Recommended reading Summer 2016

The Orphan Train,  Christina Baker Kline

The girl on the train by Paula Hawkins 

One Thousand White Women, by Jim Fergus

A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Beckman

One Hundred Names by Cecelia Ahern
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doen.

Case Histories - Kate Atkinson

600 hours of Edward, Craig Lancaster

A Darker shade of magic by VE Schwab 

A Summer Promise, Katie Flynn

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again- David Foster Wallace.

Absalom Absalom! - William Faulkner

All My Fortunes, Katie Flynn

Alone in the Dark Karen Rose

Arcadia - Tom Stoppard

Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

Broken Homes, Ben Aaronovitch

Brooklyn Girls, Gemma Burgess

Cat and Mouse - Gunter Grass

Closer Than You Think Karen Rose

Dans le cafe de la jeunesse perdue - Patrick Modiano

Dying to Live: A Guide to Living with Motor Neurone Disease by Kevin Jordan

Excellent Women, Barbara Pym

Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith

Fingerprints of you, Kristen Paige Madonna

Foxglove Summer, Ben Aaronovitch

Gently by the Shore - Alan Hunter

Gently Does it - Alan Hunter

Harriet Beamer Takes The Bus by Joyce Magnini.

Hector and the Search for Happiness by Francois Lelord

Home is Burning by Dan Marshall. (Hilarious and foul mouthed memoir.)

How to Be a Heroine: Or, What I've Learned from Reading Too Much, Samantha Ellis

How to grow up: a memoir by Michelle Tea 

Indian Creek Chronicles, Pete Fromm

Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace

Instrumental, James Rhodes'

JR - William Gaddis

L'innocente - Gabriele D'Annunzio

La vie devant soi - Romain Gary

Le Peau de Chagrin - Honore Balzac

Life After Life - Kate Atkinson

Lizettes List by Susan Vreeland

Local Anesthetic - Gunter Grass

M Train by Patti Smith

Minding Ben, Victoria Brown

Moon over Soho, Ben Aaronovitch

 Mrs. Kennedy and Me by Clint Hil

My Grandmother asked me to tell you she's sorry, Fredrik Bachman

Neurotribes, Steve Silberman

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

ON the Move, Oliver Sacks

One Day, David Nichols

Out of the Ordinary, Jon Ronson

Raven Black - Ann Cleeves

Rivers of London, Ben Aaronovitch

Rock n Roll - Tom Stoppard

Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut

Super Girl Mixtapes, Megan Brothers

The Age of Miracles, Karen Thompson Walker.

The As IF Principle by Richard Wiseman

The Automobile Club of Egypt

The Beekeepers Apprentice by Laurie R. King

The Crime at Black Dudley - Margery Allingham

The forgotten Garden, Kate Morton

The Hidden Bend, Guy Cranswick

The House at the end of Hope Street, Menna Van PraAG

The house we grew up in: a novel by Jewell, Lisa. 

The Lake House by Kate Morton

The life changing magic of not giving a fuck, Sarah Knight

 The Linen Queen, Patricia Falvey

The Martian by Andy Weir

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

The Other Widow by Susan Crawford. (Creepy & suspenseful & I couldn't put it down! Had me hooked in the first chapter.)

The Road to Little Dribbling, Bill Bryson

The Rosie Project, Graeme Simsion 

The Secrets of Midwives by Sally Hepworth

The Soul of an Octopus, Sy Montgomery

The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

The Wright Brothers by David McCullough

These foolish Things, Deborah Moggach

Through a Glass Darkly, Jostein Gaarder

Time after Time, Tamara Ireland Stone

Tony Hogan Bought me an Ice-cream float before he stole my ma by Kerry Hudson

Ulysses - James Joyce

Under The Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan

Uprooted by Naomi Novik

Watch Your Back, Karen Rose

What Alice Forgot, Liane Moriarty

Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel, Maria Semple

Whispers Underground, Ben Aaronovitch

White Nights - Ann Cleeves

Who Let the Dogs In, by Molly Ivins.

Will Grayson, Will Grayson, John green and David Levithan