Reading group available book list

AB = audiobook,  LP = Large print,  EA = eAudio,  EB = eBook

Author

Title

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Category No. of copies

Alternative formats

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Aaronovitch, Ben Whispers under ground Crime/Fantasy 12  
Abulhawa, Susan The blue between sky and water Fiction 12  
Adam, Claire Golden child Fiction 12  
Adams, Hope Dangerous women Crime fiction 12  
Adams, Sara Nisha The reading list Fiction 12 EB
Adichie, Chimamanda Americanah Fiction 12 EB, LP
Aitchison, Helen The dinner club Fiction 12 EB
Albert, Edoardo Edwin: High King of Britain Historical fiction 12  
Alcott, Louisa May Little women Fiction 12 EA
Amuah, Marie-Claire One for sorrow, two for joy Fiction 12  
Angelou, Maya I know why the caged bird sings Biography 12 EA
Apostolides, Zoe The homecoming Horror 12  
Arenz, Ewald Tasting sunlight Fiction 12  
Arikawa, Hiro The travelling cat chronicles Fiction 12  
Askew, Claire All the hidden truths Crime fiction 12  
Atkinson, Kate Life after life Fiction 12 AB, EA, EB
Austen, Jane Persuasion Classic 12 EB, LP
Austen, Jane Sense and sensibility Classic 12 AB, EA
Baily, Ginny Early one morning Fiction 12  
Bainbridge, Beryl Every man for himself Fiction 12  
Banwo, Ayanna Lloyd When we were birds Fiction 12  
Barley, Clara The moss house Historical fiction 10 EB
Baron, Alexander There’s no home Fiction 12  
Barrett, Shirley Rush oh! Fiction 12  
Barrows, Annie The truth according to us Fiction 12  
Bauer, Belinda Rubbernecker Thriller 12  
Beale, Susan The good guy Fiction 12  
Bergman, Anya The witches of Vardø Historical fiction 12  
Bertino, Marie-Helene Beautyland Fiction 12  
Beverly, William Dodgers Crime fiction 12 EA
Bivald, Katarina The readers of Broken Wheel recommend Fiction 12  
Blake, Victoria The return of the courtesan Historical fiction 12  
Bland, Christopher Cathar Historical fiction 12  
Boase, Tessa The housekeeper’s tale: the women who really ran the English country house Non-fiction 10  
Bolt, Britta Lonely graves Crime fiction 12  
Boyd, William An ice-cream war Fiction 12  
Boyne, John Mutiny on the Bounty Historical fiction 12  
Bragg, Melvyn Love without end Historical fiction 12  
Bray, Carys A song for Issy Bradley Fiction 12  
Brooks, Elizabeth Call of the curlew Fiction 12  
Browning-Roe, Jo A terrible kindness Fiction 12 EA, EB
Brunt, Carol Rifka Tell the wolves I’m home Fiction 12 LP
Brynard, Karin Weeping waters Crime fiction 12 EB
Burton, Jessie The miniaturist Historical fiction 12 AB, EA
Callaghan, Jo In the blink of an eye Crime fiction 12  
Callaghan, Tom A killing winter Crime fiction 12  
Campbell, Karen Paper cup Fiction 12 AB
Capote, Truman Breakfast at Tiffany’s Fiction 12  
Carey, Edward Little Historical fiction 12  
Castor, Helen Joan of Arc Biography 10  
Castor, Helen She-wolves: the women who ruled England before Elizabeth Non-Fiction 10  
Celestin, Ray The axeman’s jazz Crime fiction 12  
Chadwick, Elizabeth To defy a King Historical fiction 12  
Chase, Eve Black Rabbit Hall Fiction 12  
Chen, Katherine Joan Historical fiction 12  
Christie, Alix Gutenberg’s apprentice Historical fiction 12  
Clark-Platts, Alice Bitter fruits Crime fiction 12 LP
