This week we are delighted to peruse the bookshelves of author, performer and podcaster Janina Matthewson! Janina created the acclaimed novel Of Things Gone Astray and co-created the Welcome to Night Vale affiliated podcast Within the Wires. Her latest book, co-written with Night Vale creator Jeffrey Cranor is You Feel It Just Below the Ribs. We talked to her about Bridget Jones picnics, suitable Jane Austen husbands, Susanna Clarke, Sarah Perry and the power of the Princess Diaries.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Janina Matthewson - Of Things Gone Astray

Janina Matthewson & Jeffrey Cranor - You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

Patricia Lockwood - Priestdaddy

Sarah Perry - Melmoth

Patricia Lockwood - No One is Talking About This

Meg Cabot - Princess Diaries

Sarah Perry - Essex Serpent

Sarah Perry - After Me Comes the Flood

Agatha Christie - Short Stories

Agatha Christie - Death on the Niles

Witi Ihimaera - The Whale Rider

Lynley Dodd - Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy

Patricia Grace - Potiki

Elizabeth Knox - The Vintner's Luck

Elizabeth Knox - The Absolute Book

Ali Smith - How To Be Both

Donna Tarrt - The Secret History

Eva Ibbotson - The Song for Summer

Eva Ibbotson - The Secret Countess

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Maeve Binchy - Circle of Friends

Maeve Binchy - Evening Class

Maeve Binchy - Tara Road

Brit Bennett - The Vanishing Half

Julia Quinn - Bridgerton

Bryan Lee O'Malley - Scott Pilgrim

Aka Akasaka - Kaguya-sama: Love Is War

Anita Brookner - Fraud

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey

Michael Crichton - Jurassic Park

Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

Jean Webster - Daddy-Long-Legs

Stephen King - Joyland

Stephen King - On Writing

Stephen King - The Shining

Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca

Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Terry Pratchett - Small Gods

Terry Pratchett - The Hogfather

Tom Robbins - Still Life With Woodpecker

Fannie Flagg - Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe

Cassandra Peterson - Yours Cruelly, Elvira

Allena Hansen - Chomp Chomp Chomp

Various - Make More Noise

Mark Manson - Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck

Sarah Knight - Life Changing Magic of Not Giving a Fuck

Isabel Allende - Daughter of Fortune

Isabel Allende - House of the Spirits

Isabel Allende - Paula

Diana Wynne Jones - Howl's Moving Castle

Susanna Clarke - Ladies of Grace Adieu

Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

Susanna Clarke - Piranesi

Louis de Bernieres - Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Henry James - Complete Short Stories

CS Lewis - The Last Battle

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