Reading suggestions for reading groups · 2020-01-07 · READING SUGGESTIONS FOR READING GROUPS Fiction A - Z by author surname …p2 . Classics A - Z by author surname …p21 . Non-Fiction

READING SUGGESTIONS FOR READING GROUPS Fiction A - Z by author surname …p2

Classics A - Z by author surname …p21

Non-Fiction A - Z by author surname …p23

10 Years of Man Booker & Women’s Prize winners …p27

Reading Groups may borrow any title from our catalogue, as long as we hold enough copies for your group and have a couple left in circulation for individual customers.

To help your group choose their books we have created this list: we have enough copies of these titles in stock to meet the needs of our average sized group. Some titles may be available in alternative formats (Large Print &/or Audio) - please enquire when placing orders.

The list is based in part on the requests made by the 350+ Reading Groups supported by West Sussex Library Service, but inclusion on the list is not necessarily a recommendation of excellence.

Ordering in advance increases the chances of supplying sufficient copies by your desired collection date, please use our online form or phone our hotline 03302 225588 (Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm)

Please avoid requesting newly published titles, as these will still be in demand with our individual customers.

If a title has a long waiting list we will need to satisfy paid requests from individuals before we accept reading group requests.

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Reading suggestions for Reading Groups Updated January 2020

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Please note, titles are subject to availability.

FICTION

A Achebe Chinua Things Fall Apart Adebayo Ayobami Stay With Me Adichie Chimamanda Americanah Half of a Yellow Sun Adiga Aravind White Tiger Ahern Cecelia Lyrebird Marble Collector Albom Mitch First Phone Call From Heaven Alderman Naomi Power Ali Monica Brick Lane Allende Isabel In the Midst of Winter Allnatt Judith Silk Factory Arango Sascha Truth and Other Lies Archer Jeffrey Heads You Win Nothing Ventured (William Warwick No 1) Only Time Will Tell (Clifton Chronicles1) Arden Katherine Bear and the Nightingale Ashdown Isabel Beautiful Liars

Ashton Juliet Sunday Lunch Club Atkins Lucy Missing One Atkinson Kate Behind the Scenes at the Museum Case Histories (Jackson Brodie No 1) God in Ruins (Todd Family No 2) Life After Life (Todd Family No 1) Transcription Atwood Margaret Alias Grace Blind Assassin Hag-seed, the Tempest retold Handmaid’s Tale (Handmaid’s Tale No 1) Heart Goes Last Testaments (Handmaid’s Tale No 2)

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Backman Fredrik Britt-Marie was Here Man Called Ove My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologies Baily Virginia Early One Morning Bainbridge Beryl Girl in the Polka-Dot Dress Baker Jo Longbourn Country Road, a tree Bakewell Joan She’s Leaving Home Banks Iain Quarry Wasp Factory


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Banville John Mrs Osmond Sea Barber Lizzy My Name is Anna Barbery Muriel Elegance of the Hedgehog Barker Pat Life Class (Brooke Family No 1) Regeneration (Regeneration Trilogy 1) Silence of the Girls Barnes Julian Arthur and George Noise of Time Only Story Sense of an Ending Barnett Laura Greatest Hits Versions of Us Barry Sebastian Days Without End Secret Scripture (McNulty Family No 2) Temporary Gentleman (McNulty Family No 3) Barton Fiona Widow (Kate Barton No 1) Bauer Belinda Beautiful Dead Rubbernecker Shut Eye Snap Beatty Paul Sellout Benjamin Chloe Immortalists Bennett Alan Smut, two unseemly stories Uncommon Reader

Binchy Maeve Chestnut Street Light a Penny Candle This Year it will be Different Bivald Katarina Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend Boling Dave Undesirables Boyd William Good Man in Africa Love is Blind Stars and Bars Sweet Caress, the Many Lives of Amory Clay Waiting for Sunrise Boyne John Heart’s Invisible Furies History of Loneliness Ladder to the Sky This House is Haunted Bradbury Ray Fahrenheit 451 Bragg Melvyn Grace and Mary Now is the Time Braithwaite Oyinkan My Sister, the Serial Killer Bray Carys Museum of You Song for Issy Bradley Brett Simon Corpse on the Court Liar in the Library Britton Fern Coming Home Holiday Home Newcomer Postcard Brookner Anita Hotel du Lac


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Brooks Geraldine Secret Chord Buchan Elizabeth Museum of Broken Promises New Mrs Clifton Bulawayo Noviolet We Need New Names Burnet Graeme Macrae His Bloody Project, documents relating to the case of Roderick Macrae Burns Anna Milkman Burton Jessie Confession Miniaturist Muse Bussi Michel After the Crash Black Water Lilies Byatt A S Ragnarok, the end of the gods

