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Oprah Winfrey is Under the Cover with us! Oprah is, of course, no stranger to sharing incredible reading recommendations. This month, she is celebrating 30 years of @Oprah’s Book Club, which has provided a huge platform for authors and introduced millions of people around the world to the joy of reading. It was a total dream to talk to Oprah about her favourite books. Here, she tells us about the book every American should read, the Women’s Prize nominees she’s been reading recently, and who she’d love to be trapped in an elevator with. Make sure to follow us for part two Subscribe to our Substack to see the extended interview - and let us know which book you’d live in in the comments! With enormous thanks to beautiful 192 Books in Chelsea, New York, for hosting us 📜 Oprah’s list: White Oleander by Janet Fitch The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson Dominion by Addie E Citchens A Long Winter by Colm Tóibín The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Caste by Isabel Wilkerson Toni Morrison, author of works including The Bluest Eye, Sula and Beloved #BookTok #oprah #BookRecommendations #bookrecs #fyp
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Oprah Winfrey is Under the Cover with us! Oprah is, of course, no stranger to sharing incredible reading recommendations. This month, she is celebrating 30 years of @Oprah’s Book Club, which has provided a huge platform for authors and introduced millions of people around the world to the joy of reading. It was a total dream to talk to Oprah about her favourite books. Here, she tells us about the book every American should read, the Women’s Prize nominees she’s been reading recently, and who she’d love to be trapped in an elevator with. Make sure to follow us for part two Subscribe to our Substack to see the extended interview - and let us know which book you’d live in in the comments! With enormous thanks to beautiful 192 Books in Chelsea, New York, for hosting us 📜 Oprah’s list: White Oleander by Janet Fitch The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson Dominion by Addie E Citchens A Long Winter by Colm Tóibín The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Caste by Isabel Wilkerson Toni Morrison, author of works including The Bluest Eye, Sula and Beloved #BookTok #oprah #BookRecommendations #bookrecs #fyp
Who is Elizabeth Day’s favourite for @The Booker Prizes tonight?! The award-winning author, journalist and queen of podcasts joins us Under the Cover! 🧡 @elizabday has written ten books, including The Party, Magpie and Friendaholic. Her latest novel, One of Us, compellingly explores power and privilege, as an establishment family is confronted with secrets and scandals they’ve tried to keep hidden. When she’s not writing bestsellers, Elizabeth is of course the brilliant host of @How To Fail, a celebration of the things that don’t go right. Plus she’s somehow found the time to launch her new publishing imprint - Big Day Books 📚 It was a total delight to catch Elizabeth at one of her favourite bookshops, Heywood Hill, and chat about the books she loves. Keep an eye out for part two - and let us know what you think of her choices! 📜 Elizabeth’s list: One of Us by Elizabeth Day, @4th Estate Books The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, @Viking Books UK Flashlight by Susan Choi, Jonathan Cape The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller, Sceptre Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, Everyman Universality by Natasha Brown, @Faber Books Hope: A Tragedy by Shalom Auslander, Picador Wellness by Nathan Hill, @Pan Macmillan UK The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein, @EuropaEditionsUK All Fours by Miranda July, Canongate Into the Wreck by Susannah Dickey, @Bloomsbury Books Tennis Lessons and Common Decency, Transworld #bookerprize #BookTok #litfic #BookRecommendations #fyp
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Who is Elizabeth Day’s favourite for @The Booker Prizes tonight?! The award-winning author, journalist and queen of podcasts joins us Under the Cover! 🧡 @elizabday has written ten books, including The Party, Magpie and Friendaholic. Her latest novel, One of Us, compellingly explores power and privilege, as an establishment family is confronted with secrets and scandals they’ve tried to keep hidden. When she’s not writing bestsellers, Elizabeth is of course the brilliant host of @How To Fail, a celebration of the things that don’t go right. Plus she’s somehow found the time to launch her new publishing imprint - Big Day Books 📚 It was a total delight to catch Elizabeth at one of her favourite bookshops, Heywood Hill, and chat about the books she loves. Keep an eye out for part two - and let us know what you think of her choices! 📜 Elizabeth’s list: One of Us by Elizabeth Day, @4th Estate Books The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, @Viking Books UK Flashlight by Susan Choi, Jonathan Cape The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller, Sceptre Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, Everyman Universality by Natasha Brown, @Faber Books Hope: A Tragedy by Shalom Auslander, Picador Wellness by Nathan Hill, @Pan Macmillan UK The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein, @EuropaEditionsUK All Fours by Miranda July, Canongate Into the Wreck by Susannah Dickey, @Bloomsbury Books Tennis Lessons and Common Decency, Transworld #bookerprize #BookTok #litfic #BookRecommendations #fyp
