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Book collections for reading groups
The sets are listed in alphabetical order by author's surname:
A
- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi - Americanah
- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi - Half of a Yellow Sun
- Ahmad, Jamil - Wandering Falcon
- Alderman, Naomi - The Power
- Amis, Kingsley - Lucky Jim
- Atkins, Dani - This Love
- Atkinson, Kate - Case Histories
- Atwood, Margaret - The Handmaid's Tale
B
- Backman, Fredrik - Anxious People
- Baddiel, David - The Death of Eli Gold
- Bainbridge, Beryl - The Birthday Boys
- Baker, Jo - Longbourn
- Ballard, J G - Empire of the Sun
- Barnes, Julian - The Noise of Time
- Bauby, Jean-Dominique - The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly
- Bauer, Belinda - Rubbernecker
- Bilston, Brian - Diary of a Somebody
- Blackman, Malorie - Noughts and Crosses
- Boo, Katherine - Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- Boyd, William - Restless
- Braithwaite, Oyinkan - My Sister, The Serial Killer
- Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights
- Buchanan, Tracy - The Atlas of Us
C
- Carew, Keggie - Dadland
- Carr, J L - A Month in the Country
- Carson, Jan - The Raptures
- Carter, Angela - Wise Children
- Carty-Williams, Candice - Queenie
- Chevalier, Tracy - Remarkable Creatures
- Chidgey, Catherine - Pet
- Chua, Amy - Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
- Cohen, Julie - Together
- Collins, Bridget - The Binding
- Craig, Amanda - Hearts and Minds
- Cronin, Marianne - The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
D
- De Jong, Eleanor - Delilah
- De Waal, Kit - My Name is Leon
- Dickens, Charles - Our Mutual Friend
- Didierlaurent, Jean-Paul - The Reader on the 6.27
- Doerr, Anthony - All the Light We Cannot See
- Donoghue, Emma - Room
- Doughty, Caitlin - Smoke Gets in your Eyes
- Du Maurier, Daphne - The House on the Strand
- Du Maurier, Daphne - Rebecca
- Dunmore, Helen - Birdcage Walk
E
- El Akkad, Omar - American War
- Eliot, George - Silas Marner
- Enright, Anne - The Gathering
F
- Fiennes, William - The Music Room
- Filer, Nathan - The Shock of the Fall
- Fitzgerald, F Scott - The Great Gatsby
- Frayn, Michael - Spies
- Frenkel, Francoise - No Place to Lay One's Head
- Funder, Anna - All That I Am
G
- Gale, Patrick - A Place Called Winter
- Gardam, Jane Old Filth
- Garmus, Bonnie - Lessons in Chemistry
- Gaskell, Elizabeth - The Cranford Chronicles
- Gibbons, Stella - Cold Comfort
- Gordon, Bryony - Mad Girl
- Grant, Linda - The Clothes on Their Backs
- Greene, Graham - The Heart of the Matter
- Gregory, Philippa - The Kingmaker's Daughter
- Gregory, Philippa - A Respectable Trade
- Groff, Lauren - Matrix
H
- Haig, Matt - The midnight Library
- Haig, Matt - Reasons to Stay Alive
- Halls, Stacey - The Familiars
- Hardinge, Frances - The Lie Tree
- Harper, Jane - The Dry
- Harris, Robert - An Officer and a Spy
- Harris, Robert - The Ghost
- Harris, Robert - The Second Sleep
- Hartley, L P - The Go-Between
- Haruf, Kent - Our Souls at Night
- Healey, Emma - Elizabeth is Missing
- Heaney, Seamus - New Selected Poems 1966-1987
- Hensher, Philip - Tales of Persuasion
- Herron, Mich - Slow Horses
- Highsmith, Patricia - The Talented Mr Ripley
- Honeyman, Gail - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
- Hosseini, Khaled - The Kite Runner
- Household, Geoffrey - Rogue Male
I
- Ishiguro, Kazuo - The Remains of the Day
J
- Jackson, Mick - The Widow's Tale
- James, Clive - Play All/Latest Readings (5 of each)
- James, Henry - Turn of the Screw
- Jones, Wendy - The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price
- Jordan, Hilary - Mudbound
