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Marian Keyes’ Reading List: The Ultimate Comfort Reads
28 books to curl up with this lockdown
By | 3 years ago
Looking for comforting reads to get you through lockdown? Bestselling author Marian Keyes (The Break, Watermelon, Grown Ups) shares her top picks, from Booker-nominated debuts to feminist retellings of traditional fairy tales.
“Life is very challenging at the moment and personally, I’m desperate for a holiday from reality and from my head,” she says. “Reading has always been a huge pleasure for me but because so much fear is circulating, there are lots of subjects I’m currently not able for. I’ve put together a collection of titles that I’ve found engaging, uplifting, distracting and entertaining. I hope that some of them give you enjoyment and respite. I am thrilled to share this list on a platform that supports the vital work of independent bookshops.”
Her curated reading list is being shared on Bookshop.org – the new alternative to Amazon, designed for socially conscious shoppers keen to support high street bookshops online.
The Ultimate Comfort Reads, As Chosen by Marian Keyes
- The Secret Countess by Eva Ibbotson (Pan MacMillan)
- Oh My God, What A Complete Aisling by Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen (PRH)
- I Never Said I Loved You by Rhik Samadder (Hachette)
- Gravity is the Thing by Jacqueline Moriarty (Atlantic)
- Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny (Harper Collins)
- Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe (PRH)
- Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss by Ranjeev Balasubramanyam (PRH)
- Writers and Lovers by Lily King (Pan MacMillan)
- The Surface Breaks by Louise O’Neill (Scholastic)
- The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris by Jenny Colgan (Little, Brown)
- Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (PRH)
- Filter This by Sophie White (Hachette)
- The Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield (PRH)
- My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (Atlantic)
- The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abi Waxman (Hachette)
- If I Never Met You by Mhairi McFarlane (Harper Collins)
- Odd One Out by Lissa Evans (Simon & Schuster)
- Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid (Bloomsbury)
- The Switch by Beth O’Leary (Hachette)
- The Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard (Pan MacMillan)
- Dear Mrs Bird by AJ Pearce (Pan MacMillan)
- Brother of The More Famous Jack by Barbara Trapido (Bloomsbury)
- The Morning Gift by Eva Ibbotson (PanMacMillan)
- Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld (Harper Collins)
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