We are so, so excited about this one. Abi Daré wrote one of our favourite books of all time, the unforgettable novel The Girl with the Louding Voice. She has just released a sequel And So I Roar, which is just as compelling and delightful as the original. In a fascinating, revealing conversation, Abi discusses the contents of her 'Do Not Delete' folder, the importance of showing up for work, the power of the Famous Five, inspirational re-reads and the happiness experienced when a character's voice returns to you. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and see book tour dates at Daisy's Substack. Find out more about Daisy's Read Yourself Happy retreat at Aweventurer.com/daisy

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

Abi Daré - The Girl with the Louding Voice

Abi Daré - And So I Roar

Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Zadie Smith - White Teeth

Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge

Enid Blyton - Famous Five

Sidney Sheldon - The Other Side of Midnight

Carolyn Keene - Nancy Drew

Enid Blyton - Mallory Towers

James Patterson - Roses Are Red

John Grisham - The Rainmaker

Oyinkan Braithwaite - My Sister the Serial Killer

Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart

Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns

Alice Walker - Colour Purple

Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle

Tara Westover - Educated

Nadia Owusu - Aftershocks

Safiya Sinclair - How To Say Babylon

Ocean Vuong - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry

Emily St John Mandel - Station 11

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

Catherine Newman - Sandwich

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Balli Kaur Jaswal - Now You See Us

William Boyd - Mirror and the Road

William Boyd - Brazzaville Beach

William Boyd - Any Human Heart

Julia Cameron - The Artist's Way

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Charmaine Wilkerson - Good Dirt

Foluso Agbaje - Parlour Wife

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This week we are entertaining crime writing royalty on the podcast as we welcome the legend that is Dr Kathy Reichs! Kathy is a forensic anthropologist and academic who, amongst many other things, taught FBI agents how to detect and recover human remains. She used her forensic knowledge to create the character Temperance Brennan and the first Temperance book, Deja Dead, won the 1997 Ellis Award for Best First Novel. Many other novels followed including Death du Jour, Deadly Decisions, Fatal Voyage, Monday Mourning and many more. She also co-authored the Virals young adult series with her son, Brendan Reichs. Her latest thriller is Fire and Bones. Kathy also produced and wrote the hit TV series, Bones, which is based on her work and her novels. We talked to her about the mystery of the mobile library, the joy of audio books and the best forensic science books for kids! Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and see book tour dates at Daisy's Substack. Find out more about Daisy's Read Yourself Happy retreat at Aweventurer.com/daisy

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

Kathy Reichs - Fire and Bones

Kathy Reichs - Deja Dead

Ian Rankin - A Heart Full of Headstones

Michael Connelly - Desert Star

Karin Slaughter - Pieces of Her

Dennis Lehane - Small Mercies

Kathy Reichs - Virals

Carolyn Keene - Nancy Drew

Howard Pyle - Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Michael Connelly - Concrete Blond

Siri Hustvedt - What I Loved

Douglas P. Lyle - Forensics For Dummies

Chris Cooper - Forensic Science

Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes

HA Rey - Curious George

JRR Tolkien - The Hobbit

Cixin Liu - The Three Body Problem

Erik Larson - Devil in the White City

Erik Larson - Isaac's Strom

Truman Capote - In Cold Blood

Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's

Brene Brown - Daring Greatly

Kathy Reichs - Death Du Jour

Jacqueline Winspear - The Comfort of Ghosts

Alex Finlay - The Night Shift

Joseph Finder - Oligarch's Daughter

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This week on the show we're delighted to present the legend that is Robin Ince! Robin is an acclaimed stand-up, star of Infinite Monkey Cage, podcast host and the author of Importance of Being Interested, I'm a Joke, Bibliomaniac and more! We talked to him outside the Tom Thumb Theatre in Margate (sorry about the extraneous noise) about obsessive book collecting, Kurt Vonnegut's library, the importance of art and what to say when you meet Patti Smith. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and see book tour dates at Daisy's Substack...

