We've got Zott! Or the closest we're going to get until we can convince fictional characters to come onto the podcast. Yes, it's Lessons in Chemistry author Bonnie Garmus! Bonnie's book, about chemist turned TV cook Elizabeth Zott (and her dog Six-Thirty) has been a huge and already beloved international bestseller, translated into 39 languages and with a TV adaptation in the works. We talked to her about, unsurprisingly, dogs in literature, plus the importance of Harriet the Spy, how science could save the world in a myriad of ways and how poets have the roughest time in literature. For your chance to appear on the podcast, pre-order Daisy's next book Limelight from Bookshop.org. Visit Daisy's Instagram page to enter the Careering cover creation challenge! And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com.

BOOKS

Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry

Oscar Wilde - Only Dull People are Brilliant at Breakfast

Louise Fitzhugh - Harriet the Spy

Louise Fitzhugh - The Long Secret

Leslie Brody - Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh

Charles Schulz - Peanuts

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment

Kate Baer - What Kind of Woman

Ocean Vuong - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary

Joseph Heller - Catch 22

Jack Kerouac - On the Road

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

Donna Tartt - Secret History

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

Barbara Kingsolver - Poisonwood Bible

John Irving - World According To Garp

Steven Pinker - Rationality

Kevin Wilson - Now is Not the Time to Panic

Kevin Wilson - Nothing to See Here

Coco Mellors - Cleopatra and Frankenstein

Erich Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front

EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady

Fern Brady - Strong Female Character

Katherine May - Electricity of Every Living Thing

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love

Charles Dickens - Christmas Carol

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Ed Yong - An Immense World

Eric Knight - Lassie Come Home

Jim Kjelgaard - Big Red

Ayisha Malik - The Movement

Aesop - Fables

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