This week we are welcoming podcast, comedy and writerly royalty to the show. It's the amazing Cariad Lloyd! Cariad is the host of the podcasts Weirdos Book Club, alongside former guest Sara Pascoe, and the award-winning Griefcast, plus a book based on the podcast You Are Not Alone. She is an actor, comedian and improviser and has just released her first children's book The Christmas Wish-tastrophe (plus another one soon - revealed exclusively during the show!) We talked to her about helpful reading habits, the importance of a great booklight, good books about grief and a surprising literary obsession (with a former guest). Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Preorder your copy of Daisy's Read Yourself Happy by contacting The Margate Bookshop and visit Daisy's Substack to find out about her live dates. The episode is sponsored by Serious Readers. To get £100 off your HD Serious Readers reading lamp (and free delivery), visit seriousreaders.com/booked and use the code: BOOKED at checkout.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

Cariad Lloyd - You Are Not Alone

Cariad Lloyd - The Christmas Wishtastrophe

Lili Anolik - Didion and Babitz

JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

JRR Tolkien - The Hobbit

Brian Jacques - Mossflower

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

AA Milne - Winnie the Pooh

Brothers Grimm - Fairy Tales

Lynne Reid Banks - Fairy Rebel

Anne Fine - Diary of a Killer Cat

Terry Pratchett - Colour of Magic

Tove Jansson - Tales from Moominvalley

Astrid Lindgren - Pippi Longstocking

Nadia Shireen - Grimwood

Nadia Shireen - Billy and the Beast

Nadia Shireen - Bumblebear

Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Jill Murphy - Worst Witch

Philip Pullman - Northern Lights

Jeffrey Archer - As the Crow Flies

Roger Lewis - Erotic Vagrancy

Lucy Ellmann - Ducks Newburyport

George Saunders - Lincoln in the Bardo

George Saunders - Swim in the Pond in the Rain

Guadalupe Nettel - Still Born

Madeline Linford - Out of the Window

Tessa Hadley - Free Love

Joe Heap - Rules of Seeing

Hilary Mantel - Mirror and the Light

Charles Darwin - Bleak House

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

Douglas Stuart - Young Mungo

John Ransom - The Whale Tattoo

John Ransom - The Gallopers

Cariad Lloyd - Where Did She Go

Tom Percival - Ruby's Worry

Tom Percival - Meesha Makes Friends

Tom Percival - Perfectly Norman

Julia Donaldson - Paper Dolls

Oliver Jeffers - Heart and the Bottle

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Secret Garden

Nikki May - This Motherless Land

Jane Austen - Mansfield Park

Nikki May - Wahala

Ann Patchett - Tom Lake

Ann Patchett - Bel Canto

Octavia Butler - Kindred

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