BOOKS

Robin Ince - Bibliomaniac

Rosie Dixon - Confessions from a Package Tour

Rosie Dixon - Confessions of a Physical WRAC

Jeremy Cooper - Brian

Geoff Dyer - Zona

Geoff Dyer - Colour of Memory

Geoff Dyer - But Beautiful

Lisa Jewell - Ralph's Party

Boris and Arkady Strugatsky - Roadside Picnic

Geoff Dyer - Broadsword Calling Danny Boy

Various - For Ian Charleson: A Tribute

Nancy Friday - My Secret Garden

Margaret Rutherford - Autobiography

Margaret Rutherford - A Blithe Spirit

Robert Helpmann - Album

Kenneth Williams - Diaries

William Hughes - Performance

Henry Williamson - Tarka the Otter

Josie Long - Because I Don't Know What You Mean and What You Don't

Fern Brady - Strong Female Character

Katherine May - Wintering

Jean Rhys - Good Morning Midnight

Sinead O Connor - Rememberings

Diana Athill - Stet

Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea

Miranda Seymour - Haunted Life of Jean Rhys

Jean Rhys - Letters

Camilla Grudova - Children of Paradise

Camilla Grudova - Dolls Alphabet

Octavia Butler - Parable of the Sower

Toni Morrison - Beloved

Margaret Atwood - Handmaid's Tale

Lewis Hancox - Welcome To St Hell

Natasha Walter - Living Dolls

Natasha Walter - Before the Light Fades

The Cut - Assisted Suicide...

Miranda July - All Fours

Laura Bates - Men Who Hate Women

Natalie Haynes - Divine Might

Sam Hunter - Robert Rauschenberg

Olivia Laing - Funny Weather

John Updike - More Matter

William Burroughs - Junky

Alexander Trocchi - Cain's Book

Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 100 Years of Solitude

Michael Blair & Joe Bucciero - Young Marble Giants' Colossal Youth

Martin Ed Myrone - Gothic Reader

Colin MacInnes - Absolute Beginners

Sinead Gleason & Kim Gordon - This Woman's Work

Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train

Patricia Highsmith - Price of Salt

Arundhati Roy - AZADI

Alan Moore - Lost Girls

John Hegley - New & Selected Potatoes

John Le Carre - Letters

Polly Barton - Fifty Sounds

Polly Barton - Porn

Ronan Hession - Leonard & Hungry Paul

Maggie Nelson - Bluets

Edna O'Brien - Country Girls

Claire Keegan - Foster

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This week on the podcast, we visit the home of one of our favourite authors and favourite people, the brilliant Ericka Waller! Ericka is an award-winning columnist and the author of the acclaimed novels Dogs Days and Goodbye Birdie Greenwing. And, as you will hear, she is a voracious reader. We talked to her about filthy books, snacks in kids books and the genius of John Shuttleworth. Find out more about the books Ericka mentioned at our Bookshop.org store. Order Daisy's new novel Pity Party HERE. More about the London Writer's Salon Podcast HERE.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

Ericka Waller - Dog Days

Ericka Waller - Goodbye Birdie Greenwing

Cathy Rentzenbrink - Everyone is Still Alive

V. V. Ganeshananthan - Brotherless Night

Ann Morgan - Reading the World

Kristin Hannah - The Women

Isabella Hammad - Enter Ghost

Sarah Moss - The Good Bright Wolf

Sophie Kinsella - Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Hans Christian Andersen - Matchstick Girl

Joanna Quinn - Whalebone Theatre

Michelle Magorian - Back Home

Michelle Magorian - A Little Love Song

Tayari Jones - An American Marriage

Ann Patchett - State of Wonder

Eva Ibbotson - Journey To the River Sea

Anne Tyler - Accidental Tourist

Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser

Rebecca Makkai - The Great Believers

Ruth Coker Burks - All the Young Men

Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City

Armistead Maupin - Logical Family

Emma Donoghue - The Pull of the Stars

Jerry Zucker - True Story of Airplane!

