Today booksellers Olivia, Rachel and Laura discuss the ones that got away. Prepare to be shocked when we reveal the books we know we should have read, the books our customers assume we have read, the books we really really want to read one day. These are the books we have on our metaphorical (and literal) retirement shelves waiting for the day they can be savoured and enjoyed. Or maybe we'll have to get to them earlier...
Books mentioned in this episode:
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
All the Light we Cannot See and Clou Cuckoo Land by Antony Doerr
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Cutting for Stone and A Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
The Seven Sister series by Lucinda Riley
The Overstory and Bewilderment by Richard Powers
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
I am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
I am, I am, I am by Maggie O'Farrell
The Disposed and Earth Sea trilogy by Ursula Le Guin
Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Road Ends by Mary Lawson
The Searcher and The Hunter by Tana French
The Secret History and The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Tom Lake, Bel Canto and The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
All books by JP Pomare
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Anna Karenina and War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Middlemarch by George Elliot
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Phew!