Books are truly the most important things! Here’s an alphabetical and exhaustive list of all the books we’ve mentioned in the podcast or on the blog, with links towards retailers. For each book we say in which episode(s) or blog post(s) it was mentioned, discussed, or reviewed. Links to blog reviews are provided. Hope it’s helpful!
- Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (Puffin) Ep.6
- J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan (Puffin) Ep.1
- Malorie Blackman, Boys Don’t Cry (Corgi) Discussed in Ep.10
- Malorie Blackman, Noughts and Crosses (Corgi) Discussed in Ep.10
- Judy Blume, Forever (Macmillan) Discussed in Ep. 10
- Sita Brahmachari, Artichoke Hearts (Macmillan) Discussed in Ep. 4 & Ep.12, Reviewed here
- Sita Brahmachari, Jasmine Skies (Macmillan) Discussed in Ep.12.
- Anthony Browne, Zoo (Red Fox) Mentioned here
- Melvin Burgess, Junk (Puffin) Discussed in Ep.1, mentioned here
- Melvin Burgess, Doing It (Penguin) Mentioned here and discussed in Ep.10
- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland (Many editions available) Ep. 1
- Babette Cole, Princess Smartypants (Puffin) Mentioned here
- Roald Dahl, George’s Marvellous Medicine (Puffin) Mentioned here
- Richard Dawkins & Dave McKean, The Magic of Reality (Bantam) Discussed in Ep8
- Terry Deary, Horrible Histories series (Scholastic) Discussed in Ep8
- Timothée de Fombelle, Toby Alone (Walker Books) Translated by S. Ardizzone. Reviewed here.
- Jenny Downham, Before I Die (David Fickling) Reviewed here
- Clive Goddard, Fintan Fedora the World’s Worst Explorer (Scholastic) Reviewed here
- Uderzo Goscinny,Asterix (Orion Children’s Books) Discussed Ep.7
- Keith Gray, Losing It (Andersen Press) Discussed in Ep.10
- Armin Greder, The Island (Allen & Unwin) Mentioned here
- Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (David Fickling) Ep.1, Ep.2
- Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls (Scholastic) Reviewed here
- Mia James, By Midnight (Golliancz) Ep.5
- Lauren Kate, Fallen (Corgi) Ep.5
- Stephen Kelman, Pigeon English (Bloomsbury) Discussed in Ep.1
- Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Puffin) Discussed in Ep.7
- Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking (OUP) Discussed in Ep.7
- Karin Littlewood, Immi (Gallane) Reviewed here
- Lois Lowry, The Giver (HarperCollins) Ep.1
- Lois Lowry, The Willoughbys (Boxer Books) Discussed in Ep.7
- Ian McEwan, The Daydreamer (Vintage, Red Fox) ‘Adult‘ Edition, ‘Children’s‘ Edition. Ep.1
- Stephenie Meyer, Twilight series (Little, Brown) Ep.1, Ep.2, Ep.5, Ep.10
- Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go series (Walker Books) Ep.2, Discussed here
- John Newman, Mimi (Walker) Reviewed in Ep. 2
- David McKee, Tusk Tusk (Andersen) Discussed here
- Jan Pienkowski, Haunted House (Walker Books) Discussed in Ep.7
- Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (Scholastic) Ep.2, Ep.6
- Bali Rai, Killing Honour (Corgi) Ep.6
- Bali Rai, (Un)arranged Marriage (Corgi) Discussed in Ep.6
- Louise Rennison, Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging (Harpercollins Childrens) Discussed Ep.7
- Michael Rosen & Quentin Blake, Michael Rosen’s Sad Book (Walker) Discussed in Ep.8
- Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now (Puffin) Ep.1
- Meg Rosoff, There Is No Dog (Puffin) Discussed in Ep.6
- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter series (Bloomsbury) Discussed in Ep.1
- Louis Sachar, Holes (Bloomsbury) Ep.1
- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (Penguin) Ep.1
- Francesa Simon and Tony Ross, Horrid Henry (Orion) Mentioned here
- R.L. Stine, Goosebumps series (Scholastic) Ep.2
- Cecily von Zeigesar, Gossip Girl (Bloomsbury) dicussed in Ep.10
- David Walliams, Billionaire Boy (HarperCollins Children’s) Reviewed here
- David Walliams, Gangsta Granny (HarperCollins Children’s) Dicussed Ep.7
- Rachel Ward, Numbers (Chickenhouse) Reviewed in Ep.1 and discussed in Ep.10
- L.A. Weatherly, Angel (Usborne) Reviewed here; Ep.5
- Jacqueline Wilson, Little Darlings (Yearling) Reviewed here
- Jacqueline Wilson, The Suitcase Kid (Yearling) Mentioned here
Why we link to Waterstones.
We believe that in order to support the publishing industry, the authors, the illustrators, the agents, it is very important to buy from actual bookstores such as, but in no way limited to, Waterstones. We’re not rich – Clementine is a student and Lauren works in publishing, remember! – but we do try to buy from real bookshops as often as possible, and we want to encourage you to do so too.
So we link the books listed here to the Waterstones website rather than Amazon because we like bookstores and we think Amazon does not help the industry as much. But of course we’re equally delighted if you buy the books from any bookstore – especially independent. And alternatively, of course, borrowing them from libraries will support libraries!