We are Under the Cover with Christy Matthews, bookseller at North London’s Ink@84. As someone who spends his day recommending books, we’re very keen to hear his current favourites! Which bookshops do you think we should visit next? 📜Christy’s list: Wild Boar by Hannah Lutz, transl. by Andy Turner, The Emma Press Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, Penguin Kick the Latch by Kathryn Scanlan, Daunt Books Modern Poets of the 20th Century Jaws by Peter Benchley, Pan Macmillan & Jaws, directed by Steven Spielberg The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald & The Great Gatsby, directed by Baz Luhrmann The Jack Reacher series by Lee Child, Penguin The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine, Sceptre Rock, Paper, Grenade by Artem Chekh, transl. by Olena Jennings and Oksana Rosenblum, Seven Stories Press @Ink@84 Bookshop #BookTok #BookRecommendations #underthecover #fyp #bookreview
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We are Under the Cover with Christy Matthews, bookseller at North London’s Ink@84. As someone who spends his day recommending books, we’re very keen to hear his current favourites! Which bookshops do you think we should visit next? 📜Christy’s list: Wild Boar by Hannah Lutz, transl. by Andy Turner, The Emma Press Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, Penguin Kick the Latch by Kathryn Scanlan, Daunt Books Modern Poets of the 20th Century Jaws by Peter Benchley, Pan Macmillan & Jaws, directed by Steven Spielberg The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald & The Great Gatsby, directed by Baz Luhrmann The Jack Reacher series by Lee Child, Penguin The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine, Sceptre Rock, Paper, Grenade by Artem Chekh, transl. by Olena Jennings and Oksana Rosenblum, Seven Stories Press @Ink@84 Bookshop #BookTok #BookRecommendations #underthecover #fyp #bookreview
Is Mariana Enriquez a secret romantasy fan? We’re so excited to have the award-winning Argentinian author and queen of contemporary gothic horror as our next guest Under the Cover, just in time for Halloween 👻 Brilliantly witty Mariana is known for her mesmerising short story collections - including International Booker-shortlisted The Dangers of Smoking in Bed - as well as the novel Our Share of Night. Her latest book, Somebody is Walking on Your Grave, is her first work of non-fiction, translated by Megan McDowell. In it, she explores her fascination with the macabre as she visits hauntingly beautiful graveyards and cemeteries around the world 🪦 Normally based in Buenos Aires, we were so lucky to catch her at the Foyles flagship in London. From the greatest ghost stories to overrated adaptations, let us know what you think of her choices! 🧡 📜 Mariana’s list: Somebody is Walking on Your Grave, A Sunny Place for Shady People and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez, Granta Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, Arcturus The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, Penguin A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Death in Venice, directed by Luchino Visconti, based on the book by Thomas Mann, Penguin Pet Sematary directed by Kevin Kolsch & Dennis Widmyer, based on the novel by Stephen King Open by Andre Agassi, HarperCollins Crash by JG Ballard, HarperCollins Girls Against God by Jenny Hval, Verso Bomarzo by Manuel Mujica-Lainez, New York Review #BookTok #horror #romantasy #horrortok #BookRecommendations
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Is Mariana Enriquez a secret romantasy fan? We’re so excited to have the award-winning Argentinian author and queen of contemporary gothic horror as our next guest Under the Cover, just in time for Halloween 👻 Brilliantly witty Mariana is known for her mesmerising short story collections - including International Booker-shortlisted The Dangers of Smoking in Bed - as well as the novel Our Share of Night. Her latest book, Somebody is Walking on Your Grave, is her first work of non-fiction, translated by Megan McDowell. In it, she explores her fascination with the macabre as she visits hauntingly beautiful graveyards and cemeteries around the world 🪦 Normally based in Buenos Aires, we were so lucky to catch her at the Foyles flagship in London. From the greatest ghost stories to overrated adaptations, let us know what you think of her choices! 🧡 📜 Mariana’s list: Somebody is Walking on Your Grave, A Sunny Place for Shady People and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez, Granta Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, Arcturus The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, Penguin A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Death in Venice, directed by Luchino Visconti, based on the book by Thomas Mann, Penguin Pet Sematary directed by Kevin Kolsch & Dennis Widmyer, based on the novel by Stephen King Open by Andre Agassi, HarperCollins Crash by JG Ballard, HarperCollins Girls Against God by Jenny Hval, Verso Bomarzo by Manuel Mujica-Lainez, New York Review #BookTok #horror #romantasy #horrortok #BookRecommendations
