Bookseller’s Favourites
Surrounded by great books day after day it’s an almost impossible task to decide what to read next! But reading is what we love, and sharing our love for great books is what we do best, so…
Each of our booksellers has compiled a list of some of their most loved books of all time – highly personal, old and new – here’s a little glimpse of the treasures on our own bookshelves.
Alex’s Choice Picks
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Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce£9.99 -
When Life Gives You Mangoes by Kereen Getten£7.99 -
Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8) by Terry Pratchett£9.99 -
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams£8.99 -
The Burning by Laura Bates£8.99 -
The Baby’s Catalogue by Allan Ahlberg£6.99 -
Lethal White: Cormoran Strike Book 4 by Robert Galbraith£9.99 -
Piglettes by Clementine Beauvais£8.99 -
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend£7.99 -
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman£9.99 -
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman£9.99 -
The Quick Roasting Tin by Rukmini Iyer£20.00 -
The Complete Brambly Hedge by Jill Barklem£25.00
Denise’s Favourites
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Good Material by Dolly Alderton£18.99 -
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Sehee£9.99 -
Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman£14.99 -
Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong£12.00 -
Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson£14.99 -
Maame by Jessica George£14.99 -
Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong£12.00 -
Please Look After Mother: The million copy Korean bestseller by Kyung-Sook Shin£8.99 -
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson£9.99 -
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf£7.99 -
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire£4.00 -
Things I Don’t Want to Know by Deborah Levy: May Evening Bookclub£8.99 -
All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson£8.99 -
Poor by Caleb Femi£10.99 -
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong£9.99 -
Beloved by Toni Morrison£9.99 -
Normal People by Sally Rooney£9.99 -
Homie by Danez Smith£10.99 -
Vertigo & Ghost by Fiona Benson£10.00 -
Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith£10.99 -
The New Testament by Jericho Brown£10.99 -
Stranger, Baby by Emily Berry£10.99 -
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin£7.99 -
The Song of Achilles: Bloomsbury Modern Classics by Madeline Miller£9.99 -
Lie With Me by Philippe Besson£9.99
Elle’s Must-Read Recommendations
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Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar£16.99 -
Strong Female Character: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Fern Brady£10.99 -
Big Swiss by Jen Beagin£9.99 -
ISDAL by Susannah Dickey£10.99 -
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray£18.99 -
Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth£8.99 -
Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield£9.99 -
Vladimir by Julia May Jonas£9.99 -
In Defence of Witches: Why women are still on trial by Mona Chollet£10.99 -
Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart£9.99 -
To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara£10.99 -
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan£8.99 -
Shy by Max Porter£12.99 -
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin£8.99 -
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney£9.99 -
The Vegetarian by Han Kang£8.99 -
The Yellow Wallpaper & Herland by Charlotte Perki Gilman£10.99 -
Recitatif by Toni Morrison£9.99 -
Assembly by Natasha Brown£9.99 -
Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason£9.99 -
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood£8.99 -
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters£8.99 -
Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller£9.99 -
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke£8.99 -
Luckenbooth by Jenni Fagan£8.99 -
The Employees by Olga Ravn£12.99 -
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett£9.99 -
My darling from the lions by Rachel Long£10.99 -
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong£9.99
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Swing Time by Zadie Smith£8.99
Fleur’s Best of the Best!
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Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald£9.99 -
Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers£9.99 -
Breath by Tim Winton£9.99 -
Paulina & Fran by Rachel B. Glaser£7.99 -
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo£9.99 -
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams£8.99
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The Nickel Boys: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2020 by Colson Whitehead£9.99 -
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin£9.99 -
Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison£9.99 -
Swing Time by Zadie Smith£8.99
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The Lark by E. Nesbit£8.99 -
I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron£9.99 -
One Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downes£9.99 -
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger£8.99 -
The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson£9.99 -
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter£9.99 -
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead£8.99 -
The Offing by Benjamin Myers£9.99 -
Tomorrow by Elisabeth Russel Taylor£9.99 -
Euphoria by Lily King£9.99 -
The Falconer by Dana Czapnik£9.99 -
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford£9.99 -
Bonjour Tristesse: and, A Certain Smile by Francoise Sagan£7.99 -
My Husband Simon by Mollie Panter-Downes£9.99 -
Home by Marilynne Robinson£8.99 -
A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr£7.99 -
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan£9.99 -
Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford£9.99 -
The Skylarks’ War by Hilary McKay£7.99 -
The Country Child by Alison Uttley£7.99
Grace’s Bookshelf of (bad) Dreams…
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Masters of Death by Olivie Blake£20.00 -
What Moves The Dead by T. Kingfisher£8.99 -
Empire of the Vampire (Empire of the Vampire, Book 1) by Jay Kristoff£9.99 -
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix£8.99 -
Dark and Shallow Lies by Ginny Myers Sain£8.99 -
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth£9.99 -
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires: A Novel by Grady Hendrix£13.99 -
The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin£9.99 -
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell£8.99 -
My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix£11.99 -
Thin Air by Michelle Paver£8.99 -
Dark Matter by Michelle Paver£8.99 -
Seven Deaths Of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton£9.99 -
