Previous Reads
2012- The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson, Me Before You by Jojo Moyes, My Dear I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa Young, The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk, The Thread by Victoria Hislop, The Paris Wife by Paula McLain, Various Pets Alive and Dead by Marina Lewycka, Painter of Silence by Georgina Harding, The Woman Who didn't Get Out of Bed for a Year by Sue Townsend
2013 - Care of Wooden Floors by Will Wiles, North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell Two Cows and a Van Full of Smoke by Peter Benson, Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, The Hundred year Old Man Who Climbed Outof the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson, Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussman, The Drowning of Arthur Braxton by Caroline Smailes, Growing Old Outrageously by Hilary Linstead, Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead, The Art Forger by B A Shapiro
2014- Stoner by John Williams, Let It Go by Stephanie Shirley Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw Life after Life by Kate Atkinson And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hasseini, Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou We are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Fowler Riptide by Stella Rimmington Joyland by Stepen King
2015- A Certain Justice by PD James The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton Miss Carters War by Sheila Hancock Madame Bovery by Gustav Flaubert Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Anne Shafer Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey The Children Act by Ian McEwan Sea of Poppies by Amitav Gohosh All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Wonder by RJ Palacio
2016- Assasination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel A Year of Reading Dangerously by Andy Miller Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Lady in the Van by Alan Bennett I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson The Shepherds Life, A Tale of the Lake District by James Rebanks The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Attwood The Dinner by Herman Koch Thin Air by Anne Cleeves
2017- A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman The Life of Elizabeth Bronte by Elizabeth Gaskell Black Water Lillies by Michel Bussi The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon Ashes of London by Andrew Taylor The Gathering Tide by Karen Lloyd The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan Under Milkwood by Dylan Thomas The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
2018- Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders Circling the Sun by Paula McLain Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz The German Girl by Armando Lucas Correa How to Fall in Love with a Man Who Lives in a Bush by Emmy Abrahamson Eleanor Oliphant is Completely fine by Gail Honeyman The History of Bees by Maya Lunde Lonely Planet Anthology by Various Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nichols The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
2019- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Winter by Ali Smith Milkman by Anna Burns My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal by Jeanette Winterson A History of Britain in 21 Women by Jenni Murray Good Man Jesus and the Scoundral Christ by Phillip Pullman Our House by Louise Candlish Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris Old Baggage by Lissa Evans
2020 - Melmoth by Sarah Perry Perfect by Rachel Joyce On Chapel Sands by Laura Cumming My Sister the Seriel Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite The Familiars by Stacey Halls