Maeve Binchy - Scarlet Feather

Maeve Binchy - Circle of Friends

Maeve Binchy - Evening Class

Maeve Binchy - The Return Journey

Colm Toibin - Brooklyn

Colm Toibin - Long Island

Tommy Cooper - Joke Book

John Shuttleworth - Two Margarines

EL James - 50 Shades of Grey

Rachel Ingalls - Mrs Caliban

Melissa Broder - The Pisces

Crystal Jeans - The Inverts

Paullina Simons - Bronze Horseman

Paullina Simons - Girl in Times Square

Marian Keyes - My Favourite Mistake

Marian Keyes - Sushi For Beginners

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Nathan Hill - Wellness

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos - Liaisons Dangereuse

Philippe Djian - Betty Blue

Penelope Douglas - Bully

LJ Shen - Hunter

Sebastian Faulks - Birdsong

Ali Hazelwood - Love Hypothesis

Sally Thorne - Hating Game

Lindsey Kelk - Love Story

Emily Henry - Beach Read

Casey McQuiston - Red White and Royal Blue

Anthony Doerr - Cloud Cuckoo Land

Anthony Doerr - All The Light...

Claire Lombardo - Most Fun We Ever Had

Claire Lombardo - Same As It Ever Was

Catherine Newman - We All Want...

Tish Delaney - Before My Actual Heart Breaks

Miriam Toews - Fight Night

Mhairi McFarlane - Between Us

Jane Green - Jemima J

Freya North - Sally

Andy Weir - Project Hail Mary

Louise Beech - Lion Tamer Who Lost

Emma Jane Kirby - Optician of Lampedusa

Harriet F Townson - D is for Death

Coco Mellors - Blue Sisters

Brianna Labuskes - Librarian of Burned Books

Liz Hyder - The Illusions

Joseph O'Connor - Star of the Sea

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Our series 15 cavalcade of champions continues with the wonderful Catherine Gray! Catherine is an award-winning author, editor and podcaster whose writing has been seen in the Guardian, Stylist, Telegraph, Grazia and Stella. Catherine's hit debut book, The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober, became a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller, followed by the acclaimed The Unexpected Joy of the Ordinary, The Unexpected Joy of Being Single and Sunshine Warm Sober. Her debut novel Versions of a Girl has just been released. We talked to her about sobriety memoirs, formative reads, historical troublemakers, David Sedaris writing advice and more on the often fraught Fanny Price debate.Find out more about all the books Catherine mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store.

Order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and enter the Pity Party competition and see book tour dates at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic...

BOOKS

Catherine Gray - Versions of a Girl

Catherine Gray - The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober

Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca

Augusten Burroughs - Dry

Sarah Hepola - Blackout

Mark Williams and Denny Penman - Mindfulness

Sasha Scoblic - Unwasted

Rolad Dahl - James and the Giant Peach

Lois Lowry - Anastasia Krupnik

The School of Life - How To Overcome Your Childhood

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Philip Pullman - Northern Lights

Anne Helen Petersen - Can't Even

Vendela Veda - We Run the Tides

Catherine Newman - Sandwich

Celeste Ng - Little Fires Everywhere

Coco Mellors - Blue Sisters

Kiley Reid - Come and Get it

Jane Austen - Mansfield Park

Jane Austen - Emma

Nikki May - Wahala

Nikki May - This Motherless Land

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Sylvia Townsend Warner - Lolly Willowes

Katherine May - The Electricity of Every Living Thing

Elspeth Barker - O Caledonia

Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Jean Rhys - Good Morning Midnight

Jay McInerney - Bright Lights Big City

Jay McInerney - The Story of My Life

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser

Catherine Newman - We All Want Impossible Things

Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Curtis Sittenfeld - American Wife

David Sedaris - The Best of Me

Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Joan Didion - Let Me Tell You What I Mean

