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Reading group books - updated February 2025

Updated February 2025

A

  • Aaronovitch, Ben. Rivers of London (10 copies)
  • Abdolah, Kader. The House of the Mosque (9 copies)
  • Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Americanah (8 copies)
  • Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Half a Yellow Sun (9 copies)
  • Adiga, Aravind. The White Tiger (8 copies)
  • Alderman, Naomi. The Power (10 copies)
  • Atwood, Margaret. The Testaments (10 copies)
  • Atwood, Margaret. Hag-Seed (8 copies)
  • Atwood, Margaret. Handmaid’s Tale (10 copies)
  • Austen, Jane. Persuasion (8 copies)

B

  • Backman, Fredrik. A Man called Ove (8 copies)
  • Baden. D A. Habitat Man (10 copies) NEW!
  • Baldacci, David. The Sixth Man (8 copies)
  • Baldacci, David. True Blue (9 copies)
  • Baldree, Travis. Legends and Lattes (10 copies) NEW!
  • Ballard, J G. High-Rise (10 copies)
  • Barker, Pat. The Silence of the Girls (10 copies)
  • Barnard, Joanna. Hush Little Baby (10 copies)
  • Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending (8 copies)
  • Barnett, Laura. Versions of Us (7 copies)
  • Barry, Sebastian. The Secret Scripture (6 copies)
  • Battacharya, Susmitta. Table Manners (Short Stories) 10 copies
  • Baxter, Mark. Nekropolis (6 copies)
  • Beatty, Paul. The Sellout (10 copies)
  • Bennett, Alan. The History Boys (10 copies)
  • Binchy, Maeve. This Year it will be Different (6 copies)
  • Birch, Carol. Jamrach’s Menagerie (12 copies)
  • Boling, Dave. Guernica (10 copies)
  • Boyd, William. Any Human Heart (7 copies)
  • Boyne, John. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (9 copies)
  • Bradley, James. Resurrectionist (14 copies)
  • Brodrick, William. A Whispered Name (9 copies)
  • Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights (7 copies)
  • Bulawayo, NoViolet. We Need New Names (10 copies)
  • Bulgakov, Mikhail. The Master and Margarita (10 copies)
  • Burns, Anna. No Bones (11 copies)
  • Burns, Anna. The Milkman. (9 copies)
  • Burton, Jessie. The Miniaturist (10 copies)

C

  • Camus, Albert. The Outsider (4 copies)
  • Cannon, Joanna. The Trouble with Goats and Sheep (8 copies)
  • Cannon, Joanna. Three Things About Elsie (6 copies)
  • Carr, J L. A month in the country (10 copies) NEW!
  • Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s adventures in wonderland (10 copies) NEW!
  • Carter, Angela. Night Circus (10 copies)
  • Carty-Williams. Queenie (10 copies)
  • Case, Alison. Nelly Dean (10 copies)
  • Chang, Jung. Wild Swans (9 copies)
  • Child, Lee. The Sentinel (10 copies) NEW! – HARDBACK
  • Clanchy, Kate. Antigona and Me (10 copies)
  • Cleave, Chris. Gold (7 copies)
  • Clegg, Bill. Did you Ever Have a Family (7 copies)
  • Coe, Jonathan. Middle England (10 copies)
  • Coelho, Paulo. The Alchemist (10 copies)
  • Collin, Sara. The Confessions of Frannie Langton (10 copies)
  • Collins, Bridget. The Binding (10 copies)
  • Collins, Wilkie. The Moonstone (10 copies)
  • Connelly, Michael. The Law of Innocence (10 copies) HARDBACK
  • Crewe, Tom. The new life (10 copies)
  • Crooks, Jacqueline. Fire Rush (10 copies) NEW!

