Our four rules for your summer reading
The Story4 Elo 2024

Our four rules for your summer reading

Sally Rooney, confessions of guilt, and fist fights - two of our books editors take you through their four golden rules for what to read on your holidays this summer.

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Guests:

  • Robbie Millen, Literary Editor, The Times and Sunday Times.
  • Laura Hackett, Deputy Literary Editor, The Times and Sunday Times.

Host: Luke Jones.

Books mentioned:

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  • The Neapolitan Novels - Elena Ferrante
  • The Flashman Papers - George MacDonald Fraser
  • Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst
  • The Ministry of Time - Kaliane Bradley
  • Wellness - Nathan Hill
  • Life after Life - Kate Atkinson
  • The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
  • Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
  • On Beauty - Zadie Smith
  • Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Close to Home - Michael Magee
  • Absolutely and Forever - Rose Tremain
  • Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh
  • The Mortdecai Trilogy - Kyril Bonfiglioli
  • All Our Yesterdays - Natalia Ginzburg
  • The Safekeep - Yael van der Wouden
  • James - Percival Everett
  • Long Island - Colm Toibin
  • Our Evenings - Alan Hollinghurst
  • Intermezzo - Sally Rooney
  • The City and Its Uncertain Walls - Haruki Murakami

Read our critics 100 best summer reads for 2024

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