If you’re stuck for inspiration, why not try one of our staff recommended picks?

 

General Fiction

 

Emma Cline – Daddy

William Boyd – The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth

Tracy Chevalier (ed.) – Reader, I Married Him

Maeve Binchy – Return Journey or  This Year It Will Be Different

Zora Neale Hurston – Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick

Jeffrey Archer – To Cut a Long Story Short

Victoria Hislop – The Last Dance & Other Stories or Cartes Postales from Greece

Joanne Harris – A Cat, a Hat and a Piece of String

Penny Vincenzi – Love in the Afternoon & Other Delights

Rose Tremain – The American Lover & Other Stories

Ali Smith – Public Library & Other Stories

Rachel Joyce – A Snow Garden & Other Stories

John Boyne – Beneath the Earth

Tom Hanks – Uncommon Type

Cecilia Ahern – Roar

Danielle Evans – The Office of Historical Corrections

Jojo Moyes – Paris for One & Other Stories

Alison Macleod – All the Beloved Ghosts

Kate Mosse – Mistletoe Bride & Other Haunting Tales

Carys Bray – Sweet Home

Curtis Sittenfeld – You Think It I’ll Say It

Zadie Smith – Grand Union

James Joyce - Dubliners

Peter James – A Twist of the Knife

Lee Child – First Thrills

Geovani Martins – The Sun on My Head

Lucy Caldwell – Being Various

 

Teen/Young Adult

 

Scarlett Curtis – It’s Not OK to Feel Blue (and other lies) or Feminists Don’t Wear Pink (and other lies)

Dave Shelton – Thirteen Chairs

Amnesty International UK – Here I Stand

Juno Dawson (ed.) – Proud

Ellen Oh & Elsie Chapman (eds.) – A Thousand Beginnings & Endings

Amerie (ed.) – Because You Hate to Love Me: 13 Tales of Villainy

 

Books for Children

 

David Walliams – The World’s Worst Children

Katherine Rundell – Into the Jungle

Enid Blyton – Holiday Stories

Rudyard Kipling – Just So Stories

Emma Carroll – When We Were Warriors

John McLay - Thirteen

 

Reserve your books to collect from your local library by visiting our library catalogue, or use our free Staff Select service if you’d like us to pick out some books for you!

 

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