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#  11 Reads For World Book Day  


Today is World Book Day, an annual opportunity to celebrate the transporting, absorbing power of a great read. Here, the SheerLuxe team share the very best books they’ve discovered over the past year, from hilarious memoirs to heartbreaking novels.  


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## [**How to Murder Your Life by Cat Marnell**](https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=3787&awinaffid=69421&clickref=&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Fhow-to-murder-your-life%2Fcat-marnell%2F9780091957360)

**Georgie Coleridge Cole, Founder &amp; Editor**

This memoir from former Condé Nast beauty editor and socialite Cat Marnell is a shockingly honest, compelling and gritty story of addiction in New York’s Downtown scene.

 

 

 

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## [**Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton**](https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=3787&awinaffid=69421&clickref=&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Feverything-i-know-about-love%2Fdolly-alderton%2F9780241322710)

**Jess Roberts, Account Executive**  
  
Journalist and former *Sunday Times* dating columnist Dolly Alderton’s debut is a mix of personal stories and satirical observations that are hilarious and relatable for women of any age.

 

 

 

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## [**Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders**](https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=3787&awinaffid=69421&clickref=&p=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Flincoln-in-the-bardo%2Fgeorge-saunders%2F9781408871775)

**Poppy Rushforth, Editor of the Brief**  
Last year’s Booker prize-winning novel draws on the life of Abraham Lincoln and the death of his 11-year-old son, Willie, at the dawn of the Civil War. Inventive, grotesque, hilarious, moving – I was in awe throughout.

 

 

 

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## [**The Girls by Emma Cline**](https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=3787&awinaffid=69421&clickref=&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Fthe-girls%2Femma-cline%2F9781784740443)

**Eve Crosbie, Content Co-ordinator**  
  
A gorgeous and sumptuously written, heady fiction novel based on the summer of '69 and the Manson cult. A must read.

 

 

 

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## [**The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan**](https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=3787&awinaffid=69421&clickref=&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Fthe-keeper-of-lost-things%2Fruth-hogan%2F9781473635487)

**Tor Cardona, Health &amp; Beauty Editor**  
  
This was the first book I read in 2018 and will be surprised if I find another like it this year. This beautifully written, heartbreaking novel should be on everyone's list.

 

 

 

 

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## [**Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman**](https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=3787&awinaffid=69421&clickref=&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Feleanor-oliphant-is-completely-fine%2Fgail-honeyman%2F9780008172145)

**Lu Hough, Head of Fashion &amp; Product**  
  
It’s easy to see why this funny, moving novel dominated the charts last year. Awkward, lonesome Eleanor Oliphant learns to confront her illusions and start anew.

 

 

 

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## [**The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead**](https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=3787&awinaffid=69421&clickref=&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Fthe-underground-railroad%2Fcolson-whitehead%2F9780708898406)

**Charlotte Collins, Fashion Editor**  
  
This story about young black slaves in the Deep South escaping their cotton plantations for a better life is gripping, distressing and entertaining in equal measure.

 

 

 

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## [**The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan**](https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=3787&awinaffid=69421&clickref=&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Fthe-panopticon%2Fjenni-fagan%2F9780099558644)

**Astrid Carter, Deputy Editor**  
  
Fifteen-year-old Anais is tenacious, laugh-out-loud funny and heartbreakingly vulnerable all at once. The story follows her life in a young offenders’ institute, the bond she makes with others in there and the failings society has on her. Set in a modern Scotland-cum-alternate reality, the book sits somewhere between Irvine Welsh and Margaret Atwood.

 

 

 

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## [**Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys by Viv Albertine**](https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=3787&awinaffid=69421&clickref=&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Fclothes-clothes-clothes-music-music-music-boys-boys-boys%2Fviv-albertine%2F9780571328284)

**Rosy Cherrington, Features Editor &amp; Sub-Editor**  
  
This memoir by Slits guitarist Viv Albertine came out in 2014, but I recently spotted it on a friend's bookshelf and it caught my eye. For anyone at all interested in 70s punk music – including the fateful tale of Sid and Nancy – this is a must-read.

 

 

 

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## [**How to be a Grown Up by Daisy Buchanan**](https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=3787&awinaffid=69421&clickref=&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Fhow-to-be-a-grown-up%2Fdaisy-buchanan%2F9781472238849)

**Mia Luckie, Marketing Manager**  
  
A feel-good book that reassures us we all have the same fears – no matter how old or successful we are. If you’re in your 20s this will have you laughing out loud, and if you're older I’m sure you'll find it packed full of the nostalgic mistakes we all make in our younger years.

 

 

 

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## [**Marie Curie: Little People, Big Dreams by Isabel Sanchez Vegara**](https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=3787&awinaffid=69421&clickref=&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Fmarie-curie%2Fisabel-sanchez-vegara%2Ffrau-isa%2F9781847809612)

**Emma Wilson, Assistant to the Founder &amp; Editor**  
  
I have had a real issue reading traditional fairy tales to my girls, how women are represented just doesn't sit right with me. These books, however are amazing and, although not adult literature, the best books I've read all year.

 

 

 

 

  

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