If you’re stuck for inspiration, why not try one of our staff recommended picks?
General Fiction
Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns or And the Mountains Echoed
Margaret Atwood – The Blind Assassin
Gabriel Garcia Marquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude or Love in the Time of Cholera
Sally Rooney – Conversations with Friends
Arundhati Roy – The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Heather Morris – The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Jonathan Safran Foer – Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Toshikazu Kawaguchi – Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Lucy Foley – The Last Letters of Istanbul
Jojo Moyes – Still Me
Graeme Simison – Two Steps Forward
Nora Roberts – Come Sundown
Sheila O’Flanagan – The Hideaway
Fiona Sussman – The Last Time We Spoke
Umberto Eco – The Name of the Rose
Herman Koch – The Dinner
Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart
Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Americanah or Half of A Yellow Sun
Paulo Coelho – The Alchemist
Elena Ferrante – My Brilliant Friend
Yann Martel – Life of Pi
Carlos Ruiz Zafon – The Shadow of the Wind
Markus Zusak – The Book Thief
Stieg Larsson – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Anthony Doerr – All the Light We Cannot See
Amor Towles – A Gentleman in Moscow
Mohsin Hamid – Exit West
Muriel Barbery – The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Isabel Allende – In the Midst of Winter
C.J Sansom – Winter in Madrid
Anne Enright – The Green Road
Alexander McCall Smith – 44 Scotland Street
Lucinda Riley – The Olive Tree
Jane Harper – The Dry
Nina George – The Little Paris Bookshop
Non-Fiction
Malala Yousafzai – I Am Malala
Anne Frank – The Diary of a Young Girl
Jonathan Franklin – 438 Days: An extraordinary true story of survival at sea
Christopher Andrew – The Secret World: A history of intelligence
Barack Obama – A Promised Land
Michelle Obama - Becoming
Teen/Young Adult
John Boyne – Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Jess Butterworth – Running on the Roof of the World
Kereen Getten – When Life Gives You Mangoes
Children’s Books
Onjali Q. Rauf – The Boy at the Back of the Class
Sayantani DasGupta – The Serpent’s Secret
Helena Duggan – A Place Called Perfect
Katherine Rundell – The Explorer
Louise Fitzhugh – Harriet the Spy
Nizarana Farook – The Girl Who Stole an Elephant
Michael Morpurgo – Dear Olly, Running Wild, The Wreck of the Zanzibar, The Butterfly Lion
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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