What’s the perfect page-to-screen adaptation? The weather has turned in London, and when we’re not tackling our TBR piles, we’re heading back to the cinema or hunkering down in front of a series. We’ve asked authors, booksellers and book lovers to share their favourite adaptations, from cult classics to the best blockbusters. We’d love to know which one you think is best - and which new releases you’re most excited about! Head to Under the Cover for more recommendations and to hear from the faces behind your favourite books 📚 📜 The list: Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton, Penguin & Everything I know About Love, BBC We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver, Serpent’s Tail No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy, Picador Misery by Stephen King The Age of Innocence, dir. by Martin Scorsese, based on the novel by Edith Wharton, Scribner Atonement by Ian McEwan 10 Things I Hate About You, directed by Gil Junger, based on The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare, Macmillan Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman The Personal History of David Copperfield, Lionsgate, directed by Armando Ianucci - adapted from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, Penguin Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott, based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick, Doubleday Any Human Heart by William Boyd, Penguin - adapted by Channel 4 Le Mépris by Jean-Luc Godard, based on Il disprezzo by Alberto Moravia, Bompiani Jaws by Peter Benchley, Pan Macmillan & Jaws, directed by Steven Spielberg Thanks to @fee Mak, Kiley Reid, Abu Kausar, Elaine Castillo, Blake Morrison, Olivia Petter, Eloghosa Osunde, Mia Hall, Kaliane Bradley, William Boyd, Joanna Pocock and Christy Matthews #BookTok #filmtok #movielover #filmreview #BookToScreen
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What’s the perfect page-to-screen adaptation? The weather has turned in London, and when we’re not tackling our TBR piles, we’re heading back to the cinema or hunkering down in front of a series. We’ve asked authors, booksellers and book lovers to share their favourite adaptations, from cult classics to the best blockbusters. We’d love to know which one you think is best - and which new releases you’re most excited about! Head to Under the Cover for more recommendations and to hear from the faces behind your favourite books 📚 📜 The list: Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton, Penguin & Everything I know About Love, BBC We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver, Serpent’s Tail No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy, Picador Misery by Stephen King The Age of Innocence, dir. by Martin Scorsese, based on the novel by Edith Wharton, Scribner Atonement by Ian McEwan 10 Things I Hate About You, directed by Gil Junger, based on The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare, Macmillan Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman The Personal History of David Copperfield, Lionsgate, directed by Armando Ianucci - adapted from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, Penguin Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott, based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick, Doubleday Any Human Heart by William Boyd, Penguin - adapted by Channel 4 Le Mépris by Jean-Luc Godard, based on Il disprezzo by Alberto Moravia, Bompiani Jaws by Peter Benchley, Pan Macmillan & Jaws, directed by Steven Spielberg Thanks to @fee Mak, Kiley Reid, Abu Kausar, Elaine Castillo, Blake Morrison, Olivia Petter, Eloghosa Osunde, Mia Hall, Kaliane Bradley, William Boyd, Joanna Pocock and Christy Matthews #BookTok #filmtok #movielover #filmreview #BookToScreen
Which book makes the perfect present? We’ve asked authors and booksellers to share their ideas 📚 We want to hear which books you’re giving people this year - or the one you’d love to see under the tree! Let us know in the comments (and do support your local indie this Christmas if you can) 🧡 📜 The Gift List: Blandings Castle, The Code of the Woosters & Leave it to Psmith by P.G. Wodehouse, Everyman By The River: Essays from the Water’s Edge, Daunt Books Conversations in Sicily by Elio Vittorini, Canongate Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, Bloomsbury The Sex Lives of African Women by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, Dialogue Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters, Serpent’s Tail Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty, And Other Stories Guests featured: Orlando Whitfield, Jesse Casseem, Elizabeth Day @elizabday, Kiran Desai, Jasmina Bidé, Oisín McKenna, Kristin Griffin. Thanks to @moroccobound, @Heywood Hill, @Round Table Books CIC, @Pages of Hackney and Bàrd Books 🎥 #BookTok #giftideas #BookRecommendations #bookrecs #litfic
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Which book makes the perfect present? We’ve asked authors and booksellers to share their ideas 📚 We want to hear which books you’re giving people this year - or the one you’d love to see under the tree! Let us know in the comments (and do support your local indie this Christmas if you can) 🧡 📜 The Gift List: Blandings Castle, The Code of the Woosters & Leave it to Psmith by P.G. Wodehouse, Everyman By The River: Essays from the Water’s Edge, Daunt Books Conversations in Sicily by Elio Vittorini, Canongate Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, Bloomsbury The Sex Lives of African Women by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, Dialogue Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters, Serpent’s Tail Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty, And Other Stories Guests featured: Orlando Whitfield, Jesse Casseem, Elizabeth Day @elizabday, Kiran Desai, Jasmina Bidé, Oisín McKenna, Kristin Griffin. Thanks to @moroccobound, @Heywood Hill, @Round Table Books CIC, @Pages of Hackney and Bàrd Books 🎥 #BookTok #giftideas #BookRecommendations #bookrecs #litfic