Coates, Ta-Nehisi The water dancer Historical fiction 12 EB
Collins, Courtney The burial Fiction 12  
Collins, Wilkie The moonstone Fiction 12  
Common, Mackenzie The six murders of Daphne St Clair Thriller 12  
Connolly, Cressida After the party Historical fiction 12 EA
Conrad, Joseph Heart of darkness Fiction 12  
Constable, Harriet   The instrumentalist Historical fiction 12  
Copleton, Jackie A dictionary of mutual understanding Fiction 12  
Correa, Armando The night travellers Fiction 12  
Crosby, Polly The unravelling Fiction 12  
Crouch, Julia Every vow you break Thriller 12  
Crow, Matthew Baxter’s requiem Fiction 12  
Cruickshanks, Lucy The road to Rangoon Fiction 10  
Curry, Alexandra The courtesan Historical fiction 12  
Daré, Abi The girl with the louding voice Fiction 12  
Dalrymple, William Return of a King: The battle for Afghanistan Non-Fiction 10  
Darling, Julia Crocodile soup Fiction 2 x 12  
Dawson, Jill The language of birds Fiction 12  
Denfeld, Rene The enchanted Fiction 12  
De Haan, Vanessa The restless sea Fiction 12  
De Waal, Kit My name is Leon Fiction 12  
Dhand, A.A. Streets of darkness Crime fiction 12 LP
Dickens, Charles Bleak House Classic 12  
Dikotter, Frank Mao’s Great Famine Non-Fiction 9  
Doerr, Anthony All the light we cannot see Fiction 12  
Doughty, Louise Apple Tree Yard Thriller 12  
Drayson, Nicholas A guide to the beasts of East Africa Fiction 12 AB
Driver, Minnie Managing expectations Biography 12  
Du Maurier, Daphne Rebecca Modern Classic 12 AB
Dunn, Suzannah The lady of misrule Historical fiction 9 AB
Edugyan, Esi Half-blood blues Fiction 8  
Edugyan, Esi Washington Black Historical fiction 12 EB, LP
Edwards, Emily The herd Fiction 12  
Elliott, Rachel Whispers through a megaphone Fiction 12  
Elton, Ben Two brothers Fiction 12  
Erdrich, Louise The round house Fiction 12  
Espach, Alison    The wedding people Fiction 12  
Evans, Lissa Crooked heart Fiction 12  
Everett, Percival The trees Crime fiction 12  
Ewing, Barbara The circus of ghosts Historical fiction 12  
Extence, Gavin The universe versus Alex Woods Fiction 12  
Falcones, Ildefonso The hand of Fatima Historical fiction 12  
Fergusson, Ben The other Hoffmann sister Historical fiction 12  
Ferrante, Elena My brilliant friend Fiction 12 AB, EA, EB
Filer, Nathan The shock of the fall Fiction 12  
Fitzgerald, F Scott The great Gatsby Classic 12 AB, EB
Flanagan, Richard The narrow road to the deep north Fiction 12 AB
Flynn, Gillian Gone girl Thriller 12 AB
Forrester, James Sacred treason Historical fiction 12  
Forster, E.M. A room with a view Classic 12  
Forsyth, Kate The wild girl Fiction 12 EB
Foster, Kate The maiden Historical fiction 12  
Fowler, Karen Joy We are all completely beside ourselves Fiction 12  
Fowler, Therese A well-behaved woman Historical fiction 12  
Fox, Essie Elijah’s mermaid Fiction 12  
Franklin, Sarah Shelter Fiction 12 AB
Fraser, Antonia Must you go? My life with Harold Pinter Biography 12  
French, Tana The secret place Crime fiction 12  
Fuller, Claire Our endless numbered days Fiction 12  
Gale, Patrick A place called Winter Fiction 12  
Galgut, Damon Arctic summer Fiction 12 EB
Gardner, Sally The weather woman Historical fiction 12  
Garfield, Simon On the map: Why the world looks the way it does Non-Fiction 10  
