Staff Favourite Reads

Vincent Library team's recommendations and favourite reads

Updated December 11, 2023
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From a low and quiet sea
Ryan, Donal
Paper Book
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018, the powerful fourth novel from multi-award-winning author of The Spinning Heart. From war-torn Syria to small-town Ireland, the lives of three men are drawn together in the most unexpected of ways. ***LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER...
All we shall know
Ryan, Donal
Paper Book
'Martin Toppy is the son of a famous Traveller and the father of my unborn child. He's seventeen, I'm thirty-three. I was his teacher. I'd have killed myself by now if I was brave enough. I don't think it would hurt the baby. His little heart would stop with mine. He wouldn't feel himself...
Idaho : a novel
Ruskovich, Emily
Paper Book
A stunning debut novel about love and forgiveness, about the violence of memory and the equal violence of its loss--from O. Henry Prize-winning author Emily Ruskovich Finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award Ann and Wade have carved...
The invention of Ana
Rosengaard, Mikkel
Paper Book
A New York Times Paperback Row Editor's Choice Combining the infectious narration of Nick Hornby's Funny Girl, the philosophical lyricism of Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives, and the mesmerizing power of Anna North's The Life and Death of Sophie Stark, a breathtaking debut, brimming...
Three daughters of Eve
Shafak, Elif
Paper Book
Set across Istanbul and Oxford, from the 1980's to the present day,Three Daughters of Eveis a sweeping tale of faith and friendship, tradition and modernity, love and an unexpected betrayal. Peri, a wealthy Turkish housewife and mother, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in...
Broken verses
Shamsie, Kamila
Paper Book
Fourteen years ago, Samina, blazing beauty and fearless activist, walked out of her house and was never seen again. Aasmaani, frequently abandoned by her mother, still dreams of her glorious return. Fifteen years ago, Samina's closest friend Shehnaz Saeed, darling o the theatre and the...
Lanny
Porter, Max
Paper Book
*PAPERBACK NOW AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER* LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2019 LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2019 Not far from London, there is a village.
Spring : a novel
Smith, Ali
Paper Book
From the Man Booker Prize Finalist comes the third novel in her Seasonal Quartet--a New York Times Notable Book and longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2020 What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, Brexit, ...
She and her cat
Shinkai, Makoto
Paper Book
For fans of Mieko Kawakami's Breasts and Eggs and Murata Sayaka's Earthlings, this Japanese bestseller from renowned anime director Makoto Shinkai features four inspirational and heartwarming vignettes following women and their cats in their quests for love and connection.<...
Love & autism
Kerr, Kay
Paper Book
'Love has always intrigued me, in part because I have carried for a long time a feeling that I am doing love wrong.' Michael made a name for himself on the hit show Love on the Spectrum. After his televised first dating experiences, will he complete his quest to find his queen? Chloë was always good...
The idiot
Batuman, Elif
Paper Book
It is September 1995. Selin, a Turkish-American college freshman from New Jersey, is about to embark on her first year at Harvard University, where she is deter­mined to decipher the mysteries of language and to become a writer. In between studying psycho­linguistics and the philosophy of...
Boys don't cry
Scarlett, Fíona
Paper Book
This devastatingly honest book is the story of two brothers - and how one of them will face growing up without the other.
Florida
Groff, Lauren
Paper Book
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR From the universally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies, Matrix, and the instant New York Times bestseller...
Our souls at night
Haruf, Kent.
Paper Book
A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, come together to wrestle with the events of their lives and their hopes for the imminent future. In the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf's inimitable...
The muse
Burton, Jessie
Paper Book
"Love, war, desire, and art--it's all here." --Elle A picture hides a thousand words . . . On a hot July day in 1967, Odelle Bastien climbs the stone steps of the Skelton gallery in London, knowing that her life is about to change forever. Having struggled to find her place in the...
Sea monsters
Aridjis, Chloe
Paper Book
The third novel from the exceptional Chloe Aridjis. Lavishly praised by critics, her work has been described as 'a poetics of the strange' (TLS) and compared to such writers as Murakami and Sebald. Her fans include Paul Auster, Ali Smith, Jeanette Winterson, Junot Diaz and Tom McCarthy. ...
Disobedience
Alderman, Naomi.
Paper Book
An insightful take on the search for love, tolerance and faith in a tightly-knit Jewish community in London, 'Disobedience' follows the story of Ronit, who is returing to the capital on the occasion of the funeral of her estranged father.
Us against you
Backman, Fredrik
Paper Book
Us Against You is the heart-wrenching story of the loyalty, friendship, and love that carried a small community through its darkest days. A community is only as great as the sum of its choices, and when tragedy visited Beartown, the town lost its way. Beartown's...
Le malheur du bas : roman
Bayard, Inès
Paper Book
Vacuum in the dark : a novel
Beagin, Jen
Paper Book
From the Whiting Award-winning author of Pretend I'm Dead and one of the most exhilarating new voices in fiction, a new hilarious, edgy, and brilliant one-of-a-kind novel about a cleaning lady named Mona and her struggles to move forward in life. Mona is twenty-six and...
We were never friends
Bearman, Margaret
Paper Book
Lotti lives under the shadow of a genius: her father George Coates is a brilliant and celebrated Australian painter. When Lotti meets the outcast waif Kyla at a suburban Canberra school, two worlds are set to collide. Slowly Kyla is drawn into the orbit of the Coates...
Holidays on Ice
Sedaris, David
Ebook
Acclaimed humorist David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is a perennial favorite. This updated edition includes six additional pieces, including a never-before-published story. ​ David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a...

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