Perfection author Vincenzo Latronico joins us Under the Cover to share some of his favourite books. Shortlisted for this year’s International @The Booker Prizes and published by Fitzcarraldo, Perfection asks us what a meaningful and happy life looks like. It’s Vincenzo’s first novel to be translated into English by Sophie Hughes (more from Sophie soon 👀) We absolutely loved meeting Vincenzo at @BookBar and hearing his choices. What book would you steal from your sibling?! 📜 Vincenzo’s list: Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Penguin The works of Kurt Vonnegut Splinters by Leslie Jamison, Granta Ficciones, Brodie’s Report, The Garden of Forking Paths, The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges, Penguin Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri, Oxford Things: A Story of the Sixties by Georges Perec, Verbamundi #BookTok #litfic #bookreview #BookRecommendations #fyp
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Perfection author Vincenzo Latronico joins us Under the Cover to share some of his favourite books. Shortlisted for this year’s International @The Booker Prizes and published by Fitzcarraldo, Perfection asks us what a meaningful and happy life looks like. It’s Vincenzo’s first novel to be translated into English by Sophie Hughes (more from Sophie soon 👀) We absolutely loved meeting Vincenzo at @BookBar and hearing his choices. What book would you steal from your sibling?! 📜 Vincenzo’s list: Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Penguin The works of Kurt Vonnegut Splinters by Leslie Jamison, Granta Ficciones, Brodie’s Report, The Garden of Forking Paths, The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges, Penguin Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri, Oxford Things: A Story of the Sixties by Georges Perec, Verbamundi #BookTok #litfic #bookreview #BookRecommendations #fyp
Booker Prize judge Kiley Reid - part one 🧡 Brilliant writer and @The Booker Prizes 2025 judge Kiley Reid joins us Under the Cover! Author of Such a Fun Age - longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2020 - and Come and Get It, Kiley is one of the judges for this year’s Prize, with the daunting task of whittling down 153 novels to just one winner on Monday night. We were thrilled to speak to her on London’s South Bank to hear about some of the other books she has loved – and what she can’t wait to read next 🧡 📜 Kiley’s list: Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid, Bloomsbury The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada, Granta The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The New Me, Banal Nightmare and Jillian by Halle Butler, Weidenfeld & Nicolson The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Vintage Sula by Toni Morrison, Vintage The History of Love by Nicole Krauss, Penguin Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, Penguin #bookerprize #BookTok #BookRecommendations #bookreview #fyp
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Booker Prize judge Kiley Reid - part one 🧡 Brilliant writer and @The Booker Prizes 2025 judge Kiley Reid joins us Under the Cover! Author of Such a Fun Age - longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2020 - and Come and Get It, Kiley is one of the judges for this year’s Prize, with the daunting task of whittling down 153 novels to just one winner on Monday night. We were thrilled to speak to her on London’s South Bank to hear about some of the other books she has loved – and what she can’t wait to read next 🧡 📜 Kiley’s list: Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid, Bloomsbury The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada, Granta The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The New Me, Banal Nightmare and Jillian by Halle Butler, Weidenfeld & Nicolson The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Vintage Sula by Toni Morrison, Vintage The History of Love by Nicole Krauss, Penguin Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, Penguin #bookerprize #BookTok #BookRecommendations #bookreview #fyp
Meet Mia Hall, bookseller at West London’s @Nomad Books and our next guest Under the Cover 📚 Mia has plenty of brilliant suggestions for our reading lists (plus a couple of things she’d skip…) Agree with her picks? Have a favourite bookshop we should visit next? Let us know! @Japanese Breakfast #BookTok #BookRecommendations #bookrecs #fyp #litfic
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Meet Mia Hall, bookseller at West London’s @Nomad Books and our next guest Under the Cover 📚 Mia has plenty of brilliant suggestions for our reading lists (plus a couple of things she’d skip…) Agree with her picks? Have a favourite bookshop we should visit next? Let us know! @Japanese Breakfast #BookTok #BookRecommendations #bookrecs #fyp #litfic
None other than William Boyd joins us Under the Cover today! Where do we start? He’s the author of 18 bestselling novels, including the much loved Any Human Heart - the enduring classic ‘whole life’ story of Logan Mountstuart. He’s worked on a hoax with David Bowie, created a new version of James Bond and has even co-written an opera. His latest spy thriller, The Predicament, is the second in a new trilogy after Gabriel’s Moon. William has a collection of well over 10,000 books, so we were delighted to get a look at his shelves at home in London - and of course hear his recommendations 📚 📜 William’s list: Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov, Penguin Any Human Heart by William Boyd, Penguin - adapted by Channel 4 The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene, Penguin - adapted by Paramount & directed by John Mackenzie Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens, Everyman’s Library The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré, Penguin Ulysses by James Joyce, Paris-Shakespeare A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark, Constable Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Liveright Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Scribner @Penguin Books UK #BookTok #BookRecommendations #litfic #bookreview #fyp
