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Updated August 7, 2023
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History is all you left me
Silvera, Adam
Paper Book
The NYT Besteller and 2017 Zoella & Friends Book Club Selection by Juno Dawson You're still alive in alternate universes, Theo, but I live in the real world where this morning you're having an open casket funeral. I know you're out there,...

Picture to Burn

The perks of being a wallflower
Chbosky, Stephen.
Paper Book
A modern cult classic, a major motion picture and a timeless bestseller, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a deeply affecting coming-of-age story.  Charlie is not the biggest geek in high school, but he's by no means popular. Shy,...

The Outside

Dark matter : a novel
Crouch, Blake
Paper Book
'Brilliant' - Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher series. Now a major Apple TV+ series starring Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly. Jason Dessen has been abducted. His life has been stolen. To get it back, he will go on a journey more wondrous and horrifying than...

Look What You Made Me Do

Writers & lovers : a novel
King, Lily
Paper Book
Funny and heartbreaking, Writers & Lovers by Lily King is the bitingly clever story of Casey, a young writer who has lost her direction in life. Until two men step into her world and offer her two very different futures . . . The New York Times Bestseller...

'tis the damn season

The great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Paper Book
'A classic, perhaps the supreme American novel' Sunday Times, Books of the Century 'It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life' Jay Gatsby is the man who has...

happiness

Everything, everything
Yoon, Nicola.
Audiobook
Risk everything for love with this #1 New York Times bestseller from Nicola Yoon * "Gorgeous and lyrical"--The New York Times Book Review What if you couldn't touch anything in the outside world? Never breathe in the fresh air, feel the sun warm your face . . . or...

Stay Beautiful

Why we broke up
Handler, Daniel.
Paper Book
"I'm telling you why we broke up, Ed. I'm writing it in this letter, the whole truth of why it happened." Min Green and Ed Slaterton are breaking up, so Min is writing Ed a letter and giving him a box. Inside the box is why they broke up. Two bottle caps, a movie ticket, a folded note, a...

Should've Said No

Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare, William
Paper Book
This major new edition of Shakespeare's greatest tragedy of love argues that that play is ultimately Juliet's. The play text is expertly edited and the on-page commentary notes discuss issues of staging, theme, meaning and Shakespeare's use of his sources to give the reader deep and engaging...

Love Story

Queenie : a novel
Carty-Williams, Candice
Paper Book
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'Brilliant, timely, funny, heartbreaking' Jojo...

Bejeweled

The paper palace
Cowley Heller, Miranda
Paper Book
Before anyone else is awake, on a perfect August morning, Elle Bishop heads out for a swim in the glorious fresh water pond below 'The Paper Palace' - the gently decaying summer camp in the back woods of Cape Cod where her family has spent every summer for generations. As she passes the house, Elle...

The Way I Loved You

One Italian summer : a novel
Serle, Rebecca
Paper Book
'An extraordinary, beautiful, magical book' JILL MANSELL The heartbreaking new novel from the author of the international bestseller In Five Years When Katy's mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn...

The Best Day

Atonement : a novel
McEwan, Ian.
Paper Book
'Atonement is a masterpiece' The Times On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia plunge naked into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her too is Robbie Turner who...

Back To December

To all the boys I've loved before
Han, Jenny.
Paper Book
  The book that started it all! All three books in the To All The Boys I've Loved Beforeseries have been made into feature length films for NETFLIX. A Times Best YA Book of All Time(2021) Lara Jean keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. One for...

Teardrops on My Guitar

Something Borrowed Darcy & Rachel Series, Book 1
Giffin, Emily.
CD
Rachel White is the consummate good girl. A hard-working attorney at a large Manhattan law firm and a diligent maid of honor to her charmed best friend Darcy, Rachel has always played by all the rules. But that changes on the night of her thirtieth birthday when Rachel finally confesses her feelings...

Speak Now

Book lovers
Henry, Emily
Paper Book
Nora is a cut-throat literary agent at the top of her game. Her whole life is books. Charlie is an editor with a gift for creating bestsellers. And he's Nora's work nemesis. Nora has been through enough break-ups to know she's the woman men date beforethey find...

