Book Club Reads
NON‑FICTION
Memoir, Biography & Personal Narratives
• Angela’s Ashes — Frank McCourt
Becoming - Michelle Obama
• Dadland — Keggie Carew
• Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? — Séamas O’Reilly
Educated - Tara Westover
• The Santaland Diaries — David Sedaris
• The Madness of Grief — Richard Coles
The Salt Path - Raynor Winn
This is Going to Hurt - Adam Kay
Social Science, Culture & Ideas
• Invisible Women — Caroline Criado Perez
• Stolen Focus — Johann Hari
• The Uninhabitable Earth — David Wallace‑Wells
• The School of Life — Alain de Botton
Science, Medicine & Psychology
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks — Rebecca Skloot
• The Brain — David Eagleman
• Being Mortal — Atul Gawande
• Why We Sleep — Matthew Walker
Nature, Travel & Place
• What the Wild Sea Can Be — Helen Scales
• Raising Hare — Chloe Dalton
History, Politics & Real‑World Events
• Down and Out in Paris and London — George Orwell
• The Optician of Lampedusa
• The Five — Hallie Rubenhold
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FICTION
A
• A God in Ruins — Kate Atkinson
• A Man Called Ove — Fredrik Backman
A Place Called Winter - Patrick Gale
• A Sweet Obscurity — Patrick Gale
• A Terrible Kindness — Jo Browning Wroe
• A Thousand Ships — Natalie Haynes
A Spool of Blue Thread - Anne Tyler
• A Town Called Solace — Mary Lawson
All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
An American Marriage - Tayari Jones
And the Mountains Echoed - Khalid Hosseini
Autumn - Ali Smith
B
Best of Friends - Kamila Shamshie
• Bitter Orange — Claire Fuller
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C
• Crow Lake — Mary Lawson
D
• Days Without End — Sebastian Barry
• Dear Life — Alice Munro
• Disgrace — J.M. Coetzee
• Dream Count — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
E
• Early One Morning — Virginia Baily
• Eileen — Ottessa Moshfegh
• Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine — Gail Honeyman
• Elmet — Fiona Mozley
• Elizabeth Is Missing — Emma Healey
F
• Fates and Furies — Lauren Groff
• Fat Chance — Nick Spalding
Flamingo - Rachel Elliott
• Flights — Olga Tokarczuk
• French Braid — Anne Tyler
G
• Girl, Woman, Other — Bernardine Evaristo
Go As A River - Shelley Read
• Grief Is the Thing with Feathers — Max Porter
H
• Hamnet — Maggie O’Farrell
• Hard by a Great Forest — Leo Vardiashvili
• He Said/She Said — Erin Kelly
• Home Fire — Kamila Shamsie
• Hot Milk — Deborah Levy
• How to Stop Time — Matt Haig
I
• In Memoriam — Alice Winn
• Intermezzo — Sally Rooney
J
• Jernigan — David Gates
K
• Kairos — Jenny Erpenbeck
KLara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro
L
• Lean Fall Stand — Jon McGregor
• Lessons — Ian McEwan
• Lessons in Chemistry — Bonnie Garmus
• Less — Andrew Sean Greer
Letters From Father Christmas - JRR Tolkien
• Light on Snow — Anita Shreve
• Little Fires Everywhere — Celeste
Love Nina - Nina Stibbe
M
• Magpie — Elizabeth Day
• Magpie Lane — Lucy Atkinson
• Moonfleet — J. Meade Faulkner
• Motherland — William Nicholson
• My Brilliant Friend — Elena Ferrante
N
• Never Let Me Go — Kazuo Ishiguro
• Normal People — Sally Rooney
• Now We Shall Be Entirely Free — Andrew Miller
O
• Our Endless Numbered Days — Claire Fuller
• Our Missing Hearts — Celeste Ng
P
• Prodigal Summer — Barbara Kingsolver
• Purity — Jonathan Franzen
R
• Reservoir 13 — Jon McGregor
S
Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan
• So Much Life Left Over — Louis de Bernières
• Some Kind of Fairy Tale — Graham Joyce
• Sorrow and Bliss — Meg Mason
• Still Life — Sarah Winman
Stoner - John Williams
• Suite Française — Irène Némirovsky
• Swing Time — Zadie Smith
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T
• The Beauty of the End — Debbie Howells
The Beekeeper of Aleppo - Christy Lefteri
The Book of Fire - Christy Lefteri
• The Book Thief — Markus Zusak
• The Children Act — Ian McEwan
The Coast Road - Alan Murrin
• The Consequences of Marriage — Isla Dewar
• The Dust That Falls from Dreams — Louis de Bernières
• The Dutch House — Ann Patchett
• The Essex Serpent — Sarah Perry
• The Flamingo — Rachel Elliott
• The Forty Rules of Love — Elif Shafak
• The Girl on the Train — Paula Hawkins
The Girls - Emma Cline
The Good People - Hannah Kent
The Heart’s Invisible Furies - John Boyne
The Hunting Party - Lucy Foley
The Island - Victoria Hislop
The Land in Winter - Andrew Miller
The Leopard - Jo Nesbo
The Lido - Libby Page
The Light Between Oceans - ML Steadman
The Lollipop Shoes - Joanne Harris
The Magic Cottage - James Herbert
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Marriage Portrait — Maggie O’Farrell
The Mersault investigation - Kamel Daoud
The Midnight Library- Matt Haig
The Night Guest - Fiona McFarlane
The Only Story - Julian Barnes
The Outsider - Albert Camus
The Paris Library - Janet Skeslien Charles
The Paper Palace - Miranda Cowley Heller
The Promise - Damon Galgut
The Quality of Mercy - Barry Unsworth
The Quality of Silence - Rosamund Lupton
The Sanatorium — Sarah Pearse
The Safekeep — Yael van der
Wouden
The Sellout - Paul Beatty
The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
The Shock of the Fall - Nathan Filer
The Taste of Blue Light - Lydia Ruffles
The Testaments - Margaret Atwood
The Weekend - Charlotte Wood
Tin Man - Sarah Winman
Trespasses - Louise Kennedy
U
Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
Unsheltered - Barbara Kingsolver
Us - David Nicholls
V
Violeta - Isabel Allende
W
War light - Michael Ondatjee
We All Want Impossible Things - Catherine Newman
Where My Heart Used to Beat - Sebastian Faulks
Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owen
Whispers Through a Megaphone - Rachel Elliott
Widows - Linda La Plante
Winter Garden - Kristin Hannah