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None other than William Boyd joins us Under the Cover today! Where do we start? He’s the author of 18 bestselling novels, including the much loved Any Human Heart - the enduring classic ‘whole life’ story of Logan Mountstuart. He’s worked on a hoax with David Bowie, created a new version of James Bond and has even co-written an opera. His latest spy thriller, The Predicament, is the second in a new trilogy after Gabriel’s Moon. William has a collection of well over 10,000 books, so we were delighted to get a look at his shelves at home in London - and of course hear his recommendations 📚 📜 William’s list: Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov, Penguin Any Human Heart by William Boyd, Penguin - adapted by Channel 4 The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene, Penguin - adapted by Paramount & directed by John Mackenzie Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens, Everyman’s Library The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré, Penguin Ulysses by James Joyce, Paris-Shakespeare A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark, Constable Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Liveright Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Scribner @Penguin Books UK #BookTok #BookRecommendations #litfic #bookreview #fyp
Kaliane Bradley is back Under the Cover, telling us about the smouldering explorer who inspired her writing - and why Phlox Books feels like home.   Which authors do you want to hear from next?! 📚Books featured: The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley, Sceptre @Hodder & Stoughton Astragal by Albertine Sarrazin, Serpent’s Tail Filmed at @phloxtok 🎥 #BookRecommendations #bookreview #theministryoftime #BookTok #litfic
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Kaliane Bradley is back Under the Cover, telling us about the smouldering explorer who inspired her writing - and why Phlox Books feels like home.   Which authors do you want to hear from next?! 📚Books featured: The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley, Sceptre @Hodder & Stoughton Astragal by Albertine Sarrazin, Serpent’s Tail Filmed at @phloxtok 🎥 #BookRecommendations #bookreview #theministryoftime #BookTok #litfic
The wonderful Chloë Ashby is our next author Under the Cover! Known for beautifully poignant takes on love and loss in Wet Paint and Second Self, she’s also an art lover with several non-fiction books to her name.   Chloë’s third novel, Family Friends, is due out next year and we can’t wait. We managed to catch her at @Ink@84 Bookshop in between book edits to hear all about her own favourites 🧡   📜 Chloe’s list:   Wet Paint & Second Self by Chloe Ashby, Orion Normal People, BBC/Hulu based on Normal People by Sally Rooney, Faber & Faber The Great Gatsby, directed by Baz Luhrmann, based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Tiger who Came to Tea & Mog the Forgetful Cat by Judith Kerr, Harper Collins Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, Vintage Monsters by Claire Dederer, Knopf Ulysses by James Joyce, Vintage Notes to Self by Emilie Pine, Penguin Alison by Lizzy Stewart, Serpent’s Tail Audition by Katie Kitamura, @Penguin Books UK #BookRecommendations #bookreview #litfic #bookrecs #BookTok
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The wonderful Chloë Ashby is our next author Under the Cover! Known for beautifully poignant takes on love and loss in Wet Paint and Second Self, she’s also an art lover with several non-fiction books to her name.   Chloë’s third novel, Family Friends, is due out next year and we can’t wait. We managed to catch her at @Ink@84 Bookshop in between book edits to hear all about her own favourites 🧡   📜 Chloe’s list:   Wet Paint & Second Self by Chloe Ashby, Orion Normal People, BBC/Hulu based on Normal People by Sally Rooney, Faber & Faber The Great Gatsby, directed by Baz Luhrmann, based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Tiger who Came to Tea & Mog the Forgetful Cat by Judith Kerr, Harper Collins Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, Vintage Monsters by Claire Dederer, Knopf Ulysses by James Joyce, Vintage Notes to Self by Emilie Pine, Penguin Alison by Lizzy Stewart, Serpent’s Tail Audition by Katie Kitamura, @Penguin Books UK #BookRecommendations #bookreview #litfic #bookrecs #BookTok
Vincenzo Latronico is back Under the Cover! The Perfection author shares even more reading recommendations with us - from Joan to Janet - plus the book it took him years to finish. We’d love to know which ones you’ve enjoyed too 📚 🎥 Filmed at North London’s @BookBar 📜 Vincenzo’s list - part two: Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico, Fitzcarraldo Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allen Poe, Wordsworth The White Album & The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, 4th Estate The Iguana by Anna Maria Ortese, McPherson & Co 2666 by Roberto Bolaño, Picador Democracy by Joan Didion, Vintage The Silent Woman by Janet Malcolm, Granta #BookRecommendations #bookreview #BookTok #litfic #bookrecs