K
- Kalanithi, Paul - When Breath Becomes Air
- Kane, Jessica Francis - The Report
- Kawaguchi, Toshikazu - Before the Coffee Gets Cold
- Kay, Jackie - Red Dust Road
- Kelly, Erin - The Poison Tree
- Kent, Hannah - Burial Rites
- Kingsolver, Barbara - Demon Copperhead
- Kingsolver, Barbara - Pigs in Heaven
- Knight, Renee - Disclaimer
- Kohler, Sheila - Once We Were Sisters
- Krakauer, Jon - Into Thin Air
- Kuang, R F - Yellowface
L
- Lahiri, Jhumpa - The Namesake
- Laing, Olivia - To the River
- Lampedusa Tomasi Di - Leopard
- Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
- Lessing, Doris - The Grass is Singing
- Lindqvist, John Ajvide - Let the Right One In
- Lively, Penelope - Making It Up
- Lyndsey, Anna - Girl in the Dark
M
- McCarthy, Cormac - The Road
- McCormack, Mike - Solar Bones
- McCreight, Kimberley - Reconstructing Amelia
- McEwan, Ian - Nutshell
- McEwan, Ian - The Children Act
- Magnusson, Sally - The Sealwoman's Gift
- Mahmood, Imran - You Don't Know Me
- Makkai, Rebecca - The Borrower
- Marquez, Gabriel Garcia - Love in the Time of Cholera
- Maupin, Armistead - Tales of the City
- May, Peter - Coffin Road
- Moore, Liz - Heft
- Morrison, Toni - Beloved
- Moyes, Jojo - Me Before You
- Moyes, Jojo - One Plus One
- Munro, Alice - Dear Life
N
- Nafisi, Azar - Reading Lolita in Tehran
- Ness, Patrick - A Monster Calls
- Nielsen, Susin - We Are All Made of Molecules
- Norris, Barney - Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain
O
- Obama, Barack - Dreams from My Father
- O'Farrell, Maggie - I Am, I Am, I Am
- O'Farrell, Maggie - Instructions for a Heatwave
- Osman, Richard - The Thursday Murder Club
- Owens, Delia - Where the Crawdads Sing
P
- Paull, Laline - The Bees
- Paver, Michelle - Dark Matter
- Perry, Sarah - The Essex Serpent
- Persaud, Ingrid - Love After Love
- Picoult, Jodi - Nineteen Minutes
- Pinborough, Sarah - Insomnia
- Pym, Barbara - Quartet in Autumn
R
- Reid, Melanie - The World I Fell Out Of
- Roffey, Monique - White Woman on a Green Bicycle
- Rooney, Sally - Conversations with Friends
S
- Sahota, Sunjey - The Year of the Runaways
- Said, S F - Tyger
- Schlink, Bernard - The Reader
- Segrave, Elisa - The Girl from Station X
- Selbourne, Raphael - Beauty
- Shaffer, Mary Ann - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
- Shroff, Parini - The Bandit Queens
- Simon, Rachel - The Story of a Beautiful Girl
- Sixsmith, Martin - Philomena
- Smith, Ali - Public Libraries and Other Stories
- Smith, Dodie - I Capture the Castle
- Smith, Emma - The Great Western Beach
- Smith, Wilbur - Elephant Song
- Spark, Muriel - A Far Cry from Kensington
- Spufford, Frances - Golden Hill
- St John Mandel, Emily - Station Eleven
- Stedman, M L - The Light Between Oceans
- Steidele, Angela - Gentleman Jack: A Biography of Anne Lister
- Strachan, Mari - The Earth Hums in B Flat
T
- Taylor, Elizabeth - Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
- Tearne, Roma - Bone China
- Thomas, Angie - The Hate U Give
- Toibin, Colm - Brooklyn
- Twan Eng, Tan - The Garden of Evening Mists
V
- Van Pelt, Shelby - Remarkably Bright Creatures
- Vickers, Salley - Miss Garnet's Angel
- Vickers, Salley - The Librarian
W
- Walker, Adrian J - The End of the World Running Club
- Walter, Jess - Beautiful Ruins
- Waters, Sarah - The Night Watch
- Weir, Alison - Innocent Traitor
- Wells, H G - The Invisible Man
- Westover, Tara - Educated
- Wharton, Edith - The Age of Innocence
- Williams, Pip - The Dictionary of Lost Words
- Wilson, Kevin - Now is Not the Time to Panic
- Winman, Sarah - Tin Man
- Winn, Raynor - The Salt Path
- Woolf, Virginia - Orlando
- Wyld, Evie - After the Fire, A Still Small Voice