Garthwaite, Annie Cecily Historical fiction 12  
Garvin, Eileen The music of bees Fiction 12  
Geard, Amanda The midnight house Fiction 12  
George, Margaret The confessions of young Nero Historical fiction 12  
Gifford, Elisabeth A woman made of snow Fiction 12 AB, EB, LP
Gilbert, Elizabeth The signature of all things Historical fiction 12  
Goldie, Luan Nightingale Point Fiction 12  
Godfrey, Jennie    The list of suspicious things Fiction 12 EA
Green, Linda The last thing she told me Thriller 12  
Gregory, Philippa The other queen Historical fiction 12  
Gregson, Julia Jasmine nights Fiction 12 AB
Grenville, Kate A room made of leaves Historical fiction 12  
Griffin, Kate Fyneshade Fiction 12  
Gudenkauf, Heather One breath away Fiction 12  
Hammad, Isabella The Parisian Fiction 12  
Hammer, Chris Scrublands Crime fiction 12  
Hannah, Kristin The nightingale Fiction 12  
Hare, Louise This lovely city Fiction 12 EA, EB
Harper, Jane The dry Thriller 12  
Harris, Oliver The hollow man Crime fiction 12 LP
Harrison, Melissa At hawthorn time Fiction 12  
Harvey, Samantha Orbital Fiction 12  
Hauser, Emily For the winner Historical fiction 12  
Healey, Emma Elizabeth is missing Fiction 12 AB, LP
Heller, Joseph Catch-22 Fiction 12  
Hemingway, Ernest For whom the bell tolls Fiction 12  
Hepworth, Sally The younger wife Thriller 12  
Herron, Mick Slow horses Thriller 12 AB
Hewitt, Deborah The nightjar Fantasy 12 EA
Hickson, Joanna First of the Tudors Historical fiction 12  
Hill, Susan The woman in black Horror 12  
Hinton, S.E. The outsiders Fiction 12  
Hodgson, Antonia The devil in the Marshalsea Historical crime fiction 12  
Hoffman, Alice The marriage of opposites Historical fiction 12  
Hope, Anna Wake Fiction 12 LP
Hornby, Gill Miss Austen Historical fiction 12 EB
Hosseini, Khaled    The kite runner Fiction 12 EB
Ishiguro, Kazuo Never let me go Fiction 12  
Itami, Emily Fault lines Fiction 12  
Jackson, Shirley Just an ordinary day Short stories 12  
Jacob, Mira The sleepwalker’s guide to dancing Fiction 12  
James, PD An unsuitable job for a woman Crime fiction 12  
James, PD The children of men Fiction 12  
James, Tania     Loot Historical fiction 12  
Jaquiery, Anna The lying-down room Crime fiction 12  
Jennings, Amanda In her wake Thriller 12  
Johnson, Deborah The secret of magic Fiction 12  
Johnson, Katherine Paris savages Historical fiction 12  
Jonasson, Jonas The hundred year old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared Fiction 12 EB
Jones, Dan The Templars: the rise and fall of God’s holy warriors Non-fiction 12  
Jones, Michael The Black Prince Non-fiction 12  
Jones, Tayari An American marriage Fiction 12 EB
Joseph, Paterson The secret diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho Historical fiction 12  
Joss, Morag Across the bridge Fiction 12  
Joyce, Rachel The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry Fiction 12 AB
Kalayil, Sheena The bureau of second chances Fiction 12  
Kawaguchi, Toshikazu Before the coffee gets cold Fiction 12  
Kelly, Erin The burning air Thriller 12 AB, LP
Kent, Hannah Burial rites Crime fiction 12  
Khalifah, Khaled Death is hard work Fiction 11  
Khan, Ausma Zehanat The unquiet dead Crime fiction 12 EA, EB
