READING SUGGESTIONS FOR READING GROUPS
Fiction A - Z by author surname
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Classics A - Z by author surname
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Non-Fiction A - Z by author surname
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Last 10 Years Prizewinners
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These are not necessarily recommendations of excellence but books of which we hold multiple
copies in stock (10 minimum), and is based in part on the requests made by the 300+
Reading Groups West Sussex Libraries support.
It includes fiction, classics, non-fiction and biographies. Some titles may be available in
alternative formats, please enquire when placing orders.
Please remember that by giving advance notice of title selections the chances of supplying
sufficient copies in time will be increased; and avoid requesting newly published titles, as
these will still be in demand from individual customers.
Reading suggestions for Reading Groups
Updated January 2017
FICTION
Aaronovitch Ben
Broken Homes
Foxglove Summer
The Hanging Tree
A
Ackroyd Peter
Three Brothers
The Death of King Arthur, Thomas Malory’s
Le Morte d’Arthur
Adichie Chimamanda
Purple Hibiscus
Half of a Yellow Sun
The Thing Around Your Neck
Americanah
Adiga Aravind
The White Tiger
Albom Mitch
The Time Keeper
The First Phone Call From Heaven
The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
Ali Monica
Brick Lane
Four Warned
This Was a Man
Arlidge M J
Pop Goes the Weasel
The Doll’s House
Liar, Liar
Atkins Lucy
The Missing One
The Other Child
Atkinson Kate
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Started Early, Took My Dog
Life After Life
A God in Ruins
Atwood Margaret
The Handmaid’s Tale
The Blind Assassin
The Heart Goes Last
Hag-seed, the Tempest Retold
Aw Tash
Five Star Billionaire
B
Allnatt Judith
The Moon Field
The Silk Factory
Backman Fredrik
A Man Called Ove
Britt-Marie Was Here
Amis Martin
The Pregnant Widow, Inside History
Lionel Asbo, State of England
The Zone of Interest
Bainbridge Beryl
Master Georgie
The Girl in the Polka-Dot Dress
Archer Jeffrey
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
Sons of Fortune
Only Time Will Tell
Be Careful What You Wish For
Best Kept Secret
Sins of the Father
To Cut a Long Story Short
First Among Equals
Mightier Than the Sword
Cometh the Hour
Please note, titles are subject to availability.
Baker Jo
Longbourn
A Country Road, a Tree
Bakewell Joan
All the Nice Girls
She’s Leaving Home
Ballard J G
Empire of the Sun
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Reading suggestions for Reading Groups
Banks Iain
The Wasp Factory
Stonemouth
The Quarry
Transition
Banville John
The Sea
Barbery Muriel
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Barclay Linwood
No Time for Goodbye
Never Look Away
A Tap on the Window
Trust Your Eyes
Clouded Vision
The Accident
No Safe House
Never Saw It Coming
Broken Promise
Far From true
The Twenty Three
Barker Pat
Regeneration
Toby’s Room
Noonday
Barnes Julian
The Sense of an Ending
The Noise of Time
Barnett Laura
The Versions of Us
Barr Emily
The First Wife
Blackout
Barrows Annie
The Truth According to Us
Barry Sebastian
A Long, Long Way
The Secret Scripture
On Canaan’s Side
The Temporary Gentleman
Please note, titles are subject to availability.
Updated January 2017
Barton Fiona
The Widow
Bauer Belinda
Finders Keepers
Rubbernecker
Facts of Life and Death
Shut Eye
The Beautiful Dead
Baxter Lily
Spitfire Girl
In Love and War
The Girls in Blue
Beatty Paul
The Sellout
Bellingham Linda
Tell Me Tomorrow
The Boy I Love
Bennett Alan
The Uncommon Reader
Smut
Betts Charlotte
The Painter’s Apprentice
The Spice Merchant’s Wife
The Chateau on the Lake
The House in Quill Court
Billingham Mark
In the Dark
Rush of Blood
The Bones Beneath
The Dying Hours
Time of Death
Binchy Maeve
Silver Wedding
The Lilac Bus
This Year it will be Different
Firefly Summer
Light a Penny Candle
Circle of Friends
Nights of Rain and Stars
Quentins
Minding Frankie
A Week in Winter
Whitethorn Woods
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Reading suggestions for Reading Groups
Updated January 2017
Heart and Soul
Tara Road
This House is Haunted
A History of Loneliness
Bishop Patrick
Follow Me Home
Bragg Melvyn
Remember Me
Grace and Mary
Now is the Time
Bivald Katarina
The Readers of Broken Wheel Reccommend
Black Benjamin
Holy Orders
Vengeance
The Black-Eyed Blonde
Blake Sarah
The Postmistress
Bolger Muriel
The Captain’s Table
The Pink Pepper Tree
Out of Focus
Boling Dave
Guernica
The Undesirables
Booth Stephen
Dead and Buried
Already Dead
The Corpse Bridge
Murder Road
Secrets of Death
Boyd Hilary
Thursdays in the Park
When You Walked Back Into My Life
Meet Me on the Beach
A Most Desirable Marriage
Boyd William
An Ice-Cream War
A Good Man in Africa
Solo
Restless
Waiting for Sunrise
Sweet Caress, the Many Lives of Amory
Clay
Boyne John
The Dare
The Absolutist
Please note, titles are subject to availability.
Bray Carys
A Song for Issy Bradley
The Museum of You
Britton Fern
Hidden Treasures
The Holiday Home
A Seaside Affair
A Good Catch
The Postcard
Brookmyre Christopher
Where the Bodies are Buried
Flesh Wounds
Bedlam
Brooks Geraldine
Year of Wonders, a Novel of the Plague
People of the Book
Caleb’s Crossing
The Secret Chord
Brown Dan
Angels and Demons
The Lost Symbol
Digital Fortress
Inferno
Buchan Elizabeth
I Can’t Begin to Tell You
The New Mrs Clifton
Bulawayo Noviolet
We Need New Names
Burton Jessie
The Miniaturist
The Muse
Busby Sian
A Commonplace Killing
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Reading suggestions for Reading Groups
Bussi Michel
After the Crash
Black Water Lilies
Byatt A S
Possession, a Romance
Ragnarok, the end of the gods
C
Camilleri Andrea
The Track of Sand
Rounding the Mark
The Patience of the Spider
The Wings of the Sphinx
The Potter’s Field
The Dance of the Seagull
The Treasure Hunt
Angelica’s Smile
Game of Mirrors
Hunting Season
A Blade of Light
Campbell Karen
This is Where I Am
Proof of Life
Rise
Cannon Joanna
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
Capote Truman
Breakfast at Tiffanys
Carey Peter
The Chemistry of Tears
Amnesia
Carr J L
A Month in the Country
Cartwright Justin
Lion Heart
Casey Jane
The Kill
The Stranger You Know
After the Fire
Castillo Linda
Her Last Breath
The Dead Will Tell
Please note, titles are subject to availability.
Updated January 2017
Catton Eleanor
The Rehearsal
The Luminaries
Chadwick Elizabeth
Lady of the English
The Summer Queen
The Winter Crown
Challis Sarah
The Garden Party
The Lonely Desert
Chambers Kimberley
Payback
The Wronged
Tainted Love
Chandler Raymond
The Big Sleep
Chevalier Tracy
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Virgin Blue
Remarkable Creatures
The Last Runaway
At the Edge of the Orchard
Child Lee
61 Hours
Worth Dying For
A Wanted Man
Never Go Back
Personal
Make Me
Christie Agatha
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Death in the Clouds
Hercule Poirot’s Christmas
Evil Under the Sun
Death on the Nile
The Clocks
The Moving Finger
A Murder is Announced
Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?