Lavender Haze

Anna and the French kiss
Perkins, Stephanie.
Paper Book
Anna had everything figured out - she was about to start senior year with her best friend, she had a great weekend job and her huge work crush looked as if it might finally be going somewhere... Until her dad decides to send her 4383 miles away to Paris. On her own. But despite not speaking a word...

You Belong with Me

Juliet takes a breath
Rivera, Gabby
Paper Book
Hi, my name is Juliet Palante. I've been reading your book Raging Flower- Empowering Your Pussy by Empowering Your Mind. No lie, I started reading it so that I could make people uncomfortable on the subway. But I'm writing to you now because this book of yours, this magical labia...

I Forgot That You Existed

Persuasion
Austen, Jane
Paper Book
At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each...

Last Kiss

The priory of the orange tree
Shannon, Samantha
Paper Book
THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'The new Game of Thrones' Stylist'Puts Samantha Shannon in the same league as Robin Hobb and George R.R. Martin. Shannon is a master of dragons' Starburst'Epic fantasy with added dragons. A...

mad woman

Heartstopper. Volume 1
Oseman, Alice
Paper Book
*Now an acclaimed live-action Netflix series!* *Winner of Best Book I Wish I Could Read Again For The First Time - TikTok Book Awards* Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. A bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and...

Hey Stephen

The song of Achilles
Miller, Madeline.
Paper Book
**OVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD**WINNER OF THE ORANGE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONTHE INTERNATIONAL SENSATIONA SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Captivating' DONNA TARTT'I loved it' J K ROWLING'Ravishingly vivid' EMMA DONOGHUEGreece in the...

State of Grace

Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe
Sáenz, Benjamin Alire.
Audiobook

Everything Has Changed

The secret history
Tartt, Donna.
Paper Book
THE BESTSELLER THAT DEFINED AN AGE 'Everything, somehow, fit together; some sly and benevolent Providence was revealing itself by degrees and I felt myself trembling on the brink of a fabulous discovery, as though any morning it was all going to come together---my future,...

the lakes

Everything I know about love : a memoir
Alderton, Dolly
Paper Book
TIKTOK BOOK AWARDS WINNER 2023 "Nearly everything I know about love, I've learnt from my long-term friendships with women." I know that love can be loud and jubilant. It can be dancing in the swampy mud and the pouring rain at a festival and shouting "YOU...

22

Loveboat, Taipei
Wen, Abigail Hing
Paper Book
Now a major movie, Love in Taipei, on Paramount+   "Exciting and authentic." Sabaa Tahir, New York Times bestselling author of An Ember in the Ashes "Surprising, original and intelligent. An intense rush of rebellion and romance."...

Holy Ground

Beartown : a novel
Backman, Fredrik
Paper Book
Beartown is a small town in a large Swedish forest. For most of the year it is under a thick blanket of snow, experiencing the kind of cold and dark that brings people closer together - or pulls them apart. Its isolation means that Beartown has been slowly...
You're Not Sorry
The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo : a novel
Reid, Taylor Jenkins
Paper Book
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND TIKTOK SENSATION SOON TO BE A NETFLIX FILM 'Riveting, heart-wrenching and full of Old Hollywood glamour' BuzzFeed 'This wildly addictive journey of a reclusive Hollywood starlet and...

The Lucky One

Just Listen
Dessen, Sarah.
CD
I'm Annabel. I'm the girl who has it all. Model looks, intelligence, a great social life. I'm one of the lucky ones. Aren't I? My 'best friend' Sophie is spreading rumours about me. My family is slowly falling apart. It's turning into a long, lonely summer, full of secrets and silence. But I've met...

Begin Again

One day in December : a novel
Silver, Josie
Paper Book
Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn't exist. After all, life isn't a scene from the movies, is it? But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one.Their eyes meet, there's a moment of pure magic...and...

