Bumper book special: from 2024’s hottest titles to all-time fave reads

We’re talking books this week, hunnies, as what better time of year than to get stuck into some summer reads than holiday szn? From the hottest books of 2024 (think: Butter, Blue Sisters and Brotherless Night) to the all-time faves we're still thinking about years on, these are the titles we suggest adding to your bucket-list immediately. Thank you so much for your reccs so far, we've added the ones we didn't get a chance to talk about today below and will keep on ploughing through, please do send more! We are so excited to have finally announced our live event with The Trouble Club on 26th September at The Dally in Islington. Get your ticket for £15 with the code STRAIGHTUP50 here: https://www.thetroubleclub.com/events/straight-up-live-podcast-recordingDM us your thoughts on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠@straightuppod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, or email us at ⁠[email protected]⁠ and as ever please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and a rating on Spotify, lysm!Thanks so much to our amazing partners:  Whitebox Cocktails, who make the tastiest canned cocktails we have ever tried, from Maragritas and Negronis, frozen Martinis to Old Fashioneds. GET 20% OFF with our code SU20 at⁠⁠⁠ ⁠https://whiteboxcocktails.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠Incite Nutrition, a UK based supplement company making our favourite Vitamin D spray and biotin (plus marine collagen and lots more). Incredibly reasonably priced and amazing quality. GET 15% OFF via Amazon with the code STRAIGHTUP at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠https://amzn.to/4eY4odu⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Books / culture discussed: Butter by Asako Yuzuki  Slutty Chef column, Vogue  Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors Banal Nightmare by Halle Butler  Brotherless Night by V. V. Ganeshananthan A Little Dust on the Eyes by Minoli Salgado  Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje  The Island of the Missing Trees by Elif Shafak 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak  Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart  Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart  Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagnee  Kill Your Friends by John Niven  The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson Reach For the Stars by Michael Cragg Educated by Tara Westover How Lucky Blue and Nara Aziza Smith Made Viral Internet Fame From Scratch, GQ The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan What Tweens Get from Sephora and What They Get from Us, Jia Tolentino for the New Yorker No one is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood  The Unwilding by Marina Kemp  You Are Here by David Nicholls Us by David Nicholls The Husbands by Holly Gramazio  Sandwich by Catherine Newman  A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers Margot’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagen  Doppelganger by Naomi Klein Experience by Kate Young  Mrs S by K Patrick Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.