The Seven Dials Mystery
The Pale Horse
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Secret Adversary
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Reading suggestions for Reading Groups
Postern of Fate
Third Girl
Halloween Party
Hickory Dickory Dock
Murder on the Links
Peril at End House
The Secret of Chimneys
Dumb Witness
Death Comes as the End
Taken at the Flood
And Then There Were None
The Mystery of the Blue Train
The Hollow
Destination Unknown
The Man in the Brown Suit
Five Little Pigs
Dead Man’s Folly
Double Clue and Other Hercule Poirot
Stories
Clark Mary Higgins
The Cinderella Murder
The Melody Lingers On
Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting
The Lost Years
Death Wears a Beauty Mask and other
Stories
I’ll Walk Alone
I’ve Got You Under My Skin
Just Take My Heart
All Dressed in White
Clary Julian
Briefs Encountered
Cleave Chris
The Other Hand
Gold
Everyone Brave is Forgiven
Cleeves Ann
Raven Black
The Crow Trap
The Glass Room
Silent Voices
White Nights
Dead Water
Thin Air
Burial of Ghosts
The Moth Catcher
Too Good to be True
Please note, titles are subject to availability.
Updated January 2017
Hidden Depths
Harbour Street
Cold Earth
Clegg Bill
Did You Ever Have a Family?
Clements Rory
The Heretics
Traitor
Holy Spy
The Queen’s Man
Cline Emma
The Girls
Cobbold Marika
Drowning Rose
Coben Harlan
Hold Tight
Stay Close
Miracle Cure
Six Years
Missing You
Seconds Away
The Stranger
Live Wire
Back Spin
The Woods
Shelter
Found
Tell No One
Coe Jonathan
The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim
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Number 11, or Tales That Witness Madness
Coelho Paulo
The Alchemist
Aleph
Veronika Decides to Die
Adultery
Coetzee J M
Disgrace
Cohen Julie
Dear Thing
The Summer of Living Dangerously
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Reading suggestions for Reading Groups
Where Love Lies
Coleman Rowan
The Memory Book
We Are All made of Stars
Conlon McKenna Marita
The Rose Garden
Rebel Sisters
Connelly Michael
Blood Work
The Lincoln Lawyer
Trunk Music
The Reversal
Lost Light
Echo Park
Nine Dragons
City of Bones
Closers
The Gods of Guilt
The Black Echo
The Overlook
The Concrete Blonde
The Drop
The Poet
The Last Coyote
Brass Verdict
Angels Flight
The Burning Room
The Narrows
The Black Box
The Fifth Witness
The Crossing
Connolly John
England’s Lane
The Killing Kind
Wolf in Winter
Burning Soul
The Wrath of Angels
The Whisperers
A Song of Shadows
Cornwell Bernard
The Burning Land
Azincourt
The Fort
Death of Kings
1356
The Pagan Lord
Please note, titles are subject to availability.
Updated January 2017
Sharpe’s Devil, Richard Sharpe and the
Emperor, 1820-21
Battle Flag
Rebel
Copperhead
Warriors of the Storm
The Empty Throne
Stonehenge
The Last Kingdom
The Pale Horseman
Cornwell Patricia
Trace
Predator
Red Mist
Flesh and Blood
Depraved Heart
The Scarpetta Factor
Port Mortuary
Dust
The Bone Bed
Chaos
Cotterill Colin
Grandad, There’s a Head on the Beach
The Axe Factor
Crace Jim
Harvest
Crouch Julia
Cuckoo
Tarnished
The Long Fall
Cumming Charles
A Colder War
Davis Lindsey
The Ides of April
A Cruel Fate
Enemies at Home
Deadly Election
D
Deaver Jeffery
The Burning Wire
XO
Edge
Trouble in Mind
Carte Blanche
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Reading suggestions for Reading Groups
The Kill Room
Solitude Creek
The Skin Collector
The October List
De Bernieres Louis
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
The Dust That Falls From Dreams
Blue Dog
De Kretser Michelle
The Lost Dog
De Waal kit
My Name is Leon
Diamant Anita
The Red Tent
Dicker Joel
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
Diffenbaugh Vanessa
The Language of Flowers
We Never Asked For Wings
Dolan Eva
Tell no Tales
A Long Way Home
After You Die
Doerr Anthony
All the Light We Cannot See
Doiron Paul
The Poacher’s Son
Massacre Pond
The Bone Orchard
Donoghue Emma
Frog Music
Room
The Sealed Letter
Astray
The Wonder
Douglas Donna
The Nightingale Girls
The Nightingale Nurses
Nightingales on Call
Nightingale Christmas Wish
Please note, titles are subject to availability.
Updated January 2017
Nightingales under the Mistletoe
Nightingales at War
Douglas Louise
Your Beautiful Lies
Doughty Louise
Stone Cradle
Fires in the Dark
Crazy Paving
Whatever You Love
Apple Tree Yard
Honey-Dew
Black Water
Drabble Margaret
A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman,
Collected Stories
The Pure Gold Baby
Duffy Stella
Theodora, Actress, Empress, Whore
The Purple Shroud
Du Maurier Daphne
My Cousin Rachel
Dunant Sarah
Blood and Beauty
Dunmore Helen
A Spell of Winter
The Betrayal
The Lie
The Greatcoat
Exposure
Durrant Sabine
Under Your Skin
Remember Me This Way
E
Eco Umberto
The Prague Cemetery
Edugyan Esi
Half Blood Blues
Edwards Kim
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
The Lake of Dreams
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Reading suggestions for Reading Groups
Edwards Martin
The Hanging Wood
The Frozen Shroud
Ellis Janet
The Butcher’s Hook
Ellis Kate
Watching the Ghosts
The Cadaver Game
The Shadow Collector
The Death Season
The Shroud Maker
Walking By Night
The House of Eyes
Elton Ben
The First Casualty
Two Brothers
Time and Time Again
Updated January 2017
F
Faulks Sebastian
Birdsong
Engleby
A Week in December
A Possible Life
Where My Heart Used to Beat
Fellowes Julian
Snobs
Past Imperfect
Belgravia
Ferrante Elena
My Brilliant Friend
The Story of a New Name
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
The Story of the Lost Child
Ferraris Zoe
Kingdom of Strangers
Eng, Tan Twang
The Garden of Evening Mists
Ferris Joshua
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
Enright Anne
The Gathering
The Forgotten Waltz
The Green Road
Fielding Helen
Bridget Jones’s Diary
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Erskine Barbara
River of Destiny
Time’s Legacy
The Darkest Hour
Essbaum Jill Alexander
Hausfrau
Evans Lissa
Their Finest Hour and a Half
Crooked Heart
Evans Nicholas
The Brave
Ewan Chris
Dead Line
Dark Tides
Extence Gavin
The Mirror World of Melody Black
Please note, titles are subject to availability.
Filer Nathan
The Shock of the Fall
Finnigan Judy
Eloise
I Do Not Sleep
Fitzgerald Helen
The Exit
Viral
Fitzgerald Penelope
Offshore
Flanagan Richard
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Fleming Leah
The Captain’s Daughter
The Postcard
The Girl Under the Olive Tree
The Last Pearl
9
Reading suggestions for Reading Groups
Flynn Gillian
Sharp Objects
Dark Places
Gone Girl
Follett Ken
The Modigliani Scandal
Edge of Eternity
A Dangerous Fortune
Paper Money
Lie Down With Lions
The Third Twin
Winter of the World
World Without End
Triple
Ford Richard
Let Me Be Frank with You
Forester C S
Pursued
Forna Aminatta
The Hired Man
Forster Margaret
Diary of an Ordinary Woman, 1914 - 1995
Keeping the World Away
Isa and May
The Unknown Bridesmaid
How to Measure a Cow
Updated January 2017
Fox Essie
The Goddess and the Thief
Francis Clare
Unforgotten
A Dark Devotion
Franzen Jonathan
Freedom
Purity
Fraser Emma
When the Dawn Breaks
Frayn Michael
Skios
Fremantle Elizabeth
Sisters of Treason
Watch the Lady
French Dawn
A Tiny Bit Marvellous
Oh Dear Silvia
According to Yes
Fossum Karen
Bad Intentions
Broken
French Nicci
Blue Monday
Tuesday’s Gone
Waiting for Wednesday
Thursday’s Children
Friday on My Mind
Killing Me Softly
The Red Room
Secret Smile
Safe House
Beneath the Skin
Complicit
What to Do When Someone Dies
The Memory Game
Fowler Christopher
Bryant & May and the Invisible Code
The Bleeding Heart
The Burning Man
French Tana
Faithful Place
The Secret Place
Broken Harbour
Fowler Karen Joy
We are all Completely Beside Ourselves
The Case of the Imaginary Detective
Sister Noon
Freud Esther
Lucky Break
Mr Mac & Me
Forsyth Frederick
The Afghan
The Cobra
The Kill List
Please note, titles are subject to availability.
