Books
Want a great book recommendation? Be it summer reads or a classic to cosy up with, find out what team Marie Claire are reading
Books
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The TikTok Book Awards shortlist is here - these are the reads to have on your radar
Plus how to vote for your faves
By Jadie Troy-Pryde
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The hottest accessory this summer? A book
6 new books to satisfy your wanderlust
By Mischa Anouk Smith
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Seven scandalous books about women in Hollywood
Think fallen starlets, controversial tell-alls, and sordid scandals from Hollywood’s Golden Age.
By Mischa Anouk Smith
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16 books about women's rights to add to your reading list right now
The only reading list you'll need this International Women's Day
By Jenny Proudfoot
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I'm a writer and I'm obsessed with books—these are the very best books of the year
Kindles at the ready, Readers – our round-up of new releases and recommended favourites for 2023 is designed to give you a TBR list to treasure throughout the year
By Catherine Jarvie
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Yomi Adegoke: "We need to lean into uncomfortable conversations so they aren't commandeered by the wrong people"
By Jenny Proudfoot
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The latest internet comments about Margot Robbie highlight how societally normalised incel culture is
Plus, how online incel hatred translates into real-life crimes.
By Ally Head
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14 LGBTQ+ books to add to your reading list this Pride Month
By Dionne Brighton
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17 best self-help books for 2023 that are actually worth reading, according to MC Editors
You won't be able to pu these down.
By Jadie Troy-Pryde
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Six seductive new reads you don’t want to miss this month
Curl up with our pick of the best books this month
By Catherine Jarvie
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Rebecca Humphries talks gaslighting, Seann Walsh and learning to love healthily
Humphries' book, Why Did You Stay, came out earlier this year.
By Jenny Proudfoot
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Dolly Alderton: "I just can’t write about anything other than love"
Author Dolly Alderton talks love, female friendship and her writing process...
By Jenny Proudfoot
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The best autumn books for 2022: The women writers you want to be reading this season
This way for the best page-turners...
By Catherine Jarvie
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Why do people cheat in relationships? The five most common reasons to look out for
We've all questioned it, here's the answer...
By Marie Claire
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The Women's Prize for Fiction 2022 shortlist has officially been announced
By Jenny Proudfoot
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June Sarpong: 'The more women are empowered, the more men are released from the self-created bondage of patriarchy'
By Andrea Thompson
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Katie Piper talks hope, life lessons and the transformative power of affirmations
'You may not be in control of what happens to you, but your power lies in how you react to the challenges in life.'
By Jenny Proudfoot
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The best books of the year
The biggest and best reads of 2021 according to Amazon...
By Sarah-Rose Harrison
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Qian Julie Wang on her undocumented childhood, the salvation of reading and her powerful new memoir
Features Editor Jenny Proudfoot sits down with Qian Julie Wang for MC Book Club to talk memoirs, Middlemarch and the release of Beautiful Country…
By Jenny Proudfoot
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The best summer reads we can't put down
Romance, mystery, and murder. Count us in. These are the Amazon best-sellers you're going to want to read ASAP.
By Sarah-Rose Harrison
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Bella Mackie talks How to Kill Your Family and the rage she wants women to take from it
With How to Kill Your Family hitting shelves this summer, Bella sat down with MC to talk crime fiction, writing female psychopaths and the role reading plays in her life...
By Jenny Proudfoot
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Georgia Toffolo talks romantic fiction, heroines being in control of their own narrative and her important new book
As Meet Me in Tahiti hits shelves today, we sat down with Georgia Toffolo to talk writing female heroines, Instagram book clubs and the joys of a good read…
By Jenny Proudfoot
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These are the books you need to read before their film adaptations hit the screen
By Jenny Proudfoot
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These are the editor-approved summer reads I'm investing in this season
MC's Features Editor gives her top summer book recommendations...
By Jenny Proudfoot
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Candice Brathwaite: Why are we still so obsessed with what men think of women?
As her much-anticipated second book Sista Sister hits the shelves, bestselling author and activist Candice Brathwaite tells us what she wishes she'd known about relationships, interracial dating, and dulling your shine to get someone to like you.
By Maria Coole
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The View Was Exhausting co-authors Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta on the romance of friendship
'When we’re writing, we try to imbue our friendships with just as much emotion and care and tension as a romantic relationship.' Partners in life and writing Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta talk love and friendship in their dazzling debut novel, The View Was Exhausting.
By Kate McCusker
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Jack Guinness breaks down how and why you should immerse yourself in Queer Culture this Pride
Jack Guinness has just launched The Queer Bible, a collection of essays by his queer heroes, elevating, amplifying and celebrating the voices of the queer community...
By Maria Coole