Previous books

Millie Marotta's Animal Kingdom

Millie Marotta

The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 Years Old

Hendrik Groen, Hester Velmans

Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi

One False Move

Dreda Say Mitchell

Payback

Kimberley Chambers

The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra

Vaseem Khan

The Good Son

Paul McVeigh

Orangeboy

Patrice Lawrence

Wonder

R. J. Palacio,

The Girl Who Wasn't There

Ferdinand von Schirach, Anthea Bell

Sofia Khan is Not Obliged: A Heartwarming Romantic Comedy

Ayisha Malik

The Bones of Grace

Tahmima Anam

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

Helen Fielding

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

Cathy Rentzenbrink

The Traitor

Jonathan Holt

Streets of Darkness

A. A. Dhand

A Very Distant Shore: Quick Reads

Jenny Colgan

The Beach Cafe

Lucy Diamond

Lies We Tell Ourselves

Robin Talley

The Secret Marriage Pact

Georgie Lee

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

Faded Glory

David Essex

Mr Loverman

Bernardine Evaristo

False Nine

Philip Kerr

The Missing

C. L. Taylor

Raven Black

Ann Cleeves

Someone Else's Skin

Sarah Hilary

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

Band of Brothers

Stephen E. Ambrose

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

The Rotters' Club

Jonathan Coe

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

Too Good to be True

Ann Cleeves

Great for: Fans of Tartan noir and John le Carré

Perfect Daughter

Amanda Prowse

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

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

Last Bus to Coffeeville

J. Paul Henderson

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

I Can't Begin to Tell You

Elizabeth Buchan

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

Shadow and Bone

Leigh Bardugo

Great for: Game of Thrones-obssessives

Now You See Me: Lacey Flint Series, Book 1

Sharon Bolton

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

Whispering Shadows

Jan-Philipp Sendker

Great for: Fans of cinematic thrillers and neo-noir

Reasons to Stay Alive

Matt Haig

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

A Baby at the Beach Café

Lucy Diamond

Great for: Expectant mums who might like a restful read

Am I Normal Yet?

Holly Bourne

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

The Martian

Andy Weir

Dead Man Talking

Roddy Doyle

When God Was a Rabbit

Sarah Winman

My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece

Annabel Pitcher

Spring Tide

Cilla Borjlind, Rolf Borjlind

Skellig

David Almond

Prime Suspect

Lynda La Plante

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

Blaine Harden

Honour

Elif Shafak

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

Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death

M. C. Beaton

Assassin's Apprentice

Robin Hobb

Chickenfeed

Minette Walters

After the Fall

Charity Norman

The Moaning of Life: The Worldly Wisdom of Karl Pilkington

Karl Pilkington

Queen's Gambit

Elizabeth Fremantle

Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy

ed. Neil Astley

Water for Elephants

Sara Gruen

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Rachel Joyce

Rivers of London

Ben Aaronovitch

Hello Mum

Bernardine Evaristo

Getting Rid of Matthew

Jane Fallon

Confessions of a GP

Benjamin Daniels

Four Warned

Jeffrey Archer

Black Hills

Nora Roberts

The Recruit

Robert Muchamore

Today Everything Changes: Quick Read

Andy McNab

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

John Boyne

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

Professor Richard Wiseman

Vengeance is Mine

Roald Dahl

Tales of the City

Armistead Maupin

Geezer Girls

Dreda Say Mitchell

Theodore Boone

John Grisham

Gorky Park

Martin Cruz Smith

The Perfect Murder

Peter James

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

Sathnam Sanghera

The Humans

Matt Haig

Whatever it Takes

Adele Parks

After the Funeral

Agatha Christie

Red Dust Road

Jackie Kay

Last Night Another Soldier

Andy McNab

The Island

Victoria Hislop

The Secret Scripture: A Novel

Sebastian Barry

The White Queen

Philippa Gregory

The Eyre Affair

Jasper Fforde

Little Face: Book 1: Culver Valley Crime

Sophie Hannah

A Little History of the World

Ernst H. Gombrich, Clifford Harper, Caroline Mustill

Me Before You

Jojo Moyes

Casino Royale

Ian Fleming

The Knife of Never Letting Go

Patrick Ness

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Alexander McCall Smith

Why be Happy When You Could be Normal?

Jeanette Winterson

Girl With a Pearl Earring

Tracy Chevalier

Noughts and Crosses: Book 1

Malorie Blackman

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson, Eoin Colfer, John Seelye

Damage

Josephine Hart

The Road Home

Rose Tremain

The Reader

Bernhard Schlink, Carol Brown Janeway

Judge Dredd: the Dark Judges

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

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

Sophie Kinsella

Notes from a Small Island

Bill Bryson

Sleepyhead

Mark Billingham

Harlequin

Bernard Cornwell

The Take

Martina Cole

The Time Traveler's Wife

Audrey Niffenegger

Room

Emma Donoghue

How I Live Now

Meg Rosoff

Rebecca

Daphne Du Maurier, Sally Beauman

Misery

Stephen King

Someone Like You

Roald Dahl

The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

I Capture the Castle

Dodie Smith, Valerie Grove

The Player of Games

Iain M. Banks

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

Maggie O'Farrell

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

Good Omens

Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman

Touching the Void

Joe Simpson

The Damned Utd

David Peace

Let the Right One in

John Ajvide Lindqvist

Small Island

Andrea Levy

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

The World's Wife

Carol Ann Duffy

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Mark Haddon

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Mohsin Hamid

A Fine Balance

Rohinton Mistry

Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger

Nigel Slater

Killing Floor: (Jack Reacher 1)

Lee Child

Fingersmith

Sarah Waters

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Muriel Spark, Candia McWilliam

Northern Lights

Philip Pullman

Stuart: A Life Backwards

Alexander Masters

Beloved

Toni Morrison

Half of a Yellow Sun

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Case Histories: (Jackson Brodie)

Kate Atkinson

One Day

David Nicholls

All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque, Brian O. Murdoch

Life of Pi

Yann Martel

Cloud Atlas

David Mitchell

Rachels Holiday

Marian Keyes

Dissolution

C. J. Sansom

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

John Le Carre, William Boyd, John Le Carre

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

Ben Macintyre

A Life Like Other People's

Alan Bennett

Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Blind Assassin

Margaret Atwood