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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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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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Merry Christmas! And welcome to the You're Booked Christmas extravaganza live from the fabulous Allbright Members Club in London's glamorous Mayfair. We are joined by two former (and one upcoming) You're Booked guests - High Low podcast legend and author of Everything I Know About Love Dolly Alderton, author of This Green and Pleasant Land and the Sofia Khan novels Ayisha Malik and author of Old Baggage and Their Finest Hour and a Half Lissa Evans. They discussed cosy Christmas reads, festive meals in favourite books and Rod Stewart's many turkeys.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Dolly Alderton - Everything I Know About Love

Ayisha Malik - This Green and Pleasant Land

Lissa Evans - Old Baggage

Lissa Evans - Wed Wabbit

Lissa Evans - Their Finest Hour and a Half

Kenneth Williams - Diaries

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Apsley Cherry-Garrard - Worst Journey in the World

Annie Proulx - Shipping News

Rod Stewart - Autobiography

Alison Uttley - A Country Child

Nancy Parent - Disney's Storybook Collection

Jean Webster - Daddy Long Legs

William Boyd - Any Human Heart

Susan Cain - Quiet

JL Carr - A Month in the Country

Joyce Lankester Brisley - Milly Molly Mandy

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey - What Katy Did at School

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones’s Diary

Nina Stibbe - Almost Perfect Christmas

Stephen King - 22/11/63

Kathy Lette - How To Kill Your Husband

David Nicholls - One Day

AJ Pearce - Dear Mrs Bird

Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm

Marilynne Robinson - Gilead

PL Travers - Mary Poppins

Jane Austen - Mansfield Park

George Saunders - Lincoln in the Bardo

David Sedaris - Santaland Diaries

Marcel Proust - Remembrance of Things Past

Margaret Atwood - Handmaid’s Tale

Margaret Atwood - The Testaments

Bernadine Evaristo - Girl, Woman, Other

James Joyce - Ulysses

Hilary Mantel - Mirror and the Light

Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the Six

Anita Brookner - Hotel Du Lac

Anita Brookner - Look At Me

Barbara Pym - Excellent Women

Liane Moriarty - Big Little Lies

Roger Deakin - Waterlogged

Lemn Sissay - My Name is Why

Lucia Berlin - Manual For Cleaning Women

Dale Shaw - Painfully British Haikus

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It's North London once again this week for a very special visit with the legendary food writer Diana Henry! Diana is the Sunday Telegraph's award winning food writer and author of eight books about food, culture, travelling, recipes and more food! We talked to her about her 4000 strong cookbook collection, meals in books, bleak cottage reading and favourite menus.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Dale Shaw - Painfully British Haikus

Diana Henry - From the Oven to the Table

Diana Henry - How to Eat a Peach

Claudia Roden - Book of Middle Eastern Food

Ursula Sedgwick - My Fun To Cook Book

Prue Leith - Entertaining With Style

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House on the Prairie

Alice Waters - Chez Panisse Cookbook

Jane Grigson - Fruit Book

Molly O’Neill - Well Seasoned Appetite

Mary Berry - Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook

Julia Child - Mastering the Art of French Cooking

Diana Henry - Crazy Water Pickled Lemons

David Sedaris - Santaland Diaries

Sybil Bedford - Jigsaw

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Noel Streatfeild - Bell Family

Clarissa Hyman - Tomato

Samin Nosrat (Ed) - Best American Food Writing 2019

Alison Roman - Nothing Fancy

Hans Christian Anderson - Complete Fairy tales

S Beltyukov - Leo Tolstoy's Family Recipe Book

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

Catherine Cheremeteff Jones - Year of Russian Feasts

Seamus Heaney - North

AD Miller - Snowdrops

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road

Richard Ford - The Sportswriter

Richard Ford - Women With Men

Jane Smiley - A Thousand Acres

Nora Ephron - Heartburn

Mary Gaitskill - Bad Behaviour

Anne Enright - The Green Road

Brian Moore - The Doctor’s Wife

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This week we are in glorious North London to meet picture book illustrator and kids book powerhouse Nadia Shireen! Nadia is the creator of the Billy book series and blockbusters such as The Bumblebear and The Cow Who Fell To Earth. She is also an ex-Smash Hits staffer - which may be mentioned in the course of the episode. We also talked to her about reading guilt, sort of stalking Paul Auster and the Pet Shop Boys.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Dale Shaw - Painfully British Haikus

Nadia Shireen - Billy and the Dragon

Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Hubert Selby Jr - Last Exit to Brooklyn

Donald Sturrock - Life of Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl - The Witches

Benji Davis - Bizzy Bear

Marta Altes - The King Cat

Chris Haughton - Goodnight Everyone

Ed Vere - How to be a Lion

Sophy Henn - Where Bear?