C Campbell Michelle It’s Always the Husband Candlish Louise Our House Swimming Pool Cannon Joanna Three Things About Elsie Trouble with Goats and Sheep Capote Truman Breakfast at Tiffanys Carey Peter Anmesia Chemistry of Tears Long Way From Home

Carr J L Month in the Country Catton Eleanor Luminaries Cavanagh Steve Twisted Chamberlain Mary Dressmaker of Dachau Chevalier Tracy At the Edge of the Orchard Last Runaway New Boy, Othello retold Reader, I Married Him: storied inspired by Jane Eyre Remarkable Creatures Single Thread Christie Agatha Death Comes as the End They Came to Baghdad Clark Clare In the Full Light of the Sun Clary Julian Briefs Encountered Cleave Chris Everyone Brave is Forgiven Other Hand Cleeves Ann Crow Trap (Vera Stanhope No 1) Long Call (Two Rivers No 1) Clegg Bill Did You Ever Have a Family? Clements Rory Corpus (Tom Wilde No 1) Cleveland Karen Need to Know Cline Emma Girls


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Clinton Bill President is Missing Coe Jonathan Middle England Number 11, or tales that witness madness Coelho Paulo Alchemist Aleph Coetzee J M Disgrace Cohen Julie Together Cole Daniel Ragdoll (Ragdoll No 1) Coleman Rowan Summer of Impossible Things We Are All Made of Stars Collins Bridget Binding Connolly Cressida After the Party Copleton Jackie Dictionary of Mutual Understanding Cornwell Bernard Fools and Mortals Crace Jim Harvest Melody Craig Amanda Lie of the Land Crouch Julia Her Husband’s Lover Tarnished Cullen Helen Lost Letters of William Woolf

Cummins Fiona Collector Cusk Rachel Outline (Outline No 1)

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Dalcher Christina Vox Day Elizabeth Paradise City Party De Bernieres Louis Blue Dog Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Dust That Falls From Dreams So Much Life Left Over Delaney J P Girl Before De Waal Kit My Name is Leon Trick to Time Diamond Lucy Something to Tell You Dicker Joel Baltimore Boys Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair Didierlaurent Jean-Paul Reader on the 6.27 Diffenbaugh Vanessa Language of Flowers We Never Asked for Wings Dinsdale Robert Toymakers Dionne Karen Home (aka Marsh King’s Daughter) Doerr Anthony All the Light We Cannot See


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Donoghue Emma Akin Frog Music Room Wonder Drabble Margaret Dark Flood Rises Pure Gold Baby Du Beke Anton One Enchanted Evening Du Maurier Daphne Frenchman’s Creek My Cousin Rachel Rebecca Dunant Sarah Blood and Beauty Dunmore Helen Birdcage Walk Exposure Girl, Balancing & other stories Lie Spell of Winter

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Eberlen Kate Miss You Edugyan Esi Washington Black, a novel Egan Jennifer Manhattan Beach Eggers Dave Heroes of the Frontier Ekback Cecilia Wolf Winter Ellis Janet Butcher’s Hook Elton Ben Identity Crisis Time and Time Again

Enright Anne Green Road Ephron Nora Heartburn Erskine Barbara Darkest Hour Ghost Tree River of Destiny Sleeper’s Castle Evans Diana Ordinary People Evans Harriet Garden of Lost and Found Wildflowers Evans Lissa Crooked Heart Old Baggage Their Finest (aka Their Finest Hour and a Half) Evaristo Bernardine Girl, Woman, Other Extence Gavin Mirror World of Melody Black

F Faulks Sebastian Birdsong Charlotte Gray Paris Echo Week in December Where My Heart Used to Beat Fellowes Julian Belgravia Past Imperfect Snobs, a novel Fergusson Ben Other Hoffman Sister Ferrante Elena My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan No 1)


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Ferris Joshua To Rise Again at a Decent Hour Filer Nathan Shock of the Fall Finn A J Woman in the Window Finnigan Judy Eloise Fitzgerald Penelope Blue Flower Bookshop Offshore Flagg Fannie Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café Flanagan Richard Narrow Road to the Deep North Fleming Leah Girl Under the Olive Tree Last Pearl Postcard Flynn Gillian Gone Girl Sharp Objects Foley Lucy Hunting Party Follett Ken Pillars of the Earth Whiteout Forster Margaret Diary of an Ordinary Woman, 1914-1995 How to Measure a Cow Unknown Bridesmaid Fowler Karen Joy Case of the Imaginary Detective We are all Completely Beside Ourselves Fowles John French Lieutenant’s Woman Magus

