Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Glory
Noviolet BulawayoDr Charlotte Lydia RileyAlso 99p — for June, I think — are Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo, Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh, Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield, Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart and The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard 💫
Paperback, 2023
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
Maggie SmithDr Charlotte Lydia Riley@beth_kitson I though Lily King’s Writers and Lovers was good for this. Also Laurie Colwin’s Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object. Both fiction. Maggie Smith’s Keep Moving is good non fiction.
Hardcover, 2020
$26.00Member price:$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Love Marriage
Monica AliDr Charlotte Lydia RileyA little bit late to it but I’ve just finished Love Marriage by Monica Ali and I really, really liked it
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Labour of Love
James GrahamDr Charlotte Lydia RileyOoh, James Graham’s Labour of Love would need to be prominently in there, too. Especially the version I saw with Martin Freeman and Tamsin Grieg which was 👩🍳 💋
Paperback, 2017
$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ask Again, Yes
Mary Beth KeaneDr Charlotte Lydia RileySo is Diana Evans’ Ordinary People — a wonderful novel about love and parenthood and London itself — Mary Beth Keane’s Ask Again, Yes — a great sprawling modern American family saga — and AS Byatt’s Possession, a wonderful (academic!) romance
Paperback, 2020
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Vanishing Half: A GMA Book Club Pick (a Novel)
Brit BennettDr Charlotte Lydia Riley@ESOLallstars Oh I’m glad! The vanishing half by Brit Bennett is 99p just for today and is supposed to be really good.
Paperback, 2022
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power
Niall FergusonDr Charlotte Lydia Riley@HistoryNed @RottenInDenmark Yeah, it’s either Empire by Niall Ferguson or Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond for me I’d guess, but at the same time, it’s not really “convincing breast cancer patients to forego treatment for positive thinking” levels of bad historiography.
Paperback, 2004
$21.99Member price:$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
This Time Tomorrow
Emma StraubDr Charlotte Lydia RileyIn more “Charlotte reads books everyone says are good and agrees they are good” news, Monica Heisey’s Really Good, Actually and Emma Straub’s This Time Tomorrow are also really as great as everyone says
Paperback, 2023
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Malibu Rising
Taylor Jenkins ReidDr Charlotte Lydia Riley@ellielowe Pat Barker’s Women of Troy is 99p today too! Also Mhairi Mcfarlane’s Mad About You (💯) and Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Malibu Rising.
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared DiamondDr Charlotte Lydia Riley@HistoryNed @RottenInDenmark Yeah, it’s either Empire by Niall Ferguson or Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond for me I’d guess, but at the same time, it’s not really “convincing breast cancer patients to forego treatment for positive thinking” levels of bad historiography.
Paperback, 2017
$19.95Member price:$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book