Bumper book special: from 2024’s hottest titles to all-time fave reads

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We’re talking books this week, hunnies, as what better time of year than to get stuck into some summer reads than holiday szn? From the hottest books of 2024 (think: Butter, Blue Sisters and Brotherless Night) to the all-time faves we're still thinking about years on, these are the titles we suggest adding to your bucket-list immediately. Thank you so much for your reccs so far, we've added the ones we didn't get a chance to talk about today below and will keep on ploughing through, please do send more!

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Books / culture discussed:

Butter by Asako Yuzuki
Slutty Chef column, Vogue
Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
Banal Nightmare by Halle Butler
Brotherless Night by V. V. Ganeshananthan
A Little Dust on the Eyes by Minoli Salgado
Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
The Island of the Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagnee
Kill Your Friends by John Niven
The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
Reach For the Stars by Michael Cragg
Educated by Tara Westover
How Lucky Blue and Nara Aziza Smith Made Viral Internet Fame From Scratch, GQ
The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
What Tweens Get from Sephora and What They Get from Us, Jia Tolentino for the New Yorker
No one is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
The Unwilding by Marina Kemp
You Are Here by David Nicholls
Us by David Nicholls
The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
Sandwich by Catherine Newman
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
Margot’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagen
Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
Experience by Kate Young
Mrs S by K Patrick

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