Reading group available book list

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

Author

Title

(goodreads link to synopsis)

Category

No. of copies

Alternative formats

(single copies only)

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

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

 

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

 

Connolly, Cressida

After the party

Historical fiction

12

EA

Conrad, Joseph

Heart of darkness

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

 

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

 

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

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

 

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

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Napier, William

Clash of empires: The great siege

Historical

12

 

Napolitano, Ann

Hello beautiful

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

 

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