D

  • Dare, Abi. The girl with the louding voice (10 copies)
  • De Waal, Kit. My Name is Leon (10 copies)
  • De Witt, Patrick. The Sisters Brothers (9 copies)
  • Diaz, Hernan. Trust (10 copies) NEW!
  • Dickens, Charles. Christmas Books (10 copies)
  • Dickens, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. (10 copies)
  • Dickens, Charles. Hard Times (9 copies)
  • Dickens, Charles. Little Dorrit (9 copies)
  • Dickens, Charles, David Copperfield (8 copies)
  • Doerr, Anthony. All the Light We Cannot See (10 copies)
  • Donoghue, Emma. Room (5 copies)
  • Doshi, Avni. Burnt sugar (10 copies)
  • Dostoevsky, Fyodor. The Karamazov Brothers (10 copies)
  • Douglas, Claire. Wrong sister (10 copies) NEW!
  • Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles (4 copies)
  • Dumas, Alexandre. The Count of Monte Cristo (10 copies)
  • Dunant, Sarah. Sacred Hearts (10 copies)
  • Dunmore, Helen. Mourning Ruby (10 copies)
  • Dunn, Suzannah. The Confession of Katherine Howard (8 copies)

E

  • Eaves, Will. Murmur (10 copies)
  • Edwards, Kim. Memory Keeper’s Daughter (8 copies)
  • Edwards, Kim. Lake of Dreams. (7 copies)
  • Eliot, George. Middlemarch (10 copies)
  • Erdrich, Louise. The Round House (10 copies)

F

  • Faber, Michel. The Crimson Petal and the White (7 copies)
  • Faber, Michel. The Book of Strange New Things (10 copies)
  • Fallada, Hans. Alone in Berlin. (9 copies)
  • Fallon, Jane. Got you Back (12 copies)
  • Fellowes, Julian. Past Imperfect (8 copies)
  • Ferrante, Elena. My Brilliant Friend (4 copies)
  • Filer, Nathan. Shock of the Fall (8 copies)
  • Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night/The Last Tycoon (10 copies)
  • Foley, Lucy. The Hunting Party (10 copies)
  • Ford, Jamie. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (10 copies)
  • Forster, Vera. A Daughter of Her Century (6 copies)
  • Fowler, Karen Joy. The Jane Austen Book Club (10 copies) NEW!
  • Fox, Jason. Battle Scars. (10 copies)
  • French Tana. The Secret Place (8 copies)

G

  • Galbraith, Robert. Troubled Blood (10 copies) HARDBACK
  • Galgut, Damon. The Good Doctor (10 copies)
  • Ganeshananthan, V V. Brotherless Night (10 copies) NEW!
  • Geda, Fabio. In the Sea there are Crocodiles (6 copies)
  • Ghosh, Amitav. The Glass Palace (6 copies)
  • Ghosh Amitav. River of Smoke (10 copies)
  • Ghosh, Amitav. Sea of Poppies (10 copies)
  • Gibson, Mary. Custard Tarts and Broken Hearts (10 copies)
  • Gilbert, Elizabeth. The Signature of all Things (10 copies)
  • Goodwin, Daisy. My Last Duchess (5 copies)
  • Gowar Imogen Hermes. The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock (10 copies)
  • Gregory, Philippa. Tidelands (10 copies)
  • Grossman, David. A Horse Walks into a Bar (10 copies)
  • Grossmith, George. The Diary of a Nobody (8 copies)

