Will Smith
Season 6, Episode 22
After joining Robin and Josie for a Film Shambles special, Will Smith (The Thick of It, Veep) is back for a Book Shambles. They chat about his own books and books about the Channel Islands and a whole lot more besides. This episode may have the longest reading list yet. From Zola to Le Carré via Jean Rhys and Terry Jones.
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Reading List
Will recommends:
Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo
The work of Jonathon Franzen
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
The work of Tom Sharpe
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Asterix books by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo
The Tin Tin books by Hergé
The Paddington Bear books by Michael Bond
The work of Agatha Christie
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
The Fighting Fantasy book series by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot
Adventures of a Suburban Boy by John Boorman
The work of Charlotte Bronte
The work of Leo Tolstoy
The work of Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The work of Honoré de Balzac
The work of Ivan Turgenev
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
The George Smiley series by John Le Carré
The work of Jack Higgins
The work of Frederick Forsyth
The work of Thomas Hardy
Villette by Charlotte Bronté
The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
The work of Philip Roth
A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Germinal by Émile Zola
The Les Rougon-Macquart cycle by Émile Zola
Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Robin recommends:
How to Be Cool by Will Smith
Mainlander by Will Smith
The Joy of No Sex by Will Smith
Dead Funny Encore edited by Robin Ince and Johnny Mains
The Adrian Moles Diaries by Sue Townsend
The work of Douglas Adams
Reflecting Skin by Philip Ridley
Pitchfork Disney by Philip Ridley
The work of Willard Price
My Word is My Bond by Roger Moore
The Making of Live and Let Die by Roger Moore
Fairy Tales by Terry Jones
The Amazing Tale of Ali Pasha by Michael Foreman
Attacks of Opinion by Terry Jones
Money Into Light: The Emerald Forest by John Boorman
The work of Raymond Chandler
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
Good Morning Midnight by Jean Rhys
L’Assommoir by Émile Zola
Josie recommends:
The Neapolitan Novels by Elana Ferrante
War Boy by Michael Foreman
The Saga of Erik the Viking by Terry Jones
The short stories of Raymond Carver
The work of Charles Dickens
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
Smile Please by Jean Rhys
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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