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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.


Greatest Hits

Greatest Hits

Laura Barnett

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


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See What I Have Done

See What I Have Done

Sarah Schmidt

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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...


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The Dry

The Dry

Jane Harper

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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

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


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Toto the Ninja Cat and the Great Snake Escape

Toto the Ninja Cat and the Great Snake Escape

Dermot O'Leary

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Toto the Ninja Cat and the Great Snake Escape is the first book Dermot O'Leary has written for...


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A selection of books I would happily read again


Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

J.K. Rowling

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Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at...


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The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings

J.R.R. Tolkien

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Continuing the story begun in The Hobbit, this three-volume paperback boxed set of Tolkien's epic...

The Hobbit

The Hobbit

J.R.R. Tolkien

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The Hobbit is the unforgettable story of Bilbo, a peace-loving hobbit, who embarks on a strange and...

     

I need to get some order in my life! My friends would find this hilarious. I can’t stick to a list for the life of me! In no particular order, they need to be read by September! I’ll keep adding to it


The Seventh Cross

The Seventh Cross

Anna Seghers

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Written in 1939, first published in 1942, a national bestseller and a 1943 BOMC Main selection, The...


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Circe

Circe

Madeline Miller

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From the Orange Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author of The Song of Achilles comes the...


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The Mars Room: A Novel

The Mars Room: A Novel

Rachel Kushner

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From twice National Book Award-nominated Rachel Kushner, whose Flamethrowers was called "the best,...

Record of a Spaceborn Few

Record of a Spaceborn Few

Becky Chambers

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Return to the sprawling universe of the Galactic Commons, as humans, artificial intelligence,...


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