The Story of Us

Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating
Lauren, Christina.
Paper Book

Style

The flatshare
O'Leary, Beth
Paper Book
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP FIVE BESTSELLER | NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES 'Beth O'Leary is that rare, one-in-a-million talent who can make you laugh, swoon, cry and ache all in the same book' Emily Henry 'Beth O'Leary crafts novels with such wit,...

How You Get the Girl

The kiss quotient
Hoang, Helen
Paper Book

Fearless

Tin man
Winman, Sarah
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of STILL LIFE *As featured on BBC Radio 4's A Good Read* This is almost a love story. But it's not as simple as that. It begins with two boys, Ellis and Michael, who are inseparable. And the boys become...

Clean

The city we became
Jemisin, N. K.
Paper Book

Welcome to New York

Alice's adventures in Wonderland
Carroll, Lewis
Paper Book
Lewis Carroll's timeless classic brought to life by one of the most revered children's book illustrators of our time! Suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her. There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to...

Wonderland

Fear of flying
Jong, Erica.
Paper Book
The modern classic that changed the way we thought about sex 'Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same' - Anonymous (a woman) Compulsive daydreamer Isadora Wing has come to a crossroads. Five years of marriage have made her itchy - itchy for men...

New Romantics

City of girls
Gilbert, Elizabeth
Paper Book
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERSelected as a Book of the Year by the Daily Telegraph, Washington Post, Independent, Red and Good HousekeepingSelected as a summer read by the Independent, Grazia, Vogue, Cosmopolitan and ES...

False God

The guest list : a novel
Foley, Lucy
Paper Book
*Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Crime Fiction Book of the Year* * The June 2020 Reese's Book Club pick* *The Times Best Crime Fiction of the Year pick* *Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award* A gripping, twisty murder mystery thriller from...

…Ready for It?

Cold-Hearted Rake The Ravenels, Book 1
Kleypas, Lisa.
Paper Book
'I'm just so excited for everyone to discover Cold-Hearted Rake, and for me to read the rest of the Ravenel series!' Sarah MacLean A twist of fate . . . Devon Ravenel, London's most wickedly charming rake, has just...

End Game

Gone girl
Flynn, Gillian
Paper Book
THE ADDICTIVE No.1 BESTSELLER AND INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENON OVER 20 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE THE BOOK THAT DEFINES PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER Who are you? What have we done to each other? These are the questions Nick Dunne finds...

I Did Something Bad

My sister, the serial killer : a novel
Braithwaite, Oyinkan
Paper Book
My Sister, the Serial Killer is a blackly comic novel about how blood is thicker - and more difficult to get out of the carpet - than water...

Don't Blame Me

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Zevin, Gabrielle
Paper Book
THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING PHENOMENON 'Exhilarating, timely and emotive' GUARDIAN 'I devoured it. So enjoyable' ZADIE SMITH 'Love, friendship and betrayal...gorgeous' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ------------------------------------ ...

Long Live

When he was wicked
Quinn, Julia
Paper Book
'A veritable treat' Daily Mail The sixth novel in Julia Quinn's globally beloved and bestselling Bridgerton Family series, set in Regency times and now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix. Welcome to Francesca's story . . . __________...

Gorgeous

A tale of two cities
Dickens, Charles
Paper Book
'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...' Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities portrays a world on fire, split between Paris and London during the brutal and bloody events of the French Revolution. After eighteen years as a political...

A Tale of Two Cities

The wife between us
Hendricks, Greer
Paper Book
A Richard and Judy Book Club bestseller, The Wife Between Us is a shocking romantic thriller with twists you won't see coming. From Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekannen, the duo behind The Golden Couple. 'A fiendishly clever thriller . . . This one will keep you...

Dancing With Our Hands Tied

A court of thorns and roses
Maas, Sarah J.
Paper Book
The first instalment of the GLOBAL PHENOMENON and TikTok sensation, from multi-million selling and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Sarah J. Maas Maas has established herself as a fantasy fiction titan - TimeHarry Potter magic, Taylor Swift sass, Fifty Shades-level...

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things

Felix ever after
Callender, Kacen
Paper Book
From award-winning author Kacen Callender comes a revelatory YA novel about a transgender teen grappling with identity and self-discovery while falling in love for the first time.