Kidd, Sue Monk The invention of wings Fiction 12  
Kidd, Sue Monk The secret life of bees Fiction 12  
Kingsolver, Barbara The Poisonwood bible Fiction 12  
Kirby, Carolyn The conviction of Cora Burns Thriller 12 EB
Klaussmann, Liza Tigers in red weather Fiction 12  
Kline, Christina Orphan train Fiction 12 AB
Knox, Joseph Sirens Crime fiction 12  
Koch, Emily If I die before I wake Thriller 12  
Koch, Herman The dinner Fiction 12 AB
Kyriacou, Eleni The unspeakable acts of Zina Pavlou Thriller 12  
Lam, Stephanie The mysterious affair at Castaway House Fiction 10  
Lane, Harriet Alys, always Fiction 19 LP
Lawhon, Ariel     The frozen river Crime fiction 12  
Lea, Caroline The metal heart Fiction 12  
Lee, Harper Go set a watchman Fiction 12 AB, EA
Lee, Harper To kill a mockingbird Classic 12 EB
Lelic, Simon The child who Crime fiction 12  
Lester, Alison Yuki means happiness Fiction 12  
Leyshon, Nell The colour of milk Fiction 12 LP
Lippman, Laura The innocents Thriller 12 LP
Littlewood, Fran Amazing Grace Adams Ficton 12  
Locke, Attica Black water rising Thriller 12  
Lusk, Sean The second sight of Zachary Cloudesley Historical fiction 12  
Maguire, Roisin    Night swimmers Fiction 12  
Markovits, Benjamin  The rest of our lives Fiction 12 EA
McBeth, Colette Precious thing Thriller 12  
McBride, James The Heaven & Earth grocery store Fiction 12  
McBride, Laura We are called to rise Fiction 12  
McCann, Colum TransAtlantic Fiction 11  
McCarthy, Cormac The road Fiction 12 AB
McCarthy, Rob The hollow men Thriller 12  
McCloskey, David     Damascus station Thriller 12  
McConaghy, Charlotte Wild dark shore Fiction 12  
MacDonald, Helen H is for hawk Non-fiction 10  
McEvoy, Lesley The murder mile Crime fiction 12 EA
McGuire, Ian The north water Historical fiction 12  
McHugh, Laura The weight of blood Crime fiction 12 LP
MacKay, Malcolm The necessary death of Lewis Winter Thriller 12  
MacKenzie, Rebecca In a land of paper gods Fiction 12  
MacKenzie, Victoria For thy great pain have mercy on my little pain Historical fiction 12  
McKinlay, Deborah That part was true Fiction 12  
McLain, Paula The Paris wife Fiction 12 LP
Macintyre, Ben Josiah the great Historical fiction 10  
Malik, Ayisha This green and pleasant land Fiction 12 EA, EB
Malone, Michael J. In the absence of miracles Thriller 12 EB
Mancini, Ruth In the blood Thriller 12  
Mannion, Una Tell me what I am Thriller 12  
Mantel, Hilary Wolf Hall Historical fiction 12 AB, EA
Martínez, Agustín Village of the lost girls Crime fiction 12  
Mascarenhas, Kate The psychology of time travel Crime fiction 12  
Mason, Daniel North woods Fiction 12  
Matar, Hisham Anatomy of a disappearance Fiction 12  
Maynard, Joyce Labor Day Fiction 12  
Mazzola, Anna The clockwork girl Historical fiction 12  
Meek, James The heart broke in Fiction 12  
Meek, James To Calais, in ordinary time Historical fiction 12  
Michael, Livi Succession Historical fiction 12  
Miller, Andrew Pure Historical fiction 12  
Miller, Derek B Norwegian by night Thriller 12 AB
Miller, Madeline The song of Achilles Historical fiction 12 AB, LP
Mina, Denise The end of the wasp season Crime fiction 12 AB, LP
Mohamed, Nadifa The fortune men Fiction 12 EB
Moore, Kate The radium girls Non-Fiction 12  