Oliver Jeffers - The Day the Crayons Quit

John Klassen - I Want My Hat Back

Stephen Fry - The Liar

Stephen Fry - Paperweight

Various - Amassed Hysteria

Tom Hibbert - Who The Hell

Smash Hits - Best of

Jay McInerney - Story of My Life

Paul Auster - Moon Palace

Paul Auster - New York Trilogy

Paul Auster - Mr Vertigo

Paul Auster - Hand to Mouth

Tayari Jones - An American Marriage

Judy Blume - Letters to Judy

Judy Blume - Superfudge

Judy Blume - Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

Judy Blume - Are You There God It’s Me Margaret

Judy Blume - Then Again Maybe I Won’t

Judy Blume - Iggie’s House

Judy Blume - Otherwise Known as Sheila The Great

Judy Blume - Deenie

Judy Blume - Tiger Eyes

Judy Blume - Forever

Hanif Kureishi - Buddha of Suburbia

Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

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We're back in North London this week to meet the author and illustrator Flo Perry! Flo is the creative force behind the book How To Have Feminist Sex which covers everything from faking it to consent, stress to kink, and how losing your virginity isn't so different to eating your first chocolate croissant. We talked to her about sharing a kindle with your mum (former YB guest Phillipa Perry), early formative reads, the power of graphic novels and birdwatching.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Dale Shaw - Painfully British Haikus

Flo Perry - How to Have Feminist Sex

Cacilda Jethá and Christopher Ryan - Sex at Dawn

Julie Burchill - Sugar Rush

Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City

Robert Galbraith - Casual Vacancy

Ben Aaronovitch - Rivers of London

My Sister The Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Sally Rooney - Conversations With Friends

Sara Pascoe - Animal

Drew Hayes - Super Powereds

Rachel Kushner - The Mars Room

Alison Bechdel - Essential Dykes To Look Out For

Posy Simmonds - Tamara Drewe

Art Spiegelman - Maus

Phillipa Perry - Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read

Jia Tolentino - Trick Mirror

Stuart Heritage - Bedtime Stories for Worried Liberals 

Norman Arlott - Complete Guide to British Wildlife

Chris Packham - Fingers in the Sparkle Jar

Belinda Bauer - Snap 

Dave Eggers - The Circle

Ruby Tandoh - Eat Up

Fiona Beckett - Ultimate Student Cookbook

Miguel Barclay - £1 Meals

Ruby Tandoh - Flavour

Lindy West - Shrill

Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee - Go Set a Watchman

Bernadine Evaristo - Mr Loverman

Bernadine Evaristo - Girl Woman Other

Magda Gerber - Your Self Confident Baby

Jonathan Franklin - 438 Days

Blaine Harden - Escape from Camp 14

Cheryl Strayed - Wild

Paula Hawkins - Girl on the Train

George RR Martin - Game of Thrones

Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl

Jeffrey Eugenides - Marraiage Plot

Jeffrey Eugenides - Virgin Suicides

Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex

Maria Semple - Where Did You Go Bernadette?

EL James - 50 Shades of Grey

Lisa Taddeo - Three Woman

Belle De Jour - Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl

Suzanne Collins - Hunger Games

Abba - Abba Annual 1979

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This week we're travelling to lovely, leafy Henley-on-Thames (home of the great Bell Bookshop) for a very special episode live from the Henley Lit Fest, specifically the grand confines of the Town Hall. This week's guest is the historian, novelist, TV presenter and Celebrity Mastermind champion Professor Kate Williams! Kate has written four novels and nine history books and, as you will hear, has many more in the pipeline. We talked to her about erotic deaths, reading addictions, time travel and light library fraud.

This episode is brought to you by Curzon Cinemas new film Non-Fiction.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Dale Shaw - Painfully British Haikus

Kate Williams - Rival Queens

Judy Blume - Forever

Judy Blume - Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret

Samuel Richardson - Clarissa

Samuel Richardson - Pamela

Sarah Moss - Ghost Wall

Cao Xueqin - Story of the Stone

Murasaki Shikibu - Tale of Genji

Margaret Atwood - The Testaments

Elif Shafak - 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World

Lucy Ellmann - Ducks, Newburyport

Eliza Haywood - Fantomina

Eve Garnett - Family From One End Street

Diana Wynne Jones - Chrestomanci 

Eleanor H. Porter - Pollyanna

Agatha Christie - Murder is Easy

Agatha Christie - Caribbean Mystery

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Kate Williams - England's Mistress

Kate Williams - Becoming Queen

Kate Williams - Josephine

Kate Williams - Young Elizabeth

Kate Williams - Pleasures of Men

Kate Williams - Storms of War

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