This week we're in a top secret London interrogation room location with Nikesh Shukla, the author, broadcaster and essayist. His third novel, The One Who Wrote Destiny was published to great acclaim this Spring. Nikesh is also the creator and editor of the bestselling essay collection The Good Immigrant. We talked to him about childhood reads, early inspirations and literary annoyances (n.b. if you're Jonathan Franzen you might not want to listen to this one).

BOOKS

Nikesh Shukla - The One Who Wrote Destiny

Nikesh Shukla (ed) - The Good Immigrant

Nikesh Shukla - Run Riot

Nikesh Shukla - Meat Space

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment

Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4

Aidan McFarlane, Ann McPherson - The Diary of a Teenage Health Freak

Gary Paulsen - Hatchet

Hanif Kureishi - The Buddha of Suburbia

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Jonathan Franzen - Freedom

Howard Jacobson - The Finkler Question

Howard Jacobson - Zoo Time

James Ellroy - Dudley Smith Trio

AL Kennedy - The Little Snake

Harper Lee - Go Set a Watchman

Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird

Hari Kunzru - White Tears

Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie - The Wicked + The Divine

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