We are so excited to welcome one of our absolute heroes to the podcast. It's Josie Long! Josie is an internationally renowned, beloved and multi-award-winning stand-up, podcaster, actor, playwright and radio presence. Her first short story collection, Because I Don't Know What You Mean and What You Don't has just been released. We talked to Josie about favourite short story collections, books to make you laugh on the bus, attempting sainthood, radical texts and trying to get your kids to love the books you love. Daisy will be attending the Queen's Reading Room Festival, look out for exclusive behind the scenes content on her Instagram page @TheDaisyBee. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack HERE. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com.BOOKSJosie Long - Because I Don't Know What You Mean and What You Don'tRaymond Carver - What We Talk About When We Talk About LoveJean Rhys - Collected Short StoriesZZ Packer - Drinking Coffee ElsewhereKelly Link - Get in TroubleDan Rhodes - AnthropologyRichard Yates - Collected StoriesRay Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451John Steinbeck - Of Mice and MenRobin Cooper - Timewaster LettersFrankie Boyle - MeantimeShirley Hughes - Sally's SecretRumer Godden - The Doll's HouseArnold Lobel - Frog and ToadMichael Rosen - Book of Very Silly PoemsJacqueline Wilson - Story of Tracy BeakerRumer Godden - Miss Happiness and Miss FlowerRumer Godden - Little PlumBarbara Sleigh - CarbonelMaurice Sendak - Where the Wild Things AreMaurice Sendak - In the Night KitchenMaurice Sendak - Outside Over ThereDorothy Whipple - The Other DayTyler Feder - Bodies Are CoolRoald Dahl - The WitchesVirginia Sole Smith - Fat TalkCharlotte Bronte - Jane EyreJean Rhys - Wide Sargasso SeaFern Brady - Strong Female CharacterKatherine May - Electricity of Every Living ThingHelen Fielding - Bridget Jones's DiaryElizabeth Smart - By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and WeptAnn Patchett - The Dutch HouseAnn Patchett - These Precious DaysBrit Bennet - The Vanishing HalfKurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of ChampionsKurt Vonnegut - SlapstickKurt Vonnegut - TimequakeKurt Vonnegut - JailbirdKurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's CradleKurt Vonnegut - GalapagosKurt Vonnegut - Man Without a CountryAnne Tyler - Saint MaybeF Scott Fitzgerald - The Great GatsbyKate Pickett & Richard Wilkinson - The Spirit LevelNesrine Malik - We Need New StoriesLola Olufemi - Experiments in Imagining OtherwiseRebecca Solnit - Hope in the DarkNathalie Olah - Steal As Much As You CanAlan Lane - Club on the Edge of TownJames Schneider - Our BlocRob Hopkins - From What Is To What IfRius - Marx For BeginnersMartin Rowson/Karl Marx - Communist ManifestoHoward Zinn - People's History of American EmpireAlison Bechdel - Fun HomeMarian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.