Reading suggestions for Reading Groups Fiction A - Z by author: p2 Classics A - Z by author: p19 Non-Fiction A - Z by author: p21 Prize winners: p25 Reading Groups may borrow any title from our catalogue, as long as we hold enough copies for your group and have a couple left in circulation for individual customers. To help your group choose their books we have created this list: we have enough copies of these titles in stock to meet the needs of our average sized group. Some titles may be available in alternative formats (Large Print &/or Audio) - please enquire when placing orders. The list is based in part on the requests made by the 350+ Reading Groups supported by West Sussex Library Service, but inclusion on the list is not necessarily a recommendation of excellence. 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Reading suggestions for Reading Groups Updated May 2021 FICTION A Ashdown Isabel 33 Women Achebe Chinua Beautiful Liars Things Fall Apart Flight Hurry Up and Wait Aciman Andre Lake Child Call Me by Your Name Find Me Ashton Juliet Fall and Rise of Sadie McQueen Adebayo Ayobami Stay With Me Atkins Dani Million Dreams Adichie Chimamanda Americanah Atkinson Kate Half of a Yellow Sun Behind the Scenes at the Museum Case Histories (Jackson Brodie No 1) Ahern Cecelia God in Ruins (Todd Family No 2) Lyrebird Life After Life (Todd Family No 1) Marble Collector Transcription Alam Rumaan Atwood Margaret Leave the World Behind Alias Grace Blind Assassin Alderman Naomi Hag-seed, the Tempest retold Power Handmaid’s Tale (Handmaid’s Tale No 1) Heart Goes Last Alderton Dolly Testaments (Handmaid’s Tale No 2) Ghosts B Ali Monica Brick Lane Backman Fredrik Britt-Marie was Here Allan Nina Man Called Ove Dollmaker My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologies Allende Isabel In the Midst of Winter Baily Virginia Japanese Lover Early One Morning Long Petal of the Sea Baker Jo Archer Jeffrey Longbourn Heads You Win Country Road, a tree Nothing Ventured (William Warwick No 1) Only Time Will Tell (Clifton Chronicles No 1) Bakewell Joan She’s Leaving Home 2 Please note, titles are subject to availability. Reading suggestions for Reading Groups Updated May 2021 Banks Iain This Year it will be Different Quarry Wasp Factory Bivald Katarina Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend Banville John Mrs Osmond Boyd William Snow Good Man in Africa Love is Blind Barker Pat Stars and Bars Life Class (Brooke Family No 1) Sweet Caress, the Many Lives of Amory Regeneration (Regeneration Trilogy 1) Clay Silence of the Girls Trio Waiting for Sunrise Barnes Julian Noise of Time Boyne John Only Story Heart’s Invisible Furies Sense of an Ending History of Loneliness Ladder to the Sky Barnett Laura Greatest Hits Bradbury Ray Versions of Us Fahrenheit 451 Barry Sebastian Bragg Melvyn Days Without End Now is the Time Secret Scripture (McNulty Family No 2) Temporary Gentleman (McNulty Family No Braithwaite Oyinkan 3) My Sister, the Serial Killer Barton Fiona Bray Carys Widow (Kate Barton No 1) Museum of You Song for Issy Bradley Bauer Belinda Beautiful Dead Brett Simon Exit Clutter Corpse (Decluttering Mysteries No Rubbernecker 1) Shut Eye Corpse on the Court Snap Liar in the Library Beatty Paul Britton Fern Sellout Coming Home Daughters of Cornwall Benjamin Chloe Newcomer Immortalists Postcard Bennett Alan Brodesser-Akner Taffy Uncommon Reader Fleishman is in Trouble Binchy Maeve Buchan Elizabeth Chestnut Street Museum of Broken Promises 3 Please note, titles are subject to availability. Reading suggestions for Reading Groups Updated May 2021 New Mrs Clifton New Boy, Othello retold Remarkable Creatures Burnet Graeme Macrae Single Thread His Bloody Project Christie Agatha Burns Anna Death Comes as the End Milkman They Came to Baghdad Burton Jessie Clark Clare Confession In the Full Light of the Sun Miniaturist Muse Cleeves Ann Crow Trap (Vera Stanhope No 1) Bussi Michel Long Call (Two Rivers No 1) After the Crash Black Water Lilies Clements Rory Corpus (Tom Wilde No 1) C Cline Emma Candlish Louise Girls Other Passenger Our House Clinton Bill Swimming Pool President is Missing Those People Coe Jonathan Cannon Joanna Middle England Three Things About Elsie Mr Wilder & Me Trouble with Goats and Sheep Coelho Paulo Capote Truman Alchemist Breakfast at Tiffany’s Coetzee J M Carey Peter Disgrace Amnesia Long Way From Home Cohen Julie Together Carr J L Month in the Country Cole Daniel Ragdoll (Ragdoll No 1) Carty-Williams Candice Queenie Coleman Rowan Memory Book Catton Eleanor Summer of Impossible Things Luminaries We Are All Made of Stars Chevalier Tracy Collins Bridget At the Edge of the Orchard Betrayals Last Runaway Binding 4 Please note, titles are subject to availability. Reading suggestions for Reading Groups Updated May 2021 Connolly Cressida Doughty Louise After the Party Platform Seven Crace Jim Drabble Margaret Harvest Dark Flood Rises Melody Pure Gold Baby Crouch Julia Du Beke Anton Her Husband’s Lover One