Our series 15 cavalcade of champions continues with the wonderful Catherine Gray! Catherine is an award-winning author, editor and podcaster whose writing has been seen in the Guardian, Stylist, Telegraph, Grazia and Stella. Catherine's hit debut book, The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober, became a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller, followed by the acclaimed The Unexpected Joy of the Ordinary, The Unexpected Joy of Being Single and Sunshine Warm Sober. Her debut novel Versions of a Girl has just been released. We talked to her about sobriety memoirs, formative reads, historical troublemakers, David Sedaris writing advice and more on the often fraught Fanny Price debate.Find out more about all the books Catherine mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store.
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BOOKS
Catherine Gray - Versions of a Girl
Catherine Gray - The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober
Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca
Augusten Burroughs - Dry
Sarah Hepola - Blackout
Mark Williams and Denny Penman - Mindfulness
Sasha Scoblic - Unwasted
Rolad Dahl - James and the Giant Peach
Lois Lowry - Anastasia Krupnik
The School of Life - How To Overcome Your Childhood
Jilly Cooper - Rivals
Philip Pullman - Northern Lights
Anne Helen Petersen - Can't Even
Vendela Veda - We Run the Tides
Catherine Newman - Sandwich
Celeste Ng - Little Fires Everywhere
Coco Mellors - Blue Sisters
Kiley Reid - Come and Get it
Jane Austen - Mansfield Park
Jane Austen - Emma
Nikki May - Wahala
Nikki May - This Motherless Land
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Sylvia Townsend Warner - Lolly Willowes
Katherine May - The Electricity of Every Living Thing
Elspeth Barker - O Caledonia
Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary
Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable
Jean Rhys - Good Morning Midnight
Jay McInerney - Bright Lights Big City
Jay McInerney - The Story of My Life
George Eliot - Middlemarch
Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser
Catherine Newman - We All Want Impossible Things
Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Curtis Sittenfeld - American Wife
David Sedaris - The Best of Me
Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy
Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Joan Didion - Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Clare Keegan - Foster
Frances Quinn - That Bone Setter Woman
Jodi Picoult - By Any Other Name
Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry
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