Previous books

The Ice Cream Girls

Dorothy Koomson

Great for: Fans of crime dramas

The War of the Worlds

H. G. Wells

Great for: Anyone who likes science fiction

The Rosie Project

Graeme Simsion

Great for: Adults who enjoyed The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

The Chalk Pit

Elly Griffiths

Great for: Fans of crime and dramas

The Things We Thought We Knew

Mahsuda Snaith

Great for: Anyone who likes stories of families, friendships and the struggles of growing up

Thinking Out Loud

Rio Ferdinand

Great for: Anyone affected by bereavement

The Hate U Give

Angie Thomas

Great for: Young people and adults interested in the truth about what it means to live in a black community in America

Shadows in Heaven

Nadine Dorries

Great for: Fans of sagas and romance

Juliet, Naked

Nick Hornby

Great for: Anyone in need of a laugh with moments of poignancy

Himself

Jess Kidd

Great for: Fans of the supernatural and ghost stories

Rosie Loves Jack

Mel Darbon

Great for: Young people who like a story of love and adventure

Me Mam. Me Dad. Me.

Malcolm Duffy

Great for: Young people growing up in the North East of England

Orphan Monster Spy

Matt Killeen

Great for: Young people who like adventure and history

Artemis

Andy Weir

Great for: Fans of The Martian and people who dream of going to space

Mad Girl

Bryony Gordon

Great for: Anyone affected by OCD

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

Great for: Fans of the TV show; those who think about how the world could be different

The Children

Ann Leary

Great for: Fans of family mysteries

The Forgiveness Project: Stories for a Vengeful Age

Marina Cantacuzino

Great for: Anyone facing adversity or difficulties. Particularly suitable for people in prisons.

The Seven Sisters

Lucinda Riley

Great for: Fans of historical fiction and family dramas

Die Last

Tony Parsons

Great for: Fans of fast-paced mysteries

Close Enough to Touch

Colleen Oakley

Great for: People facing difficulties and isolation

Turtles All the Way Down

John Green

Great for: Young people affected by anxiety, fans of The Fault in Our Stars

Children of Blood and Bone

Tomi Adeyemi

Great for: Young people who want to escape to a magical world

Elizabeth is Missing

Emma Healey

Great for: Older readers and anyone who loves poignant and compelling stories

The Beach Wedding

Dorothy Koomson

Great for: Less confident adult readers or those who need a short, punchy read

One Of Us Is Lying

Karen McManus

Great for: Perfect for fans of Gossip Girl and Pretty Little Liars

The Detective's Daughter

Lesley Thomson

Great for: Fans of fast-paced, suspenseful mystery

What the Dog Knows: scent, science, and the amazing ways dogs perceive the world

Cat Warren

Great for: Dog-lovers and fans of true crime

The Woman In Black

Susan Hill

Great for: Anyone who loves horror and craves a genuine fright

The Recovery Letters: Addressed to People Experiencing Depression

Olivia Sagan (Author), James Withey (Author), Tom Couser

Great for: Anyone who currently affected by depression or recovering from it

Open: A Toolkit for How Magic and Messed Up Life Can Be

Gemma Cairney

Great for: Young people who'd benefit from practical, fun and kind-hearted advice

My Name Is Leon

Kit De Waal

Great for: Anyone who enjoys both the feel-good and gritty moments in life, who remembers early-80s Britain, or who has experienced or worked in foster care

My Everything

Katie Marsh

Great for: Anyone who'd enjoy a story of both the ordinary and extraordinary dramas of family life

Dangerous Lady

Martina Cole

Great for: Fans of Lynda la Plante and gritty crime dramas

You Don't Know Me

Imran Mahmood

Great for: Fans of crime dramas

The Loney

Andrew Michael Hurley

Great for: Fans of gothic and eerie tales

Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun

Sarah Ladipo Manyika

Great for: Older readers and anyone who loves to reminisce

Our Summer Together

Fanny Blake

Great for: Older readers and fans of romantic, uplifting stories

At My Mother's Knee...: And Other Low Joints

Paul O'Grady

Great for: Fans of Paul O'Grady himself or his much-loved Lily Savage

Kith

Jo Bell

Great for: Older readers, young adults and anyone in between

After The Fire

Will Hill

Great for: Young adults and fans of suspense

Genuine Fraud

E. Lockhart

Great for: Fans of mind-twisting stories like The Talented Mr Ripley

Satellite

Nick Lake

Great for: Fans of science fiction and The Martian

Mindfulness: A practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world

J. Mark G. Williams, Dr. Danny Penman

Great for: Anyone experiencing anxiety or depression, or those struggling with daily life

Gilded Cage

Vic James

Great for: Fans of the Hunger Games trilogy and other YA fantasy

Carry On, Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster)

