Our four rules for your summer reading

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🗓️ 4 August 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	From The Times and Sunday Times, this is the story. I'm Luke Jones.
0:07.0	When a summer holiday finally limps into view, I just usually turn to the big pile of books on my nightstand and think,
0:19.0	what shall I read now?
0:21.0	But, let us be honest, if you have a holiday booked if you have sunshine in the
0:25.3	offering an opportunity to actually unplug from your phone and make some
0:30.1	interesting literary choices you should take it seriously. So we have procured
0:35.1	some expert in-house advice.
0:37.3	It's a massive twist that I did not see coming at all.
0:42.3	Even the title is slightly rude.
0:44.0	Don't point that thing at me.
0:45.0	There is a fist fight on like pH 2.
0:48.0	Young Laura's looking at me as if I'm a barbarian.
0:51.0	Absolute barbarian. Absolute barbarian.
0:55.0	We have four golden rules for which books you should shove in your holiday bag
1:01.0	and with plenty of recommendations. The story today, our guide to your summer reading
1:06.0	essentials. My name is Laura Hackett. I'm the Deputy Literary Editor of The Times and Sunday Times.
1:21.0	And I'm Robbie Miller and I'm the Literally Editor of the Times and the Sunday Times.
1:25.0	If we're thinking of a week-long summer holiday,
1:29.0	you will each read how many books.
1:31.0	Depends on what I'm doing in the holiday.
1:34.0	So I just went on a kind of hiking holiday with my family
1:38.0	and that there wasn't a great deal of time.
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