Comics' Books Podcast picks

By Lucy Danser

By Lucy Danser

Comics' Books is a podcast, hosted by me, where I talk to comedians and comic writers about the books that they love. I've linked the books that we discuss in the episodes below. To listen yourself head here: www.comicsbooks.co.uk

Rivers of London: Book 1 in the #1 bestselling Rivers of London series

Ben Aaronovitch

£8.99 £8.54

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 1 with Laura Lexx

The Lies of Locke Lamora: The deviously twisty fantasy adventure you will not want to put down

Scott Lynch

£10.99 £10.44

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 1 with Laura Lexx

A Game of Thrones

George R.R. Martin

£9.99 £9.49

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 1 with Laura Lexx

The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry: The uplifting and redemptive No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller

Rachel Joyce

£8.99 £8.54

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 1 with Laura Lexx

The Blind Assassin

Margaret Atwood

£9.99 £9.49

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 1 with Laura Lexx

Outlander: (Outlander 1)

Diana Gabaldon

£9.99 £9.49

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 1 with Laura Lexx

The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt

£10.99 £10.44

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 1 with Laura Lexx

The Time Traveler's Wife

Audrey Niffenegger

£9.99 £9.49

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 1 with Laura Lexx

Therese Raquin

Emile Zola

£8.99 £8.54

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 1 with Laura Lexx

Klopp Actually: (Imaginary) Life with Football's Most Sensible Heartthrob

Laura Lexx

£9.99 £9.49

Written by Season 1, Episode 1 guest Laura Lexx

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini

£9.99 £9.49

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 2 with Eshaan Akbar

The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini

£9.99 £9.49

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 2 with Eshaan Akbar

Long Walk To Freedom: 'Essential reading' Barack Obama

Nelson Mandela

£14.99 £14.24

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 3 with Jonathan Sayer

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4

Sue Townsend

£8.99 £8.54

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 3 with Jonathan Sayer

The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England

Dan Jones

£12.99 £12.34

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 3 with Jonathan Sayer

The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses and the Rise of the Tudors

Dan Jones

£12.99 £12.34

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 3 with Jonathan Sayer

Them: Adventures with Extremists

Jon Ronson

£9.99

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 3 with Jonathan Sayer

The Vicar of Nibbleswicke

Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake

£6.99 £6.64

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 3 with Jonathan Sayer

To Kill A Mockingbird: 60th Anniversary Edition

Harper Lee

£8.99 £8.54

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 3 with Jonathan Sayer

If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

Jon McGregor

£8.99 £8.54

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 3 with Jonathan Sayer

Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope, leaving the Westboro Baptist Church

Megan Phelps-Roper

£14.99

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 3 with Jonathan Sayer

Well-Loved Tales: Cinderella

£5.99 £5.69

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 4 with Sindhu Vee

Anne of Green Gables

L. M. Montgomery

£7.99 £7.59

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 4 with Sindhu Vee

The Famous Five Collection 1: Books 1-3

Enid Blyton

£10.99 £10.44

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 4 with Sindhu Vee

The Code of the Woosters: (Jeeves & Wooster)

P.G. Wodehouse

£8.99 £8.54

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 4 with Sindhu Vee

Reasons to be Cheerful: Winner of the 2019 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction

Nina Stibbe

£8.99 £8.54

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 4 with Sindhu Vee

A House for Mr Biswas

V. S. Naipaul

£10.99

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 4 with Sindhu Vee

A Prayer for Owen Meany

John Irving

£9.99 £9.49

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 4 with Sindhu Vee

The Call of the Wild

Jack London

£7.99 £7.59

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 4 with Sindhu Vee

Atomic Habits: the life-changing million-copy #1 bestseller

James Clear

£17.99 £17.09

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 4 with Sindhu Vee

Marvel Premium: Civil War

Mark Millar and Steve McNiven

£17.99 £17.09

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 5 with Sikisa

Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - The Sunday Times Bestseller

Akala

£10.99 £10.44

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 5 with Sikisa

The Tale of Peter Rabbit Board Book

Beatrix Potter

£6.99 £6.64

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 5 with Sikisa

Noughts & Crosses

Malorie Blackman

£8.99 £8.54

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 5 with Sikisa

Calvin And Hobbes Volume 1 `A': The Calvin & Hobbes Series: Thereby Hangs a Tail

Bill Watterson

£6.99 £6.64

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 6 with Russell Hicks

Open: An Autobiography

Andre Agassi

£10.99 £10.44

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 6 with Russell Hicks

Post Office

Charles Bukowski

£9.99 £9.49

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 6 with Russell Hicks

The Inner Game of Tennis: One of Bill Gates All-Time Favourite Books

W Timothy Gallwey

£10.99 £10.44

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 6 with Russell Hicks

I Am Bear

Ben Bailey Smith and Sav Akyuz

£7.99 £7.59

Written by Season 1, Episode 7 guest Ben Bailey Smith

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

£12.99 £12.34

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 7 with Ben Bailey Smith

The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language

Mark Forsyth

£10.99 £10.44

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 7 with Ben Bailey Smith

Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret: Now a major film starring Rachel McAdams and Abby Ryder Fortson