H

  • Haddon, Mark. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (10 copies)
  • Haig, Matt. The Humans (14 copies)
  • Haig, Matt. The Midnight Library (10 copies)
  • Hall, Araminta. Everything and Nothing (10 copies)
  • Hamer, Kate. The Girl in The Red Coat (10 copies)
  • Hamid, Mohsin. The Reluctant Fundamentalist (8 copies)
  • Hannah, Kristin. The Four winds (10 copies)
  • Hare, Louise. This lovely City (10 copies)
  • Hardy, Thomas. Under the Greenwood Tree (10 copies)
  • Hargreave, Kiran Millwood. The Mercies (10 copies)
  • Harper, Jane. The Dry (10 copies)
  • Harris, Robert. The Fear Index (7 copies)
  • Hart, Amelia. Weyward. (6 copies) NEW!
  • Harvey, Samantha. Orbital (10 copies) NEW!
  • Hawkins, Paula. The Girl on the Train (10 copies)
  • Haynes, Natalie. Stone Blind (10 copies)
  • Heaberlin, Julia. Black Eyed Susans (8 copies)
  • Heisey, Monica. Really good actually (10 copies)
  • Henley, Dai. Blazing Obsession (10 copies)
  • Henley, Dai. Reckless Obsessions (10 copies)
  • Hennessey. Patrick. The Junior Officers Reading Club (12 copies)
  • Hill, Susan. The Beacon (11 copies)
  • Hill, Susan. I’m the King of the Castle (6 copies)
  • Hislop, Victoria. The Island (11 copies)
  • Hogan, Ruth. The Keeper of Lost Things (4 copies)
  • Holland, Sam. Echo Man (10 copies) NEW!
  • Hollinghurst, Alan. The Line of Beauty (5 copies)
  • Homer The Odyssey (11 copies)
  • Honeyman, Gail. Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine (10 copies)
  • Hoover, Colleen. Verity (10 copies)
  • Hornby, Nick. Juliet, Naked (8 copies)
  • Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner (7 copies)
  • Hosseini, Khaled A Thousand Splendid Suns (7 copies)
  • Hurley, Andrew Michael. The Loney (10 copies)

I

  • Imrie, Celia. Not Quite Nice (10 copies)
  • Irving, John. A Prayer for Owen Meany (11 copies)
  • Ishiguro, Kazuo. Never let me go. (10 copies)
  • Ivey, Eowyn. Snow Child (7 copies)

J

  • Jackson, Shirley. We Have Always Lived in the Castle (10 copies)
  • Jacobson, Howard. The Finkler Question (7 copies)
  • James, Marlon. A Brief History of Seven Killings (10 copies)
  • Jia, Mai. Decoded (5 copies)
  • Jonason, Jonas. Hitman Anders and the meaning of it all (10 copies)
  • Jones, Lloyd. Mister Pip (13 copies)
  • Jones, Robert. The Prophets (10 copies)
  • Jones, Tayeri. An American Marriage (10 copies)
  • Jones, Wendy. The Thoughts and happenings of Wilfred Price, purveyor of superior funerals (12 copies)
  • Johns, Ana. The Woman in the White Kimono (10 copies)

K

  • Kane, Jessica Francis. The Report (8 copies)
  • Kang, Han. The Vegetarian (10 copies) NEW!
  • Karunatilaka, Shehan. The seven moons of Maali Almeida (10 copies)
  • Kawaguchi, Toshikazu. Tales from the Café (10 copies) NEW!
  • Kawakami, Hiromi. Strange Weather in Tokyo (10 copies)
  • Keegan, Claire. Small things like these (10 copies)
  • Kerrigan, Kate. Ellis Island (8 copies)
  • King, Stephen. The Shining (7 copies)
  • Kingsolver, Barbara. Flight Behaviour (10 copies)
  • Kingsolver, Barbara. The Lacuna (8 copies)
  • Klinec, Jennifer. The Temporary Bride (10 copies)
  • Kostova, Elizabeth. The Historian (9 copies)
  • Krauss, Nicole. The History of Love (8 copies)
  • Kushner, Rachel. The Mars Room (10 copies)

L

  • Lambert, Sonia. Three Mothers (10 copies)
  • Lawrenson, Deborah. The Lantern (7 copies)
  • Lee, Chang- Rae. The Surrendered (10 copies)
  • Lefteri, Christie. The Beekeeper of Aleppo (10 copies)
  • Lehane, Denis. Moonlight Mile (6 copies)
  • Lessing, Doris. The Golden Notebook (10 copies)
  • Levy, Andrea. The Long Song (11 copies)
  • Lewis, Susan. The girl Who Came Back (8 copies)
  • Lewycka, Marina. A Short history of tractors in the Ukrainian (5 copies)
  • Lewycka, Marina. Two Caravans (13 copies)
  • Lucas, Marieke Rijenveld. The Discomfort evening (10 copies)
  • Luiselli, Valeria. Lost children archive (10 copies)

