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Reading Groups Booklist Summary May 21 Reading Groups Collection Multiple-Copy Titles Available for Loan Summary list revised July 2021 Recent additions to this list are highlighted for information Susan ABULHAWA Mornings in Jenin (2011, 352 pages) Claire ADAM Golden child (2019, 252 p) Peter ADAMSON The Kennedy moment (2018, 384 pages) Ayobami ADEBAYO Stay with me (2017, 298 pages) Chimamanda ADICHIE Half of a Yellow Sun (3 sets) (2007, 448 pages) Chimamanda ADICHIE Purple Hibiscus (2003, 307 pages) Chimamanda ADICHIE Americanah (2014, 400 pages) Cecelia AHERN Roar (Short stories) (2018, 357 p) Mitch ALBOM Tuesdays with Morrie (Non-Fiction) (2003, 212 pages) Louisa May ALCOTT Little Women (1868, 432 pages) Naomi ALDERMAN The power (2016, 340 pages) Kitty ALDRIDGE A Trick I Learned from Dead Men (2013, 224 pages) Monica ALI Brick Lane (2003, 491 pages) Jim AL-KHALILI Sunfall (2019, 441 p) Isabel ALLENDE House of the Spirits (1982, 490 pages) (trans. from Spanish) Maya ANGELOU I Know why the Caged Bird Sings (Biography) (1969, 281 pages) Neil ANSELL The last wilderness: a journey into silence (NF) (2018, 312 pages) Simon ARMITAGE Walking home (NF) (2012, 250 pages) Isabel ASHDOWN Flight (2015, 320 pages) Isabel ASHDOWN Little sister (2017, 364 pages) Diana ATHILL Somewhere towards the end (NF) (2009, 192 pages) Kate ATKINSON Behind the Scenes at the Museum (1998, 496 pages) Kate ATKINSON A god in ruins (2015, 556 pages) Kate ATKINSON Life after Life (2014, 640 pages) Kate ATKINSON Started Early, Took My Dog (2010, 350 pages) James ATTLEE Isolarion: a Different Oxford Journey (Non-Fiction) (2008, 400 pages) Margaret ATWOOD The Blind Assassin (2000, 544 pages) Margaret ATWOOD The Handmaid’s Tale (1996, 324 pages) Margaret ATWOOD The Testaments (2019, 435 p) Margaret ATWOOD The Penelopiad (2005, 224 pages) Margaret ATWOOD The Year of the Flood (2009, 528 pages) Margaret ATWOOD Hag-seed: the Tempest retold (2016, 293 pages) Jane AUSTEN Mansfield Park ([1814] 2014, 560 pages) Jane AUSTEN Persuasion (1816, 400 pages) Fredrik BACKMAN A man called Ove (2014, 304 pages) (trans from Swedish) Fredrik BACKMAN Britt-Marie was here (2016, 320 pages) Catherine BAILEY Black Diamonds (Non-Fiction) (2007, 568 pages) Beryl BAINBRIDGE An Awfully Big Adventure (1996, 208 pages) Beryl BAINBRIDGE Birthday Boys (1991, 192 pages) Beryl BAINBRIDGE Bottle Factory Outing (1974, 208 pages) Beryl BAINBRIDGE Every man for himself (1996, 214 pages) Jo BAKER A country road, a tree (2016, 391 pages) Jo BAKER Longbourn (2013, 400 pages) Iain BANKS The Player of Games (2005, 320 pages) John BANVILLE The Sea (2005, 263 pages) 1 Ros BARBER The Marlowe Papers (2013, 464 pages) Muriel BARBERY The Elegance of the Hedgehog (2008, 320 pages) (trans from French) Joan BARFOOT Getting Over Edgar (1999, 270 pages) Pat BARKER Border Crossing (2001, 288 pages) Pat BARKER Regeneration (2008, 256 pages) Pat BARKER The silence of the girls (2018, 325 pages) Pat BARKER Toby’s Room (2013, 272 pages) Julian BARNES Sense of an Ending (2012,160 pages) Laura BARNETT The versions of us (2015, 403 pages) Sebastian BARRY Days without end (2016, 320 pages) Stan BARSTOW A kind of loving (2010 [1960], 300pages) Halima BASHIR Tears of the Desert (Biography) (2009, 