Call It What You Want

Love and other words
Lauren, Christina
Paper Book
An uplifting and unforgettable read that will make you fall in love with life again . . .'You can never go wrong with Christina Lauren!' Paige Toon'A true joy from start to finish' Kristin Harmel Macy is...

New Year's Day

Beach read
Henry, Emily
Paper Book
Two writers. One holiday. A romcom waiting to happen... ------- 'One of my favourite authors' Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us 'A great love story' Jodi Picoult, Wish You Were Here 'The perfect escapist romp' Laura Jane...

Cruel Summer

The Power
Alderman, Naomi
Paper Book
Suddenly - tomorrow or the day after - teenage girls find that with a flick of their fingers, they can inflict agonizing pain and even death. With this single twist, the four lives at the heart of Naomi Alderman's extraordinary, visceral novel are utterly transformed.

The Man

Real Life A Novel
Taylor, Brandon.
Paper Book
An elegant, brutal and startlingly intimate novel from an electric new voice.

The Archer

The American Roommate Experiment A Novel
Armas, Elena.
Ebook

I Think He Knows

Eligible : a novel
Sittenfeld, Curtis.
Paper Book
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'This is Pride and Prejudice 2.0 and I must confess, I liked it more than the original' STYLIST 'Bold and brilliant' GLAMOUR 'Sheer joy... Giddy and glam and a hearty update of Pride and...

Paper Rings

Red, white & royal blue
McQuiston, Casey
Paper Book
* Instant NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY bestseller * * GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER for BEST DEBUT and BEST ROMANCE of 2019 * * BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR* for VOGUE, NPR, VANITY FAIR, and more! * What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the...

London Boy

Goodbye, vitamin
Khong, Rachel
Paper Book
An O: the Oprah Magazine Best Book of 2017 'Khong is a magician ... Brilliant' Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies 'Khong's first novel sneaks up on you - just like life, illness and heartbreak. And love. A million small, human and...

Soon You'll Get Better

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens agenda
Albertalli, Becky.
Paper Book
Straight people should have to come out too. And the more awkward it is, the better. Simon Spier is sixteen and trying to work out who he is - and what he's looking for. But when one of his emails to the very distracting Blue falls into the wrong hands, things...

You Need to Calm Down

Evvie Drake starts over : a novel
Holmes, Linda (Radio talk show host)
Paper Book
'I guzzled it up' -- Pandora Sykes, THE HIGH LOW SHOW 'A quirky, sweet, and splendid story of a woman coming into her own . . . an absolute delight' -- Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of DAISY JONES AND THE SIX and THE...

Daylight

Me Before You
Moyes, Jojo
Paper Book
Discover the love story that captured 21 million hearts . . . from the author of The Last Letter from Your Lover, now a major motion picture The No. 1 bestselling international phenomenon and major film adaptation. 'One...

the 1

The two lives of Lydia Bird : a novel
Silver, Josie
Paper Book
Lydia and Freddie. Freddie and Lydia. They've been together for almost a decade, and Lydia thinks their love is indestructible. But she's wrong. Because on her 27th birthday, Freddie dies in a tragic accident. So now it's just Lydia, and all she wants to do is hide indoors...

cardigan

An American marriage
Jones, Tayari
Paper Book
    'A moving portrayal of the effects of a wrongful conviction on a young African-American couple.' - Barack Obama Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of the American Dream. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting...

exile

My brilliant friend
Ferrante, Elena
Paper Book
Now an HBO series: the first volume in the New York Times-bestselling "enduring masterpiece" about a lifelong friendship between two women from Naples (The Atlantic). Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Elena...

seven

Jane Eyre
Brontë, Charlotte
Paper Book
'The masterwork of a great genius' William Makepeace Thackeray A novel of intense emotional power, heightened atmosphere and fierce intelligence, Jane Eyre dazzled and shocked readers with its passionate depiction of a woman's search for equality and freedom on her own...