M

  • McCall Smith, Alexander. The No 1 Ladies detective agency (8 copies)
  • McCall Smith, Alexander. 2 ½ pillars of wisdom (7 copies)
  • McCleen, Grace. The Land of Decoration (10 copies)
  • McEwan, Ian. On Chesil Beach (10 copies)
  • McGregor, Jon. Reservoir 13 (9 copies)
  • McInerney, Lisa. The Glorious Heresies (10 copies)
  • Macintosh, Sophie. Cursed bread (10 copies)
  • MacLaverty, Bernard. Midwinter Break (9 copies)
  • Mai, Ngyyen Phan Que. The Mountains Sing (10 copies)
  • Mantel, Hilary. Bring up the bodies (7 copies)
  • Mantel, Hilary. Wolf Hall (14 copies)
  • Manwaring, Kevan. The Long Woman (9 copies)
  • Marquez Garcia, Gabriel. One hundred years of solitude (10 copies)
  • Mason, Daniel. North Woods (10 copies) NEW!
  • Mengiste, Maaza. The Shadow King (10 copies)
  • Michaelides, Alex. The silent patient (10 copies) NEW!
  • Miller, Madeline. Circe (8 copies)
  • Mitchell, David. Cloud Atlas (7 copies)
  • Moggach, Deborah. The Black Dress (10 copies)
  • Moore, Kate. The Radium Girls (8 copies)
  • Morgan, Jude. The Taste of Sorrow (9 copies)
  • Moriarty, Liane. The Husband’s Secret (10 copies)
  • Moriarty, Liane. Big Little Lies (10 copies)
  • Morgenstern, Erin. The Starless Sea (10 copies)
  • Morrall, Clare. The Man who Disappeared (7 copies)
  • Morris, Heather. The Tattooist Of Auschwitz (10 copies)
  • Morrison, Toni. Beloved (10 copies)
  • Moshfegh, Ottessa. Eileen (10 copies)
  • Mosse, Kate. Sepulchre (13 copies)
  • Mosse, Kate. Labyrinth (9 copies)
  • Mozley, Fiona. Elmet (9 copies)
  • Mukherjee. Neel A State of Freedom (7 copies)

N

  • Nemirovsky, Irene. Suite Francaise (10 copies)
  • Ness, Patrick. The Knife of Never Letting Go (7 copies)
  • Ng, Celeste. Everything I never told you (9 copies)
  • Ng, Celeste. Little Fires Everywhere (10 copies)
  • North, Freya. Little Wing (6 copies) NEW!
  • Norton, Graham. Holding (10 copies)

O

  • O’Brien, Edna. The Light of Evening (10 copies)
  • O’Farrell, Maggie. Instructions for a heatwave (9 copies)
  • Olafsdottir, Audur Ava. Butterflies in November (10 copies)
  • Ondaatje, Michael. Warlight (6 copies)
  • Osman, Richard. Thursday murder club (10 copies) NEW!
  • Ozeki, Ruth. The book of form and emptiness (10 copies)

P

  • Patchett, Ann. State of Wonder (9 copies)
  • Payne, Warwick. Frisco Spiders. (10 copies)
  • Perry, Sarah. The Essex Serpent (10 copies)
  • Picoult, Jodie. House Rules (7 copies)
  • Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar. (10 copies)
  • Pollen, Bella. The Summer of the Bear (5 copies)
  • Porter, Max. Grief is the Thing with Feathers (10 copies)
  • Pulley, Natasha. The Watchmaker of Filgree Street (10 copies) NEW!
  • Purcell, Laura. The Silent Companion (7 copies)

