Lily King
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Sep 15, 2026
Deborah Derrickson KossmannGUEST
And it's very relevant to things right now that are going on.
Deborah Derrickson KossmannGUEST
I just finished Lily King's Writers and Lovers recently, which I loved.
Deborah Derrickson KossmannGUEST
And I read a lot of poetry also.
Deborah Derrickson KossmannGUEST
Do you still write poetry? Less so.
MollyHOST
Really good.
MollyHOST
My next one is Heart the Lover by Lily King.
ChristyHOST
Ugh, my gosh.
MollyHOST
Such a good one.
MollyHOST
If you know, it's a striking cover, bright orange, this, like, very interesting, um, face made out of flowers and other inanimate objects.
MollyHOST
Lily King is one of my favorite writers today, and this is a prequel to Writers & Lovers, her first book that came out a number of years ago.
MollyHOST
But it follows this one woman in her formative years in college.
MollyHOST
She meets a pair of friends who really change the trajectory of her life.
Bobby PalmerGUEST
glad you asked me first because I actually think what, what I'm going to say, Claire might say as well.
Bobby PalmerGUEST
So I'm going to say heart, the lover by Lily King.
Bobby PalmerGUEST
Um,
Joe HaddoHOST
She can say it as well.
AoifeHOST
So cast your minds back when I told Circa that I had downloaded the book.
AoifeHOST
What was it? Heart the Lover by Lily King.
AoifeHOST
I had not.
AoifeHOST
I had actually downloaded the book Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid and I finally finished it.
Annie JonesHOST
Glaciers by Alexis M. Smith.
Annie JonesHOST
Heart the Lover by Lily King.
Annie JonesHOST
And Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner.
Annie JonesHOST
I kind of want an end cap that would encapsulate a young woman trying to discover who she is.
Sam PfeifleHOST
They are Aetna by Paul Yoon.
Sam PfeifleHOST
Father of the Rain by Lily King, a deep cut.
Sam PfeifleHOST
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins-Reed.
Sam PfeifleHOST
And Taipei Story by R.F. Kuang.
7 MINS LATER
Sam PfeifleHOST
Let's move on to book number two.
Sam PfeifleHOST
Number two.
Sam PfeifleHOST
And book number two is Father of the Rain by Lily King.
Sam PfeifleHOST
Lily King is a friend of the bookshop, I would say, Beverly.
Melanie TaylorGUEST
So I'll read one or two books in between just to make sure I'm not totally sucked into the rabbit hole.
Melanie TaylorGUEST
And my favorite book outside of that series that I read this summer is called Heart the Lover by Lily King.
AJ AyersHOST
Mm.
Melanie TaylorGUEST
I'm not sure if you've heard of it, but it's, um, it's a pretty quick read.
John GreenHOST
Can I talk to you about a book I read that I loved? Sure.
John GreenHOST
It's called Heart the Lover by Lily King.
John GreenHOST
I've actually read the book- Oh ... before, but I read it on a plane, and something about the altitude, uh, caused me this time reading it to just weep uncontrollably, such that the flight attendant asked if I was doing okay.
John GreenHOST
Yeah.
John GreenHOST
Um- But it wasn't just a sad book.
John GreenHOST
It was also a delightful book, full of wonder and light and wit and repartee and all the things that I love in a story.
John GreenHOST
I love Lily King.
John GreenHOST
I can't believe that I get to be on stage with her in Portland, Maine.
PamHOST
So this is just, I, I need to get this off my chest.
PamHOST
The, we are reading Heart: The Lover by Lily King.
PamHOST
And I'm just a little bored, but it's, like, easy to read, and like, I've highlighted a couple lines here and there on my Kobo.
PamHOST
So this is about an unnamed narrator who, in college, I think in her final year, she falls hard in love with these two boys, and they kind of just, like, sweep into her life.
PamHOST
Yeah.
HallieHOST
Here's my guess for what the person who is, who picked this again.
HallieHOST
So I actually have read something by Lily King that's a novel.
PamHOST
Oh.
Amanda DobbinsHOST
100% agree
Juliet LitmanHOST
... and it's funny, I had an interesting experience reading, uh, earlier this year, Heart: The Lover by Lily King, which I've mentioned a few times.
Amanda DobbinsHOST
Mm-hmm.
Juliet LitmanHOST
'Cause I, I deeply loved it.
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