READING LIST
2024
| Demon Copperhead | Barbara Kingsolver (February) |
| The Marriage Portrait | Maggie O'Farrell (January) |
2023
| Necessary Lies | Diane Chamberlain (November) |
| How to Kill your Family | Bella Mackie (October) |
| No One Saw a Thing | Andrea Mara (September) |
| The Skylark's Secret | Fiona Valpey (August) |
| Lessons in Chemistry | Bonnie Garmus (July) |
| Midnight at Malabar House | Vaseem Khan (June) |
| Anne of Green Gables | Lucy Maud Montgomery (May) |
| The Hearts Invisible Furies | John Boyne (April) |
| Hidden in Plain Sight | Jeffrey Archer (March) |
| Take nothing with you | Patrick Gale (February) |
| The Ladies' Midnight Swimming Club | Faith Hogan (January) |
2022
| Morality for Beautiful girls | Alexander McCall Smith (November) |
| Our endless numbered days | Claire Fuller (October) |
| The Black Dress | Deborah Moggach (September) |
| Klara and The Sun | Kazuo Ishiguro (August) |
| Small Pleasures | Clare Chambers (July) |
| The Village Green Bookshop | Rachel Lucas (June) |
| A View across the Rooftops | Suzanne Kelman (May) |
| Hamnet | Maggie O'Farrell (April) |
| Munich | Robert Harris (March) |
| The Midnight Library | Matt Haig (February) |
| Big Sky | Kate Atkinson (January) |
2021
| Say Nothing | Brad Parks (November) |
| The Black House | Peter May (October) |
| Nineteen Minutes | Jodi Picoult (September) |
| Just My Luck | Adele Parks (August) |
| Sweet Sorrow | David Nicholls (July) |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee (June) |
| Pigeon English | Stephen Kelman (May) |
| The Pearl That Broke Its Shell | Nadia Hashimi (April) |
| The Architect's Apprentice | Elif Shafak (March) |
| Americanah | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (February) |
| The Thursday Murder Club | Richard Osman (January) |
2020
| The Wild Silence | Raynor Winn (November) |
| A Complicated Kindness | Miriam Toews (October) |
| Platform Seven | Louise Doughty (September - Marlborough LitFest Big Read) |
| My Sister, The Serial Killer | Oyinkan Braithwaite (August bonus, from May!) |
| My Sister's Keeper | Jodi Picoult (August) |
| And So It Begins | Rachel Abbott (July) - ZOOM |
| The Flower Girls | Alice Clark-Platts (June) - ZOOM |
| My Sister, the Serial Killer | Oyinkan Braithwaite (May) - not discussed |
| On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons | Laura Cumming (April) not discussed |
| The Diary of a Bookseller | Shaun Bythell (March) - ZOOMED in May |
| In the Dark | Deborah Moggach (February) |
| Moving | Jenny Eclair (January) |
2019
| War Dog | Damien Lewis (November) |
| Big Brother | Lionel Shriver (October) |
| The Salt Path | Raynor Winn (September - Marlborough LitFest Big Read) |
| Transcription | Kate Atkinson (August) |
| In the Place of Fallen Leaves | Tim Pears (July) |
| We'll Meet Again | Mary Higgins Clark (June) |
| The Penguin Lessons | Tom Michell (May) |
| Keep You Safe | Melissa Hill (April) |
| Excellent Women | Barbara Ryan (March) |
| The Seven Sisters | Lucinda Riley (February) |
| Holding | Graham Norton (January) |
2018
| Our House | Louise Candlish (November) |
| Brooklyn | Colm Toibin (October) |
| Everyone Brave is Forgiven | Chris Cleeve (September - Marlborough LitFest Big Read) |
| Stranger in the House | Shari Lapena (September) |
| Plain Truth | Jodie Picoult (August) |
| Birdcage Walk | Helen Dunmore (July for extra reading!) |
| The Dry | Jane Harper (for July) |
| Small Island | Andrea Levy |
| This Is How It Always Is | Laurie Frankel |
| Precious and Grace | Alexander McCall Smith |
| The River at Night | Erica Fernicek |
| The Luminaries | Eleanor Cotton |
| Mudbound | Hilary Jordan |
| The Purchase | Linda Spalding |
2017
| My Sister's Secret | Tracy Buchanan |
| The Bees | Lailina Paull |
| On The Beach | Nevil Shute |
| The Muse | Jessie Burton |
| The Museum Of You | Carys Bray |
| Hotel On The Corner Of Bitter And Sweet | Jamie Ford |
| The Trouble With Goats And Sheep | Joanna Cannon |
| My Cousin Rachel | Daphne Du Maurier |
| Exposure | Helen Dumore |
| The Essex Serpent | Sarah Perry |
2016
| Mr Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore | Robin Sloan |
| Major Pettigrew's Last Stand | Helen Simonson |
| I Can't Begin To Tell You | Elizabeth Buchan |
| Behind Closed Doors | B A Paris |
| I Saw A Man | Owen Speers |
| An Officer And A Spy | Robert Harris |
| The Beekeeper's Daughter | Santa Montefiore |
| Iris And Lily | Angela Scipioni |
| If She Did It | Jessica Treadway |
| Rebecca | Daphne Du Maurier |
| The Great Gatsby | F Scott Fitzgerald |
2015
| Offshore | Penelope Fitzgerald |
| Raven Black | Ann Cleeves |
| The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry | Rachel Joyce |
| House Of Silk | Anthony Horowitz |
| Iris And Ruby | Rosie Thomas |
| The Thief Taker | C S Quinn |
| Becoming Human | Eliza Green |
| The Legacy Of Elizabeth Pringle | Kirsty Wark |
| Boy A | Jonathan Trigell |
| Travels In The Interior Of Africa | Mungo Park |
2014
| Dominion | C J Sansom |
| Remarkable Creatures | Tracy Chevalier |
| The Third Policeman | Flynn O'Brien |
| The Boy With The Topknot | Sathnam Sanghera |
| The 100 Year Old Man Who Jumped Out Of The Window | Jonas Jonasson |
| Room | Emma Donoghue |
| Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn |
| The Rosie Project | Graeme Simsion |
| Picnic At Hanging Rock | Joan Lindsay |