Q

  • Quick, Matthew. The Silver Linings Play Book (11 copies)
  • Quindlen, Anna. Every Last One (6 copies)

R

  • Rakha, Naseem. The Crying Tree (8 copies)
  • Reid, Kiley. Such a fun age (10 copies)
  • Reid, Taylor Jenkins. The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo (10 copies)
  • Richell, Hannah. Secrets of the Tides (9 copies)
  • Robinson, Marilynne. Home (8 copies)
  • Roffey Monique. The Mermaid of Black Conch (10 copies)
  • Rooney, Sally. Normal People (10 copies)
  • Rushdie, Salman. Midnight’s Children (7 copies)
  • Rutherfurd, Edward. The Forest (6 copies)
  • Ryan, Donal. The Spinning Heart (9 copies)

S

  • Sahota, Sunjeev. The Year of the Runaways (10 copies)
  • Sansom, C.J. Dissolution (9 copies)
  • Saunders, George. Lincoln in the Bardo (10 copies)
  • Setterfield, Diane. Once Upon a River (10 copies)
  • Shafak, Elif. Honour (10 copies)
  • Shafak, Elif. Forty rules of love (10 copies)
  • Shaffer, Mary Ann. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (7 copies)
  • Shapiro, Elena Mauli. 13, Rue Therese (7 copies)
  • Shipstead, Maggie. The Great Circle (10 copies)
  • Slimani, Leila. Lullaby (10 copies)
  • Slovo, Gillian. Ice Road (8 copies)
  • Smith, Ali. The Accidental (12 copies)
  • Smith, Andrew. Moondust (10 copies)
  • Solomons, Natasha. The Gallery of Vanished Husbands (10 copies)
  • Spufford, Francis. Golden Hill (10 copies)
  • Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath (6 copies)
  • Stevenson, R L. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (10 copies)
  • Stevenson, R L. Treasure Island (10 copies)
  • Strout, Elizabeth. Olive Kitteridge (10 copies)
  • Summerscale, Kate. Mrs Robinson’s disgrace (10 copies)

T

  • Tartt, Donna. The Goldfinch (10 copies)
  • Taylor, Andrew. The Ashes of London (9 copies)
  • Taylor, Brandon. Filthy Animals (10 copies)
  • Tearne, Roma. Brixton Beach (12 copies)
  • Toibin, Colm. Brooklyn (9 copies)
  • Toibin, Colm. The Testament of Mary (10 copies)
  • Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina (10 copies)
  • Towles, Amor. Rules of Civility (10 copies)
  • Towles, Amor. A Gentleman in Moscow (10 copies)
  • Trapido, Barbara. Frankie and Stankie (9 copies)
  • Trollope, Anthony. The Warden (3 copies)
  • Turner, Sarah. Stepping Up (6 copies) NEW!
  • Tyler, Anne. The Amateur Marriage (12 copies)

W

  • Walker, Alice. The Color Purple (8 copies) Waters. Sarah. The Little Stranger (5 copies) Waters, Sarah. The Nightwatch (10 copies)
  • Watson, S J. Before I go to Sleep (9 copies)
  • Westover, Tara. Educated. (10 copies)
  • Wharton, Edith. Age of Innocence (10 copies)
  • Whitehead, Colson. The Underground Railroad (8 copies)
  • Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray (10 copies)
  • Winman, Sarah. When God was a Rabbit (8 copies)
  • Winman, Sarah. Still Life (10 copies)
  • Winn Alice. In Memoriam (10 copies) NEW!
  • Winthrop, Elizabeth. December (9 copies)
  • Woolf, Virginia. Mrs Dalloway (9 copies)

Y

  • Yanagihara, Hanya. A Little Life (10 copies)

Z

  • Zevin, Gabrielle. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (10 copies)
  • Zola, Emile. Germinal (9 copies)
  • Zusak, Markus. The Book Thief (10 copies)