What we read over lockdown

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

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