Our series 15 cavalcade of champions continues with the wonderful Catherine Gray! Catherine is an award-winning author, editor and podcaster whose writing has been seen in the Guardian, Stylist, Telegraph, Grazia and Stella. Catherine's hit debut book, The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober, became a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller, followed by the acclaimed The Unexpected Joy of the Ordinary, The Unexpected Joy of Being Single and Sunshine Warm Sober. Her debut novel Versions of a Girl has just been released. We talked to her about sobriety memoirs, formative reads, historical troublemakers, David Sedaris writing advice and more on the often fraught Fanny Price debate.Find out more about all the books Catherine mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store.

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BOOKS

Catherine Gray - Versions of a Girl

Catherine Gray - The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober

Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca

Augusten Burroughs - Dry

Sarah Hepola - Blackout

Mark Williams and Denny Penman - Mindfulness

Sasha Scoblic - Unwasted

Rolad Dahl - James and the Giant Peach

Lois Lowry - Anastasia Krupnik

The School of Life - How To Overcome Your Childhood

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Philip Pullman - Northern Lights

Anne Helen Petersen - Can't Even

Vendela Veda - We Run the Tides

Catherine Newman - Sandwich

Celeste Ng - Little Fires Everywhere

Coco Mellors - Blue Sisters

Kiley Reid - Come and Get it

Jane Austen - Mansfield Park

Jane Austen - Emma

Nikki May - Wahala

Nikki May - This Motherless Land

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Sylvia Townsend Warner - Lolly Willowes

Katherine May - The Electricity of Every Living Thing

Elspeth Barker - O Caledonia

Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Jean Rhys - Good Morning Midnight

Jay McInerney - Bright Lights Big City

Jay McInerney - The Story of My Life

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser

Catherine Newman - We All Want Impossible Things

Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Curtis Sittenfeld - American Wife

David Sedaris - The Best of Me

Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Joan Didion - Let Me Tell You What I Mean

Clare Keegan - Foster

Frances Quinn - That Bone Setter Woman

Jodi Picoult - By Any Other Name

Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry

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