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Reading suggestions for Reading Groups
Fry Stephen
Making History
G
Gaiman Neil
Fragile Things
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Galbraith Gillian
The Good Priest
Troubled Waters
Galbraith Robert
The Cuckoo’s Calling
The Silkworm
Career of Evil
Gale Patrick
A Perfectly Good Man
The Whole Day Through
A Place Called Winter
Galloway Steven
The Cellist of Sarajevo
The Confabulist
Galgut Damon
In a Strange Room
Gardam Jane
Old Filth
The Man in the Wooden Hat
Last Friends
Gardner Lisa
Love You More
Live To Tell
Touch & Go
Catch Me
Fear Nothing
Crash & Burn
Find Her
Genova Lisa
Love Anthony
Still Alice
George Elizabeth
In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner
Deception on His Mind
With No One as Witness
Please note, titles are subject to availability.
Updated January 2017
Traitor to Memory
What Came Before He Shot her
Just One Evil Act
George Nina
The little Paris Bookshop
Ghosh Amitav
The Sea of Poppies
River of Smoke
Gibson Mary
Custard Tarts and Broken Hearts
Jam and Roses
Giuttari Michele
The Dark Heart of Florence
Goddard Robert
Fault Line
Long Time Coming
Blood Count
The Ways of the World
Corners of the Globe
Golden Arthur
Memoirs of a Geisha
Goodwin Daisy
The Fortune Hunter
Graham Laurie
The Liars Daughter
The Grand Duchess of Nowhere
A Humble Companion
The Night in Question
Grant Linda
We Had It So Good
Upstairs at the Party
Gregory Philippa
Meridon
The Kingmaker’s Daughter
The Other Boleyn Girl
The White Queen
The Red Queen
Lady of the Rivers
The White Princess
The Other Queen
The King’s Curse
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Reading suggestions for Reading Groups
The Taming of the Queen
Gregson Julia
East of the Sun
Jasmine Nights
Gregson J M
Merely Players
More Than Meets the Eye
A Brother’s Tears
Cry of the Children
Rest Assured
A Necessary End
Skeleton Plot
Backhand Smash
Grenville Kate
The Idea of Perfection
Sarah Thornhill
Griffiths Elly
The House at Sea’s End
The Zig Zag Girl
Dying Fall
A Room Full of Bones
The Outcast Dead
The Ghost Fields
Smoke and Mirrors
The Woman in Blue
Grisham John
Sycamore Row
The Firm
Gray Mountain
Ford County
Calico Joe
The Litigators
The Racketeer
The Confession
Rogue Lawyer
Gruen Sarah
Water for Elephants
Gudenkauf Heather
One Breath Away
Little Mercies
Guskin Sharon
The Forgetting Time
Please note, titles are subject to availability.
Updated January 2017
Gutcheon Beth
Still Missing
Gossip
Hadley Tessa
The London Train
The Past
H
Haddon Mark
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the
Night-Time
The Red House
Hamer Kate
The Girl in the Red Coat
Hamid Mohsin
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Hamilton Steve
Let it Burn
Hancock Penny
The Darkening Hour
A Trick of the Mind
Hancock Sheila
Miss Carter’s War
Hannah Kristin
The Nightingale
Hannah Sophie
Kind of Cruel
The Carrier
The Orphan Choir
The Monogram Murders, the New Hercule
Poirot Mystery
The Telling Error
A Game for all the Family
The Narrow Bed
Closed Casket, the New Hercule Poirot
Mystery
Harding Georgina
The Painter of Silence
Harris Jane
Gillespie & I
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Reading suggestions for Reading Groups
Harris Joanne
Gentlemen and Players
The Lollipop Shoes
A Cat, a Hat and a Piece of String
The Gospel of Loki
Peaches for Monsieur le Cure
Different Class
Harris Robert
The Fear Index
Lustrum
An Officer and a Spy
Dictator
Harrison A S A
The Silent Wife
Harrison Sarah
Secrets of Our Hearts
The Wildflower Path
Harvey John
Good Bait
Now’s the Time
Darkness, Darkness
Hawkins Paula
The Girl on the Train
Hawley Noah
The Good Father
Hayder Mo
Poppet
Hanging Hill
Wolf
Hayes Terry
I am Pilgrim
Hayes Antonia
Relativity
Haynes Elizabeth
Behind Closed Doors
Healey Emma
Elizabeth is Missing
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Updated January 2017
Heley Veronica
False Impression
False Report
Murder in Mind
False Alarm
Murder with Mercy
False Diamond
Murder in Time
Murder My Neighbour
Murder by Suspicion
False Wall
Henry James
Morning Frost
Hensher Philip
King of the Badgers
Scenes from Early Life
The Emperor Waltz
Herbert James
Ash
Hiaasen Carl
Bad Monkey
Higgins Jack
The Eagle has Landed
Pay the Devil
The Death Trade
The President’s Daughter
Without Mercy
Bad Company
The White House Connection
Dark Justice
Rough Justice
Midnight Runner
Edge of Danger
The Judas Gate
A Darker Place
Confessional
Night of the Fox
Dark Side of the Street
Drink With the Devil
A Devil is Waiting
The Killing Ground
To Catch a King
Comes the Dark Stranger
Exocet
Rain on the Dead
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Reading suggestions for Reading Groups
Hill Susan
Mrs de Winter
The Woman in Black
Air and Angels
Betrayal of Trust
A Kind Man
The Small Hand
The Beacon
Dolly, a Ghost Story
Black Sheep
A Question of Identity
Strange Meeting
The Soul of Discretion
Printer’s Devil Court
I’m the King of the Castle
Hislop Victoria
The Island
The Return
The Thread
Sunrise
The Last Dance and Other Stories
Cartes Postales From Greece
Hoffman Alice
The Dovekeepers
The Museum of Extraordinary Things
The Marriage of Opposites
Hodgson Antonia
The Devil in the Marshalsea
The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins
Hollinghurst Alan
The Line of Beauty
The Stranger’s Child
Holt Hazel
A Necessary End
Death is a Word
Holt Jonathan
The Abomination
The Traitor
Homes A M
May we be Forgiven
Hope Anna
Wake
Please note, titles are subject to availability.
Updated January 2017
The Ballroom
Horan Nancy
Under the Wide and Starry Sky
Hore Rachel
A Place of Secrets
The Gathering Storm
The Silent Tide
The Dream House
The Memory Garden
The Glass Painter’s Daughter
A Week in Paris
The House on Bellevue Gardens
Hornby Gill
The Hive
Hornby Nick
High Fidelity
About a Boy
How to be Good
A Long Way Down
Juliet Naked
Funny Girl
Horowitz Anthony
The House of Silk
Moriarty
Trigger Mortis
Hosseini Khaled
The Kite Runner
A Thousand Splendid Suns
And the Mountains Echoed
Hourston Alex
In My House
Howard Sandra
Ex–Wives
Tell the Girl
Hurley Andrew
The Loney
Hurley Graham
Borrowed Light
Western Approaches
Happy Days
Touching Distance
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Reading suggestions for Reading Groups
The Sins of the Father
The Order of Things
Hustvedt Siri
The Blazing World
Hyde Catherine Ryan
Take Me With You
Iles Greg
Spandau Phoenix
Dark Matter
Natchez Burning
Black Cross
The Bone Tree
I
Imrie Celia
Not Quite Nice
Nice Work if You Can Get it
Indridason Arnaldur
Outrage
Black Skies
Strange Shores
Reykjavik Nights
Oblivion
Ingelman-Sundberg Catharina
The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules
The Little Old Lady Who Struck Lucky Again
Ironside Virginia
No, I Don’t Need Reading Glasses
Yes! I Can Manage, Thank You!