Fox Essie Goddess and the Thief Frankel Laurie This is How it Always is Franzen Jonathan Corrections Frayn Michael Skios, a novel French Dawn According to Yes Oh Dear Silvia Tiny Bit Marvellous French Nicci Lying Room French Tana In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad No 1) Wych Elm Freud Esther Mr Mac & Me Fridlund Emily History of Wolves Fry Stephen Making History Fuller Clare Bitter Orange Our Endless Numbered Days Swimming Lessons Furnivall Kate Betrayal Survivors

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Gaiman Neil Ocean at the End of the Lane Galbraith Robert Cuckoo’s Calling (Cormoran Strike No 1)


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Gale Patrick Facts of Life Notes from an Exhibition Perfectly Good Man Place Called Winter Rough Music Take Nothing With You Galloway Steven Cellist of Sarajevo Gardam Jane Old Filth (Old Filth No 1) Gayle Mike Man I Think I Know Genova Lisa Still Alice George Nina Little Breton Bistro Little Paris Bookshop Ghosh Amitav Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy No 1) Gibson Mary Custard Tarts and Broken Hearts (Factory Girls No 1) Glaister Seni Mr Doubler Begins Again Museum of Things Left behind Gowar Imogen Hermes Mermaid and Mrs Hancock Grant Linda Dark Circle Stranger City Upstairs at the Party Green Jane Other Woman Greengrass Jessie Sight

Gregory Philippa Lady of the Rivers (Plantagenet & Tudors No 1) Tidelands (Fairmile No 1) Gregson Julia East of the Sun Monsoon Summer Grenville Kate Secret River (Thornhill Family No 1) Griffiths Elly Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway No 1) Stranger Diaries Zig Zag Girl (Stephens & Mephisto No 1) Gruen Sarah Water for Elephants Gyasi Yaa Homegoing

H Haddon Mark Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Pier Falls and other stories Porpoise Hadley Tessa Late in the Day London Train Past Haig Matt How to Stop Time Humans Halls Stacey Familiars Hamer Kate Crushed Doll Funeral Girl in the Red Coat Hamid Mohsin Exit West Reluctant Fundamentalist


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Hancock Sheila Miss Carter’s War Hanks Tom Uncommon Type, some stories Hannah Kristin Great Alone Nightingale True Colors Haran Maeve In a Country Garden Hardie Mark Burned and Broken (Pearson and Russell No 1) Harkness Deborah Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy No 1) Harper Jane Dry Force of Nature Lost Man Harris Eve Marrying of Chani Kaufman Harris Joanne Chocolat (Vianne Rocher No.1) Different Class Gentlemen and Players Harris Robert Conclave Imperium (Cicero No 1) Munich Officer and a Spy Pompeii Second Sleep Harris S J Colour of Bee Larkham’s Murder Haruf Kent Our Souls at Night Harvey Samantha Western Wind

Hawkins Paula Girl on the Train Into the Water Hayes Antonia Relativity Hayes Terry I am Pilgrim Haywood Sarah Cactus Healey Emma Elizabeth is Missing Whistle in the Dark Hendricks Greer Wife Between Us Herron Mick Slow Horses (Slough House No 1) Heyer Georgette Convenient Marriage Hill Melissa Keep You Safe Hill Susan Beacon Dolly, a ghost story From the Heart Hislop Victoria Cartes Postales From Greece Island Last Dance and Other Stories Return Sunrise Those Who are Loved Thread Hoffman Alice Marriage of Opposites Hogan Ruth Keeper of Lost Things Queenie Malone’s Paradise Hotel Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes


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Hollinghurst Alan Sparsholt Affair Stranger’s Child Homes A M May we be Forgiven Honeyman Gail Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine Hope Anna Ballroom Wake Hore Rachel Last Letter Home House on Bellevue Gardens Silent Tide Hornak Francesca Seven Days of Us Hornby Gill All Together Now Hornby Nick Juliet, Naked Horowitz Anthony House of Silk (Sherlock Holmes No 1) Magpie Murders (Magpie Murders No 1) Word is Murder (Detective Daniel Hawthorne No 1) Hosseini Khaled And the Mountains Echoed Kite Runner Thousand Splendid Suns Hourston Alex In My House Love After Love Howard Rosie Homecoming (Havenbury No 1) Hunter Cara Too Close to Home (D.I. Fawley No 1) Hustvedt Siri Blazing World

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Imrie Celia Not Quite Nice (Bellevue-Sur-Mer No 1) Sail Away Ingelman-Sundberg Catharina Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules (Senior League No 1) Ironmonger John Not Forgetting the Whale Ishiguro Kazuo Buried Giant Never Let Me Go Remains of the Day Iturbe Antonio Librarian of Auschwitz Ivey Eowyn Snow Child To the Bright Edge of the World

J Jackson Shirley We Have Always Lived in the Castle Jacobson Howard Finkler Question James Erica Hidden Cottage Swallowtail Summer James Marlon Brief History of Seven Killings James P D Death Comes to Pemberley Sleep No More, six murderous tales James Peter Absolute Proof Billionaire Dead Simple (Roy Grace No 1) Faith House on Cold Hill (Cold Hill No 1)


