You're Booked
Dawn O'Porter - You're Booked
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This week we are in the esteemed company of novelist, journalist, broadcaster and all-around inspiration, the wonderful Dawn O'Porter! Dawn is the author of the bestselling mega-hits The Cows, So Lucky, Cat Lady and her latest is the highly anticipated sequel to Paper Aeroplanes and Goose, Honey Bee. She has presented a vast array of television documentaries and hosts the 'Dawn Loves' WH Smith book club. We talked to her about the genius of Jeanette Winterson, inappropriate honeymoon beach reading, books about farts and how deviating from the TBR pile can lead you to your new favourite book. 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 and virtual appearances at Daisy's Substack. Find out more about Daisy's Read Yourself Happy retreat at Aweventurer.com/daisy.
BOOKS
Dawn O'Porter - Honey Bee
Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Jeanette Winterson - Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal
Dawn O'Porter - Paper Aeroplanes
Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train
Paul Murray - The Bee Sting
Miriam Toews - All My Puny Sorrows
Miriam Toews -Fight Night
Chris Whitaker - All The Colours of the Dark
Jonathan Abrams - The Come Up
Taylor Jenkins Reid - Carrie Soto is Back
Taylor Jenkins Reid - Malibu Rising
Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the Six
Eve Babitz - Eve's Hollywood
Eve Babitz - Two By Two
Eve Babitz - I Used to be Charming
Nora Ephron - Crazy Salad
Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life
Charles Dickens - Bleak House
Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy
Emily St John Mandel - Station 11
James Carlisle - The Big Book of Farts
JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone
Lionel Shriver - We Need To Talk About Kevin
Lisa Jewell - None of This is True
Dawn O'Porter - Cat Lady
Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Miranda July - The First Bad Man
Miranda July - All Fours
Elaine Dundy - Dud Avocado
Asako Yuzuki - Butter
Kaveh Akbar - Martyr
Caleb Azumah Nelson - Open Water
Laura Dockrill - I Love You, I Love You, I Love You
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