Ishiguro Kazuo
The Remains of the Day
Never Let Me Go
The Buried Giant
Ivey Eowyn
The Snow Child
Jacobson Howard
The Finkler Question
Zoo Time
J
James E L
Grey,Fifty Shades of Grey as told by
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Updated January 2017
Christian
James Marlon
A Brief History of Seven Killings
James P D
Murder Room
Death in Holy Orders
The Private Patient
An Unsuitable Job For a Woman
Death Comes to Pemberley
The Lighthouse
James Peter
Dead Simple
Not Dead Yet
Dead Man’s Footsteps
Perfect People
Dead Man’s Time
Dead Man’s Grip
Dead Tomorrow
Dead Letter Drop
Want You Dead
A Twist of the Knife
You Are Dead
Billionaire
Love You Dead
The House on Cold Hill
Jefferies Dinah
The Tea Planter’s Wife
Separation
The Silk Merchant’s Daughter
Jenoff Pam
The Winter Guest
Jewell Lisa
Before I Met You
The House We Grew Up In
The Girls
The Making of Us
The Third Wife
Johnson Rachel
Winter Games
Jonasson Jonas
The Hundred Year Old Man who Climbed
Out of the Window and Disappeared
The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
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Reading suggestions for Reading Groups
Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All
The Ties That Bind
Jones Sadie
The Outcast
Small Wars
The Uninvited Guests
Fallout
Kelman Stephen
Pigeon English
Joyce Rachel
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Perfect
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
A Snow Garden and Other Stories
Kallentoft Mons
Midwinter Sacrifice
Savage Spring
The Fifth Season
Water Angels
K
Kanon Joseph
Leaving Berlin
Kava Alex
Fireproof
Stranded
Hotwire
Black Friday
Breaking Creed
Silent Creed
Kay Francesca
Translation of the Bones
The Long Room
Kellerman Jonathan
Victims
Guilt
The Killer
The Golem of Hollywood
The Golem of Paris
Motive
The Murderer’s Daughter
Breakdown
Kelly Erin
The Sick Rose
Broadchurch, the Novel
The Burning Air
Please note, titles are subject to availability.
Updated January 2017
Kendal Claire
The Book of You
Keneally Thomas
Daughters of Mars
Shame and the Captives
Kennedy Emma
Shoes For Anthony
Kennedy A L
The Blue Book
Kennedy Douglas
Five Days
The Heat of Betrayal
Kent Christobel
A Darkness Descending
The Killing Room
The Crooked House
Kent Hannah
Burial Rites
The Good People
Kepler Lars
The Hypnotist
The Nightmare
The Fire Witness
The Sandman
Kernick Simon
The Payback
Ultimatum
Siege
Wrong Time, Wrong Place
Stay Alive
Final Minute
Witness
Kerrigan Kate
The Lost Garden
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Reading suggestions for Reading Groups
Kidd Sue Monk
The Secret Life of Bees
The Invention of Wings
King Stephen
The Wind Through the Keyhole
The Shining
Misery
11.22.63
Doctor Sleep
Carrie
Under the Dome
Mr Mercedes
Revival
Different Seasons
Bazaar of Bad Dreams
Finders Keepers
Kingsolver Barbara
The Poisonwood Bible
Flight Behaviour
The Lacuna
Updated January 2017
Krauss Nicole
Great House
Kureishi Hanif
The Buddha of Suburbia
Kuzneski Chris
The Hunters
The Einstein Pursuit
The Forbidden Tomb
The Prisoner’s Gold
Lafaye Vanessa
Summertime
L
Lagercrantz David
The Girl in the Spiders Web
Lahiri Jhumpa
The Lowland
Knight India
Mutton
Lake Deryn
The Mills of God
Death on the Rocks
Dead on Cue
Death at the Wedding Feast
The Moonlit Door
Knight Renee
Disclaimer
Lampedusa Giuseppe Tomasi de
The Leopard
Koch Herman
The Dinner
Summer House with Swimming Pool
Lane Harriet
Alys Always
Her
Koomson Dorothy
The Ice-Cream Girls
The Woman He Loved Before
The Flavours of Love
The Rose Petal Beach
That Girl From Nowhere
Lanchester John
Capital
Klaussmann Liza
Tigers in Red Weather
Villa America
Koontz Dean
Relentless
Breathless
Odd Apocalypse
Deeply Odd
Innocence
The City
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Lansens Lori
The Mountain Story
Lapena Shari
The Couple Next Door
La Plante Linda
Widows
Above Suspicion
Prime Suspect
Silent Victims
17
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Cold Heart
Blood Line
Wrongful Death
Blind Fury
The Little One
Sleeping Cruelty
Backlash
The Talisman
Entwined
Twisted
Bella Mafia
Royal Flush
The Escape
Tennison
Larsson Stieg
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl Who Played With Fire
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest
Lawrenson Deborah
The Lantern
Leather Stephen
Nightmare
False Friends
White Lies
Nightshade
Lastnight
True Colours
Black Ops
First Response
Updated January 2017
Lelic Simon
The Child Who
Lelord Francoise
Hector and the Search for Happiness
Hector and the Secrets of Love
Lennox Judith
Catching the Tide
One Last Dance
The Turning Point
The Jeweller’s Wife
Leon Donna
Suffer the Little Children
Death in a Strange Country
The Girl of His Dreams
Beastly Things
A Question of Belief
Through a Glass Darkly
Sea of Troubles
Fatal Remedies
Uniform Justice
A Noble Radiance
The Jewels of Paradise
By Its Cover
Drawing Conclusions
The Golden Egg
Falling in Love
Lessing Doris
Alfred & Emily
Le Carre John
A Most Wanted Man
The Tailor of Panama
A Delicate Truth
Absolute Friends
The Constant Gardener
The Night Manager
The Secret Pilgrim
Our Game
The Honourable Schoolboy
Our Kind of Traitor
Lette Kathy
The Boy Who Fell to Earth
Courting Trouble
Lee Harper
Go Set a Watchman
Lewis Susan
No Child of Mine
Don’t Let Me Go
The Truth About You
Never Say Goodbye
Too Close to Home
Lehane Dennis
The Drop
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Levy Andrea
Small Island
The Long Song
Levy Deborah
Swimming Home
Hot Milk
18
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Behind Closed Doors
No Place to Hide
Lewycka Marina
A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian, a
Novel
Various Pets Alive and Dead
The Lubetkin Legacy
Ley Rosanna
Return to Mandalay
The Saffron Trail
Last Dance in Havana
Lively Penelope
According to Mark
Moon Tiger
Family Album
How It All Began
Locke Attica
The Cutting Season
Lodge David
Deaf Sentence
A Man of Parts
Long James
Ferney
Lovesey Peter
Rough Cider
The Last Detective
The Circle
Upon a Dark Night
Dead Gorgeous
Cop to Corpse
Keystone
The House Sitter
False Inspector Dew
The Vault
The Reaper
The Tooth Tattoo
Down Among the Dead Men
Stone Wife
Lupton Rosamund
Sister
Afterwards
The Quality of Silence
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McBride Eimear
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing
McCann Colum
TransAtlantic
McCarthy Cormac
The Road
McDermid Val
The Retribution
A Darker Domain
Trick of the Dark
The Vanishing Point
Northanger Abbey
Stranded, Short Stories
Cross and Burn
Splinter the Silence
The Skeleton Road
Mermaids Singing
McEwan Ian
Amsterdam
Saturday
Atonement
Solar
On Chesil Beach
Sweet Tooth
The Children Act
Nutshell
McGregor Jon
Even the Dogs
McInerney Lisa
The Glorious Heresies
McKenzie Elizabeth
The Portable Veblen
McKenzie Sophie
Trust in Me
Here We Lie
McLain Paula
Circling the Sun
McMahon Katharine
Season of Light
The Woman in the Picture
19
Reading suggestions for Reading Groups
McPartlin Anna
The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes
MacBride Stuart
Birthdays for the Dead
Close to the Bone
Shatter the Bones
A Song for the Dying
The Missing and the Dead
22 Dead Little Bodies
In the Cold Dark Ground
MacKintosh Clare
I Let You Go
I See You
MacManus James
Sleep in Peace Tonight
Macleod Alison
Unexploded
Madeley Richard
Some Day I’ll Find You
The Way You Look Tonight
Maher Kevin
The Fields
Maitland Karen
The Vanishing Witch
The Falcons of Fire and Ice
The Ravens Head
Mankell Henning
A Treacherous Paradise
An Event in Autumn
The Shadow Girls
The Troubled Man
Mantel Hilary
Eight Months on Ghazzah Street
Fludd
Vacant Possession
Beyond Black
Every Day is Mother’s Day
An Experiment in Love
A Change of Climate
Wolf Hall
Bring Up the Bodies
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The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
Mark David
Original Skin
Sorrow Bound
Marquez Gabriel Garcia
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Love in the Time of Cholera
Marr Andrew
Head of State, a Political Entertainment
Children of the Master
Marsh Richard
Beetle, a Mystery