384 pages) Priya BASIL Strangers on the 16.02 (Quick Reads) (2011, 112 pages) Sara BAUME Spill simmer falter wither (2015, 277 pages) Sally BAYLEY Girl with dove: a life built by books (Non-fiction) (2018, 270) Richard BEARD The day that went missing: a family tragedy (NF) (2017, 278 pages) Aimee BENDER The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (2011, 336 pages) Alan BENNETT A Life Like Other People’s (Biography) (2009, 256 pages) Alan BENNETT The Uncommon Reader (2009, 128 pages) Brit BENNETT The vanishing half (2020, 352 p) Peter BENSON The south in winter (2017, 250 pages) Ann BERRY The adoption (2012, 390 pages) Katarina BIVALD Readers of Broken Wheel recommend (2015, 384 pages) Tom BLASS Naked shore of the North Sea (NF) (2015, 320 pages) S.J. BOLTON Little black lies (2015, 485 pages) James BOWEN A street cat named Bob (Non-Fiction) 2012, 288 pages) William BOYD Ordinary Thunderstorms (2009, 234 pages) William BOYD Restless (2006, 336 pages) William BOYD Waiting for sunrise (2013, 272 pages) William BOYD Sweet caress (2015, 451 pages) John BOYNE The Thief of Time (2000, 424 pages) John BOYNE A ladder to the sky (2018, 433 p) Ray BRADBURY Fahrenheit 451 (1951 192 pages) Melvyn BRAGG Grace and Mary (2014, 256 pages) Oyinkan BRAITHWAITE My sister, the serial killer (2018, 272 pages) Charlotte BRONTE Jane Eyre (1847, 448 pages) Rhidian BROOK The Aftermath (2014, 336 pages) Geraldine BROOKS Caleb’s crossing (2011, 320 pages) Geraldine BROOKS Year of wonders: a novel of the plague (2001, 336 pages) Dea BROVIG Last Boat Home (2014, 272 pages) Bill BRYSON Notes From a Small Island (Non-Fiction) (1996, 259 pages) Bill BRYSON Neither here nor there (NF) (1998, 320 pages) Colin BUTCHER Molly, the pet detective dog (2019, 374 p) Stephanie BUTLAND The woman in the photograph (2019, 365 pages) A. S. BYATT The Children’s Book (2009, 624 pages) Shaun BYTHELL The diary of a bookseller (NF) (2017, 310 pages) Alastair CAMPBELL All in the Mind (2008, 368 pages) Joanna CANNON Trouble with goats and sheep (2016, 464 pages) Truman CAPOTE Breakfast at Tiffany’s ([1958] 2000, 157 pages) J.L. CARR A Month in the Country (1980[2000], 112 pages) Candice CARTY-WILLIAMS Queenie (2019, 392 p) 2 Mary CAVANAGH The Crowded Bed (2007, 308 pages) Jung CHANG Wild Swans (Non-Fiction) (1992, 720 pages) Tracy CHEVALIER Girl with a Pearl Earring (1999, 248 pages) Tracy CHEVALIER The Last Runaway (2013, 400 pages) Tracy CHEVALIER New boy (2017, 288 pages) Tracy CHEVALIER Remarkable Creatures (2 sets) (2009, 352 pages) Tracy CHEVALIER (editor) Reader, I married him: stories inspired by Jane Eyre (Short stories) (2016, 307 pages) Jane CHRISTMAS Incontinent on the continent: my mother, her walker, and our grand tour of Italy (NF) (2016, 320 pages) Horatio CLARE Down to the sea in ships: of ageless oceans and modern men (NF) (2014, 352 pages) Alice CLARK-PLATTS Bitter fruits (2015, 439 pages) Chris CLEAVE Everyone brave is forgiven (2016, 438 pages) Jonathan COE The Rain Before it Falls (2007, 256 pages) Julie COHEN The two lives of Louis & Louise (2018, 307 pages) Paulo COELHO The Alchemist (1998, 224 pages) (trans from Portuguese) Paolo COELHO The spy (2016, 190 pages) (trans from Portuguese) Sara COLLINS Confessions of Frannie Langton (2019, 375 p) Wilkie COLLINS The