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The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man	Jonas Jonasson
Act of Oblivion	Robert Harris
All the Light We Cannot See	Anthony Doerr
All the Lonely People	Mike Gayle
Among the Lemon Trees	Nadia Marks
Anything is Possible	Elizabeth Strout
The Appeal	Janice Hallett
Ariadne	Jennifer Saint
The Ashes of London	Andrew Taylor
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning	Laurie Lee
Baby Doll	Hollie Overton
Beloved	Toni Morrison
The Betrayals	Fiona Neill
Big Brother	Lionel Shriver
Birdcage Walk	Helen Dunmore
Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading	Lucy Mangan
The Boy From the Woods	Harlan Coben
A Boy Made of Blocks	Keith Stuart
A Bureau of Second Chances	Sheena Kalayil
Cashelmara	Susan Howatch
Circe	Madeline Miller
The Clockmaker's Daughter	Kate Morton
Cloud Cuckoo Land	Anthony Doerr
The Colour of Magic	Terry Pratchett
The Comforts of Home	Susan Hill
The Confessions of Frannie Langton	Sara Collins
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper	Phaedra Patrick
Dangerous Crossing	Rachel Rhys
Dark Matter	Blake Crouch
Demon Copperhead	Barbara Kingsolver
The Dressmaker	Rosalie Ham
Dry	Jane Harper
Educated	Tara Westover
The Enchanted April	Elizabeth Von Arnim
The End of the Affair	Graham Greene
The Essex Serpent	Sarah Perry
Everything I Never Told You	Celeste Ng
Exciting Times	Naoise Dolan
Exposure	Helen Dunmore
The Followers	Rebecca Wait
For Whom the Bell Tolls	Ernest Hemingway
Foxlowe	Eleanor Wasserberg
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis	Giorgio Bassani
A Gentleman in Moscow	Amor Towles
The Girl with the Louding Voice	Abi Dare
Girl, Woman, Other	Bernadine Evaristo
The Giver of Stars	Jojo Moyes
The Glass Woman	Caroline Lea
Godmersham Park	Gill Hornby
Golden Hill	Francis Spufford
The Grass is Singing	Doris Lessing
He Said/She Said	Erin Kelly
Himself	Jess Kidd
History of Wolves	Emily Fridlund
The House on the Strand	Daphne Du Maurier
How to Stop Time	Matt Haig
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared	Jonas Jonasson
I'm Travelling Alone	Samuel Bjork
In Cold Blood	Truman Capote
Instructions for a Heatwave	Maggie O'Farrell
The Island of Missing Trees	Elif Shafak
The Island of Sea Women	Lisa See
The Keeper of Lost Things	Ruth Hogan
The Keeper of Stories	Sally Page
Keeping the World Away	Margaret Foster
Larchfield	Polly Clark
The Last Days of Leda Grey	Essie Fox
The Lauras	Sara Taylor
Lessons in Chemistry	Bonnie Garmus
Lethal White	Robert Galbraith
The Lie of the Land	Amanda Craig
Life After Life	Kate Atkinson
Light Perpetual	Francis Spufford
Little Fires Everywhere	Celeste Ng
The Little Paris Bookshop	Nina George
Lost for Words	Stephanie Butland
Love is Blind	William Boyd
Love Marriage	Monica Ali
The Magician	Colm Toibin
A Man Called Ove	Frederick Backman
The Map of Love	Ahdaf Soueif
The Marriage Portrait	Maggie O'Farrell
Milkman	Anna Burns
Miss Carter's War	Sheila Hancock
The Murders at Fleat House	Lucinda Riley
The Muse	Jessie Burton
The New Mrs Clifton	Elizabeth Buchan
The Ocean at the End of the Lane	Neil Gaiman
One August Night	Victoria Hislop
Open Secret	Stella Rimington
The Other Hoffmann Sister	Ben Fergusson
The Paris Wife	Paula McLain
The Passenger	Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
The Paying Guests	Sarah waters
Platform Seven	Louise Doughty
The Plot	Jean Hanff Korelitz
The Power	Naomi Alderman
The Promise	Damon Galgut
Queenie	Candice Carty-Williams
The Reading List	Sara Nisha Adams
Remarkable Creatures	Tracy Chevalier
Reservoir 13	Jon McGregor
The Return	Victoria Hislop
The Salt Path	Raynor Winn
The Secret Life of Bees	Sue Monk Kidd
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle	Stuart Turton
Shrines of Gaiety	Kate Atkinson
Shuggie Bain	Douglas Stuart
The Silence of the Girls	Pat Barker
The Silent Companions	Laura Purcell
A Single Thread	Tracy Chevalier
Songbirds	Christy Lefteri
Still life	Sarah Winman
Stone Blind	Natalie Haynes
The Storyteller	Jodi Picoult
The Summer of Impossible Things	Rowan Coleman
Swimming Lessons	Claire Fuller
Swing Time	Zadie Smith
The Tattooist of Auschwitz	Heather Morris
These Dividing Walls	Fran Cooper
This is How it Always is	Laurie Frankel
The Thread	Victoria Hislop
Three Daughters of Eve	Elif Shafak
Tin Man	Sarah Winman
To the Bright Edge of the World	Eowyn Ivey
Together	Julie Cohen
Transcription	Kate Atkinson
The Travelling Cat Chronicles	Hiro Arikawa
Tulip Fever	Deborah Moggach
The Underground Railroad	Colson Whitehead
The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra	Vaseem Khan
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry	Rachel Joyce
Unreliable Memoirs	Clive James
Us	David Nicholls
The Vanishing Half	Brit Bennett
Waking Lions	Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
When All is Said	Anne Griffin
Where the Crawdads Sing	Delia Owens
Where'd You Go, Bernadette	Maria Semple
The White Queen	Philippa Gregory
Wide Sargasso Sea	Jean Rhys
The Witchfinder's Sister	Beth Underdown
The Year After	Martin Davies
A Year of Marvellous Ways	Sarah Winman
You Don't Know Me	Imran Mahmood

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