The Complete Adventures of Judith Lee
Marston Edward
Railway to the Grave
The Iron Horse
A very Murdering Battle
A Bespoke Murder
Instrument of Slaughter
The Devil’s Apprentice
The Nine Giants
The Mad Courtesan
The Silent Woman
Blood on the Line
Counterfeit Crank
Princess of Denmark, an Elizabethan
Mystery
Dance of Death
Vagabond Clown
Shadow of the Hangman
Wanton Angel
The Fair Maid of Bohemia
Five Dead Canaries
The Stationmaster’s Farewell
Peril on the Royal Train
A Ticket to Oblivion
The Roaring Boy
Inspector Colbeck’s Casebook, thirteen
Tales From the Railway Detective
The Laughing Hangman
Deeds of Darkness
The Bawdy Basket
Steps to the Gallows
Malevolent Comedy
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Reading suggestions for Reading Groups
Updated January 2017
Martel Jan
Life of Pi
Garnethill
The Red Road
Blood, Salt and Water
Mawer Simon
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
Tightrope
Mistry Rohan
A Fine Balance
The High Mountains of Portugal
May Peter
Extraordinary People
Runaway
The Lewis Man
Entry Island
The Chessmen
Mendelson Charlotte
Almost English
Meyer Philipp
The Son
Miller Andrew
Pure
Snowdrops
The Faithful Couple
The Crossing
Mitchell David
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
The Bone Clocks
Slade House
Mitford Nancy
Love in a Cold Climate
The Blessing
Moggach Deborah
Tulip Fever
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Heartbreak Hotel
Something to Hide
Moggach Lottie
Kiss Me First
Miller Madeline
The Song of Achilles
Montefiore Santa
Meet Me Under the Ombu Tree
The French Gardener
The Beekeeper’s Daughter
Secrets of the Lighthouse
The House by the Sea
The Summer House
Miller Rebecca
Jacob’s Folly
Montefiore Simon Sebag
One Night in Winter
Mills Mark
House of the Hanged
The Long Shadow
Waiting For Doggo
Moore Lorrie
A Gate at the Stairs
Miller Derek
Norwegian by Night
Mina Denise
Gods and Beasts
The Field of Blood
Exile
Still Midnight
The Last Breath
The Dead Hour
The End of the Wasp Season
Sanctum
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Moran Caitlin
How to Build a Girl
Morgenstern Erin
The Night Circus
Moriarty Liane
The Last Anniversary
Little Lies
The Husband’s Secret
Big Little Lies
21
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Moriarty Sinead
Mad About You
The Way We Were
The Secrets Sisters Keep
Morrall Clare
The Roundabout Man
After the Bombing
When the Floods Came
Morrison Toni
A Mercy
Home
Morton Kate
The House at Riverton
The Forgotten Garden
The Secret Keeper
The Distant Hours
The Lake House
Moss Sarah
Bodies of Light
Mosse Kate
Labyrinth
Sepulchre
Citadel
Winter Ghosts
The Mistletoe Bride and Other Haunting
tales
The Taxidermist’s Daughter
Moyes Jojo
The Girl You Left Behind
The One Plus One
Me Before You
After You
Neill Fiona
Good Girl
Nemirovsky Irene
Suite Francaise
Fires of Autumn
The Misunderstanding
The Wine of Solitude
Nesbo Jo
The Bat
The Redeemer
The Snowman
The Devil’s Star
Nemesis
Headhunters
Phantom
Cockroaches
Police
The Son
Blood on Snow
Nesser Hakan
The Hour of the Wolf
The Weeping Girl
The Strangler’s Honeymoon
The G File
The Unlucky Lottery
The Living and the Dead in Winsford
Nicholls David
One Day
Us
Nicholson William
Reckless
Motherland
The Lovers of Amherst
Niffenegger Audrey
The Time Traveler’s Wife
Her Fearful Symmetry
Mukherjee Neel
The Lives of Others
Munro Alice
Dear Life
Naughtie James
The Madness of July
Paris Spring
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North Claire
The First 15 Lives of Harry August
Touch
22
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Obioma Chigozie
The Fishermen
O
Obreht Tea
The Tiger’s Wife
Patchett Ann
Bel Canto
State of Wonder
Commonwealth
Paull Laline
The Bees
O’Brien Edna
The Little Red Chairs
Pavone Chris
The Expats
The Travelers
The Accident
O’Connor Joseph
Ghost Light
The Thrill of it All
O’Farrell Maggie
After You’d Gone
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
The Hand That First Held Mine
The Distance Between Us
My Lover’s Lover
Instructions for a Heatwave
This Must be the Place
O’Flynn Catherine
Mr Lynch’s Holiday
Osborne Frances
Park Lane
Oswald James
Prayer for the Dead
The Damage Done
The Book of Souls
The Hangman’s Song
Dead Men’s Bones
Ozeki Ruth
A Tale for the Time Being
Parris S J
Sacrilege
Treachery
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P
Parsons Tony
Men From the Boys
The Murder Bag
Beyond the Bounty
Slaughter Man
Catching the Sun
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Pearse Lesley
Belle
The Promise
Forgive Me
Survivor
Without a Trace
Penney Steff
The Tenderness of Wolves
The Invisible Ones
Under a Pole Star
Penny Louise
The Beautiful Mystery
The Nature of the Beast
A Trick of the Light
How the Light Gets In
The Long Way Home
Perry Anne
Acceptable Loss
Dorchester Terrace
A Sunless Sea
Midnight at Marble Arch
Blind Justice
Death on Blackheath
Blood on the Water
The Angel Court Affair
Corridors of the Night
Treachery at Lancaster Gate
Betrayal at Lisson Grove
Perry Karen
The Boy That Never was
Only We Know
Perry Sarah
The Essex Serpent
23
Reading suggestions for Reading Groups
Updated January 2017
Phinn Gervase
All These Lonely people
The Little Village School
The School Inspector Calls
Trouble at the Little Village School
A Lesson in Love
Wintersmith
Raising Steam
The Long War
Long Mars
The Long Earth
Long Utopia
Pick Alison
Far to Go
Proulx E Annie
The Shipping News
Picoult Jodi
Vanishing Acts
My Sister’s Keeper
The Storyteller
Change of Heart
Handle With Care
Lone Wolf
Salem Falls
Keeping Faith
Harvesting the Heart
Leaving Time
Second Glance
House Rules
Sing You Home
Small Great Things
Pilcher Robin
A Matter of Trust
Pilcher Rosamunde
The Shell Seekers
Voices in Summer
Coming Home
Wild Mountain Thyme
Winter Solstice
The End of Summer
September
The Blue Bedroom and Other Stories
The Empty House
The Day of the Storm
Porter Max
Grief is the Thing with Feathers
Pratchett Terry
Feet of Clay
A Hat Full of Sky
Jingo
Snuff
Mort
The Light Fantastic
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Quinn Anthony
Curtain Call
Freya
Q
R
Rankin Ian
Black Book
A Question of Blood
Exit Music
Strip Jack
Tooth and Nail
The Resurrection Men
The Hanging Garden
Knots and Crosses
Doors Open
The Falls
Let It Bleed
Standing in Another Man’s Grave
Saints of the Shadow Bible
Hide and Seek
Set in Darkness
The Impossible Dead
The Beat Goes On, the Complete Rebus
Short Stories
Even Dogs in the Wild
Rayner Sarah
The Two Week Wait
Rees Emlyn
Hunted
Rees Tracy
Amy Snow
Reichs Kathy
Flash and Bones
Bones are Forever
Bones of the Lost
Bones Never Lie
24
Reading suggestions for Reading Groups
Mortal Remains
Speaking in Bones
Rendell Ruth
The Lake of Darkness
The Speaker of Mandarin
The Crocodile Bird
The Saint Zita Society
The Monster in the Box
From Doon With Death
Portobello
No Man’s Nightingale
Tigerlily’s Orchids
The Vault
The Girl Next Door
Dark Corners
Rhys Jean
Wide Sargasso Sea
Richell Hannah
Secrets of the Tides
The Shadow Year
Riley Lucinda
The Italian Girl
Midnight Rose
The Seven Sisters
Angel Tree
The Storm Sister, Ally’s Story
Rimington Stella
Rip Tide
Present Danger
The Geneva Trap
Close Call
Roberts Bethan
My Policeman
Mother Island
Robinson Marilynn
Home
Lila
Robinson Peter
In a Dry Season
Dead Right
Before the Poison
The Hanging Valley
A Necessary End
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Updated January 2017
Caedmon’s Song
The Summer That Never Was
Watching the Dark
Dry Bones That Dream
A Piece of My Heart
A Strange Affair
Friend of the Devil
A Dedicated Man
Gallows View
Not Safe After Dark and Other Works
Abattoir Blues
Children of the Revolution
No Cure for Love
Rochester Julia
The House at the Edge of the World
Rodriguez Deborah
The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul
Return to the Little Coffee Shop of Kabul
Roffey Monique
Archipelago
The House of Ashes
Rogan Charlotte
The Lifeboat
Rollins James
Innocent Blood
Bone Labyrinth
The Devil Colony
Bloodline
The Eye of God
The Sixth Extinction
The Blood Gospel
Kill Switch
Blood Infernal
Rose Karen
You Belong to Me
No One Left to Tell
Did You Miss Me?
