You're Booked

6. Nikesh Shukla

This week we're in a top secret London interrogation room location with <a href="http://www.nikesh-shukla.com/" target="_blank">Nikesh Shukla</a>, the author, broadcaster and essayist. His third novel, The One Who Wrote Destiny was published to great acclaim this Spring. Nikesh is also the creator and editor of the bestselling essay collection The Good Immigrant. We talked to him about childhood reads, early inspirations and literary annoyances (n.b. if you're Jonathan Franzen you might not want to listen to this one). BOOKS <a href="https://amzn.to/2RM2ge2" target="_blank">Nikesh Shukla - The One Who Wrote Destiny</a><a href="https://amzn.to/2zOmjl0" target="_blank">Nikesh Shukla (ed) - The Good Immigrant</a><a href="https://amzn.to/2SzG7PW" target="_blank">Nikesh Shukla - Run Riot</a><a href="https://amzn.to/2BY3soY" target="_blank">Nikesh Shukla - Meat Space</a><a href="https://amzn.to/2C12M2p" target="_blank">Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment</a><a href="https://amzn.to/2BZHIJG" target="_blank">Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4</a><a href="https://amzn.to/2SDe5mW" target="_blank">Aidan McFarlane, Ann McPherson - The Diary of a Teenage Health Freak</a><a href="https://amzn.to/2RLWXev" target="_blank">Gary Paulsen - Hatchet</a><a href="https://amzn.to/2SzWCvp" target="_blank">Hanif Kureishi - The Buddha of Suburbia</a><a href="https://amzn.to/2RIHjR2" target="_blank">Charles Dickens - Bleak House</a><a href="https://amzn.to/2SzCCck" target="_blank">Jonathan Franzen - Freedom</a><a href="https://amzn.to/2Pv5Lnj" target="_blank">Howard Jacobson - The Finkler Question</a><a href="https://amzn.to/2BYZAUY" target="_blank">Howard Jacobson - Zoo Time</a><a href="https://amzn.to/2PrKGd3" target="_blank">James Ellroy - Dudley Smith Trio</a><a href="https://amzn.to/2UuwnZh" target="_blank">AL Kennedy - The Little Snake</a><a href="https://amzn.to/2PuO330" target="_blank">Harper Lee - Go Set a Watchman</a><a href="https://amzn.to/2RR5BZq" target="_blank">Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird</a><a href="https://amzn.to/2Ut0ZdB" target="_blank">Hari Kunzru - White Tears</a><a href="https://amzn.to/2SDfSsa" target="_blank">Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie - The Wicked + The Divine</a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Welcome to You’re Booked, the podcast for literary nosy parkers who would like the chance to snoop around their favourite authors’ bookshelves.I’m Daisy Buchanan, your Book Inspector, and I’ll be asking our guests all about the first forbidden books they read under the covers, the beloved books they have borrowed, and never given back, and those impressive heavyweight hardbacks that make them look like intellectual giants – even though they couldn’t get beyond the first twenty pages.We’ll also be talking about what makes readers into writers, how our guests became book lovers and their favourite reading memories, all with a dash of intelligence and a dollop of irreverence. Our guests include Dolly Alderton, Nina Stibbe, Nikesh Shukla, and many more favourites from our own bookshelves. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.