THE MINI LISTS

Bite-size selections of the full lists (available by Category and Alphabetically) to include:

Easy Reads
Weightier Reads
Tougher Reads
Discussion Worthy

Good, quick, not quite airport fiction but well paced, with good length chapters, and enough white space. Satisfying light fiction but not CHICKLIT!

A HISTORY OF INSECTS, Yvonne Roberts
YEAR OF WONDERS, Geraldine Brooks
THE ORCHARD ON FIRE, Shena Mackay
FRED AND EDIE, Jill Dawson
HEADLONG, Michael Frayn
IF I TOLD YOU ONCE, Judy Budnitz
MARY BARTON, Mrs Gaskell
THE WHITE FAMILY, Maggie Gee
ONCE IN A HOUSE ON FIRE, Andrea Ashworth
PATIENT, Ben Watt
THE POISONWOOD BIBLE, Barbara Kingsolver
THE WAY I FOUND HER, Rose Tremain
WHATEVER LOVE MEANS, David Baddiel

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WEIGHTIER READS

Or for something a little weightier and more interesting, with richer themes/more complex…

A FINE BALANCE, Rohinton Mistry
ANY HUMAN HEART, William Boyd
ENDURING LOVE, Ian McEwan
JACK MAGGS, Peter Carey
MISS WYOMING, Douglas Coupland
MUSIC AND SILENCE, Rose Tremain
QUARANTINE, Jim Crace
THE EMPEROR'S BABE, Bernardine Evaristo
THE INDUSTRY OF SOULS, Martin Booth
THE TORTILLA CURTAIN, T C Boyle
THE WAR OF DON EMMANUEL'S NETHER PARTS, Louis de Bernières
WHITE TEETH, Zadie Smith

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TOUGHER READS

Tough can be language, complicated structure, odd punctuation, etc. but well worth sticking with.

A DEAD MAN IN DEPTFORD, Anthony Burgess
A STAR CALLED HENRY, Roddy Doyle
ALL THE PRETTY HORSES, Cormac McCarthy
EXPERIENCE, Martin Amis
THE DEBT TO PLEASURE, John Lanchester
THE HOUSE GUN, Nadine Gordimer
THE HUMAN STAIN, Philip Roth
TITUS GROAN, Mervyn Peake

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DISCUSSION WORTHY

Books which, irrespective of what they were like to read (good bad or indifferent), yielded good discussion on the night.

A FINE BALANCE, Rohinton Mistry
A MAP OF LOVE, Ahdaf Soueif
A STAR CALLED HENRY, Roddy Doyle
YEAR OF WONDERS, Geraldine Brooks
ENDURING LOVE, Ian McEwan
EXPERIENCE, Martin Amis
IF I TOLD YOU ONCE, Judy Budnitz
JACK MAGGS, Peter Carey
MUSIC AND SILENCE, Rose Tremain
QUARANTINE, Jim Crace
THE DARK ROOM, Rachel Seiffert
THE DEBT TO PLEASURE, John Lanchester
THE HOUSE GUN, Nadine Gordimer
THE INDUSTRY OF SOULS, Martin Booth
THE POISONWOOD BIBLE, Barbara Kingsolver
THE QUIET AMERICAN, Graham Greene
THE TORTILLA CURTAIN, T C Boyle
THE WAR OF DON EMMANUEL'S NETHER PARTS, Louis de Bernières
TIME'S ARROW, Martin Amis
WHITE TEETH, Zadie Smith

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