Enchanted Evening (One Enchanted Tarnished Evening No 1) Cummins Jeanine Du Maurier Daphne American Dirt Frenchman’s Creek My Cousin Rachel Cusk Rachel Rebecca Outline (Outline No 1) Dunmore Helen D Birdcage Walk Exposure Dalcher Christina Girl, Balancing & other stories Vox Lie Spell of Winter Day Elizabeth Party E De Bernieres Louis Eberlen Kate Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Miss You Dust That Falls From Dreams So Much Life Left Over Edugyan Esi Washington Black, a novel Delany J P Playing Nice Egan Jennifer Manhattan Beach De Waal Kit Trick to Time Eggers Dave Heroes of the Frontier Diffenbaugh Vanessa Language of Flowers Ekback Cecilia We Never Asked for Wings Wolf Winter Doerr Anthony Ellis Janet All the Light We Cannot See Butcher’s Hook Donoghue Emma Elton Ben Akin Identity Crisis Pull of the Stars Time and Time Again Room 5 Please note, titles are subject to availability. Reading suggestions for Reading Groups Updated May 2021 Enright Anne Fitzgerald Penelope Actress Blue Flower Green Road Bookshop Ephron Nora Flagg Fannie Heartburn Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café Erskine Barbara Darkest Hour Flanagan Richard Ghost Tree Narrow Road to the Deep North Sleeper’s Castle Fleming Leah Evans Diana Girl Under the Olive Tree Ordinary People Last Pearl Postcard Evans Harriet Garden of Lost and Found Foley Lucy Wildflowers Guest List Hunting Party Evans Lissa Last Letter from Istanbul Crooked Heart Old Baggage Follett Ken Their Finest (Their Finest Hour and a Half) Pillars of the Earth Evaristo Bernardine Forster Margaret Girl, Woman, Other Diary of an Ordinary Woman, 1914-1995 How to Measure a Cow F Unknown Bridesmaid Faulks Sebastian Forsyth Frederick Day of the Jackal Birdsong Paris Echo Week in December Fowler Karen Joy Where My Heart Used to Beat We are all Completely Beside Ourselves Fellowes Julian Fowles John Belgravia French Lieutenant’s Woman Past Imperfect Magus Ferrante Elena Franzen Jonathan My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan No 1) Corrections Filer Nathan Fremantle Elizabeth Shock of the Fall Poison Bed Finn A J French Dawn Woman in the Window According to Yes Because of You Oh Dear Silvia 6 Please note, titles are subject to availability. Reading suggestions for Reading Groups Updated May 2021 Tiny Bit Marvellous Glaister Seni Mr Doubler Begins Again French Nicci House of Correction Glasfurd Guinevere Lying Room Year Without Summer French Tana Godden Rumer In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad No 1) Black Narcissus Wych Elm Gowar Imogen Hermes Fry Stephen Mermaid and Mrs Hancock Making History Grant Linda Fuller Clare Dark Circle Bitter Orange Stranger City Swimming Lessons Gregory Philippa Furnivall Kate Lady of the Rivers (Plantagenet & Tudors Betrayal No 1) Survivors Tidelands (Fairmile No 1) G Grenville Kate Room Made of Leaves Gaiman Neil Secret River (Thornhill Family No 1) Fragile Things Ocean at the End of the Lane Griffiths Elly Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway No 1) Galbraith Robert Stranger Diaries Cuckoo’s Calling (Cormoran Strike No 1) Zig Zag Girl (Stephens & Mephisto No 1) Gale Patrick Gruen Sarah Friendly Fire Water for Elephants Notes from an Exhibition Place Called Winter Gyasi Yaa Rough Music Homegoing Take Nothing With You Whole Day Through H Gardam Jane Haddon Mark Old Filth (Old Filth No 1) Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night- Time Gayle Mike Porpoise All the Lonely People Half a World Away Hadley Tessa Man I Think I Know Late in the Day Genova Lisa Haig Matt Still Alice How to Stop Time Midnight Library 7 Please note, titles are subject to availability. Reading suggestions for Reading Groups Updated May 2021 Halls Stacey Haruf Kent Familiars Our Souls at Night Foundling Harvey Samantha Hamer Kate Western Wind Crushed Doll Funeral Haynes Natalie Girl in the Red Coat Thousand Ships Hamid Mohsin Healey Emma Exit West Elizabeth is Missing Whistle in the Dark Hancock Sheila Miss Carter’s War Hendricks Greer Wife Between Us Hanks Tom Uncommon Type, some stories Herron Mick Slow Horses (Slough House No 1) Hannah Kristin Great Alone Heyer Georgette Nightingale Convenient Marriage True Colors Highsmith Patricia Harkness Deborah Strangers on a Train Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy No 1) Hill Susan Dolly, a ghost story Harper Jane From the Heart Dry Force of Nature Hislop Victoria Lost Man Cartes Postales From Greece Island Harris Joanne Last Dance and Other Stories Chocolat (Vianne Rocher No.1) One August Night Different Class Return Gentlemen and Players Sunrise Those Who are Loved Harris Robert Thread Conclave Imperium (Cicero No 1) Hogan Ruth Munich Keeper of Lost Things Officer and a Spy Queenie Malone’s Paradise Hotel Pompeii Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes Second Sleep V2 Hollinghurst Alan Sparsholt Affair Harris S J Stranger’s Child Colour of Bee Larkham’s Murder 8 Please note, titles are subject to availability.