We are so excited to welcome one of our absolute heroes to the podcast. It's Josie Long! Josie is an internationally renowned, beloved and multi-award-winning stand-up, podcaster, actor, playwright and radio presence. Her first short story collection, Because I Don't Know What You Mean and What You Don't has just been released. We talked to Josie about favourite short story collections, books to make you laugh on the bus, attempting sainthood, radical texts and trying to get your kids to love the books you love. Daisy will be attending the Queen's Reading Room Festival, look out for exclusive behind the scenes content on her Instagram page @TheDaisyBee. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack HERE. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com. BOOKS Josie Long - Because I Don't Know What You Mean and What You Don't Raymond Carver - What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Jean Rhys - Collected Short Stories ZZ Packer - Drinking Coffee Elsewhere Kelly Link - Get in Trouble Dan Rhodes - Anthropology Richard Yates - Collected Stories Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451 John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men Robin Cooper - Timewaster Letters Frankie Boyle - Meantime Shirley Hughes - Sally's Secret Rumer Godden - The Doll's House Arnold Lobel - Frog and Toad Michael Rosen - Book of Very Silly Poems Jacqueline Wilson - Story of Tracy Beaker Rumer Godden - Miss Happiness and Miss Flower Rumer Godden - Little Plum Barbara Sleigh - Carbonel Maurice Sendak - Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak - In the Night Kitchen Maurice Sendak - Outside Over There Dorothy Whipple - The Other Day Tyler Feder - Bodies Are Cool Roald Dahl - The Witches Virginia Sole Smith - Fat Talk Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea Fern Brady - Strong Female Character Katherine May - Electricity of Every Living Thing Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary Elizabeth Smart - By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept Ann Patchett - The Dutch House Ann Patchett - These Precious Days Brit Bennet - The Vanishing Half Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions Kurt Vonnegut - Slapstick Kurt Vonnegut - Timequake Kurt Vonnegut - Jailbird Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5 Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut - Galapagos Kurt Vonnegut - Man Without a Country Anne Tyler - Saint Maybe F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby Kate Pickett & Richard Wilkinson - The Spirit Level Nesrine Malik - We Need New Stories Lola Olufemi - Experiments in Imagining Otherwise Rebecca Solnit - Hope in the Dark Nathalie Olah - Steal As Much As You Can Alan Lane - Club on the Edge of Town James Schneider - Our Bloc Rob Hopkins - From What Is To What If Rius - Marx For Beginners Martin Rowson/Karl Marx - Communist Manifesto Howard Zinn - People's History of American Empire Alison Bechdel - Fun Home Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.