Moore, Liz       The god of the woods Crime fiction 12 EB
Morgenstern, Erin The night circus Fiction 12  
Morris, Priscilla Black butterflies Fiction 12  
Morrison, Toni Beloved Fiction 12  
Mortimer, Ian The time traveller’s guide to medieval England Non-Fiction 10 LP
Moss, Sarah Ghost wall Fiction 12 EA
Mullen, Thomas Darktown Crime fiction 12  
Myers, Benjamin  The offing Fiction 12  
Napier, William Clash of empires: The great siege Historical 12  
Napolitano, Ann Hello beautiful Fiction 12  
Newlands, Tom       Only here, only now Fiction 12  
Ng, Celeste Little fires everywhere Fiction 12  
Nicholls, David Starter for ten Fiction 12  
North, Claire The first fifteen lives of Harry August Fiction 12  
Nugent, Liz Unravelling Oliver Thriller 12  
O’Brien, Anne The forbidden queen Historical fiction 12  
O’Connor, Nuala Becoming Belle Historical fiction 12  
O’Farrell, Maggie Instructions for a heatwave Fiction 12 LP
O’Shaughnessy, Kathy In love with George Eliot Historical fiction 12 EB
Olafsdottir, Audur Ava Butterflies in November Fiction 12  
Osborne, Frances The bolter  Biography 12  
Palmer, Bobby Isaac and the egg Fiction 12  
Panowich, Brian Bull Mountain Crime fiction 12 AB
Patrick, Phaedra The curious charms of Arthur Pepper Fiction 12 LP
Pendwizol, Jean The lightkeeper’s daughters Fiction 12  
Perkins-Valdez, Dolen Take my hand Fiction 12  
Philbrick, Nathaniel The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of Little Big Horn Non-Fiction 10  
Pike, Rosanna   A little trickerie Historical fiction 12  
Pitcher, Annabel My sister lives on the mantelpiece Fiction 10  
Plath, Sylvia The bell jar Fiction 12 AB
Pook, Lizzie Moonlight and the pearler's daughter Historical fiction 12  
Purcell, Laura The silent companions Fiction 12 EB
Pym, Barbara Excellent women Fiction 14  
Quick, Matthew The silver linings playbook Fiction 12 AB
Quinn, Anthony The streets Fiction 12 AB, LP
Read, Shelley Go as a river Fiction 12  
Reeve, Alex The house on Half Moon Street Crime fiction 12 EB
Rhys, Jean Wide Sargasso sea    Historical fiction 12  
Ribchester, Lucy The hourglass factory Historical crime fiction 12  
Robinson, Marilynne Gilead Fiction 12  
Roth, Joseph The Radetzky March Classic 12  
Rothmann, Ralf To die in spring Fiction 12  
Rothschild, Hannah The improbability of love Fiction 12 EB
Rowlatt, Bee In search of Mary: the mother of all journeys Non-fiction 12  
Roy, Anuradha All the lives we never lived Fiction 12  
Rubin, Gareth The turnglass Crime fiction 12  
Ryan, Jennifer The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir Fiction 12 LP
Ryan, William The holy thief Thriller 12  
Samson, Polly Perfect lives Short stories 12  
Samuel, Sigal The mystics of Mile End Fiction 12  
Searle, Nicholas The good liar Thriller 12  
Seaward, Belinda The beautiful truth Fiction 12  
Selman, Victoria Truly, darkly, deeply Thriller 12  
Semple, Maria Where’d you go, Bernadette Fiction 12 LP
Senior, Antonia Treason’s daughter Historical fiction 12  
Shafak, Elif The architect’s apprentice Historical 12  
Shaffer, Mary Ann The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Fiction 12 EB
Shepard, Jim The book of Aron Fiction 12  
Shepherd, Lynn Tom-All-Alone’s Crime fiction 12 LP
