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New York Times Top Books This Week 01/02

Updated 5 Feb, 2018 04:47 PM

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Paste Magazine: Most Anticipated Books 2018

Updated 5 Feb, 2018 04:01 PM

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Esquire: Best Expected Books of 2018

Updated 1 Jan, 2018 09:17 PM

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EW: Most Anticipated Books of 2018

Updated 1 Jan, 2018 08:37 PM

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Arts Desk: Best Books of 2017

Updated 31 Dec, 2018 06:03 PM

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CNBC: Must-Read Books About Bitcoin

Updated 28 Dec, 2017 09:42 PM

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Radio Times: Books to TV Adaptations 2018

Updated 28 Dec, 2017 09:23 PM

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Times Literary Supplement: Top Books of 2017

Updated 14 Dec, 2017 04:36 PM

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The Economist: Books by Economist Writers 2017

Updated 11 Dec, 2017 12:09 AM

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10 Best Book Club Reads


If you’re struggling to recommend a novel for your next book club, The Independent has compiled a list of accessible, exciting and original books to get the conversation started.

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Greatest Hits

Greatest Hits

Laura Barnett

9.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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One day. Sixteen songs. The soundtrack of a lifetime. Alone in her studio, Cass Wheeler is taking...


Fiction Contemporary Music
See What I Have Done

See What I Have Done

Sarah Schmidt

6.6 (7 Ratings) Rate It

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When her father and step-mother are found brutally murdered on a summer morning in 1892, Lizzie...

The Other Hoffmann Sister

The Other Hoffmann Sister

Ben Fergusson

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Gripping historical fiction from the prize-winning author of The Spring of Kasper Meier Shortlisted...


historical fiction fiction
The Dry

The Dry

Jane Harper

8.4 (10 Ratings) Rate It

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'One of the most stunning debuts I've ever read...Read it!' David Baldacci 'Packed with sneaky moves...

This is How it Always Is

This is How it Always Is

Laurie Frankel

8.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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This is how a family keeps a secret…and how that secret ends up keeping them. This is how a...


Fiction
Together: An Epic Love Story With A Secret You Won't See Coming

Together: An Epic Love Story With A Secret You Won't See Coming

Julie Cohen

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Told backwards over five decades, this is the moving story of one couple's great love for each other...


Fiction
Larchfield

Larchfield

Polly Clark

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It's early summer when a young poet, Dora Fielding, moves to Helensburgh on the west coast of...


Fiction
The Baltimore Boys

The Baltimore Boys

Joel Dicker

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Fresh from the staggering success of THE TRUTH ABOUT THE HARRY QUEBERT AFFAIR, Marcus Goldman is...


Fiction
He Said/She Said

He Said/She Said

Erin Kelly

8.4 (5 Ratings) Rate It

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"A tour de force – a gripping, twisting, furiously clever read that asks all the right questions,...


crime fiction
Anything is Possible

Anything is Possible

Elizabeth Strout

10.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss from the No. 1 New York...