Most recently read first:
- The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
- Empire Land: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain’ by Sathnarm Sanghera
- ‘Cloud Atlas’ by David Mitchell (2004)
- Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
- ‘I’m Not Scared’ by Niccolo Ammaniti.
- Norwegian Wood’ by Haruki Murakami
- The Phone Box at the Edge of the World’ – Laura Imai Messina (2021)
- The Machine Stops – E.M Forster
- ‘The Stopping Places’ by Damian Le Bas
- The Book of Form and Emptiness (2022) by Ruth Ozeki
- Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall (2015)
January 2023
- Fahrenheit 451′ by Ray Bradbury (1953)
- ‘The Gathering’ by Anne Enright (200
- ‘Passing’Nella Larsen(1929)
- ‘The Fear Index’ Robert Harris (2011)
- ‘Go tell it on the mountain’ James Baldwin (1953)
- ‘Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky’ by Patrick Hamilton (1935)
- ‘Piranesi’ bySusanna Clarke(2021)
- ‘Vengeance’ – George Jonas (1984)
- ‘Kim’ by Rudyard Kipling (1901)
- Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises’ Ernest Hemingway (1926)
- On Chapel Sands’ – Laura Cummings(2019)
- Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell (2020)
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan
- Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
- Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
- Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
- The Darkening Age by Catherine Nixey
- Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
- Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
- Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Dan Gardner and Philip E. Tetlock
- The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
- Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck
- The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
- Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
- The Time Machine by H G Wells
- My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
- Educated by Tara Westover
- Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
- The Power by Naomi Alderman
- The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
- The How of Happiness: A Practical Guide to Getting The Life You Want by Sonya Lyubomirsky
- Things fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
- A man called OVE by Fredrik Backman
- The Human Stain by Philip Roth
- Esther Waters by George Augustus Moore
- Adults in the Room- My Battle with Europe’s Deep Establishment by Yanis Varoufaki
- The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
- The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer
- It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
- Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- The History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes
- The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell
- We Need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
- Why be happy when you could be normal? by Jeannette Winterson
- Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
- Room by Emma Donoghue
- A Spool of Blue Thread byAnne Tyler
- The Year China Discovered the World by Gavin Menzies
- Never Let me Go byKazuo Ishiguro
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Wild Minds by Marc Hauser
- If this is a Man by Primo Levi
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
- God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens
- The Bluest EyebyToni Morrison
- Stoner byJohn Williams
- A Girl is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
- Kalooki Nights byHoward Jacobson
- Into the Silent Land by Paul Broks
- A Possible Life by Sebastian Faulks
- The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
- The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin
- Chavs: The Demonization of the Working-Class by Owen Jones
- Lilith, A Romance by George MacDonald
- Through the Window by Julian Barnes, Vintage 2012
- HG: the History of Mr Wells by Michael Foot.
- The Prince by Machiavelli
- Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security … by Bruce Schneier
- Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
- In Defence of Wonder by Raymond Tallis
- Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins
- The Master by Colm Toibin
- Arguably by Christopher Hitchens
- The Spirit Level by Richardson and Kate Pickett
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Sainte-Exupery
- Awareness by Anthony de Mello
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
- The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman
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