Daisy Jones & The Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid, 2019
Historical fiction RomanceContemporary fictionYoung adult
A rock band's rise, told as an oral history by everyone who lived it—and the singer at the center no one can agree on. A chorus of voices pieces together a band's rise, warm with nostalgia and sharp with ambition, moving quickly through memory and conflict.
Feels like nostalgia, passion and melancholy. About art, ambition and memory.
Who it’s for
If you like band stories, creative ambition, and messy memory, this may suit you. The oral-history format shifts among many speakers and versions, so it can feel scattered if you want one steady narrator.
Why read it
It gives you the band's rise as a clash of voices, letting ambition, resentment, and affection surface through what each person chooses to say.
A page from the book
The story we tell ourselves to explain what we couldn't refuse.
I had no idea what I was doing or why I was doing things I knew I didn’t want to be doing. But I’ve had a lot of therapy in my life now. And I mean a lot of therapy. And I see it now. I see myself clearly now. I wanted to be around these men—these stars—because I didn’t know how else to be important. And I figured I had to please them if I wanted to stay. Taylor Jenkins Reid.The audiobook uses a full cast, a different actor for each witness, so the novel's oral-history form becomes actual voices.
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Questions readers ask
- Is Daisy Jones & The Six for me?
- If you like band stories, creative ambition, and messy memory, this may suit you. The oral-history format shifts among many speakers and versions, so it can feel scattered if you want one steady narrator.
- What is Daisy Jones & The Six like?
- A chorus of voices pieces together a band's rise, warm with nostalgia and sharp with ambition, moving quickly through memory and conflict. Feels like nostalgia, passion and melancholy. About art, ambition and memory.
- What should I read after Daisy Jones & The Six?
- If you liked Daisy Jones & The Six, try The Favorites (Layne Fargo), Home Before Dark (Riley Sager) and The Paris Wife (Paula McLain).
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Shaw & Rocha, the carving read when he finished. It was the way our names would be written on the scoreboard at our first U.S. Figure Skating Championships in a few days’ time. The way they’d be announced in medal ceremonies and reported in newspapers and entered in the record books. We’d cut the letters into the center of my antique rosewood headboard, deep enough that no amount of sanding could remove them.
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The quiet, brutal truth that sustains any relationship is merely belief.
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