ada Calhoun - Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give

Ada Calhoun - Why We Can’t Sleep

Dawn Powell - Wicked Pavilion

Dawn Powell - Locusts Have No King

Ada Calhoun - St Marks is Dead

Eilert Sundt - Sexual Customs in Rural Norway

Lisa Sliwa - Attitude

Susannah Cahalan - Great Pretender

Susannah Cahalan - Brain on Fire

Karen Abbott - Ghosts of Eden Park

Lisa Carver - Dancing Queen

Derek Jarman - Chroma

N. Whittal-Perry - Treasury of Traditional Wisdom

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Barbara Wersba - Beautiful Losers

Barbara Wersba - Fat A Love Story

Francesca Lia Block - Weetzie Bat

Melissa Broder - The Pisces

M Masters - Case of the Clever Computer Crooks

PG Wodehouse - Psmith in the City

PG Wodehouse - Right Ho Jeeves

Wilkie Collins - Woman in White

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Jane Austen - Emma

Mildred Gilman - Sob Sister

Nora Ephron - Scribble Scribble

Jane Gardam - Old Filth

Annie Baker - John

Annie Baker - Flick

Michael Ondaatje - Warlight

Michael Ondaatje - English Patient

Oscar Wilde - Decay of Lying

Maureen Callahan - American Predator

David Carr - Night of the Gun

Joe Coomer - Flatland Fable

Lewis Shiner - Glimpses

Lewis Shiner - Slam

Salman Rushdie - Quichotte

Olivia Laing - Lonely City

Gilbert King - Beneath a Ruthless Sun

Gilbert King - Devil in the Grove

Barbara Ehrenreich - Nickel and Dimed

James Leo Herlihy - Season of the Witch

Sarah Hepola - Blackout

Richard Ford - The Sportswriter

Tara Allmen - Menopause Confidential

Miranda Sawyer - Out of Time

Daniel Lipkowitz - Lego Ideas Book

Abby Frucht - Liquorice 

Marilynne Robinson - Housekeeping 

Dolly Parton - My Life and Other Unfinished Business

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This week we are back in LA, not far from The Getty, visiting the beautiful home of bestselling author Jessica Knoll! Jessica wrote the mega-hits The Luckiest Girl Alive (soon to be a film) and The Favourite Sister (soon to be a TV series). We talked to her about inspirational books, favourite book shops, scary reads and the the best book to read if you want to write a screenplay. For more information about Daisy's new newsletter Further Reading visit: https://furtherreading.substack.com/p/coming-soon

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Jessica Knoll - Luckiest Girl Alive

Jessica Knoll - Favourite Sister

Steph Cha - Your House Will Pay

Anthony Horowitz - Magpie Mysteries

Caroline Kepnes - You

Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Ottessa Moshfegh - Eileen

Shirley Jackson - Dark Tales

LS Hilton - Maestra

Jay McInerney - Bright Lights Big City

Sylvia Plath - Bell Jar

Cheryl Strayed - Wild

Anthony Minghella - Minghella on Minghella

Kamila Shamsie - Home Fire

Donna Tartt - Secret History

Bret Easton Ellis - Rules of Attraction

Esquire - History of Bennington

Donna Tartt - Goldfinch

Elaine Dundy - Dud Avocado

Matt Ruff - Bad Monkeys

Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge

Elizabeth Strout - Olive Again

Ruth Franklin - Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

Sun Tzu - Art of War

Anais Nin - Diaries

Anais Nin - Delta of Venus

Anais Nin - Henry and June

Stephen King - On Writing

Ann Lamott - Bird By Bird

Tana French - In The Woods

Michelle McNamara - I’ll Be Gone in the Dark

Adrienne Brodeur - Wild Game

Judith Rossner - Looking For Mr Goodbar

Sebastián Edwards - Untold Story of FDR

Anne Knoll - Secret Life of Thomas Bradford

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This week we're visiting the beautiful Bay Area and popping into the home of Daniel Gumbiner! Daniel is the author of the National Book Award and California Book Award nominated novel The Boatbuilder and is the managing editor of The Believer magazine. We talked to him about Swallows and Amazons, nature, EB White and living in Las Vegas.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Daniel Gumbiner - The Boatbuilder