Moonstone (1868, 384 pages) Joseph CONRAD Heart of darkness (1902 [2012], 96 pages) Jane CORRY I looked away (2019, 499 pages) Jim CRACE The Gift of Stones (1988, 169 pages) Jim CRACE The melody (2018, 275 pages) Amanda CRAIG The golden rule (2020, 400 p) A.J. CRONIN The citadel ([1939] 2019, 432 pages) Laura CUMMING On Chapel Sands: my mother and other missing persons (Non- Fiction) (2019, 301 p) Rachel CUSK Outline (2014, 249 pages) Roald DAHL Someone Like You (Short Stories) (1973, 272 pages) Paula DALY Trophy child (2017, 400 pages) Brooke DAVIS Lost & found (2015, 308 pages) Elizabeth DAY The party (2017, 294 pages) Edmund DE WAAL The Hare with Amber Eyes (Non-Fiction) (2010, 354 pages) Kit DE WAAL My name is Leon (2016, 262 pages) J P DELANEY Playing nice (2020, 424 p) Don DELILLO Falling Man (2007, 246 pages) Kiran DESAI Hullabaloo in the Guava orchard (1999, 224 pages) Kiran DESAI The Inheritance of Loss (2006, 368 pages) Charles DICKENS A Christmas carol ([1843] 2012, 112 pages) Charles DICKENS A Tale of Two Cities (1859, 368 pages) Anthony DOERR All the light we cannot see (2014, 544 pages) Emma DONOGHUE Frog music (2014, 467 pages) Emma DONOGHUE The wonder (2016, 256 pages) Louise DOUGHTY Apple Tree Yard (2014, 448 pages) Clare DOWLING Would I lie to you (2012, 374 pages) Miranda DOYLE A book of untruths: a memoir (NF) (2017, 272 pages) Roddy DOYLE Smile (2018, 213 pages) Margaret DRABBLE The Millstone ([1965] 2016, 176 pages) Margaret DRABBLE Dark flood rises (2016, 326 pages) Daphne DU MAURIER Jamaica Inn (2003 [1936], 320 pages) Carol Ann DUFFY The World’s Wife (Poetry) (2007, 96 pages) 3 Patricia DUNCKER James Miranda Barry (1999, 384 pages) Helen DUNMORE The Betrayal (2010, 328 pages) Helen DUNMORE Birdcage walk (2017, 406 pages) Helen DUNMORE Counting the Stars (2008, 288 pages) Helen DUNMORE The Greatcoat (2012, 208 pages) Helen DUNMORE The Lie (2014, 304 pages) Helen DUNMORE The Siege (2001, 304 pages) Helen DUNMORE Exposure (2016, 368 pages) Jenny ÉCLAIR Moving (2015, 388 pages) Robert EDRIC Sanctuary (2014, 296 pages) Esi EDUGYAN Washington Black: a novel (2018, 419 p) Rachel EDWARDS Darling (2018, 343 p) George ELIOT Middlemarch (1874, 582 pages) George ELIOT Silas Marner (1861, 240 pages) Susan ELLIOT WRIGHT What she lost (2017, 400 pages) Ben ELTON Inconceivable (1999, 272 pages) Anne ENRIGHT The Green Road (2015, 309 pages) Bernardine EVARISTO Girl, woman, other (2019, 453 p) Josephine FALLA Dear God (2012, 128 pages) Sebastian FAULKS A Week in December (2010, 400 pages) Sebastian FAULKS Where my heart used to beat (2015, 400 pages) Ellen FELDMAN The unwitting (2014, 286 pages) Julian FELLOWES Past Imperfect (2009, 528 pages) Elena FERRANTE My brilliant friend (2012, 336 pages) (trans from Italian) Patrick Lee FERMOR A Time of Gifts (Travel) (1077, 304 pages) William FIENNES The Music Room (Non-Fiction) (2009, 224 pages) Tim FINCH Peace talks (2020, 213 p) F. Scott FITZGERALD The Great Gatsby (1925, 176 pages) F. Scott FITZGERALD Tender is the Night (1934, 320 pages) Richard FLANAGAN Narrow road to the deep north (2014, 448 pages) Gustave FLAUBERT Madame Bovary (1857, 384 pages) Lucy FOLEY Hunting party (2019, 407 p) Jamie FORD Songs of Willow Frost (2013, 413 pages) E.M.
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