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Perfect People Possession Jefferies Dinah Before the Rains Missing Sister Sapphire Widow Silk Merchant’s Daughter Tea Planter’s Wife Jewell Lisa House We Grew Up In Then She Was Gone Watching You Johnson Daisy Everything Under Jonasson Jonas Hitman Anders and the Meaning of it All Hundred Year Old Man who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared (100 Year Old Man No 1) Jones Sadie Uninvited Guests Jones Tayari An American Marriage Joyce Rachel Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy (Harold Fry No 2) Music Shop Perfect Snow Garden and Other Stories Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Harold Fry No 1)

K Kanon Joseph Leaving Berlin Kellerman, Jonathan Murderer’s Daughter Kelly Erin Burning Air He Said/She Said

Kent Hannah Burial Rites Kerouac Jack On the Road Keyes Marian Break Kidd Jess Himself Hoarder Things in Jars Kidd Sue Monk Invention of Wings

cret Life of Bees King Stephen Outsider Kingsolver Barbara Flight Behaviour Lacuna Poisonwood Bible Unsheltered Kinsella Sophie I’ve Got Your Number Surprise Me Knight Renee Disclaimer Secretary

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Koch Emily If I Die Before I Wake Koch Herman Dinner Koomson Dorothy Brighton Mermaid Flavour of Love Friend That Girl from Nowhere Kundera Milan Unbearable Lightness of Being


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Kureishi Hanif Buddha of Suburbia Kushner Rachel Mars Room

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Lampedusa Giuseppe Tomasi de Leopard Lanchester John Wall Land Ali Good Me, Bad Me Lapena Shari Couple Next Door Someone we Know Stranger in the House Unwanted Guest La Plante Linda Widows (Dolly Rawlins No 1) Larsson Stieg Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millenium Trilogy No 1) Laurain Antoine President’s Hat Le Carre John Constant Gardener Delicate Truth Little Drummer Girl Night Manager Lee Harper Go Set a Watchman To Kill a Mockingbird Lefteri Christy Beekeeper of Aleppo Leith Prue Food of Love. Book 1:Laura’s story Lelic Simon Child Who

Leon Donna Death at La Fenice (Guido Brunetti No 1)

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Levy Deborah Hot Milk Man Who Saw Everything Swimming Home

Levy Andrea ng Song

Small Island

Lewis Susan Behind Closed Doors (Detective Andee Lawrence No 1) Never say Goodbye Lewycka Marina Lubetkin Legacy Short History of Tractors in Ukranian Lindsay Joan Picnic at Hanging Rock Lively Penelope How It All Began Moon Tiger Photograph Locke Attica Cutting Season Lodge David Deaf Sentence Logan T M Holiday Lies Lokko Lesley Last Debutante Lupton Rosamund Quality of Silence

M McAllister Gillian Anything You Do Say Everything but the Truth


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Evidence Against You No Further Questions McBride Eimear Girl is a Half-Formed Thing Lesser Bohemians McCann Colum TransAtlantic McCullers Carson Heart is a Lonely Hunter McEwan Ian Amsterdam Atonement Child in Time Children Act Enduring Love Machines Like Me Nutshell On Chesil Beach Saturday Sweet Tooth McGrath Patrick Wardrobe Mistress McGregor Jon Reservoir 13 (Reservoir No 1) McGuire Ian North Water McInerney Lisa Glorious Heresies McKenzie Elizabeth Portable Veblen McLain Paula Circling the Sun Love and Ruin McNamara Ali Daisy’s Vintage Cornish Camper Van McPartlin Anna Last Days of Rabbit Hayes

McQuaile Kate Without a Word MacKintosh Clare After the End I Let You Go I See You Let Me Lie MacLaverty Bernard Midwinter Break MacLeod Alison All the Beloved Ghosts Unexploded MacManus James Sleep in Peace Tonight MacNeal Elizabeth Doll Factory Madeley Richard Way You Look Tonight Magnusson Sally Sealwoman’s Gift Mahmood Imran You Don’t Know Me Mangan Christine Tangerine Manning Olivia Levant Trilogy Mansell Jill Unpredictable Consequences of Love Mantel Hilary Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell Trilogy No 1) Marcus Tom Capture or Kill (Matt Logan No 1) Marquez Gabriel Garcia Love in the Time of Cholera Marr Andrew Children of the Master