Arthur Clayton Smith - Natural History of the San Francisco Bay Region

R Tucker Abbot - Field Identification Seashells of North America

Barry Lopez - Of Wolves and Men

Dave Hickey - Air Guitar

Amanda Fortini - Life After Near-Death In The Las Vegas Shooting

Amanda Fortini - People of Las Vegas

Arthur Ransom - Swallows and Amazons

Sarah Harrison Smith - Fact Checkers Bible

Alejandro Zambra - My Documents

Leonard Gardner - Fat City

EB White - Letters

The Believer Festival

The Believer - Border Issue

Boots Riley - McSweeney's

Jia Tolentino - Trick Mirror

Sam Quinones - Dream Land

Cyra McFadden - The Serial

Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City

Ken Kesey - Sometimes a Great Notion

Chris Kraus - I Love Dick

Marta Becket - To Dance on Sands

David Morris - The Evil Hours

Sarah Broom - The Yellow House

Meghan O’Gieblyn - Interior States

Olja Savičević Ivančević - Adios Cowboy

Richard Maury - Cimba

John Williams - Stoner

Steve Almond - John Williams' Stoner

Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird

Gary Paulsen - Hatchet

Wilson Rawls - Where the Red Fern Grows

EB White - Charlotte’s Web

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We are in South Slope, Brooklyn this week to meet author and Instagram superstar Shelby Lorman! Shelby is the genius behind the Awards For Good Boys social media phenomenon, now a book of the same name. We talked to her about disappointing book endings (and letting the author know), marginalia, lending books you never see again and meeting (and befriending) your heroes.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Shelby Lorman - Awards For Good Boys

Elif Batuman - The Idiot

Lucia Berlin - Manual For Cleaning Women

WG Sebald - Rings of Saturn

Giuliana Bruno - Atlas of Emotion

Elizabeth Bishop - Poems

Brian K. Vaughan - Saga

Claudia Rankine - Don’t Let Me Be Lonely

Nell Zink - The Wallcreeper

Nell Zink - Mislaid

Lois Lowry - The Giver

Alexander Chee - How To Write an Autobiographical Novel

Kim Stanley Robinson - Mars Trilogy

Lydia Davis - Collected Stories

Andrea Lawlor - Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

Claudia Rankine - Citizen

David Hockney - Dog Days

NK Jemisin - Inheritance Trilogy

Ursula Le Guin - Left Hand of Darkness

James Agee - Death in the Family

Garth Nix - Abhorsen

Leigh Bardugo - Ninth House

Rebecca Traister - Good and Mad

Brittney Cooper - Eloquent Rage

Marilynne Robinson - Housekeeping

Meg Wolitzer - Female Persuasion

Oyinkan Braithwaite - My Sister The Serial Killer

Elena Ferrante - Neapolitan Novels

AM Homes - May We Be Forgiven

Anne Carson - Plainwater

Mary Roach - Stiff

Anna Burns - Milkman

Karl Ove Knausgård - My Struggle

Ann Leckie - Ancillary Justice

Ada Palmer - Too Like the Lightning

James Bridle - New Dark Age

James Corey - The Expanse

Liana Finck - Passing For Human

Liana Finck - Excuse Me

Samantha Irby - We Are Never Meeting in Real Life

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We're in Brooklyn this week for a visit with award-winning journalist, New York Times gender editor and author Jessica Bennett. Jessica's first book was the global phenomenon Feminist Fight Club: A Survival Manual For a Sexist Workplace and her most recent release is This Is 18: Girls’ Lives Through Girls’ Eyes. We talked to her about feminist icons, Sweet Valley High, internet slang, embarrassing diaries and marriage.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Jessica Bennett - Feminist Fight Club

Jessica Bennett - This is 18

Lisa Taddeo - Three Women

Bart Houseman - You Don’t Need a Man To Fix It

Bernard Gladstone - Home Repairs Without a Man

Kay B Ward - Feminine Fix It Auto Handbook

VC Andrews - Flowers in the Attic

Anonymous - Go Ask Alice

Rachel Simmons - Curse of the Good Girl

Mary Roach - Bonk

Pamela Haag - Marriage Confidential

Lori Gottlieb - Marry Him

Elena Ferrante - Neapolitan Novels

Gayl Jones - Corregidora

Gretchen McCulloch - Because Internet

Florence Williams - Breasts

Ellen Sussman - Dirty Words

Various - Girl Scout Handbook

Boston Women's Health Book Collective - Our Bodies Ourselves

Helen Gurley Brown - Having It All

E Jean Carroll - What Do We Need Men For

Francine Pascal - Double Love

Francine Pascal - Secrets

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Our American sojourn continues with a trip to Manhattan's Gramercy Park and a visit to the esteemed, million-selling author Amor Towles! Amor is the writer of the bestselling titles Rules of Civility and A Gentleman in Moscow which was a recommended read of both Bill Gates and Barack Obama as well as appearing on a multitude of best of the year lists. We talked to him about reading the canon, inhaling James Bond and the amount of time you're allowed before giving up on a book.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Amor Towles - Gentleman in Moscow

