We are graced with undeniable literary royalty this week. It's the stupendous, legendary Jodi Picoult! Jodi Picoult is the New York Times bestselling author of 29 novels, including Mad Honey, Wish You Were Here, The Book of Two Ways, A Spark of Light, Small Great Things, Leaving Time, The Storyteller, Lone Wolf, Sing You Home, House Rules, Handle with Care, Change of Heart, and My Sister's Keeper, and, with her daughter Samantha van Leer, two young adult novels, Between the Lines and Off the Page. She has won numerous awards, including a lifetime achievement award from the Romance Writers of America, and her work has been translated into 34 languages. Her latest is the highly anticipated By Any Other Name. We talked to her about erotic Shakespeare poetry, the book that inspired her to be a writer, perfect books to swim to and the message Judy Blume wrote in Jodi's copy of Forever. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and see book tour dates and find out about Daisy's Creative Confidence Clinic writing course at Daisy's Substack. Find out more about Daisy's Read Yourself Happy retreat at Aweventurer.com/daisy. BOOKS Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy Jodi Picoult - By Any Other Name William Shakespeare - Complete Works Elizabeth Winkler - Shakespeare Was a Woman Maurice Sendak - Where the Wild Things Are Sydney Taylor - All-of-a-Kind Family Margaret Mitchell - Gone With the Wind Lauren Groff - The Vaster Wilds William Shakespeare - Complete Sonnets and Poems Judy Blume - Forever Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises Martin Amis - The Rachel Papers Rebecca Makkai - The Great Believers Don DeLillo - Underworld Lindsey Kelk - Love Story Emily Henry - Beach Read Brigid Kemmerer - A Curse So Dark and Lonely Scarlett St. Clair - A Touch of Darkness Amanda Bouchet - A Promise of Fire Maria Vale - Molly Molloy and the Angel of Death Edmond Rostand - Cyrano De Bergerac Leigh Bardugo - The Familiar Miranda July - All Fours Miranda July - No One Belongs Here More Than You William Thackeray - Vanity Fair Rebecca F Kuang - Yellowface Isak Dinesen - Babette's Feast and Other Stories Karen Blixen/Isak Dinesen - Out of Africa Karen Blixen/Isak Dinesen - Shadows in the Grass Joyce Carol Oates - Blonde LM Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery - Emily of New Moon Alice Hoffman - The Dovekeepers Alice Hoffman - The World That We Knew Jojo Moyes - Me Before You Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.