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Vincenzo Latronico is back Under the Cover! The Perfection author shares even more reading recommendations with us - from Joan to Janet - plus the book it took him years to finish. We’d love to know which ones you’ve enjoyed too 📚 🎥 Filmed at North London’s @BookBar 📜 Vincenzo’s list - part two: Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico, Fitzcarraldo Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allen Poe, Wordsworth The White Album & The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, 4th Estate The Iguana by Anna Maria Ortese, McPherson & Co 2666 by Roberto Bolaño, Picador Democracy by Joan Didion, Vintage The Silent Woman by Janet Malcolm, Granta #BookRecommendations #bookreview #BookTok #litfic #bookrecs
Olivia Petter - author, journalist and podcaster - is next Under the Cover 🧡 Her debut novel, Gold Rush, follows a young woman who spends the night with the most famous man in the world, dealing compassionately with consent, celebrity culture and women’s experiences pre-Me Too. Olivia joins us at beautiful Lala Books in Camberwell to share her thoughts on big cats, Wuthering Heights, and why Cleopatra and Frankenstein changed her life (filmed last year before the adaptation was out!) 📜 Olivia’s list: Gold Rush by Olivia Petter, 4th Estate Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors, 4th Estate Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico, Fitzcarraldo Editions The Tiger who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr, Harper Collins 10 Things I Hate About You, directed by Gil Junger, based on The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare, Macmillan Old Babes in the Wood by Margaret Atwood, Vintage Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason, Orion Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, Penguin The Great Gatsby and The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald @4th Estate Books #BookRecommendations #BookTok #bookrecs #bookreview #fyp
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Olivia Petter - author, journalist and podcaster - is next Under the Cover 🧡 Her debut novel, Gold Rush, follows a young woman who spends the night with the most famous man in the world, dealing compassionately with consent, celebrity culture and women’s experiences pre-Me Too. Olivia joins us at beautiful Lala Books in Camberwell to share her thoughts on big cats, Wuthering Heights, and why Cleopatra and Frankenstein changed her life (filmed last year before the adaptation was out!) 📜 Olivia’s list: Gold Rush by Olivia Petter, 4th Estate Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors, 4th Estate Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico, Fitzcarraldo Editions The Tiger who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr, Harper Collins 10 Things I Hate About You, directed by Gil Junger, based on The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare, Macmillan Old Babes in the Wood by Margaret Atwood, Vintage Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason, Orion Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, Penguin The Great Gatsby and The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald @4th Estate Books #BookRecommendations #BookTok #bookrecs #bookreview #fyp
In time for Halloween, Kat Dunn, author of Bitterthorn, shares her favourite books 🧛‍♀️ @kat dunn’s latest, Hungerstone, is a deliciously dark feminist vampire novel - a Sapphic reworking of Carmilla, the book that inspired Dracula. Hungerstone has been selected by a panel of independent booksellers across the UK to be a recent Books are my Bag Indie Book of the Month 📚 She joins us Under the Cover at the wonderful @gaystheword in Central London to tell us about the books that keep her up all night. Let us know if you agree with her choices - or share your own suggestions in the comments! 📜 Kat’s list: Hungerstone by Kat Dunn, Manila Press @Bonnier Books UK Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, HarperCollins The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, Oxford University Press This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, @Quercus Books Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Hutchinson Heinemann The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien, HarperCollins Fingersmith by Sarah Waters, Little, Brown Scholomance: A Deadly Education, The Last Graduate and The Golden Enclaves by @Naomi Novik, Cornerstone Rites of Passage by Judith Flanders, Picador Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, Sceptre #BookTok #horror #sapphicbooktok #horrorbooks #vampire
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In time for Halloween, Kat Dunn, author of Bitterthorn, shares her favourite books 🧛‍♀️ @kat dunn’s latest, Hungerstone, is a deliciously dark feminist vampire novel - a Sapphic reworking of Carmilla, the book that inspired Dracula. Hungerstone has been selected by a panel of independent booksellers across the UK to be a recent Books are my Bag Indie Book of the Month 📚 She joins us Under the Cover at the wonderful @gaystheword in Central London to tell us about the books that keep her up all night. Let us know if you agree with her choices - or share your own suggestions in the comments! 📜 Kat’s list: Hungerstone by Kat Dunn, Manila Press @Bonnier Books UK Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, HarperCollins The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, Oxford University Press This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, @Quercus Books Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Hutchinson Heinemann The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien, HarperCollins Fingersmith by Sarah Waters, Little, Brown Scholomance: A Deadly Education, The Last Graduate and The Golden Enclaves by @Naomi Novik, Cornerstone Rites of Passage by Judith Flanders, Picador Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, Sceptre #BookTok #horror #sapphicbooktok #horrorbooks #vampire