Amor Towles - Rules of Civility

Edith Wharton - Collected Novels

Harold Bloom - American Canon

Marcel Proust - Remembrance of Things Past

Paul Scott - Raj Quartet

Herman Melville - Moby Dick

Philip Roth - American Pastoral

Philip Roth - Human Stain

Ross Macdonald - Collection

Raymond Chandler - Big Sleep

Franklin W Dixon - Hardy Boys

Ray Bradbury - Stories

Agatha Christie - Collection

John Le Carre - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

John Le Carre - Honourable Schoolboy

Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 100 Years of Solitude

Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment

Rhik Samadder - I Never Said I Loved You

Thomas Mann - Magic Mountain

Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks

Naguib Mahfouz - Cairo Trilogy

Naguib Mahfouz - The Quarter

Harry Matthews - The Conversions

Jonathan Lethem - Motherless Brooklyn

James Baldwin - Go Tell It To The Mountain

Flannery O’Connor - Complete Stories

Sloan Wilson - Man in the Grey Flannel Suit

David Goodis - Black Friday

Anthony Powell - Dance To The Music of Time

Kazuo Ishiguro - Remains of the Day

Ford Madox Ford - Good Soldier

Grace Metalious - Peyton Place

John Cheever - Wapshot Chronicle

Walker Percy - The Moviegoer

Adler & Van Doren - Great Treasury of Western Thought

Emily Post - Etiquette

Philip Gourevitch - Paris Review Interviews

Various - WPA Guide To New York City

Raymond Carver - Selected Stories

Anton Chekhov- Short Stories

Kingsley Amis - James Bond Dossier

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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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This week we are in West Hollywood, LA and the delightful confines of the great Book Soup bookstore to meet with Taylor Jenkins Reid! Taylor is the author of six books, the most recent being the smash hit Daisy Jones and the Six. We talked to her about rock memoirs, gift giving, influential reads and seeing your own book in the book shop.

BOOKS

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the Six

Allie Rowbottom - Jello Girls

Rebecca Makkai - Great Believers

Sally Rooney - Conversations With Friends

Bessel van der Kolk - Body Keeps the Score

Byron Lane - A Star is Bored

Tom Shales, James Andrew Miller - Live From New York

James Andrew Miller - Powerhouse

Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain - Please Kill Me

Matt Zoller Seitz, Alan Sepinwall - Soprano Sessions

Emily Nussbaum - I Like To Watch

Blake Snyder - Save the Cat

Allen Rucker - Sopranos Family Cookbook

Jann Wenner - Rolling Stones Interviews

Michael Walker - Laurel Canyon

Keith Richards - Life

Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run

Brian Hiatt - Springsteen: Stories Behind the Songs

Kathy Iandoli - God Save the Queens

Ramin Setoodeh - Ladies Who Punch

Sally Field - In Pieces

Scotty Bowers - Full Service 

Taylor Jenkins Reid - 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Various - Little People Big Dreams

Judith Kerr - Tiger Who Came To Tea

Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Sarah Jane Hinder - Yoga Bear

JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

Lauren Bravo - How To Break Up With Fast Fashion

Dr Seuss - Oh The Places You’ll Go

Lisa Taddeo - Three Women

Rebecca Traister - Good and Mad

Eve Babitz - I Used To Be Charming

Joan Didion - White Album

Truman Capote - In Cold Blood

Terry Newman - Legendary Authors and the Clothes They Wore

Laura Thompson - Take Six Girls

Jacqueline Susan - Valley of the Dolls

Mohsin Hamid - Exit West

Alex Michaelides - Silent Patient

Nina Freudenberger - Bibliostyle

Thatcher Wine - For The Love of Books

Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Gods of Jade & Shadow

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Etaf Rum - A Woman is No Man

Salman Rushdie - Quichotte

Alexi Zentner - Copperhead

Tana French - Wych Elm

Madeline Miller - Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller - Circe

Katherine Dunn - On Cussing

Mark Manson - Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck

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