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Marshall Laura Friend Request Three Little Lies Martel Yann High Mountains of Portugal Life of Pi Mason Daniel Winter Soldier Mawer Simon Girl Who Fell From the Sky (Marian Sutro No 1) Glass Room Meyer Deon Fever Miller Andrew Now We Shall be Entirely Free Miller Madeline Circe Song of Achilles Minett G J Hidden Legacy Lie in Wait Mistry Rohan Fine Balance Mitchell David Bone Clocks Slade House Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet Mitford Nancy Love in a Cold Climate Moggach Deborah Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (aka These Foolish Things) Carer Something to Hide Tulip Fever Moggach Lottie Kiss Me First Under the Sun

Montefiore Santa Beekeeper’s Daughter Italian Matchmaker Last Voyage of the Valentina Songs of Love and War (Deverill Chronicles No 1) Temptation of Gracie Montefiore Simon Sebag Red Sky at Noon Moriarty Liane Big Little Lies (aka Little Lies) Husband’s Secret Nine Perfect Strangers Truly, Madly, Guilty What Alice Forgot Morrall Clare Last of the Greenwoods Morris Heather Cilka’s Journey (Tattooist of Auschwitz No 2) Tattooist of Auschwitz Morrison Toni Beloved God Help the Child Morton Kate Clockmaker’s Daughter Lake House Secret Keeper Moss Sarah Ghost Wall Mosse Kate Burning Chambers (Burning Chambers No 1) Labyrinth (Languedoc Trilogy No 1) Taxidermist’s Daughter Winter Ghosts Moyes Jojo Girl You Left Behind Giver of Stars Last Letter From Your Lover Me Before You (Me Before You Trilogy No 1)


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Mozley Fiona Elmet Mukherjee Abir Rising Man (Sam Wyndham No 1) Murakami Haruki Killing Commendatore Murata Sayaka Convenience Store Woman Murdoch Iris Sea, the Sea

N Naughtie James Madness of July Nemirovsky Irene Suite Francaise Nesbo Jo Bat (Harry Hole No.1) Blood on Snow (Blood on Snow No 1) Macbeth Ng Celeste Everything I Never Told You Little Fires Everywhere Nicholls David One Day Sweet Sorrow Us Nicholson William Reckless Noble Elizabeth Letters to Iris (aka Love, Iris) Things I Want My Daughters to Know Norris Barney Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain Turning for Home North Claire End of the Day First 15 Lives of Harry August

Norton Graham Holding Keeper

O Obioma Chigozie Fishermen Orchestra of Minorities Obreht Tea Tiger’s Wife O’Brien Edna Little Red Chairs O’Farrell Maggie Instructions for a Heatwave This Must be the Place Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox Ondaatje Michael English Patient Warlight Owens Delia Where the Crawdads Sing

P Page Libby Lido Pamuk Orhan Red-Haired Woman Strangeness in My Mind Parsons Tony Murder Bag (DC Max Wolfe No 1) Patchett Ann Bel Canto Commonwealth Dutch House State of Wonder Paull Laline Bees Ice


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Pearce A J Dear Mrs Bird Pears Tim Horseman Pearse Lesley Forgive Me House Across the Street Without a Trace Woman in the Wood You’ll Never See Me Again Pendziwol Jean Lightkeeper’s Daughters Penney Steff Tenderness of Wolves Under a Pole Star Perry Sarah After Me Comes the Flood Essex Serpent Melmoth Persson Leif G W Dying Detective Picoult Jodie Change of Heart Leaving Time Lone Wolf Small Great Things Spark of Light Storyteller Pinborough Sarah Behind Her Eyes Porter Max Grief is the Thing With Feathers Powers Richard Overstory Proulx E Annie Barkskins Shipping News Pullman Philip Book of Dust Vol 1. La belle sauvage

Book of Dust Vol 2. Secret Commonwealth Purcell Laura Bone China Corset Silent Companions Pym Barbara Excellent Women

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Quinn Anthony Curtain Call (Curtain Call No 1) Our Friends in Berlin Quintana Jenny Missing Girl

R Rhodes Kate Hell Bay (Ben Kitto No 1) Rhys Jean Wide Sargasso Sea Rhys Rachel Dangerous Crossing Richmond Michelle Marriage Pact Riley Lucinda Butterfly Room Love Letter Olive Tree Seven Sisters, Maia’s story (Seven Sisters No 1) Robertson Robin Long Take Rodriguez Deborah Little Coffee Shop of Kabul (Little Coffee Shop of Kabul No 1) Zanzibar Wife Rooney Sally Conversations With Friends Normal People


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Rothschild Hannah Improbability of Love Rowling J K Casual Vacancy Roy Arundhati God of Small Things Ministry of Utmost Happiness Rusbridge Jane Rook Rushdie Salman Quichotte Ryan Donal From a Low and Quiet Sea Ryan Jennifer Chilbury Ladies Choir