Today! We’re going Under the Cover with… 🤐 Any guesses?? Follow to be first to find out, and subscribe to our Substack for the full interview #BookTok #BookRecommendations #fyp #teaser #comingsoon
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Today! We’re going Under the Cover with… 🤐 Any guesses?? Follow to be first to find out, and subscribe to our Substack for the full interview #BookTok #BookRecommendations #fyp #teaser #comingsoon
Should everyone read Pride & Prejudice?! We’re back Under the Cover for part two of Booker Prize 2025 judge Kiley Reid’s favourites - from the books that made her a writer to the one she wishes had never been adapted 📚 Kiley is the author of Such a Fun Age and Come and Get It. We caught up with her on London’s South Bank to hear about the books she loves beyond @The Booker Prizes shortlist. Let us know what you think of her recommendations! 📜 Kiley’s list (find part one on our page): Heartburn by Nora Ephron, Virago - audiobook narrated by Meryl Streep, Random House We Need to Talk About Kevin, based on the novel by Lionel Shriver, Serpent’s Tail The Giver, based on the novel by Lois Lowry, Harper Colins Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Simon & Schuster Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Faber Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics by Professor Lester Spence, Punctum The Goosebumps Series by R. L. Stine, Scholastic #BookTok #litfic #bookreview #BookRecommendations #fyp @Southbank Centre
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Should everyone read Pride & Prejudice?! We’re back Under the Cover for part two of Booker Prize 2025 judge Kiley Reid’s favourites - from the books that made her a writer to the one she wishes had never been adapted 📚 Kiley is the author of Such a Fun Age and Come and Get It. We caught up with her on London’s South Bank to hear about the books she loves beyond @The Booker Prizes shortlist. Let us know what you think of her recommendations! 📜 Kiley’s list (find part one on our page): Heartburn by Nora Ephron, Virago - audiobook narrated by Meryl Streep, Random House We Need to Talk About Kevin, based on the novel by Lionel Shriver, Serpent’s Tail The Giver, based on the novel by Lois Lowry, Harper Colins Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Simon & Schuster Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Faber Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics by Professor Lester Spence, Punctum The Goosebumps Series by R. L. Stine, Scholastic #BookTok #litfic #bookreview #BookRecommendations #fyp @Southbank Centre
Fee Mak, BBC Radio 1Xtra DJ and presenter, is also a passionate booklover. When she’s not on the airwaves, she’s busy interviewing authors at book festivals across the UK or sharing literary takes over on High Shelf Esteem, so we couldn’t wait to get her tips 📚 Fee took us to her wonderful local library in Plaistow, East London - the place she first became such an avid reader. Let us know if you’ve read any of her picks! 📜 @FEE MAK’s list: The Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot, Macmillan The Situationship by @taylor-dior rumble, @#Merky Books Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro, transl. by Frances Riddle, @Charco Press The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, HarperCollins This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay, @picadorbooks A Deeper Love Inside by Sister Souljah, Atria Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton, @Penguin Books UK & Everything I know About Love, BBC Gunk by Saba Sams, @Bloomsbury Books #BookTok #BookRecommendations #underthecover #fyp
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Fee Mak, BBC Radio 1Xtra DJ and presenter, is also a passionate booklover. When she’s not on the airwaves, she’s busy interviewing authors at book festivals across the UK or sharing literary takes over on High Shelf Esteem, so we couldn’t wait to get her tips 📚 Fee took us to her wonderful local library in Plaistow, East London - the place she first became such an avid reader. Let us know if you’ve read any of her picks! 📜 @FEE MAK’s list: The Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot, Macmillan The Situationship by @taylor-dior rumble, @#Merky Books Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro, transl. by Frances Riddle, @Charco Press The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, HarperCollins This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay, @picadorbooks A Deeper Love Inside by Sister Souljah, Atria Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton, @Penguin Books UK & Everything I know About Love, BBC Gunk by Saba Sams, @Bloomsbury Books #BookTok #BookRecommendations #underthecover #fyp
Tender is the Flesh author Agustina Bazterrica is next to go Under the Cover! Her latest chillingly dystopian novel, The Unworthy, takes us to a religious cult where women shelter from environmental collapse and submit to sadistic punishment - until a new arrival brings hope. Agustina’s books may be brilliantly dark, but she’s a joy to chat to. She joins us at The Gilded Acorn to talk Argentina, Alice in Wonderland and the adaptations she loves and loathes. 📜 Agustina’s list: Tender is the Flesh & The Unworthy by @agustinabazterrica, translated by Sarah Moses, @Pushkin Press Glosa by Juan José Saer, Seix Barral Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Puffin The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien, Harper Collins & The Lord of the Rings, directed by Peter Jackson, Warner Bros One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, Harper Collins & One Hundred Years of Solitude, Netflix Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici, Autonomedia Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Penguin A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, Penguin The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, Vintage #BookTok #BookRecommendations #bookrecs #fyp #horror
