For Girls and Gays: Caroline O’Donoghue, Sad Gay Lit and Life-Changing Non-Fiction

This week’s STACK is all about the girls and the gays. Jake and Ella cover books that speak to their identities, others that help them to understand other perspectives and Ella reads The Lamb after Jake’s review last week.

The books featured in this week’s STACK:

04.45 Amateur - Thomas Page McBee

09.05 The Rachel Incident - Caroline O’Donoghue

12.23 Period Power - Maisie Hill

16.05 I Leave It Up To You - Jinwoo Chong

17.50  A Marvellous Light - Freya Marske

21.05 A Home At The End of the World - Michael Cunningham 

Also featured:

The Lamb - Lucy Rose

Amazing Grace Adams - Fran Littlewood

Great Circle - Maggie Shipstead

The Binding - Bridget Collins

The Stack is a books podcast helping you cut through the noise to fall in love - and stay in love - with reading. Each fortnight, we’ll be sharing curated lists on a theme of the books that are worth your time.

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