The Happy Reader

Discovered this new "seasonal periodical" in Waterstones last week. Three issues so far, bought the current one and backordered the first two.

Issue 1

• Breece D'J Pancake - brilliant short stories. Reviews: The New Yorker; The Guardian
• John Williams - Stoner. Reviews: The Guardian.

Dan Stevens

• The Line of Beauty: Amazon, BBC TV Series
• The Junket - online magazine: http://thejunket.org/
• Fan fiction
• Slash fiction
• Robert Bly - Iron John: Amazon
• Hilary Mantel - Bring up the Bodies: Amazon
• David Nicholls - Us: Amazon
• Jon Ronson - The Psychopath Test: Amazon
• Pumping Iron: IMDb
• Robert Macfarlane - The Old Ways: Amazon
• Robert Macfarlane - Mountains of the Mind: Amazon

Winter reads

• Werner Herzog - Of Walking In Ice (1978): Amazon
• Annie Dillard - Teaching a stone to talk: Amazon
• Kelly Link - Magic for Beginners: Amazon
• Herman Melville - Moby Dick: Amazon
• George Lowe - Letters from Everest: Amazon
• Patrick Leigh Fermor - A Time of Gifts: Amazon

Book of the Season

Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White: Amazon

100 Best Novels by Robert McCrum http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/17/the-100-best-novels-written-in-english-the-full-list