S Sahota Sanjeev Year of the Runaways Salinger J D Catcher in the Rye Sallis Susan Promise Sansom C J Dissolution (Shardlake No 1) Dominion Saunders George Lincoln in the Bardo Schmidt Sarah See What I Have Done Schott Ben Jeeves and the King of Clubs Searle Nicholas Good Liar

See Lisa Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Seethaler Robert Tobacconist Whole Life Semple Maria Today Will be Different Where’d You Go, Bernadette? Setterfield Diane Once Upon a River Thirteenth Tale Shafak Elif 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World Shaffer Mary Ann Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Shah Saira Mouseproof Kitchen Shamsie Kamila God in Every Stone Home Fires Shaw William Birdwatcher Salt Lane (DS Alexandra Cupidi No 1) Sheers Owen I Saw a Man Shreve Anita Stars are Fire Shriver Lionel Mandibles:a family 2029-2047 Property, a collection We Need to Talk About Kevin Shute Nevil On the Beach Requiem for a Wren Town Like Alice


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Simonson Helen Summer Before the War Simsion Graeme Best of Adam Sharp Rosie Project (Don Tillman No 1) Two Steps Forward Sinha Umi Belonging Sittenfeld Curtis Eligible Sisterland You Think It, I’ll Say It, stories Slimani Leila Lullaby Smith Ali Autumn (Seasonal Quartet No 1) How to be Both Public Library and other stories Smith Dodi I Capture the Castle Smith Tom Rob Farm Smith Zadie NW Swing Time White Teeth Spark Muriel Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Spufford Francis Golden Hill St Aubyn Edward Lost For Words Steadman Catherine Something in the Water Stedman M. L. Light Between Oceans

Stibbe Nina Paradise Lodge Stockett Kathryn Help Strout Elizabeth Anything is Possible My Name is Lucy Barton Olive, Again (Olive No 2) Olive Kitteridge (Olive No 1) Stuart Keith Boy Made of Blocks Suskind Patrick Perfume, the story of a murderer Swift Graham Mothering Sunday Syal Meera Anita and Me House of Hidden Mothers

T Tan Twang Eng Garden of Evening Mists Gift of Rain Tartt Donna Goldfinch Secret History Taylor Andrew Ashes of London (James Marwood & Cat Lovett No 1) Thien Madeleine Do Not Say We Have Nothing Thomas Bev Good Enough Mother Thomas Rosie Daughter of the House Illusionists


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Thomson Lesley Detective’s Daughter (Detective’s Daughter No 1) Titchmarsh Alan Bring Me Home Haunting Mr Gandy’s Grand Tour Scarlet Nightingale Toibin Colm Brooklyn Nora Webster Testament of Mary Toksvig Sandi Valentine Grey Toole John Kennedy Confederacy of Dunces

GiTorday Paul

rl on the Landing Light Shining in the Forest Towles Amor Gentleman in Moscow Rules of Civility Townsend Sue Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year Treloar Lucy Salt Creek Tremain Rose American Lover and other stories Gustav Sonata Merivel, a Man of His Time Restoration Road Home Trespass Tremayne S K Fire Child Ice Twins Just Before I Died Trenow Liz Silk Weaver

Trollope Joanna City of Friends Soldier’s Wife Unsuitable Match Tropper Jonathan One Last Thing Before I Go Truss Lynne Shot in the Dark (Constable Twitten No 1) Tudor C J Chalk Man Taking of Annie Thorne Turton Stuart Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle Tyler Anne Accidental Tourist Beginner’s Goodbye Clock Dance If Morning Ever Comes Ladder of Years Spool of Blue Thread Vinegar Girl

U Underdown Beth Witchfinder’s Sister

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Vaughan Sarah Anatomy of a Scandal Verghese Adam Cutting for Stone Vickers Salley Cleaner of Chartres Cousins Grandmothers Librarian Vincent Norah Adeline, a novel of Virginia Woolf Von Arnim Elizabeth Enchanted April


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W Walker Alice Color Purple Walker Karen Thompson Age of Miracles Walsh Helen Lemon Grove Walters Louise Mrs Sinclair’s Suitcase Walters Minette Last Hours (Last Hours No 1) Ward Sarah In Bitter Chill (DC Childs Mystery No 1) Ware Ruth Death of Mrs Westaway In a Dark, Dark Wood Lying Game Turn of the Key Woman in Cabin 10 Wark Kirsty Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle Warner Helen Story of Our Lives Waters Sarah Little Stranger Paying Guests Watson S J Before I Go to Sleep Second Life Webb Katherine Hiding Places Misbegotten Weir Alison Dangerous Inheritance West Juliet Before the Fall Faithful

Whitehead Colson Underground Railroad Whitehouse David Mobile Library Willett Marcia Postcards From the Past Williams John Stoner Wilson Patricia Island of Secrets Winman Sarah Tin Man Year of Marvellous Ways Winterson Jeanette Oranges are not the Only Fruit Gap of Time, the Winter’s Tale retold Winton Tim Shepherd’s Hut