Watch Your Back
Closer Than You Think
Alone in the Dark
Rothschild Hannah
The Improbability of Love
25
Reading suggestions for Reading Groups
Rowell Rainbow
Eleanor & Park
Lamentation
Dominion
Rowling J K
The Casual Vacancy
Sebold Alice
Roy Arundhati
God of Small Things
Self Will
Shark
Umbrella
Rubenfeld Jed
The Death Instinct
Runcie James
Sidney Chambers
Night
Sidney Chambers
Sidney Chambers
Sins
Sidney Chambers
and the Perils of the
and the Shadow of Death
and the Forgiveness of
and the Problem of Evil
Rusbridge Jane
Rook
Rushdie Salman
Midnight’s Children
Rutherfurd Edward
Paris
Ryan Robert
Dead Man’s Land
A Study in Murder
S
Sahota Sanjeev
The Year of the Runaways
Sallis Susan
The Promise
Learning to Dance
The Sweetest Thing
The Kissing Gate
Samson Polly
The Kindness
Sansom C J
Sovereign
Winter in Madrid
Dissolution
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Updated January 2017
The Lovely Bones
Semple Maria
Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Today Will be Different
Setterfield Diane
The Thirteenth Tale
Bellman and Black
Seth Vikram
A Suitable Boy
Seymour Gerald
Archangel
Home Run
The Corporal’s Wife
Harry’s Game
The Outsiders
Vagabond
No Mortal Thing
The Glory Boys
Red Fox
The Contract
In Honour Bound
Field of Blood
At Close Quarters
The Heart of Danger
Line in the Sand
The Untouchable
Traitor’s Kiss
Rat Run
Shaffer M A
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie
Society
Shah Saira
The Mouseproof Kitchen
Shamsie Kamila
A God in Every Stone
26
Reading suggestions for Reading Groups
Sharpe Tom
Porterhouse Blue
The Wilt Inheritance
Sheffield Jack
School’s Out
Silent Night
Star Teacher
Shemilt Jane
Daughter
The Drowning Lessons
Shreve Anita
Sea Glass
Where or When
Rescue
Lives of Stella Bain
All He Ever Wanted
Shriver Lionel
Big Brother
The New Republic
The Mandibles: a Family 2029 - 2047
Shute Nevil
A Town Like Alice
Pied Piper
Requiem for a Wren
Sigurdardottir Yrsa
The Silence of the Sea
Simsion Graeme
The Rosie Project
The Rosie Effect
Sinha Umi
Belonging
Sittenfeld Curtis
Sisterland
Eligible
Slaughter Karin
Cop Town
Broken
Criminal
Unseen
Fallen
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Updated January 2017
Pretty Girls
Smiley Jane
Early Warning
Golden Age
Smith Ali
There But For The
How to be Both
Autumn
Smith Alexander McCall (series)
The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency
44 Scotland Street
Corduroy Mansions
Isabel Dalhousie
Smith Dan
The Child Thief
The Darkest Heart
Smith Dodie
I capture the Castle
Smith Martin Cruz
Tatiana
Smith Tom Rob
Child 44
Agent 6
The Farm
Smith Zadie
NW
Swing Time
Solomons Natasha
The Gallery of Vanished Husbands
The Song Collector
Spark Muriel
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Sparks Nicholas
The Notebook
The Choice
The Longest Ride
See Me
Speller Elizabeth
At Break of Day
27
Reading suggestions for Reading Groups
Staincliffe Cath
Dead Wrong
Split Second
Stone Cold, Red Hot
Bleed Like Me
Witness
Towers of Silence
The Blink of an Eye
Letters to My Daughter’s Killer
Updated January 2017
Taylor Andrew
The Scent of Death
The Silent Boy
Taylor D J
Derby Day
The Windsor Faction
Temple Peter
White Dog
Dead Point
St Aubyn Edward
Lost For Words
At Last
Tessaro Kathleen
Rare Objects
Stedman M. L.
The Light Between Oceans
Thayil Jeet
Narcopolis
Stevens Chevy
That Night
Those Girls
Thomas Rosie
The Potter’s House
Iris and Ruby
Constance
The Kashmir Shawl
The Illusionists
Lovers and Newcomers
Daughter of the House
Stibbe Nina
Man at the Helm
Paradise Lodge
Stockett Kathryn
The Help
Strout Elizabeth
My Name is Lucy Barton
Suskind Patrick
Perfume, the Story of a Murderer
Swanston Andrew
The King’s Exile
Swift Graham
Mothering Sunday
Syal Meera
The House of Hidden Mothers
T
Tan Amy
The Valley of Amazement
Tartt Donna
The Goldfinch
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Thomson Lesley
Ghost Girl
The Detective’s Secret
Thornton Rebecca
The Exclusives
Thynne Jane
The Winter Garden
Faith and Beauty
Titchmarsh Alan
Folly
Bring Me Home
The Haunting
Mr Grandy’s Grand Tour
Toibin Colm
Brooklyn
The Testament of Mary
Nora Webster
Toksvig Sandi
Valentine Grey
28
Reading suggestions for Reading Groups
Torday Paul
The Legacy of Hartlepool Hall
Light Shining in the Forest
More Than You Can Say
Townsend Sue
The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year
Toyne Simon
The Key
The Tower
Solomon Creed
Trapido Barbara
Sex and Stravinsky
Tremain Rose
The Way I Found Her
Restoration
Music and Silence
The Road Home
Trespass
Merivel, a Man of His Time
The American Lover and Other Stories
Tremayne S K
The Ice Twins
The Fire Child
Trigiani Adriana
Very Valentine
The Supreme Macaroni Company
The Shoemaker’s Wife
Trollope Joanna
The Men and the Girls
Second Honeymoon
The Choir
The Other Family
The Soldier’s Wife
Sense and Sensibility
Daughters-in-Law
The Rector’s Wife
Balancing Act
Tropper Jonathan
This is Where I leave You
One last Thing Before I Go
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Updated January 2017
Tsiolkas Christos
Barracuda
Turnbull Peter
The Altered Case
The Garden Party
Denial of Murder
Deep Cover
In Vino Veritas
Tyler Anne
Accidental Tourist
The Clock Winder
Patchwork Planet
The Beginner’s Goodbye
Back When We Were Grownups
If Morning Ever Comes
A Spool of Blue Thread
Vinegar Girl
U
Upson Nicola
Fear in the Sunlight
The Death of Lucy Kyte
London Rain
V
Vickers Salley
Miss Garnet’s Angel
Dancing Backwards
Aphrodite’s Hat
The Cleaner of Chartres
Cousins
Vine Barbara
The Child’s Child
Waldman Amy
The Submission
W
Walker Alice
The Color Purple
Walker Karen Thompson
The Age of Miracles
Walsh Helen
The Lemon Grove
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Walters Louise
Mrs Sinclairs Suitcase
Ward Sarah
In Bitter Chill
A Deadly Thaw
Ware Ruth
In a Dark, Dark Wood
Wark Kirsty
The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle
Wastvedt Patricia
The German Boy
Waters Sarah
The Night Watch
The Little Stranger
The Paying Guests
Watson S J
Before I Go to Sleep
Second Life
Weaver Tim
Never Coming Back
Fall From Grace
What Remains
Webb Katherine
The Legacy
The Unseen
A Half Forgotten Song
The Misbegotten
The Night Falling
The English Girl
Weeks Lee
Cold as Ice
The Frozen Grave
Cold Justice
Weir Alison
The Captive Queen
A Dangerous Inheritance
The Lady Elizabeth, a Novel
The Marriage Game
Wesley Mary
The Camomile Lawn
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Updated January 2017
Jumping the Queue
West Juliet
Before the Fall
West Rebecca
Return of the Soldier
Whitehouse David
The Mobile Library
Whitehouse Lucie
Before We Met
Keep You Close
Widdecombe Ann
Act of Treachery
Willett Marcia
The Summer House
The Sea Garden
Postcards From the Past
Indian Summer
Summer on the River
Williams John
Stoner
Williams Niall
History of the Rain
Winman Sarah
When God was a Rabbit
A Year of Marvellous Ways
Wilson A N
The Potter’s Hand
Winspear Jacqueline
Elegy for Eddie
Leaving Everything Most Loved
