Dua Lipa’s 2023 Reading List

I could not put Pachinko by Min Jin Lee down… it’s quite long, but I promise you will race through it. It’s a sweeping saga set in Korea and Japan that follows the fortunes of a Korean family across four generations and eight decades.

I am delighted to announce our August Monthly Read is Half Of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. I loved this book and I am beyond thrilled to be reading it with you! The story takes place in 1960s Nigeria, both before and during the Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War.

This month, we are doing something a little different… our September Monthly Read is the memoir Just Kids by Patti Smith. Patti is an absolute rock and roll icon and a personal hero of mine so I am beyond excited to dive into this book.

My November Monthly Read is Brit Bennett’s mesmerising novel, The Vanishing Half. This book brilliantly surfaces a multitude of questions about race, class, and gender, told through a family drama that spans three generations in 20th-century America. Twin sisters Desiree and Stella choose very different paths in life, with the implications of their decisions reverberating down the generations.