Y Yanagihara Hanya Little Life

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Zafon Carlos Ruiz Shadow of the Wind (Cemetery of Forgotten Books No 1) Zusak Marcus Book Thief Bridge of Clay


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CLASSICS

Alcott Louisa May Little Women Austen Jane Emma Mansfield Park Northanger Abbey Persuasion Pride and Prejudice Sense & Sensibility

B Blackmore R D Lorna Doone Bronte Anne Agnes Grey Tenant of Wildfell Hall Bronte Charlotte Jane Eyre Bronte Emily Wuthering Heights

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Collins Wilkie Moonstone Woman in White Conrad Joseph Heart of Darkness

Dickens Charles Bleak House Christmas Carol Great Expectations Oliver Twist Tale of Two Cities

E Eliot George Adam Bede Daniel Deronda Middlemarch Mill on the Floss Silas Marner, the weaver of Raveloe

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Fitzgerald F Scott Great Gatsby Tender is the Night Flaubert Gustave Madame Bovary, Provincial lives Forster E M Howards End Passage to India Room with a View Where Angels Fear to Tread

G Gibbons Stella Cold Comfort Farm Golding William Lord of the Flies

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Hardy Thomas Far from the Madding Crowd Jude the Obscure Tess of the d’Urbervilles Hartley L P Go-Between Hasek Jaroslaw Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War Heller Joseph Catch-22


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Hemingway Ernest Farewell to Arms Old Man and the Sea Huxley Aldous Brave New World

J James Henry Turn of the Screw Jerome Jerome K Three Men in a Boat

L Lawrence D H Lady Chatterley’s Lover London Jack Call of Wild

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Maugham W. Somerset Of Human Bondage

O Orczy Baroness Scarlet Pimpernel Orwell George Animal Farm, a fairy story Nineteen Eighty Four

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Remarque Erich Maria All Quiet on the Western Front

S Scott Sir Walter Ivanhoe Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft Frankenstein, or the modern Prometheus

Stevenson R L Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Steinbeck John Cannery Row Grapes of Wrath Of Mice and Men Pearl Stoker Bram Dracula Swift Jonathan Gulliver’s Travels

T Thackeray William Makepeace Vanity Fair

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Verne Jules Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

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Waugh Evelyn Handful of Dust Scoop, a Novel About Journalists Wells H G Time Machine War of the Worlds Wharton Edith Ethan Frome Wilde Oscar Picture of Dorian Gray Woolf Virginia Mrs Dalloway Orlando To the Lighthouse


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NON-FICTION

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Adie Kate Fighting on the Home Front, the legacy of women in World War One Anand Anita Sophia, princess, suffragette, revolutionary Angelou Maya I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Athill Diana Alive, Alive oh! And other things that matter

B Bakewell Joan Stop the clocks, thoughts on what I leave behind Balding Clare My Animals and Other Family Barnes Julian Levels of Life Bauby Jean-Dominique Diving-bell and the Butterfly Bayley Sally Girl With Dove, life built by books Benaddi Janette Four Mums in a Boat Bennett Alan Lady in the Van Berry Mary Recipe for Life, the Autobiography Bowen James Street Cat Named Bob Brittain Vera Testament of Youth, an Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900 - 1925

Bryson Bill Body Notes From a Big Country Notes From a Small Island Road to Little Dribbling, more notes from a small island Walk in the Woods Bythell Shaun Diary of a Bookseller

C Cadbury Deborah Princes at War, the British Royal Family’s private battle in the Second World war Capote Truman In Cold Blood Clare Horatio Down to the Sea in Ships Cumming Laura On Chapel Sands, my mother and other missing persons

D Davies Hunter Co-op’s Got Bananas De Waal Edmund Hare with Amber Eyes, a hidden inheritance Dunlop Tessa Bletchley Girls, war, secrecy, love & loss: the women of Bletchley Park tell their story Durrell Gerald Garden of the Gods My Family and Other Animals


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F Forster Margaret My Life in Houses Frank Anne Diary of a Young Girl Fraser Antonia My History, a memoir of growing up Fry Stephen Fry Chronicles Mythos Fuller Alexandra Leaving Before the Rains Come

G Gilbert Elizabeth Eat, Pray, Love, one woman’s search for everything Goslett Miles An Inconvenient Death, how the establishment covered up the David Kelly affair Greenhalgh Shaun Forger’s Tale

H Harari Yuval Noah 21 Lessons for the 21st Century Sapiens, a brief history of mankind Hawking Jane Travelling to Infinity, my life with Stephen Hawking Higashida Naoki Reason I Jump Hilsun Lindsey In Extremis, the life of war correspondent Marie Colvin Hunniford Gloria My Life