Judy Blume

£7.99 £7.59

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 7 with Ben Bailey Smith

Fox 8

George Saunders and Chelsea Cardinal

£9.99 £9.49

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 7 with Ben Bailey Smith

French Exit: NOW A MAJOR FILM

Patrick deWitt

£9.99 £9.49

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 7 with Ben Bailey Smith

Train Dreams

Denis Johnson

£8.99

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 7 with Ben Bailey Smith

The Mobster's Lament

Ray Celestin

£9.99 £9.49

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 7 with Ben Bailey Smith

Stoner: A special gift edition

John Williams

£9.99 £9.49

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 7 with Ben Bailey Smith

White Teeth

Zadie Smith

£8.99 £8.54

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 7 with Ben Bailey Smith

Through the Leopard's Gaze

Njambi McGrath

£9.99 £9.49

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 8 with Njambi McGrath

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

Jung Chang

£10.99 £10.44

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 8 with Njambi McGrath

Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa

Mark Mathabane

£17.99 £17.09

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 8 with Njambi McGrath

The Pianist of Yarmouk

Aeham Ahmad

£9.99 £9.49

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 8 with Njambi McGrath

Native Son

Richard Wright

£10.99 £10.44

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 8 with Njambi McGrath

Devil on the Cross

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

£10.99 £10.44

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 8 with Njambi McGrath

The F*ck It Diet

Caroline Dooner

£12.99 £12.34

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 9 with Jess Fostekew

The Heretics: Adventures with the Enemies of Science

Will Storr

£10.99 £10.44

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 9 with Jess Fostekew

Avocado Baby

John Burningham

£7.99 £7.59

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 9 with Jess Fostekew

The Day of the Triffids

John Wyndham

£9.99 £9.49

Discussed in Season 1, Episode 9 with Jess Fostekew

The Paper Dolls

Julia Donaldson and Rebecca Cobb

£7.99 £7.59

Discussed in Season 2, Episode 1 with Stuart Goldsmith

Mr. Noisy

Roger Hargreaves

£4.99 £4.74

Discussed in Season 2, Episode 1 with Stuart Goldsmith

Peter Pan

J M Barrie

£7.99 £7.59

Discussed in Season 2, Episode 1 with Stuart Goldsmith

The Worst Princess

Anna Kemp and Sara Ogilvie

£6.99

Discussed in Season 2, Episode 1 with Stuart Goldsmith

Firestarter

Stephen King

£9.99 £9.49

Discussed in Season 2, Episode 1 with Stuart Goldsmith

Skeleton Crew: featuring The Mist

Stephen King

£10.99 £10.44

Discussed in Season 2, Episode 1 with Stuart Goldsmith

The Stand

Stephen King

£12.99 £12.34

Discussed in Season 2, Episode 1 with Stuart Goldsmith

The Tommyknockers

Stephen King

£10.99 £10.44

Discussed in Season 2, Episode 1 with Stuart Goldsmith

Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)

Terry Pratchett

£9.99 £9.49

Discussed in Season 2, Episode 1 with Stuart Goldsmith

Adventures in the Screen Trade

William Goldman

£28.75

Discussed in Season 2, Episode 1 with Stuart Goldsmith

Little Women & Good Wives

Louisa May Alcott

£3.99 £3.79

Discussed in Season 2, Episode 2 with Viv Groskop

Bonjour Tristesse and A Certain Smile

Francoise Sagan

£8.99 £8.54

Discussed in Season 2, Episode 2 with Viv Groskop

Hamnet: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 - THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER

Maggie O'Farrell

£20.00 £19.00

Discussed in Season 2, Episode 2 with Viv Groskop

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

Maggie O'Farrell

£9.99 £9.49

Discussed in Season 2, Episode 2 with Viv Groskop

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4: Adrian Mole Book 1

Sue Townsend

£7.99 £7.59

Discussed in Season 2, Episode 3 with Tez Ilyas

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid (Book 1)

