Natalie Haynes
Season 2, Episode 5Writer, performer, broadcaster and Man Booker Prize judge Natalie Haynes is in the studio with Robin and Josie this week to talk about reading two books a day for a year, Greek classics and an excess of novels set in WWII.
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Reading List
Natalie recommends:
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
The Amber Fury by Natalie Haynes
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
Painter of Silence by Georgina Harding
Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
The Mussel Feast by Birgit Vanderbeke
Hannibal’s Crossing of the Alps by Titus Livy
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
True History by Lucian
The Iliad by Homer
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood.
Medea by Euripides
Thyestes by Seneca
Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright
The work of Henry James
The Art of the Body by Michael Squire
Josie recommends:
Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
The Frogs by Aristophanes
Robin recommends:
Jerusalem by Alan Moore
The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
Odyssey by Homer
Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster by Simon Armitage
Usborne’s Living in Roman Times by Jane Chisholm
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