#48 | Nice Books for Dark Days

Bookish Blether

Election season has been stressful. It’s getting darker earlier, too. We thought up some nice books to read when the world is feeling dark – literally or figuratively. –– What We’re Currently Reading –– Nicola The Wangs vs the World by Jade Chang Swing Time by Zadie Smith Holly Nothing :( –– Books We Recently Acquired –– Nicola East of Eden by John Steinbeck State of Wonder by Ann Patchett Brain on Fire: My Month of by Susannah Cahalan The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros And a few others – check out her library book sale haul here | Holly Nothing :( –– Our Recommended Books for Dark Days –– All the Single Ladies by Rebecca Traister Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple The Harry Potter series Roald Dahl books A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley The Princess Bride by William Goldman Winter, an anthology curated by Melissa Harrison Bonkers by Jennifer Saunders Dear Fatty by Dawn French Heartburn by Nora Ephron Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell Agatha Christie novels Anything by David Sedaris or Augusten Burroughs Also books by Simon Rich and Jesse Eisenberg Everything's Perfect When You're A Liar by Kelly Oxford Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson (also Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir) Happy by Derren Brown Paranormality and Night School by Richard Wiseman The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert The Antidote: Happiness for People who Can't Stand Positive Thinking by Oliver Burkeman? –– Follow us! –– You can subscribe to Bookish Blether on SoundCloud, iTunes and Stitcher, or your podcast app of choice. Love our podcast? Leave us a review and share it with a friend! Twitter: http://twitter.com/BookishBlether? Instagram: http://instagram.com/bookishblether? Tumblr: http://bookishblether.tumblr.com? Email: [e-mail] Holly:? http://twitter.com/hollyjunesmith? http://instagram.com/hollyjunesmith? http://www.heyhollyjune.co.uk Nicola:? http://twitter.com/robotnic ?http://robotnic.co http://youtube.com/robotnic https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6523767.Nicola_Balkind