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Tender is the Flesh author Agustina Bazterrica is next to go Under the Cover! Her latest chillingly dystopian novel, The Unworthy, takes us to a religious cult where women shelter from environmental collapse and submit to sadistic punishment - until a new arrival brings hope. Agustina’s books may be brilliantly dark, but she’s a joy to chat to. She joins us at The Gilded Acorn to talk Argentina, Alice in Wonderland and the adaptations she loves and loathes. 📜 Agustina’s list: Tender is the Flesh & The Unworthy by @agustinabazterrica, translated by Sarah Moses, @Pushkin Press Glosa by Juan José Saer, Seix Barral Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Puffin The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien, Harper Collins & The Lord of the Rings, directed by Peter Jackson, Warner Bros One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, Harper Collins & One Hundred Years of Solitude, Netflix Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici, Autonomedia Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Penguin A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, Penguin The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, Vintage #BookTok #BookRecommendations #bookrecs #fyp #horror
Is Miss Piggy the ultimate business inspiration?! Books are Magic’s Emma Straub joins us Under the Cover to explain why - and to share her reading recommendations 🧡 Emma is the founder of beloved Brooklyn bookstore Books are Magic. She’s also written six novels for adults and three for children, including Modern Lovers and Mama Hug. Her latest book, American Fantasy, explores what it’s like to revisit teenage fandom as an adult. We couldn’t wait to visit Books are Magic and meet Emma. She tells us her go-to writers to make her laugh, and how she really feels about Pride and Prejudice adaptations. Let us know if you agree - and follow for more from our New York Series! 📚 📜 Emma’s list: This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub, Riverhead Atonement, directed by Joe Wright, based on the novel by Ian McEwan, Penguin Pride and Prejudice, directed by Joe Wright, 2005, based on the novel by Jane Austen, Faber Cherry Baby by Rainbow Rowell, William Morrow The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf & Robert Lawson, Viking Quietly Hostile & Meaty by Samantha Irby, Vintage The Clasp & Grief is For People by Sloane Crosley, Picador Me Talk Pretty One Day & Calypso by David Sedaris, Abacus & Little, Brown Heart the Lover by Lily King, Grove/Canongate A Wilder Shore by Camille Peri, Penguin Random House The Essential Emily Dickinson, Ecco Sylvia Plath: The Collected Poems, Faber Edna St Vincent Millay, Gemini Frank O’Hara: Selected Poems, Knopf Miss Piggy’s Guide to Life by Henry Beard, Muppet Press/Knopf @books are magic #BookTok #BookRecommendations #bookshop #bookrecs #currentlyreading
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Is Miss Piggy the ultimate business inspiration?! Books are Magic’s Emma Straub joins us Under the Cover to explain why - and to share her reading recommendations 🧡 Emma is the founder of beloved Brooklyn bookstore Books are Magic. She’s also written six novels for adults and three for children, including Modern Lovers and Mama Hug. Her latest book, American Fantasy, explores what it’s like to revisit teenage fandom as an adult. We couldn’t wait to visit Books are Magic and meet Emma. She tells us her go-to writers to make her laugh, and how she really feels about Pride and Prejudice adaptations. Let us know if you agree - and follow for more from our New York Series! 📚 📜 Emma’s list: This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub, Riverhead Atonement, directed by Joe Wright, based on the novel by Ian McEwan, Penguin Pride and Prejudice, directed by Joe Wright, 2005, based on the novel by Jane Austen, Faber Cherry Baby by Rainbow Rowell, William Morrow The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf & Robert Lawson, Viking Quietly Hostile & Meaty by Samantha Irby, Vintage The Clasp & Grief is For People by Sloane Crosley, Picador Me Talk Pretty One Day & Calypso by David Sedaris, Abacus & Little, Brown Heart the Lover by Lily King, Grove/Canongate A Wilder Shore by Camille Peri, Penguin Random House The Essential Emily Dickinson, Ecco Sylvia Plath: The Collected Poems, Faber Edna St Vincent Millay, Gemini Frank O’Hara: Selected Poems, Knopf Miss Piggy’s Guide to Life by Henry Beard, Muppet Press/Knopf @books are magic #BookTok #BookRecommendations #bookshop #bookrecs #currentlyreading

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Under the Cover (@underthecoverbooks) has 10.9K Tiktok followers with a 7.38% engagement rate over the past 12 months. Across 27.0 videos, Under the Cover received 55.5K total likes and 759K views, averaging 2.06K likes per video. This page tracks Under the Cover's performance metrics, top content, and engagement trends — updated daily.

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