04: I Am a Bookcase Snob

The Brit Lit Podcast

Our guest today is Lindsey Kelk, the best-selling author of the I Heart series, among other rom com novels. We talk about reading age-inappropriate books as child, discuss the relative merits of LA and New York, and gush about John Green.

Books mentioned on the show:

The I Heart series, by Lindsey Kelk

We Were On a Break, by Lindsey Kelk

The Sweet Valley High series, by Francine Pascal

The Casteel Family Saga, by V C Andrews

Flowers in the Attic, by V C Andrew

The Magic Cottage, by James Herbert

Looking for Alaska, by John Green

An Abundance of Katherines, by John Green

Paper Towns, by John Green

The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green

I Heart Forever, by Lindsey Kelk

I Heart Christmas, by Lindsey Kelk

Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë

Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics), by Charlotte Brontë

Bridget Jones’s Diary, by Helen Fielding

American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis

Ham on Rye, by Charles Bukowski

Turtles All the Way Down, by John Green

The Book of Dust, by Philip Pullman

Faking Friends, by Jane Fallon

Some Kind of Wonderful, by Giovanna Fletcher

A Christmas Wedding, by Paige Toon

Milk and Honey, by Rupi Kaur

Wild Embers, by Nikita Gill

Christmas on Coronation Street, by Maggie Sullivan

Keep Smiling Through, by Dame Vera Lynn

We’re Asleep, Dad, by Simon Key

The Bacon Book, by Christopher Sjuve

The Best of A. A. Gill, by A A Gill

Balancing Acts: Behind the Scenes at London’s National Theatre, by Sir Nicholas Hytner

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