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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

The secret history
Tartt, Donna.
Paper Book
Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's cult bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - incredibly compelling, dramatic and playful. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at...

the lakes

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

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

Normal people : a novel
Rooney, Sally
Paper Book
** Sally Rooney's new novel Intermezzo is available now ** 'The literary phenomenon of the decade.' Guardian 'The book that defined a generation.' Stylist Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of...

illicit affairs

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

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

Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare, William
Paper Book
This edition of Romeo and Juliet is part of the groundbreaking Cambridge School Shakespeare series established by Rex Gibson. Remaining faithful to the series' active approach it treats the play as a script to be acted, explored and enjoyed. As well as the complete script of the play, you will find...

Love Story

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

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

The Best Day

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

Atonement : a novel
McEwan, Ian.
Paper Book
On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge....

Back To December

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 before they find...

Lavender Haze

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

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

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 ...

mad woman

Persuasion
Austen, Jane
Paper Book
'In Persuasion, Jane Austen is beginning to discover that the world is larger, more mysterious, and more romantic than she had supposed' Virginia Woolf Jane Austen's moving late novel of missed opportunities and second chances centres on Anne Elliot, no longer young and...

Last Kiss

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 FICTION THE INTERNATIONAL SENSATION A SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Captivating' DONNA TARTT 'I loved it' J K ROWLING

State of Grace

Everything I know about love : a memoir
Alderton, Dolly
Paper Book
A celebration of our female friendships, of our messy years, and of growing up together. Glittering with wit, heart, and humour, it's a book to share with every woman you've ever been lucky enough to call a friend. "Nearly everything I know about love, I've learnt from my...

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

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

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

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 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 city we became
Jemisin, N. K.
Paper Book

Welcome to New York

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 kiss quotient
Hoang, Helen
Paper Book

Fearless

Alice's adventures in Wonderland
Carroll, Lewis
Paper Book
On an ordinary summer's afternoon, Alice tumbles down a hole and an extraordinary adventure begins. In a strange world with even stranger characters, she meets a rabbit with a pocket watch, joins a Mad Hatter's Tea Party, and plays croquet with the Queen! Lost in this fantasy land, Alice finds...

Wonderland

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

Everything Has Changed

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

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

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

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 psychological thriller about the secrets hidden in a marriage - with twists you won't see coming. From Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekannen, the authors behind The Golden Couple. 'A fiendishly...

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 - Time Harry Potter magic, Taylor Swift...

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things

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

The Power
Alderman, Naomi
Paper Book

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 get all kinds of...

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
  * One of the New York Times' '100 Best Books of the 21st Century' * '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...

exile

My brilliant friend
Ferrante, Elena
Paper Book
#1 BEST BOOK OF THE CENTURY - NEW YORK TIMES 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...

seven

Jane Eyre
Brontë, Charlotte
Paper Book
Orphaned Jane Eyre grows up in the home of her heartless aunt, where she endures loneliness and cruelty, and at a charity school with a harsh regime. This troubled childhood strengthens Jane's natural independence and spirit - which prove necessary when she finds a position as governess at...

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
'RaMell Ross's transcendentally moving and frightening film' (Guardian, New York Film Festival) on UK cinema release 8th November 2025 WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2020Winner...

epiphany

Anna Karenina
Tolstoy, Leo, graf
Paper Book
'One of the greatest love stories in world literature' Vladimir Nabokov The heroine of Tolstoy's epic of love and self-destruction, Anna Karenina has beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son, but feels that her life is empty until she encounters the impetuous officer Count...

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

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

Little women
Alcott, Louisa May
Paper Book
This Penguin Classics edition of Louisa May Alcott's inspiring tale of sisterhood, Little Women, is edited with an introduction by Elaine Showalter. The charming story of four 'little women' - Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - and their wise and patient mother Marmee, was an instant...

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

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

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

Beautiful world, where are you
Rooney, Sally
Paper Book
The new novel from the author of Normal People.

dorothea

Small pleasures : a novel
Chambers, Clare
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION A BBC 2 'BETWEEN THE COVERS' BOOK CLUB PICK 'Wonderful' RICHARD OSMAN 'Perfect' INDIA KNIGHT 'Beautiful' JESSIE BURTON 'Witty and sharp' DAVID NICHOLLS 1957, the...

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.
Ebook
Now a major motion picture starring Chloë Grace Moretz *Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner* ---------- 'If Holden Caulfield had been a gay girl from Montana, this is the story he might have told-it's funny, heartbreaking, and beautifully rendered'<...

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
NOW A SMASH HIT AMAZON PRIME TV STARRING SAM CLAFLIN, RILEY KEOUGH AND CAMILA MORRONE THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO and...

Midnight Rain


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