Previous books

Raven Black

Ann Cleeves

The Last Act of Love: The Story of My Brother and His Sister

Cathy Rentzenbrink

The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 Years Old

Hendrik Groen, Hester Velmans

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

Helen Fielding

The Bones of Grace

Tahmima Anam

False Nine

Philip Kerr

One False Move

Dreda Say Mitchell

The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra

Vaseem Khan

A Very Distant Shore: Quick Reads

Jenny Colgan

The Missing

C. L. Taylor

Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi

The Beach Cafe

Lucy Diamond

Payback

Kimberley Chambers

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

Millie Marotta's Animal Kingdom

Millie Marotta

Mr Loverman

Bernardine Evaristo

Wonder

R. J. Palacio,

Sofia Khan is Not Obliged: A Heartwarming Romantic Comedy

Ayisha Malik

The Secret Marriage Pact

Georgie Lee

The Traitor

Jonathan Holt

Orangeboy

Patrice Lawrence

Lies We Tell Ourselves

Robin Talley

The Girl Who Wasn't There

Ferdinand von Schirach, Anthea Bell

Streets of Darkness

A. A. Dhand

Faded Glory

David Essex

The Good Son

Paul McVeigh

Love Poems

Carol Ann Duffy

Great for: Anyone who's ever loved or lost

Treachery

S. J. Parris

Great for: Fans of TV historical thrillers and period dramas

Now You See Me: Lacey Flint Series, Book 1

Sharon Bolton

Great for: Fans of TV crime dramas from Prime Suspect to The Killing

Perfect Daughter

Amanda Prowse

Great for: Exploring the everyday dramas and ongoing trials of family life

Whispering Shadows

Jan-Philipp Sendker

Great for: Fans of cinematic thrillers and neo-noir

Am I Normal Yet?

Holly Bourne

Great for: Teenagers and young women (current and former)

Too Good to be True

Ann Cleeves

Great for: Fans of Tartan noir and John le Carré

A Baby at the Beach Café

Lucy Diamond

Great for: Expectant mums who might like a restful read

Last Bus to Coffeeville

J. Paul Henderson

Great for: Any reluctant readers who need a careering, emotion-filled story to grip them

Band of Brothers

Stephen E. Ambrose

Great for: Military history buffs & fans of the TV series

Shadow and Bone

Leigh Bardugo

Great for: Game of Thrones-obssessives

I Can't Begin to Tell You

Elizabeth Buchan

Great for: Anyone who loved The Imitation Game & spy dramas

Reasons to Stay Alive

Matt Haig

Great for: Anyone who's ever suffered, recovered from or encountered depression

The Rotters' Club

Jonathan Coe

Great for: Brummies, teenagers, anyone who grew up in Thatcher's Britain

Someone Else's Skin

Sarah Hilary

Great for: Anyone who loves gripping, plot-driven crime stories

My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece

Annabel Pitcher

Water for Elephants

Sara Gruen

When God Was a Rabbit

Sarah Winman

Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy

ed. Neil Astley

Dead Man Talking

Roddy Doyle

Skellig

David Almond

Chickenfeed

Minette Walters

Prime Suspect

Lynda La Plante

After the Fall

Charity Norman

Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death

M. C. Beaton

Custard Tarts and Broken Hearts

Mary Gibson

Street Cat Bob: How One Man and a Cat Saved Each Other's Lives. A True Story.

James Bowen

Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

Blaine Harden

Assassin's Apprentice

Robin Hobb

The Martian

Andy Weir

Honour

Elif Shafak

Spring Tide

Cilla Borjlind, Rolf Borjlind

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Rachel Joyce

The Moaning of Life: The Worldly Wisdom of Karl Pilkington

Karl Pilkington

Queen's Gambit

Elizabeth Fremantle

The Humans

Matt Haig

Tales of the City

Armistead Maupin

Geezer Girls

Dreda Say Mitchell

Confessions of a GP

Benjamin Daniels

After the Funeral

Agatha Christie

Gorky Park

Martin Cruz Smith

Hello Mum

Bernardine Evaristo

Getting Rid of Matthew

Jane Fallon

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

John Boyne

The Recruit

Robert Muchamore

Black Hills

Nora Roberts

Vengeance is Mine

Roald Dahl

59 Seconds: How Psychology Can Improve Your Life in Less Than a Minute

Professor Richard Wiseman

The Perfect Murder

Peter James

Four Warned

Jeffrey Archer

Whatever it Takes

Adele Parks

Today Everything Changes: Quick Read

Andy McNab

The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton

Sathnam Sanghera

Theodore Boone

John Grisham

Rivers of London

Ben Aaronovitch

Me Before You

Jojo Moyes

Damage

Josephine Hart

A Little History of the World

Ernst H. Gombrich, Clifford Harper, Caroline Mustill

The Secret Scripture: A Novel

Sebastian Barry

Little Face: Book 1: Culver Valley Crime

Sophie Hannah

Last Night Another Soldier

Andy McNab

Girl With a Pearl Earring

Tracy Chevalier

Judge Dredd: the Dark Judges

John Wagner, Alan Grant, Brian Bolland, Brett Ewins, Cliff Robinson

Noughts and Crosses: Book 1

Malorie Blackman

Why be Happy When You Could be Normal?

Jeanette Winterson

Casino Royale

Ian Fleming

The Island

Victoria Hislop

The Knife of Never Letting Go

Patrick Ness

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson, Eoin Colfer, John Seelye

The White Queen

Philippa Gregory

The Road Home

Rose Tremain

The Reader

Bernhard Schlink, Carol Brown Janeway

Red Dust Road

Jackie Kay

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Alexander McCall Smith

The Eyre Affair

Jasper Fforde

Good Omens

Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman

Room

Emma Donoghue

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

Sleepyhead

Mark Billingham

Harlequin

Bernard Cornwell

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

Maggie O'Farrell

I Capture the Castle

Dodie Smith, Valerie Grove

The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

How I Live Now

Meg Rosoff

The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic: (Shopaholic Book 1)

Sophie Kinsella

Small Island

Andrea Levy

The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

Let the Right One in

John Ajvide Lindqvist

Touching the Void

Joe Simpson

The Damned Utd

David Peace

The Player of Games

Iain M. Banks

Someone Like You

Roald Dahl

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

Notes from a Small Island

Bill Bryson

The Time Traveler's Wife

Audrey Niffenegger

Misery

Stephen King

Rebecca

Daphne Du Maurier, Sally Beauman

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

The Take

Martina Cole

Rachels Holiday

Marian Keyes

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

John Le Carre, William Boyd, John Le Carre

One Day

David Nicholls

Fingersmith

Sarah Waters

Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Case Histories: (Jackson Brodie)

Kate Atkinson

A Life Like Other People's

Alan Bennett

Half of a Yellow Sun

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Mark Haddon

Stuart: A Life Backwards

Alexander Masters

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Muriel Spark, Candia McWilliam

Dissolution

C. J. Sansom

The World's Wife

Carol Ann Duffy

Life of Pi

Yann Martel

Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger

Nigel Slater

All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque, Brian O. Murdoch

A Fine Balance

Rohinton Mistry

The Blind Assassin

Margaret Atwood

Northern Lights

Philip Pullman

Cloud Atlas

David Mitchell

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Mohsin Hamid

Beloved

Toni Morrison

Killing Floor: (Jack Reacher 1)

Lee Child

Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: The Most Notorious Double Agent of World War II

Ben Macintyre