For Girls and Gays: Caroline O’Donoghue, Sad Gay Lit and Life-Changing Non-Fiction
STACK with Jake and EllaShow Notes
This week’s STACK is all about the girls and the gays. Jake and Ella cover books that speak to their identities, others that help them to understand other perspectives and Ella reads The Lamb after Jake’s review last week.
The books featured in this week’s STACK: 04.45 Amateur - Thomas Page McBee 09.05 The Rachel Incident - Caroline O’Donoghue 12.23 Period Power - Maisie Hill 16.05 I Leave It Up To You - Jinwoo Chong 17.50 A Marvellous Light - Freya Marske 21.05 A Home At The End of the World - Michael Cunningham
Also featured: The Lamb - Lucy Rose Amazing Grace Adams - Fran Littlewood Great Circle - Maggie Shipstead The Binding - Bridget Collins
The Stack is a books podcast helping you cut through the noise to fall in love - and stay in love - with reading. Each fortnight, we’ll be sharing curated lists on a theme of the books that are worth your time.
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