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson£10.99 -
Annihilation (the Southern Reach Trilogy, Book 1) by Jeff VanderMeer£9.99 -
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman£9.99
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It by Stephen King£12.99 -
Colorado Kid by Stephen King£8.99
Harry’s Favourites
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Revolutionary Acts: Love & Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain by Jason Okundaye£20.00 -
God Complex by Rachael Allen£12.99 -
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli£10.99 -
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein£25.00 -
Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen by Rebecca May Johnson£9.99 -
Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories by Diarmuid Hester£25.00 -
Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner£12.99 -
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray£18.99
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Close to Home by Michael Magee£14.99 -
Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown by Rory Carroll£25.00 -
In Memoriam by Alice Winn£14.99 -
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan£8.99
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Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney£9.99
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The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice by Shon Faye£10.99 -
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner£9.99 -
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh£8.99 -
Ulysses by James Joyce£10.99 -
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson£9.99
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Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For by Ella Risbridger£9.99 -
Cook, Eat, Repeat: Ingredients, recipes and stories. by Nigella Lawson£26.00 -
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison£9.99 -
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney£9.99 -
Milkman by Anna Burns£9.99 -
Normal People by Sally Rooney£9.99
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Surge by Jay Bernard£12.99 -
Dubliners by James Joyce£8.99
Helena’s Hodgepodge
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Jaded by Ela Lee£16.99 -
Fourth Wing: Discover TikTok’s newest fantasy romance obsession with this BBC Ra by Rebecca Yarros£20.00 -
Legends & Lattes: A Heartwarming Cosy Fantasy and TikTok Sensation by Travis Baldree£9.99 -
A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid£16.99 -
Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld£16.99 -
Free Love by Tessa Hadley£9.99 -
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins£8.99 -
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier£8.99 -
Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss£9.99 -
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas£8.99 -
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh£8.99
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Summerwater by Sarah Moss£8.99 -
The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary£9.99 -
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote£9.99 -
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo£9.99
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Circe by Madeline Miller£9.99 -
Dear Mrs Bird by AJ Pearce£9.99 -
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry£9.99 -
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman£9.99
Imogen’s Greatest Hits
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Good Pop, Bad Pop by Jarvis Cocker£12.99 -
Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life by Amy Key£18.99 -
I’m a Fan by Sheena Patel£9.99 -
Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart£9.99
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Playing to the Gallery by Grayson Perry£9.99 -
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath£14.99 -
Nina Simone’s Gum: A Memoir of Things Lost and Found by Warren Ellis£10.99 -
Alison by Lizzy Stewart£18.99 -
Perfect Sound Whatever by James Acaster£9.99 -
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde£10.99 -
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier£14.99 -
Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson£9.99 -
Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason£9.99
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Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell£9.99 -
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell£9.99 -
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown£9.99 -
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell£12.99 -
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams£9.99 -
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: 42nd Anniversary Edition by Douglas Adams£9.99 -
Stoner by John Williams£9.99
Julie’s Favourite Books
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Forest Silver: A Lake District Story by E M Ward£9.99 -
Siblings by Brigitte Reimann£9.99 -
Weyward by Emilia Hart£14.99 -
Echoes of the City by Lars Saabye Christensen£12.99 -
Hungry Ghosts by Kevin Jared Hosein£16.99 -
Bewilderment by Richard Powers£9.99 -
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr£10.99 -
Witchstorm by Tim Tilley£7.99 -
Meet Me in Mumbai by Sabina Khan£8.99 -
My Beautiful Voice by Joseph Coelho£7.99 -
Saving the Butterfly by Helen Cooper£12.99 -
Boys Don’t Cry by Fiona Scarlett£9.99 -
Lightning Falls by Amy Wilson£7.99 -
Island by Siri Ranva Hjel Jacobsen£9.99 -
Harklights by Tim Tilley£7.99 -
Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers£9.99
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Venice by Jan Morris£10.99 -
Siege by Helen Dunmore£8.99 -
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante£9.99 -
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones£8.99 -
About Grace by Anthony Doerr£9.99 -
Wuthering Heights (PEL) by Emily Bronte£7.99 -
The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found by Bart van Es£9.99 -
Sightlines by Kathleen Jamie£9.99 -
Prisoners Of Geography by Tim Marshall£9.99 -
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda N. Adichie£9.99 -
Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale£9.99 -
The Reader on the 6.27 by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent£9.99
Nick’s Choices
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Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin£9.99 -
The Warlow Experiment by Alix Nathan£8.99 -
A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths by Dr John Barton£14.99 -
All Among The Barley by Melissa Harrison£9.99 -
A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr£7.99
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The Spy and the Traitor (Oleg Gordievsky) by Ben MacIntyre£10.99 -
The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience by David Gilmour£12.99 -
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford£8.99 -
The Brothers York: An English Tragedy by Thomas Penn£12.99 -
Persian Fire by Tom Holland£12.99