Behold, some of the books I intend to read in the coming weeks and months. Most are new new and a few are just new to me.
Some of the below have been raved about by friends so I asked them to give their best sales pitch for why I/you should read them. I can assure you they have very good taste so you’re in safe hands.
Darling, India Knight recommended by Alice
“Come for the literary experiment of updating Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love to the present day; stay for escapism of the best kind (into other people's interior decor and love lives, mostly).”
The novel Mason wrote before Sorrow & Bliss which I adored. Interested to see what this is like.
Writers & Lovers, Lily King recommended by Emma Straub when I interviewed her in May
“I am very wary of novels about writing, but this one just slayed me. Grief, humour, and the limitless angst of being a young person who doesn't know quite which direction to go. Just lovely.”
The Light Years, Elizabeth Jane Howard recommended by Debs
“A dip in and out-able romp through a family’s 20th century experience. More characters than a Jilly Cooper novel and all the better for it.”
Vladimir, Julia May Jonas recommended by loads of people and all critics
Academia, power, desire, scandal.
Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley recommended by Emily
“New York editor Lola is engaged to marry an unobjectionable man she isn't sure is her 'one' – could that be why she keeps running into her exes? Reading Sloane Crosley's second novel is like engaging in a conversation about love and regret with your smart, neurotic, over analytical but still hopeful friend."
The Escape Artist, Jonathan Freedland recommended by…I can’t remember
Somebody raved about this to me but I can’t for the life of me think who. Anyway, it’s the story of Rudolf Vrba, who escaped Auschwitz in order to tell the world about its horrors and it’s supposed to be brilliant.
That’s it for now.
Let me know what’s on your book stack at the moment.
Happy reading!
Hannah