Shetterly, Margot Lee Hidden figures: the untold story of the African American women who helped win the space race Non-Fiction 12 EB
Shriver, Lionel We need to talk about Kevin Fiction 12 AB
Simonson, Helen The summer before the war Fiction 12  
Simsion, Graeme The Rosie project Fiction 12 LP
Sinha, Umi Belonging Historical fiction 12  
Skeslien Charles, Janet The Paris library Fiction 12  
Slovo, Gillian An honourable man Historical fiction 12  
Smith, Wilbur Elephant song Fiction 10  
Spark, Muriel The prime of Miss Jean Brodie Modern classic 11  
Spufford, Francis Golden Hill Historical 12 AB
Steiner, Susie Missing, presumed Crime fiction 12 EB
Stokes-Chapman, Susan Pandora Historical fiction 12  
Stourton, Edward Cruel crossing: Escaping Hitler across the Pyrenees Non-Fiction 10  
Stovell, Sarah The night flower Fiction 11  
Strohm, Paul The poet’s tale: Chaucer and the year that made the Canterbury Tales Non-Fiction 10  
Strout, Elizabeth My name is Lucy Barton Fiction 12 EA
Stubbs, John Reprobates: the Cavaliers of the English Civil War Historical fiction 10  
Sussman, Ellen French lessons Fiction 12  
Sykes, S.D. Plague land Historical Crime fiction 12  
Syson, Lydia Mr Peacock’s possessions Historical fiction 12  
Tabucchi, Antonio Pereira maintains Fiction 12  
Taylor, D J The Windsor faction Thriller 12 AB
Teulé, Jean Monsieur Montespan Fiction 12  
Theorin, Johan The darkest room Crime fiction 12  
Toews, Miriam The flying Troutmans Fiction 12  
Tóibín, Colm Brooklyn Fiction 12 LP
Tolstoy, Leo Anna Karenina  Classic 12  
Torday, Paul Light shining in the forest Fiction 12 LP
Towles, Amor A gentleman in Moscow Fiction 12 AB, EA
Treger, Louisa Madwoman Historical fiction 12  
Tremain, Rose The American lover and other stories Short stories 10  
Tsiolkas, Christos The slap Fiction 12  
Udall, Brady The lonely polygamist Fiction 12  
Unger, Lisa Beautiful lies Thriller 12  
Van Pelt, Shelby Remarkably bright creatures Fiction 12  
Vickers, Sally The cleaner of Chartres Fiction 12  
Viner, P.D. The last winter of Dani Lancing Crime fiction 12  
Viskic, Emma Resurrection Bay Thriller 12  
Walls, Jeanette The glass castle Biography 12  
Walton, Jo Among others Fantasy 12  
Watt, Holly To the lions Thriller 12  
Weir, Alison Lancaster and York: The War of the Roses Non-fiction 10  
Weisgarber, Ann The glovemaker Historical fiction 12 EA
West, Mathew The house of footsteps Horror 12  
Wetmore, Elizabeth Valentine Fiction 12  
Whitaker, Katie A royal passion: The turbulent marriage of Charles I and Henrietta Maria Non-fiction 10  
White, Michael Soul catcher Fiction 12  
Whitehead, Colson The underground railroad Historical fiction 12  
Whorton, James The arsenic century: How Victorian Britain was poisoned at home, work & play Non-fiction 10  
Wiles, Ellen The invisible crowd Fiction 12  
Wilkerson, Charmaine Black cake Fiction 12  
Williams, John Stoner Fiction 12  
Williams, Naomi Landfalls Historical fiction 12  
Williams, Pip The dictionary of lost words Historical fiction 12  
Winter, Natalie The moments Fiction 12  
Wood, Naomi Mrs Hemingway Fiction 12  
Woolf, Virginia Mrs Dalloway Classic 12 AB
Wyld, Evie All the birds, singing Fiction 12 AB
Yagisawa, Satoshi Days at the Morisaki bookshop Fiction 12  
Young, Louisa My dear, I wanted to tell you Fiction 12 LP