Clare Keegan - Foster

Frances Quinn - That Bone Setter Woman

Jodi Picoult - By Any Other Name

Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry

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Here's a bonus treat! And what a treat! To celebrate the release of Daisy's brand new book Pity Party, here's a very special live edition of You're Booked recorded at the glorious Bath Assembly Halls. Three returning champions - Nikki May, AJ Pearce and Andrew Hunter Murray - talk about their favourite Persephone Books in front of an audience of rabid Persephone fans, at the recent Persephone Festival, celebrating 25 years of the UK's premier publishing house. Each author picked and discussed their Persephone faves, plus other Persephones they love, consider the books they'd love to reissue and reveal the influence that authors such as Dorothy Whipple, RC Sherriff, Winifred Watson and DE Stevenson have had on their writing. Be warned - this episode will add many tomes to your TBR pile.

Order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and enter the Pity Party competition and see book tour dates at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic...

BOOKS

Nikki May - Wahala

Nikki May - This Motherless Land

AJ Pearce - Dear Mrs Bird

AJ Pearce - Yours Cheerfully

AJ Pearce - Mrs Porter Calling

Andrew Hunter Murray - A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering

Andrew Hunter Murray - The Sanctuary

DE Stevenson - Miss Buncle's Book

RC Sherriff - Fortnight in September

Winifred Watson - Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day

RC Sherriff - The Hopkins Manuscript

Bill Bryson - Notes From a Small Island

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Dorothy Whipple - High Wages

Lauren Weisberger - The Devil Wears Prada

Dorothy Whipple - Somewhere at a Distance

Andy McNabb - Bravo Two Zero

Jane Austen - Mansfield Park

Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Cazelet Chronicles

DE Stevenson - The Two Mrs Abbots

Dorothy Whipple - Random Commentary

RC Sherriff - Greengates

RC Sherriff - Journey's End

Eleanor Graham - The Children Who Live in a Barn

E Nesbit - The Lark

Michelle Magorian - A Little Love Song

Dorothy Whipple - Short Stories

RF Kuang - Yellowface

Percival Everett - Erasure

Marghanita Laski - To Bed With Grand Music

Rachel Ferguson - Alas Poor Lady

Vere Hodgson - Few Eggs and No Oranges

Mollie Panter-Downes - War Notes

Noel Streatfeild - Saplings

DE Stevenson - Miss Buncle Married

Monica Dickens - Marianna

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Richmal Crompton - Family Roundabout

PD James - Children of Men

Mollie Panter-Downes - Good Evening Mrs Craven

Dorothy Whipple - They Knew Mr Knight

Mary Wesley - Harnessing Peacocks

Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

Pauline Burgess - Pony Party

Ruby Ferguson - Jill's Gymkhana

Emily St John Mandel - Station 11

Virginia Graham - Consider the Years

Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Marian Keyes - My Favourite Mistake

Dorothy Whipple - Young Anne

Dorothy Whipple - They Were Sisters

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The series 15 litany of legends continues with the man commonly known as Dr Buckles - yes, it's Adam Buxton! As you are all aware, Adam is a writer, comedian, massively successful podcast host, Bowie aficionado and the author of the bestselling memoir Ramble Book (with the sequel on its way - as you will hear). He's also responsible for You're Booked, as the podcast was 'inspired' by the Vinyl Justice segment of The Adam and Joe Show. We talked to him about Bowie book choices, trying to sleep with Edgar Allen Poe, funny books and saucy dreams involving June Whitfield. Find a full list of the books Adam mentioned at our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and enter the Pity Party competition and see book tour dates at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic... The episode is sponsored by Serious Readers. To get £100 off your HD Serious Readers reading lamp (and free delivery), visit seriousreaders.com/booked and use the code: BOOKED at checkout.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

Adam Buxton - Ramble Book

Nina Stibbe - Went to London, Took the Dog

Nina Stibbe - Love Nina

Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose

Patrick O'Brian - Master and Commander

Roger Hargreaves - Mister Men

Enid Blyton - Magic Faraway Tree

CS Lewis - The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

Roald Dahl - James and the Giant Peach

Major P R Reid - Colditz

MR James - Ghost Stories

Edgar Allen Poe - The Black Cat

Edgar Allen Poe - Pit and the Pendulum

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Thomas Hardy - Mayor of Casterbridge

