We are so excited to welcome one of our absolute heroes to the podcast. It's Josie Long! Josie is an internationally renowned, beloved and multi-award-winning stand-up, podcaster, actor, playwright and radio presence. Her first short story collection, Because I Don't Know What You Mean and What You Don't has just been released. We talked to Josie about favourite short story collections, books to make you laugh on the bus, attempting sainthood, radical texts and trying to get your kids to love the books you love. Daisy will be attending the Queen's Reading Room Festival, look out for exclusive behind the scenes content on her Instagram page @TheDaisyBee. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack HERE. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com.
BOOKS
Josie Long - Because I Don't Know What You Mean and What You Don't
Raymond Carver - What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Jean Rhys - Collected Short Stories
ZZ Packer - Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Kelly Link - Get in Trouble
Dan Rhodes - Anthropology
Richard Yates - Collected Stories
Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
Robin Cooper - Timewaster Letters
Frankie Boyle - Meantime
Shirley Hughes - Sally's Secret
Rumer Godden - The Doll's House
Arnold Lobel - Frog and Toad
Michael Rosen - Book of Very Silly Poems
Jacqueline Wilson - Story of Tracy Beaker
Rumer Godden - Miss Happiness and Miss Flower
Rumer Godden - Little Plum
Barbara Sleigh - Carbonel
Maurice Sendak - Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak - In the Night Kitchen
Maurice Sendak - Outside Over There
Dorothy Whipple - The Other Day
Tyler Feder - Bodies Are Cool
Roald Dahl - The Witches
Virginia Sole Smith - Fat Talk
Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea
Fern Brady - Strong Female Character
Katherine May - Electricity of Every Living Thing
Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary
Elizabeth Smart - By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Ann Patchett - The Dutch House
Ann Patchett - These Precious Days
Brit Bennet - The Vanishing Half
Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut - Slapstick
Kurt Vonnegut - Timequake
Kurt Vonnegut - Jailbird
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5
Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut - Galapagos
Kurt Vonnegut - Man Without a Country
Anne Tyler - Saint Maybe
F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
Kate Pickett & Richard Wilkinson - The Spirit Level
Nesrine Malik - We Need New Stories
Lola Olufemi - Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
Rebecca Solnit - Hope in the Dark
Nathalie Olah - Steal As Much As You Can
Alan Lane - Club on the Edge of Town
James Schneider - Our Bloc
Rob Hopkins - From What Is To What If
Rius - Marx For Beginners
Martin Rowson/Karl Marx - Communist Manifesto
Howard Zinn - People's History of American Empire
Alison Bechdel - Fun Home
Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday
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