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Johnson Alan Long and Winding Road Please Mister Postman, a memoir This Boy Jung Chang Empress Dowager Cixi, the concubine who launched modern China Junor Penny Duchess, the untold story

K Kalanithi Paul When Breath Becomes Air Kay Adam This is Going to Hurt, secret diaries of a junior doctor Keyes Marian Making it Up as I Go Along

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Langford Sarah In Your Defence, stories of life and law Le Bas Damian Stopping Places, a journey through gypsy Britain Lee Laurie Cider With Rosie Leith Prue Relish, my life on a plate Lewis-Stempel John Where Poppies Blow, the British soldier, nature and the Great War Liptrot Amy Outrun Lively Penelope Ammonites and Leaping Fish, a life in time


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McIntyre Ben Spy and the Traitor, the greatest espionage story of the Cold War Spy Among Friends, Kim Philby and the great betrayal MacDonald Helen H is for Hawk MacFarlane Robert Wild Places Mangan Lucy Bookworm, a memoir of childhood reading Marsh Henry Do No Harm, stories of life, death, and brain surgery Michell Tom Penguin Lessons Mortimer Roger Dear Lupin…., Letters to a Wayward Son

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Nicolson Juliet House Full of Daughters

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Obama Michelle Becoming O’Farrell Maggie I am, I am, I am, seventeen brushes with death O’Grady Paul Open the Cage, Murphy Paul O’Grady’s Country Life, one man and his dogs & other waifs and strays Owen Amanda Yorkshire Shepherdess, how I left the city behind to raise a family – and a flock

P Packham Chris Fingers in the Sparkle Jar, lessons in life and death Paling Chris Reading Allowed, true stories and curious incidents from a provincial library Perkins Sue Spectacles Phinn Gervase Wayne in a Manger Pope-Hennessy James Quest for Queen Mary Preston John Very British Scandal

R Rebanks James Shepherd’s Life, a tale of the Lake District Reeve Simon Step by Step, the life in my journeys Robins Jane Curious Habits of Dr Adams Rosling, Hans Factfulness, ten reasons why we’re wrong about the world and why things are better than you think

S Sanghera Sathnam Boy with the Topknot, a memoir of love, secrets and lies in Wolverhampton Saunders Jennifer Bonkers Sebba Anne Les Parisiennes, how the women of Paris lived, loved and died in the 1940s


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Smith Emma Great Western Beach, a memoir of a Cornish childhood between the wars Soames Mary Daughter’s Tale, the memoir of Winston and Clementine Churchill’s youngest child Stewart Chris Three Ways to Capsize a Boat, an optimist afloat Strayed Cheryl Wild, a journey From lost to found Suchet David Poirot & Me Summerscale Kate Wicked Boy, an infamous murder in Victorian London

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Thompson Laura Take Six Girls, the lives of the Mitford sisters Tomalin Claire Life of My Own Tree Isabella Wilding, the return to nature of a British farm Tremain Rose Rosie, scenes from a vanished life Trumpington Jean Coming Up Trumps

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Van Es Bart Cut Out Girl, a story of war & family, lost & found

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Watson Chrissie Language of Kindness, a nurse’s story Weir Alison Lost Tudor Princess, a life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox Westover Tara Educated Widdecombe Ann Strictly Ann, the autobiography Winn Raynor Salt Path Winterson Jeanette Why be Happy When You Could be Normal? Wolff Michael Fire and Fury, inside the Trump White House Worth Jennifer In the Midst of Life

Y Young Rosamund Secret Life of Cows Yousafzai Malala I am Malala, the girl who stood up for education


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Prizewinners from the last 10 years

Man Booker Prize

2010

Howard Jacobson – Finkler Question

2011 Julian Barnes - Sense of an Ending

2012

Hilary Mantel – Bring Up the Bodies

2013 Eleanor Catton – Luminaries

2014

Richard Flanagan –Narrow Road to the Deep North

2015

Marlon James –Brief History of Seven Killings

2016

Paul Beatty – Sellout

2017 George Saunders – Lincoln in the Bardo

2018

Anna Burns – Milkman

2019 Margaret Atwood – Testaments &

Bernardine Evaristo – Girl, Woman, Other

Women’s Prize For Fiction

2010

Barbara Kingsolver – Lacuna

2011 Tea Obreht – Tiger’s Wife

2012

Madeline Miller – Song of Achilles

2013 A.M. Homes – May We Be Forgiven

2014

Eimer McBride – Girl is a Half-Formed Thing

2015 Ali Smith – How to be Both

2016 Lisa McInerney – Glorious Heresies

2017

Naomi Alderman – Power

2018 Kamila Shamsie – Home Fires

2019

Tayari Jones – An American Marriage

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