Books for #WSPD2026
Thursday 10 September is World Suicide Prevention Day 2026 (#WSPD2026) — and its theme this year is: ‘starting a conversation’ and ‘changing the narrative’.
In connection with this, I’ve taken a photo of some of the books that might interest the protagonist in And How Are Things With You. Several books are missing here — eBooks, audiobooks, returned library books — by, for example, Jente Postuma, Olivier Adam, Violaine Huisman …
Anyway, I’ve listed at least some of the authors on a reel I made for 10 September. (The accompanying music is Missa Solemnis by Beethoven.)
Books by authors, and editors, one translator include: Mandy Hager, Naomi Arnold, Nadine Hura, Kiri Allan, Emma Neale, Anna Smaill, Carl Shuker, Lee Murray, Kiri Piahana-Wong, Siân Robyns, Linda Collins, Eileen Merriman, Iona Winter, Debby Curreen, Jehan Casinader, Jazz Thornton, Jan Jordan, Jacqueline Leckie … Gilles Paris, Olivia de Lamberterie, Katia Chapoutier … Rory O’Connor, Matt Haig, JP Seabright, Emily Austin, Gail Honeyman, Elizabeth Strout, Miriam Toews, Yiyun Li, Ali Smith, Kazuo Ishiguro, Diana Evans, Julian Barnes, David Vann … and many others, including Ned Vizzini, Sylvia Plath, Marie-Claire Blais, Marguerite Yourcenar, Dorothy Parker, Tove Ditlevsen and others. 🎗️
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