This week on You're Booked we're talking to the hugely acclaimed, bestselling author Lauren Groff! Lauren is our favourite type of guest - a massive, voracious and indiscriminate reader. Lauren is the three-time National Book Award finalist and The New York Times–bestselling author of the novels The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Fates and Furies and Matrix plus the short story collections Delicate Edible Birds and Florida. Her latest book is the amazing The Vaster Wilds. We talked to her about inappropriate early (caveman) reads, the joy of a huge book, Shakespeare's suckiest plays and reading poetry to your dog. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Writing Course HERE or email: [email protected]. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/booked BOOKS Daisy Buchanan - Limelight Lauren Groff - The Vaster Wilds Lauren Groff - Fates and Furies Lauren Groff - Matrix Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace George Eliot - Middlemarch Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice Else Holmelund Minarik - Little Bear Jean M. Auel - Clan of the Cave Bear Philip Roth - Portnoy's Complaint Aesop - Fables Francoise Sagan - Bonjour Tristesse EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady Katherine May - Wintering Katherine May - Electricity of Every Living Thing Vasily Grossman - Life and Fate Cervantes - Don Quixote Jen Beagin - Big Swiss Herman Melville - Moby Dick Jon Fosse - Septology Lucy Ellmann - Ducks Newburyport Zadie Smith - On Beauty Zadie Smith - NW Zadie Smith - Changing My Mind David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest Monica Heisey - Really Good Actually Julia Whelan - My Oxford Year Julia Whelan - Thank You For Listening Emily Dickinson - Collected Poems Kaveh Akbar - Pilgrim Bell Kaveh Akbar - Martyr Ada Limon - The Carrying Homer / Emily Wilson - Iliad Homer / Emily Wilson - The Odyssey Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare - Hamlet Shakespeare - Richard III Shakespeare - Pericles Katherine Heiny - Single Carefree Mellow Rachel Cusk - Outline Christopher Isherwood - Berlin Stories Sean DeLear - I Could Not Believe It Jenny Erpenbeck - Kairos Don DeLillo - Libra Don DeLillo - White Noise Don DeLillo - Underworld Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.