A Lesson in Secrets
The Care and Management of Lies
A Dangerous Place
The Mapping of Love and Death
Journey to Munich
Winter Kathleen
Annabel
30
Reading suggestions for Reading Groups
Winterson Jeanette
Oranges are not the Only Fruit
Sexing the Cherry
Written on the Body
The PowerBook
The Passion
The Daylight Gate
The Gap of Time
Wood Naomi
Mrs Hemingway
Woodman Cathy
Follow Me Home
Vets on Call
Country Loving
Springtime at Cherry Tree Cottage
Wyld Evie
All the Birds Singing
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Updated January 2017
Yanagihara Hanya
A Little Life
Y
Young Louisa
The Heroes’ Welcome
Devotion
Z
Zafon Carlos Ruiz
The Angel’s Game
The Prisoner of Heaven
Zan Koethi
The Never List
Zusak Marcus
The Book Thief
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Reading suggestions for Reading Groups
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CLASSICS
Austen Jane
Sense & Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
Mansfield Park
Emma
Northanger Abbey
Persuasion
Benson E F
Mapp and Lucia
A
Dumas Alexandre
The Three Musketeers
Du Maurier Daphne
Jamaica Inn
Rebecca
Frenchman’s Creek
B
Eliot George
Mill on the Floss
Bronte Anne
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Fitzgerald F Scott
Tender is the Night
Bronte Charlotte
Jane Eyre
Villette
Agnes Grey
Wuthering Heights
Flaubert Gustave
Madame Bovary
.
Ford Ford Madox
Parades End
The Good Soldier
Conrad Joseph
Heart of Darkness
Lord Jim
C
D
Dickens Charles
Oliver Twist
Nicholas Nickleby
The Old Curiosity Shop
A Christmas Carol
Martin Chuzzlewit
David Copperfield
Bleak House
Hard Times
A Tale of Two Cities
Great Expectations
Our Mutual Friend
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Doyle Sir Arthur Conan
The Hound of the Baskervilles
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E
F
Forster E M
A Room with a View
Howards End
A Passage to India
Gaskell Elizabeth
Cranford
G
Gibbons Stella
Cold Comfort Farm
Golding William
Lord of the Flies
Greene Graham
Brighton Rock
H
Hardy Thomas
Far from the Madding Crowd
Jude the Obscure
Hartley L P
The Go-Between
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Reading suggestions for Reading Groups
The Hireling
Hasek Jaroslav
Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the
World War
Hemingway Ernest
Farewell to Arms
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Old Man and the Sea
J
James Henry
The Turn of the Screw
Jerome Jerome
Three Men in a Boat
Kipling Rudyard
Kim
K
L
Lawrence D H
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Sons and Lovers
Lee Harper
To Kill a Mockingbird
M
Maugham W. Somerset
Of Human Bondage
Orwell George
Animal Farm
Nineteen Eighty Four
O
Scott Walter
Ivanhoe
Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft
Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
Steinbeck John
Of Mice and Men
The Grapes of Wrath
The Pearl
Stevenson Robert Louis
Kidnapped
Stoker Bram
Dracula
T
Taylor Elizabeth
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
Trollope Anthony
The Warden
Twain Mark
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
W
Waugh Evelyn
A Handful of Dust
Scoop, a Novel About Journalists
Vile Bodies
Wharton Edith
Ethan Frome
Wilde Oscar
The Picture of Dorian Gray
R
Remarque Erich Maria
All Quiet on the Western Front
Salinger J D
Catcher in the Rye
Updated January 2017
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Woolf Virginia
Mrs Dalloway
To the Lighthouse
Orlando, a Biography
Wyndham John
The Day of the Triffids
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Reading suggestions for Reading Groups
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NON-FICTION
A
Adie Kate
The Kindness of Strangers, the
Autobiography
Fighting on the Home Front, the Legacy of
Women in World War 1
Angelou Maya
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Athill Diana
Instead of a Book, Letters to a Friend
Alive, Alive oh! And other Things That
Matter
Avey Denis
The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz
Ayres Pam
The Necessary Aptitude, A Memoir
You Made Me Late Again! My New
Collection
B
Bakewell Joan
Stop the Clocks, Thoughts on What I Leave
Balding Clare
My Animals and Other Family
Walking Home, My Family and other
Rambles
Barnes Julian
Levels of Life
Barr Damian
Maggie & Me
Beevor Anthony
The Second World War
Day, the Battle For Normandy
Ardennes 1944, Hitler’s Last Gamble
Bennett Alan
Untold Stories
A Life Like Other People’s
Keeping On, Keeping on
Please note, titles are subject to availability.
Berry Mary
Recipe for Life, the Autobiography
Bowen James
A Street Cat Named Bob
The World According to Bob
A Gift From Bob
Bower Tom
Sweet Revenge, the Intimate Life of Simon
Cowell
Brand Jo
Can’t Stand Up For Sitting Down
Brittain Vera
Testament of Youth, an Autobiographical
Study of the Years 1900 - 1925
Brown Sarah
Behind the Black Door
Bryson Bill
Notes From a Small Island
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
A Walk in the Woods
At Home, A Short History of Private Life
One Summer, America 1927
The Road to Little Dribbling, More Notes
From a Small Island
Byrne Paula
The Real Jane Austen, a Life in Small
Things
C
Cain Susan
Quiet, the Power of Introverts in a World
That Can’t Stop Talking
Chang Jung
Empress Dowager Cixi, the Concubine Who
Launched Modern China
Clare Horatio
Down to the Sea in Ships, of Ageless
Oceans and Modern Men
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Coe Sebastian
Running My Life, the Autobiography
Cooke Rachel
Her Brilliant Career, Ten Extraordinary
Women of the Fifties
Cooper Artemis
Patrick Leigh Fermor, an Adventure
D
De Courcy Anne
The Fishing Fleet, Husband Hunting in the
Raj
De Waal Edmund
The Hare with the Amber Eyes
White Road, a Pilgrimage of Sorts
Devonshire Deborah
Wait For Me, Memoirs of the Youngest
Mitford Sister
Drinkwater Carol
The Olive Farm, a Love Story
The Olive Harvest, a Memoir of Love, Old
Trees and Olive Oil
The Olive Tree, a Personal Journey through
Mediterranean Olive Groves
Dunlop Tessa
The Bletchley Girls, War, Secrecy, Love and
Loss: the Women of Bletchley Park Tell
Their Story
Dunn Dot May
Bread, Jam and a Borrowed Pram, a
Nurse’s Story From the Streets
Updated January 2017
Everett Rupert
The Vanished Years
Forster Margaret
My Life in Houses
E
F
Frankopan Peter
Silk Roads, a New History of the World
Fraser Antonia
My History, a Memoir of Growing Up
Fry Stephen
The Fry Chronicles
More Fool Me
Fuller Alexandra
Leaving Before the Rains Come
G
Gilbert Elizabeth
Eat, Pray, Love, One Woman’s Search for
Everything
Grady Stephen
Gardens of Stone
Graves Robert
Goodbye To All That, an Autobiography
H
Haig Matt
Reasons to Stay Alive
Hannff Helene
84 Charing Cross Road
Dunn Jane
Daphne Du Maurier and Her Sisters, the
Hidden Lives of Piffy, Bird and Bing
Hanson Michele
What the Grown – Ups were Doing, an
Odyssey Through 1950’s Suburbia
Durrell Gerald
My Family and Other Animals
A Zoo in My Luggage
Hart Miranda
Is it Just Me?
