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We are beyond excited to bring you this week's very, very special guest. An individual whose work we adore and consume with gusto; the novelist, essayist and New York Times Bestselling author Curtis Sittenfeld! Curtis is the author of six novels and a short story collection including including YB faves Prep, Eligible and American Wife. Her latest is the highly anticipated fictional look at Hilary Clinton: Rodham. We talked to her about First Ladies, short stories, writing like there's nobody watching and trying to make your kids like Laura Ingalls Wilder.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Curtis Sittenfeld - Rodham

Curtis Sittenfeld - The Nominee

Hilary Clinton - Living History

Curtis Sittenfeld - American Wife

Emily Gould - Perfect Tunes

Emily Gould - And the Heart Says Whatever

Lily King - Writers & Lovers

Lily King - Euphoria

Susan Choi - Trust Exercise

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House on the Prairie 

Carol Ryrie Brink - Caddie Woodlawn

Gertrude Chandler Warner - Boxcar Children

EL Konigsburg - From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frank Weiler

Becky Albertalli - Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

Curtis Sittenfeld - You Think It I’ll Say It

Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge

Alice Munro - Selected Stories

Tessa Hadley - The Past

Susanna Daniel - Stiltsville

Susanna Daniel - Sea Creatures

Marisa Meltzer - This is Big

Sue Miller - Monogamy

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Sally Rooney - Conversations With Friends

Curtis Sittenfeld - Eligible

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Demi Moore - Inside Out

Curtis Sittenfeld - Prep

Rebecca Lee - Bobcat

Joseph O’Neill - Good Trouble

Laura van den Berg - I Hold a Wolf by the Ears

Ali Smith - How To Be Both

Raymond Carver - Where I'm Calling From

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We are Shelf Isolating once again this week, where we talk to some of our favourite former guests, friends of the YB family and people we adore about how books and reading are helping them get through the lockdown. This week's guest falls into all three categories as we pay a return visit to journalist and author Lauren Bravo! Lauren is the author of How to Break Up with Fast Fashion and What Would the Spice Girls Do? We talked to her about her funniest ever reads, cookery books as fiction, the genius of Barbara Trapido and YA comfort reads.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Lauren Bravo - How To Break Up With Fast Fashion

Lauren Bravo - What Would The Spice Girls Do

Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age

Jean Ure - Jo in the Middle

Jaqueline Wilson - Girls in Tears

Jaqueline Wilson - Girls Out Late

Jaqueline Wilson - Story of Tracey Beaker

Jaqueline Wilson - Suitcase Kid

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

Marian Keyes - Other Side of the Story

Marian Keyes - Last Chance Saloon

Bill Bryson - Notes From a Big Country

EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady

George and Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody

Lauren Bravo - Litmus Test Books

Mary Wesley - An Imaginative Experience

Mary Wesley - Camomile Lawn

Laura Goodman - Carbs

Anna Jones - A Modern Cook’s Year

David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day

Ottessa Moshfegh - Year of Rest and Relaxation

Mary Norton - Borrowers

Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge

Nina Stibbe - Man at the Helm

Nina Stibbe - Reasons to be Cheerful

Hilary McKay - The Exiles

Hilary McKay - The Exiles at Home

William Golding - Lord of the Flies

Lisa Owens - Not Working

Anthony Buckeridge - Jennings at Large

Patrick Hamilton - Hangover Square

Evelyn Waugh - Vile Bodies

Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall

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As the current situation is keeping us away from people's bookshelves (and people in general) we're launching a You're Booked mini spin off called Shelf Isolation where we talk to (remotely) some of our beloved former guests, friends of the YB family and people we adore about how books and reading are helping them get through the lockdown. And we couldn't be happier with our first guest! It's the amazing stand-up, author, actor and all around inspiration Sara Pascoe. Sara is one of the most heralded comedians working today and the immensely talented author of the books Animal and Sex Power Money. We talked to her about reading habits during quarantine, big lies involving hamsters, unspeakable acts committed against libraries and the saddest book she has ever read.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Sara Pascoe - Animal

Sara Pascoe - Sex Money Power

Bernadine Evaristo - Girl Woman Other

Anbara Salam - Belladonna

Hilary Mantel - The Mirror and the Light

Lynne Reid Banks - I Houdini

Kathy Reichs - The Bone Collection

Robert Sapolsky - Behave

Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Jeanine Cummins - American Dirt

DH Lawrence - Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Kate Elizabeth Russell - My Dark Vanessa

Lisa Taddeo - Three Women

Alissa Nutting - Tamper

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Graham Greene - End of the Affair

Andrew Sean Greer - Less

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Dodie Smith - I Capture The Castle

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood

Jackie Collins - The Stud

JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

George Orwell - Keep The Aspidistra Flying

Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffanys

Sarra Manning - Unsticky

Marian Keyes - Grown Ups

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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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