Jeff Kinney

£7.99 £7.59

Discussed in Season 2, Episode 3 with Tez Ilyas

How Not To Be a Boy

Robert Webb

£9.99 £9.49

Discussed in Season 2, Episode 3 with Tez Ilyas

This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

Adam Kay

£9.99 £9.49

Discussed in Season 2, Episode 3 with Tez Ilyas

Finding My Voice: Nadiya's honest, unforgettable memoir

Nadiya Hussain

£12.99 £12.34

Discussed in Season 2, Episode 3 with Tez Ilyas

The Magic Faraway Tree: The Magic Faraway Tree: Book 2

Enid Blyton

£6.99 £6.64

Discussed in Season 2, Episode 3 with Tez Ilyas

The Hobbit Classic Hardback

J. R. R. Tolkien

£22.00 £20.90

Discussed in Season 2, Episode 3 with Tez Ilyas

The Lord of the Rings

J. R. R. Tolkien

£25.00 £23.75

Discussed in Season 2, Episode 3 with Tez Ilyas

Romeo and Juliet

Eric Rasmussen and Jonathan Bate

£9.18

Discussed in Season 2, Episode 3 with Tez Ilyas

Brother in the Land

Robert Swindells

£8.99 £8.54

Discussed in Season 2, Episode 3 with Tez Ilyas

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

£9.99 £9.49

Discussed in Season 2, Episode 3 with Tez Ilyas

Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry

Mildred Taylor

£7.99 £7.59

Discussed in Season 2, Episode 3 with Tez Ilyas

The Color Purple: The classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel

Alice Walker

£9.99 £9.49

Discussed in Season 2, Episode 3 with Tez Ilyas

Animal Farm

George Orwell

£9.99

Discussed in Season 2, Episode 3 with Tez Ilyas

1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell

£5.99 £5.69

Discussed in Season 2, Episode 3 with Tez Ilyas

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

MOHSIN HAMID

£9.99 £9.49

Discussed in Season 2, Episode 3 with Tez Ilyas

The Secret Diary of a British Muslim Aged 13 3/4

Tez Ilyas

£16.99 £16.14

Written by Season 2, Episode 3 guest Tez Ilyas

The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler

Gene Kemp

£7.99 £7.59

Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography

Walter Isaacson

£12.99 £12.34

Keeping it Real

Jodie Marsh

£7.99 £7.59

Is This Anything?

Jerry Seinfeld

£25.00 £23.75

Everyday Sexism

LAURA BATES

£10.00 £9.50

Queenie: From the award-winning writer of BBC's Champion

Candice Carty-Williams

£8.99 £8.54

Antisemitism: here and now

Deborah Lipstadt

£14.99 £14.24

Anti-Semitism and the Left

Ian Hernon

£20.00 £19.00

Columbine

Dave Cullen

£16.99 £16.14

Parkland: Birth of a Movement

Dave Cullen

£16.99 £16.14

Night of the Living Dummy

R.L. Stine

£5.99 £5.69

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce James

£7.99 £7.59

The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence

The Care Collective

£8.99 £8.54

Bathroom

Jean-Philippe Toussaint

£9.99 £9.49

The Castle

Franz Kafka

£8.99 £8.54

Charmed Life

Diana Wynne Jones

£7.99 £7.59

I Capture the Castle: A special gift edition

Dodie Smith and Ngadi Smart

£8.99 £8.54

The Sea, The Sea

Iris Murdoch

£10.99 £10.44

The Satanic Verses

Salman Rushdie

£9.99 £9.49

Touching the Void

Joe Simpson

£10.99 £10.44

Lassie Come-Home

Eric Knight and Gary Blythe

£6.99 £6.64

Red Sister

Mark Lawrence

£9.99 £9.49

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

£8.99 £8.54

A Little Princess

Frances Hodgson Burnett

£8.03

Rose Madder: Halloween edition

Stephen King

£9.99

The Hearing Trumpet

Leonora Carrington

£9.99 £9.49

Harpo Speaks!

Rowland Barber and Harpo Marx

£21.44

My Autobiography

Charles Chaplin

£10.99 £10.44

Last Words

George Carlin

£17.99 £17.09

Them: Adventures with Extremists

Jon Ronson

£10.99 £10.44

The Good Soldier Svejk

Jaroslav Hasek and Josef Lada

£12.99 £12.34

Peter Pan

Sir J. M. Barrie

£4.99 £4.74

Bridget Jones's Diary

Helen Fielding

£9.99 £9.49

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

Helen Fielding

£8.99 £8.54

Jane Eyre (Vintage Classics Bronte Series)

Charlotte Bronte

£8.99 £8.54

East of Eden

Mr John Steinbeck

£8.99 £8.54

Northern Lights

Philip Pullman and Chris Wormell

£8.99 £8.54

Rebecca

Daphne Du Maurier

£8.99 £8.54

Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

£6.99 £6.64

Winnie-the-Pooh

A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard

£9.99 £9.49

Mr. Men My Complete Collection Box Set

Adam Hargreaves

£191.52 £178.11

Mr. Men: Pocket Library

Roger Hargreaves

£5.99 £5.69

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