Show Notes
Join us this week as we delve into our favourite memoirs and recommend some bizarre stories of fame, feuds, cults, and figure skating. Of course, we also share the latest book news, current reads and what we plan to read next.
Book News
Close to Home by Michael Magee
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
Current reads
A Thousand Threads by Neneh Cherry
Lost Souls Meet Under A Full Moon by Mizuki Tsujimura
Lonely Castle In The Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura
Memoirs
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jeanette McCurdy
In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
Crying In H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Aftermath by Rachel Cusk
Dying of Politeness by Geena Davis
Bossy Pants by Tina Fey
Homesick: A Memoir by Jennifer Croft
The Extinction Of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft
Flights by Olga Tolkaczuk
The Books Of Jacob by Olga Tolkaczuk
Into The Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough
The Woman In Me by Britney Spears
Daisy Jones And The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
The Museum Of Lost And Fragile Things by Suzanne Joinson
The Sound Of Gravel by Ruth Wariner
Educated by Tara Westover
Stay True by Hua Hsu
Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick
Knife by Salman Rushdie
The Best Minds by Jonathan Rosen
Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby
This Is The Place To Be by Lara Pawson
What we’re reading next
The Coin by Yasmin Zaher
The Echoes by Evie Wyld
Days Of Light by Megan Hunter
Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser
Orlanda by Jacqueline Harpman
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
Also mentioned
The Harrison Chambers Of Distinction
Cool People Reading Podcast
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