We're back!
To start series two we both talk through some of the books we read during lockdown, as we face another one. From fiction through to books we lent and borrowed (and we know how picky Jess is about who she lends books to) we try and fit it all into 40 mins.
We would like to encourage anyone looking to buy any of the books we mentioned to do so through the new bookshop.org. A new website and centre for independent bookshops — simply search up any book and be pointed in the direction of a local bookshop who stocks it.
Jess:
The Last Samurai - Helen Dewitt
Sweet Sorrow - David Nicholls
We Both Laughed in Pleasure - Lou Sullivan
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Mostly Dead Things - Kristen Arnett
Right After the Weather - Carol Anshaw
Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race
The Good Immigrant - edited by Nikesh Shukla
Summer - Ali Smith
Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata
Carceral Capitalism - Jackie Wang
We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
Abby:
Insomniac City- Bill Hayes
Denying the Holocaust- Deborah Lipstadt
100 Artists' Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists- Alex Danchev
Catch and Kill- Ronan Farrow
No Visible Bruises- Rachel Louise Snyder
Night Film- Marissa Pessl
Lost at Sea- Jon Ronson
Convenience Store Women- Sayaka Murata
In the Miso Soup- Ryu Murakami
American Psycho- Brett Easton Ellis
We Both Laughed in Pleasure- Lou Sullivan
Trans, a Memoir- Juliet Jacques
Twilight- Stephenie Meyer
The Pisces- Melissa Broder
A Little Life- Hanya Yanagihara