Virginia Woolf - To The Lighthouse

JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye

David Bowie's Top 100 Favourite Books

Charles Baudelaire - Flowers of Evil

Vance Packard - The Hidden Persuaders

Neil Postman - Amusing Ourselves To Death

George Orwell - 1984

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

Colin Wilson - The Outsider

Nik Cohn -Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom

Sarah Waters - Fingersmith

Craig Marks & Rob Tannenbaum - I Want My MTV

Zadie Smith - Feel Free

Adam Gopnik - A Thousand Small Sanities

Frederick Douglass - Narrative of Frederick Douglass

Bayard Rustin - Time on Two Crosses

Michel De Montaigne - Complete Essays

Winifred Watson - Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

R.C. Sherriff - Fortnight in September

DE Stevenson - Miss Buncle's Book

Tessa Norton & Bob Stanley - Excavate!: The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall

David Sedaris - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Fran Lebowitz - The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Steve Martin - Born Standing Up

Tim Key - He Used Thought For a Wife

Tim Key - Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush

Daniil Kharms - Russian Absurd

Julian Fellowes - Snobs

Susan Sontag - On Photography

Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

Benjamin Moser - Sontag

Judith Schalansky - An Inventory of Losses

Sloan Crossley - Grief is for People

Jarvis Cocker - Good Pop Bad Pop

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Our series of legends continues with the novelist, short story writer, playwright and podcaster Irenosen Okojie MBE! Irenosen's debut, Butterfly Fish, won the Betty Trask Award and her short story collection, Speak Gigantular was shortlisted for the Edgehill Short Story Prize, the Saboteur Awards and nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award. Her collection Nudibranch was selected as one of the best books of the year in the Guardian. She was a judge for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2023 and in 2021 she was awarded an MBE For Services to Literature. Her latest work is the highly anticipated novel Curandera. We talked to her about poetry, charity shop finds, inspirational short stories and the inside scoop on the Women's Prize Whatsapp group. Find a full list of the books Irenosen mentioned at our Bookshop.org store. Pre-order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and enter the Pity Party competition and book tour dates at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic... The episode is sponsored by Serious Readers. To get £100 off your HD Serious Readers reading lamp (and free delivery), visit seriousreaders.com/booked and use the code: BOOKED at checkout.

BOOKS

Irenosen Okojie - Curandera

Irenosen Okojie - Nudibranch

Rachel Ingalls - Mrs Caliban

June Jordan - Essential

Lemn Sissay - Let the Light Pour In

Sylvia Plath - Collected

Katherine May - Wintering

Maggie O'Farrell - I Am I Am I Am

Sinead Gleason - Hagstone

Margaret Atwood - Cat's Eye

Jamaica Kincaid - At the Bottom of the River

Lauren Groff - Matrix

Toni Morrison - Beloved

Jackie Collins - The Stud

Maggie Nelson - Bluets

Maggie Nelson - Argonauts

Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

David Nicholls - Us

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time

Carol Shields - Larry's Party

Laline Paull - Pod

Camilla Grudova - Doll's Alphabet

Camilla Grudova - Coiled Serpent

Jacqueline Crooks - Fire Rush

Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead

Lauren Bravo - Probably Nothing

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Son

Torrey Peters - Detransition Baby

Andrea Lawlor - Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

Octavia Butler - Parable of the Sower

Octavia Butler - Wild Seed

Miranda July - Nobody Belongs Here More Than You

Deborah Levy - Black Vodka

Rachel Ingalls - No Love Lost

Leone Ross - Come Let Us Sing Anyway

Leone Ross - This One Sky Day

Denis Johnson - Jesus' Son

Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train

J. California Cooper - Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime

Raymond Carver - Cathedral

Tawseef Khan - Determination

Victoria Kennefick - Egg/Shell

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