Books from Kaya Scodelario

Queenie

»›Queenie‹ wurde die ›Schwarze Bridget Jones‹ genannt. Aber dieses Buch ist noch viel besser.« Sunday Times.Queenie ist ein Naturtalent. Darin, sich Ärger einzuhandeln. Zum Beispiel in der Zeitungsredaktion, wo sie die Zeit vertrödelt, anstatt endlich über die Themen zu schreiben, die ihr wichtig sind: Black Lives Matter, Feminismus, seelische Gesundheit. Oder mit ihrem braven weißen Boyfriend, der sie nicht gegen seinen (»Er hat’s nicht so gemeint«) rassistischen Onkel verteidigt. Als die Beziehung zerbricht, sucht Queenie Trost in der digitalen Datinghölle und trifft eine falsche Entscheidung nach der anderen. Die Welt schaut ihr zufrieden dabei zu: ist denn von jungen (Schwarzen) Frauen anderes zu erwarten? Eben. Erst als es fast zu spät ist​, stellt sich Queenie den wichtigen Fragen: Wie kann ich die Welt zu einem besseren, gerechteren Ort machen? Und mich in ihr ein bisschen glücklicher?Ausgezeichnet als bestes Buch und bestes Debüt des Jahres bei den British Book Awards! »Carty-Williams hat die Geschichte einer Schwarzen Frau aufgeschrieben und daraus ›die‹ Geschichte unserer Zeit gemacht.« TIME Magazine.»Großartig: am Puls der Zeit, lustig, herzzerreißend.« Jojo Moyes.»Ein wichtiges, aktuelles, entwaffnendes Buch, das längst hätte geschrieben werden müssen. Eines das jeder Schwarzen Frau und Heerscharen weiterer Leser*innen unendlich viel bedeuten wird.« Guardian.
Kaya Scodelario
Actress
Queenie, is a great book that I loved.
Books from Kaya Scodelario

Girl, Woman, Other

NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE “A must-read about modern Britain and womanhood . . . An impressive, fierce novel about the lives of black British families, their struggles, pains, laughter, longings and loves . . . Her style is passionate, razor-sharp, brimming with energy and humor. There is never a single moment of dullness in this book and the pace does not allow you to turn away from its momentum.” —Booker Prize Judges Bernardine Evaristo is the winner of the 2019 Booker Prize and the first black woman to receive this highest literary honor in the English language. Girl, Woman, Other is a magnificent portrayal of the intersections of identity and a moving and hopeful story of an interconnected group of Black British women that paints a vivid portrait of the state of contemporary Britain and looks back to the legacy of Britain’s colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean. The twelve central characters of this multi-voiced novel lead vastly different lives: Amma is a newly acclaimed playwright whose work often explores her Black lesbian identity; her old friend Shirley is a teacher, jaded after decades of work in London’s funding-deprived schools; Carole, one of Shirley’s former students, is a successful investment banker; Carole’s mother Bummi works as a cleaner and worries about her daughter’s lack of rootedness despite her obvious achievements. From a nonbinary social media influencer to a 93-year-old woman living on a farm in Northern England, these unforgettable characters also intersect in shared aspects of their identities, from age to race to sexuality to class. Sparklingly witty and filled with emotion, centering voices we often see othered, and written in an innovative fast-moving form that borrows technique from poetry, Girl, Woman, Other is a polyphonic and richly textured social novel that shows a side of Britain we rarely see, one that reminds us of all that connects us to our neighbors, even in times when we are encouraged to be split apart.
Kaya Scodelario
Actress
Girl, Woman, Other, is incredible as well.
Books from Kaya Scodelario

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • Sam and Sadie—two college friends, often in love, but never lovers—become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. It is a love story, but not one you have read before. "Delightful and absorbing." —The New York Times • "Utterly brilliant." —John Green One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, TIME, GoodReads, Oprah Daily From the best-selling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn’t heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won’t protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts.Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love.
Kaya Scodelario
Actress
Other recommendations for books, Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow. It's incredible. It's a really beautiful love story that isn't romantic.
Books from Kaya Scodelario

The Bee Sting

WINNER OF THE NERO BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2023WINNER OF AN POST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE WRITERS’ PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024ONE OF SARAH JESSICA PARKER’S BEST BOOKS OF 2023Book of the Year 2023 according to New York Times, New Yorker, The Sunday Times, The Economist, Observer, Guardian, Washington Post, Lit Hub, TIME magazine, Irish Times, The Oldie, Daily Mail, i Paper, Independent, The Standard, The Times, Kirkus, Daily Express, City A.M. From one of our greatest comic novelists and the author of Skippy Dies comes a funny, thought-provoking story of one family desperately clinging on as their world falls apart . . .'A tragicomic triumph. You won't read a sadder, truer, funnier novel this year' GuardianThe Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under - but rather than face the music, he's spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman.His wife Imelda is selling off her jewellery on eBay while their teenage daughter Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge-drink her way to her final exams. And twelve-year-old PJ is putting the final touches to his grand plan to run away from home.Where did it all go wrong? A patch of ice on the tarmac, a casual favour to a charming stranger, a bee caught beneath a bridal veil?Can a single moment of bad luck change the direction of a life? And if the story has already been written - is there still time to find a happy ending?‘The finest novel that Murray has yet written . . . will surely be one of the books of 2023’ Sunday Independent'Murray is a natural storyteller . . . Ambitious, expansive, hugely entertaining tragicomic fiction' Irish Times'It's a thing of beauty, a novel that will fill your heart' Observer‘Generous, immersive, sharp-witted and devastating . . . a triumph’ Financial Times‘It's been compared to Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections; I'd argue it's better’ Daily Mail
Kaya Scodelario
Actress
And I've just finished, The Bee Sting, which was amazing.