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Hastings, Sir Max
All Hell Let Loose, the World at War 193945
Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914
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Reading suggestions for Reading Groups
The Secret War, Spies, Codes and
Guerillas, 1935 -45
Hawking Jane
Travelling to Infinity, My Life With Stephen
Higashida Naoki
The Reason I Jump, One Boy’s Voice From
the Silence of Autism
Hillenbrand Laura
Unbroken, an Extraordinary True Story of
Courage and Survival
Hughes – Hallett
The Pike, Gabriele d’Annunzio, Poet,
Seducer and Preacher of War
J
Johnson Alan
This Boy, a Memoir of CHildhood
Please Mister Postman, a Memoir
Johnson Boris
The Churchill Factor, How One Man Made
History
K
Kalanithi Paul
When Breath Becomes Air
Laing Olivia
To the River
L
Lee Hermione
Penelope Fitzgerald, a Life
Lee Laurie
Cider with Rosie
Moment of War
Updated January 2017
Lynne Gillian
A Dancer in Wartime, the Touching True
Story of a Young Girl’s Journey From the
Blitz to the Bright Lights
M
McIntyre Ben
Agent Zigzag, the True Wartime Story of
Eddie Chapman: the Most Notorious Double
Agent of World War II
Double Cross, the True Story of the D -Day
Spies
A Spy Among Friends, Kim Philby and the
Great Betrayal
McKay Sinclair
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park, the
History of the Wartime Codebreaking
Centre by the Men and Women Who Were
There
The Secret Listeners, Men and Women
Posted Across the World to Intercept
German Codes For Bletchley Park
The Secret Life of Fighter Command, the
Men and Women Who Beat the Luftwaffe
MacDonald Helen
H is for Hawk
MacFarlane Robert
The Old Ways, a Journey on Foot
Mandela Nelson
Long Walk to Freedom, the Autobiography
of Nelson Mandela
Marsh Henry
Do No Harm
Mirren Helen
In the Frame
Leith Prue
Relish, My Life in Many Courses
Montefiore Simon Sebag
The Romanovs 1613 -1918
Lively Penelope
Ammonites and Leaping Fish, a Life in Time
Moorehead Caroline
The Village of Secrets, Defying the Nazis in
Vichy France
Moran Caitlin
How to be a Woman
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Reading suggestions for Reading Groups
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Mortimer Roger
Dear Lupin…., Letters to a Wayward Son
Perkins Sue
Spectacles
Mosley Charlotte
Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters
Phinn Gervase
The Other Side of the Dale
Over Hill and Dale
Up and Down in the Dales
The Road to the Dales
The Heart of the Dales
Out of the Woods but not Over the Hill
A Wayne in a Manger
Mulley Clare
The Spy Who Loved, the secrets and Lives
of Christine Granville, Britain’s First Female
Special Agent of the Second World War
N
Nicolson Juliet
A House Full of Daughters
Northup Solomon
Twelve Years a Slave
O’Brien Edna
Country Girl
O
O’Grady Paul
At My Mother’s Knee …. and Other Low
Joints
Still Standing, My Savage Years
Open the Cage, Murphy
Osborne Frances
The Bolter, Idina Sackville, the Woman
Who Scandalised 1920’s Society and
Became White Mischief’s Infamous
Seductress
P
Packham Chris
Fingers in the Sparkle Jar, Lessons in Life
and Death
Park Yeonmi
In Order to LIve
Passarlay Gulwali
Lightless Sky, My Journey to Safety as a
Child Refugee
Paxman Jeremy
Great Britain’s Great War
Please note, titles are subject to availability.
Picardie Justine
Coco Chanel, the Legend and the Life
R
Rappaport Helen
Four Sisters, the Lost Lives of the Romanov
Grand Duchesses
Rebanks James
The Shepherd’s Life
Rhodes Margaret
The Final Curtsey, a Royal memoir of the
Queen’s Cousin
Saunders Jennifer
Bonkers
S
Seymour – Jones Carole
She Landed by Moonlight: the Story of
Secret Agent Pearl Witherington
Shakespeare Nicholas
Priscilla - The Hidden Life of an English
Woman in Wartime France
Sisman Adam
John Le Carre
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Sixsmith Martin
Philomena
Smith Emma
The Great Western Beach, a Memoir of a
Cornish Childhood Between the Wars
As Green as Grass, Growing Up Before,
During and After the Second World War
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Reading suggestions for Reading Groups
Soames Mary
A Daughter’s Tale, the Memoir of Winston
and Clementine Churchill’s Youngest Child
Stewart Chris
Driving Over Lemons, an Optimist in
Andalucia
Three Ways to Capsize a Boat, an Optimist
Afloat
Stibbe Nina
Love, Nina, Despatches From Family Life
Strayed Cheryl
Wild, a Journey From Lost to Found
Suchet John
My Bonnie
Sugar Alan
What You See is What You Get
Summerscale Kate
Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace , the Private Diary
of a Victorian Lady
T
Thubron Colin
To a Mountain in Tibet
Tomalin Clare
The Invisible Woman, the story of Nelly
Ternan and Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens, A Life
Trumpington Jean
Coming Up Trumps
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Updated January 2017
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Walliams David
Camp David, the Autobiography
Walsh Mikey
Gypsy Boy on the Run
Weir Alison
Elizabeth of York, the First Tudor Queen
Mary Boleyn, the Great and Infamous
Whore
The Lost Tudor Princess, a Life of Margaret
Douglas, Countess of Lennox
Widdecombe Ann
Strictly Ann, the Autobiography
Wiesel Elie
Night
Winterson Jeanette
Why be Happy When You Could be Normal?
Woodcock Joan
Matron On Call, More True Stories of a
1960’s Nurse
Worth Jennifer Call the Midwife
In the Midst of Life
Farewell to the East End
Y
Yousafzai Malala
I am Malala, the Girl Who Stood Up for
Education
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Reading suggestions for Reading Groups
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Prizewinners from the last 10 years
The Man Booker Prize
2007
Anne Enright – The Gathering
2008
Aravind Adiga – The White Tiger
2009
Hilary Mantel – Wolf Hall
2010
Howard Jacobson – The Finkler Question
2011
Julian Barnes – The Sense of an Ending
2012
Hilary Mantel – Bring Up the Bodies
2013
Eleanor Catton – The Luminaries
2014
Richard Flanagan – The Narrow Road to the
Deep North
2015
Marlon James – A Brief History of Seven
Killings
2016
Paul Beatty – The Sellout
Please note, titles are subject to availability.
Baileys Women’s Prize For Fiction
(formerly The Orange Prize)
2007
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Half of a
Yellow Sun
2008
Rose Tremain – The Road Home
2009
Marilynne Robinson – Home
2010
Barbara Kingsolver – The Lacuna
2011
Tea Obreht – The Tiger’s Wife
2012
Madeline Miller – The Song of Achilles
2013
A.M. Homes – May We Be Forgiven
2014
Eimer McBride – A Girl is a Half-Formed
Thing
2015
Ali Smith – How to be Both
2016
Lisa McInerney – Glorious Heresies
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