invisible string

Rebecca
Du Maurier, Daphne
Paper Book
NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM starring Lily James, Armie Hammer, Kristin Scott Thomas and Lily Collins. 'The moment I finished this story, I turned to page one and started it over again' MALORIE BLACKMAN 'Excellent entertainment . . . du Maurier created a...

tolerate it

The nickel boys : a novel
Whitehead, Colson
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2020 Winner of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction 2020 Time #1 Novel of the Year 2019 ______________...

epiphany

Anna Karenina
Tolstoy, Leo, graf
Paper Book
The award-winning new translation of the great Russian novel.

hoax

Open water
Nelson, Caleb Azumah
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2021 WINNER OF DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 'A tender and touching love story, beautifully told' Observer

willow

Little women
Alcott, Louisa May
Paper Book
One of the best loved books of all time.Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Lovely Meg, talented Jo, frail Beth, spoiled Amy- these are hard lessons of poverty and of growing up in New England during the Civil War. Through their...

champagne problems

House of Mirth - the Original Classic Edition
Wharton, Edith
Paper Book
A black comedy of manners about vast wealth and a woman who can define herself only through the perceptions of others. The beautiful Lily Bart lives among the nouveaux riches of New York City - people whose millions were made in railroads, shipping, land speculation and banking. In this morally and...

gold rush

Normal people : a novel
Rooney, Sally
Paper Book
'The literary phenomenon of the decade.' Guardian 'The book that defined a generation.' Stylist ** Read the modern classic behind the BAFTA-winning series. ** Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of...

illicit affairs

Little sister : a novel
Lodge, Gytha
Paper Book
Detective Jonah Sheens is enjoying a moment of peace and quiet, when a teenage girl wanders out of the wood. She's striking, with flame-red hair and a pale complexion. She's also covered in blood. Jonah quickly discovers that Keely and her sister, Nina, disappeared from a children...

no body no crime

Beautiful world, where are you
Rooney, Sally
Paper Book

dorothea

The night circus : a novel
Morgenstern, Erin.
Paper Book
The circus arrives without warning. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Against the grey sky the towering tents are striped black and white. A sign hanging upon iron gates reads- Opens at Nightfall Closes at Dawn As dusk...

Out of the Woods

Small pleasures : a novel
Chambers, Clare
Paper Book
Pre-Order SHY CREATURES: the unforgettable new novel about love, family and freedom from award-winning author of SMALL PLEASURES, Clare Chambers COMING AUGUST 2024 *** LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION A BBC 2 'BETWEEN THE COVERS'...

coney island

The absolutist
Boyne, John
Paper Book
September, 1919. 20-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver some letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the Great War but in 1917, Will laid down his guns on the battlefield, declared himself a conscientious objector and was...

ivy

The miseducation of Cameron Post
Danforth, Emily M.
Paper Book
The night Cameron Post's parents died, her first emotion was relief. Relief they would never know that hours earlier, she'd been kissing a girl. Now living with her conservative Aunt in small-town Montana, hiding her sexuality and blending in becomes second nature to Cameron until she...

cowboy like me

If Beale Street Could Talk
Baldwin, James
Paper Book
To this love story James Baldwin brings a spare and impassioned intensity, charging it with universal resonance and power. We are in Harlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. The narrator of Baldwin's novel is Tish nineteen, and...

evermore

Acts of desperation
Nolan, Megan
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 'Crushing...intensely vital' Observer 'It's impossible to tear yourself away' The Times 'Such brilliant writing about female desire...honest and visceral'...

You're On Your Own Kid

Daisy Jones & the Six A Novel
Reid, Taylor Jenkins.
Paper Book
SOON TO BE AN AMAZON PRIME TV SERIES STARRING SAM CLAFLIN, RILEY KEOUGH AND CAMILA MORRONE THE SUNDAY TIMESAND NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER THE TIKTOK SENSATION From the author of THE...

Midnight Rain

A little life : a novel
Yanagihara, Hanya.
Paper Book
'I'm not exaggerating when I say this novel challenged everything I thought I knew about love and friendship. It's one of those books that stays with you forever.' - Dua Lipa The million-copy bestseller, Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life, by the author of To Paradise,...

Would've, Could've, Should've


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