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

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