P. G. Wodehouse

Great for: Fans of the hit TV adaptation, or of whimsical, hilarious tales

Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi

Payback

Kimberley Chambers

Lies We Tell Ourselves

Robin Talley

The Girl Who Wasn't There

Ferdinand von Schirach, Anthea Bell

The Secret Marriage Pact

Georgie Lee

The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 Years Old

Hendrik Groen, Hester Velmans

Mr Loverman

Bernardine Evaristo

False Nine

Philip Kerr

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

Cathy Rentzenbrink

Sofia Khan is Not Obliged: A Heartwarming Romantic Comedy

Ayisha Malik

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

Helen Fielding

Millie Marotta's Animal Kingdom

Millie Marotta

Wonder

R. J. Palacio,

The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra

Vaseem Khan

The Missing

C. L. Taylor

Faded Glory

David Essex

The Good Son

Paul McVeigh

Raven Black

Ann Cleeves

The Traitor

Jonathan Holt

Streets of Darkness

A. A. Dhand

The Bones of Grace

Tahmima Anam

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

The Beach Cafe

Lucy Diamond

One False Move

Dreda Say Mitchell

Orangeboy

Patrice Lawrence

A Very Distant Shore: Quick Reads

Jenny Colgan

A Baby at the Beach Café

Lucy Diamond

Great for: Expectant mums who might like a restful read

Whispering Shadows

Jan-Philipp Sendker

Great for: Fans of cinematic thrillers and neo-noir

Now You See Me: Lacey Flint Series, Book 1

Sharon Bolton

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

Band of Brothers

Stephen E. Ambrose

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

Love Poems

Carol Ann Duffy

Great for: Anyone who's ever loved or lost

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

Treachery

S. J. Parris

Great for: Fans of TV historical thrillers and period dramas

Last Bus to Coffeeville

J. Paul Henderson

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

The Rotters' Club

Jonathan Coe

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

Perfect Daughter

Amanda Prowse

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

Someone Else's Skin

Sarah Hilary

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

Reasons to Stay Alive

Matt Haig

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

Too Good to be True

Ann Cleeves

Great for: Fans of Tartan noir and John le Carré

Am I Normal Yet?

Holly Bourne

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

Queen's Gambit

Elizabeth Fremantle

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

Blaine Harden

Spring Tide

Cilla Borjlind, Rolf Borjlind

Skellig

David Almond

Honour

Elif Shafak

The Moaning of Life: The Worldly Wisdom of Karl Pilkington

Karl Pilkington

Chickenfeed

Minette Walters

The Martian

Andy Weir

My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece

Annabel Pitcher

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

Assassin's Apprentice

Robin Hobb

After the Fall

Charity Norman

Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death

M. C. Beaton

Dead Man Talking

Roddy Doyle

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Rachel Joyce

When God Was a Rabbit

Sarah Winman

Prime Suspect

Lynda La Plante

Water for Elephants

Sara Gruen

Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy

ed. Neil Astley

Theodore Boone

John Grisham

After the Funeral

Agatha Christie

Getting Rid of Matthew

Jane Fallon

Tales of the City

Armistead Maupin

The Humans

Matt Haig

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

John Boyne

The Recruit

Robert Muchamore

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

Sathnam Sanghera

Whatever it Takes

Adele Parks

Rivers of London

Ben Aaronovitch

Hello Mum

Bernardine Evaristo

Four Warned

Jeffrey Archer

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

Professor Richard Wiseman

Today Everything Changes: Quick Read

Andy McNab

Vengeance is Mine

Roald Dahl

Black Hills

Nora Roberts

Confessions of a GP

Benjamin Daniels

The Perfect Murder

Peter James

Geezer Girls

Dreda Say Mitchell

Gorky Park

Martin Cruz Smith

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Alexander McCall Smith

Girl With a Pearl Earring

Tracy Chevalier

Casino Royale

Ian Fleming

The Island

Victoria Hislop

Me Before You

Jojo Moyes

Why be Happy When You Could be Normal?

Jeanette Winterson

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson, Eoin Colfer, John Seelye

Little Face: Book 1: Culver Valley Crime

Sophie Hannah

A Little History of the World

Ernst H. Gombrich, Clifford Harper, Caroline Mustill

Noughts and Crosses: Book 1

Malorie Blackman

Damage

Josephine Hart

The Knife of Never Letting Go

Patrick Ness

Judge Dredd: the Dark Judges

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

The White Queen

Philippa Gregory

Red Dust Road

Jackie Kay

The Reader

Bernhard Schlink, Carol Brown Janeway

The Road Home

Rose Tremain

The Secret Scripture: A Novel

Sebastian Barry

The Eyre Affair

Jasper Fforde

Last Night Another Soldier

Andy McNab

Small Island

Andrea Levy

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

Misery

Stephen King

The Take

Martina Cole

Rebecca

Daphne Du Maurier, Sally Beauman

How I Live Now

Meg Rosoff

The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

Notes from a Small Island

Bill Bryson

The Player of Games

Iain M. Banks

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

Someone Like You

Roald Dahl

Good Omens

Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

Sleepyhead

Mark Billingham

The Damned Utd

David Peace

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

Harlequin

Bernard Cornwell

I Capture the Castle

Dodie Smith, Valerie Grove

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

Maggie O'Farrell

The Time Traveler's Wife

Audrey Niffenegger

The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Sophie Kinsella

Room

Emma Donoghue

Touching the Void

Joe Simpson

Let the Right One in

John Ajvide Lindqvist

The World's Wife

Carol Ann Duffy

Fingersmith

Sarah Waters

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

John Le Carre, William Boyd, John Le Carre

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Muriel Spark, Candia McWilliam

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Mohsin Hamid

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Mark Haddon

A Fine Balance

Rohinton Mistry

Rachels Holiday

Marian Keyes

Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger

Nigel Slater

Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Killing Floor: (Jack Reacher 1)

Lee Child

Stuart: A Life Backwards

Alexander Masters

Beloved

Toni Morrison

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

Ben Macintyre

Dissolution

C. J. Sansom

Life of Pi

Yann Martel

All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque, Brian O. Murdoch

Half of a Yellow Sun

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Blind Assassin

Margaret Atwood

Cloud Atlas

David Mitchell

One Day

David Nicholls

A Life Like Other People's

Alan Bennett

Northern Lights

Philip Pullman

Case Histories: (Jackson Brodie)

Kate Atkinson