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The Reading Groups Collection is a central collection of book titles specifically for Reading Groups to borrow. The collection has been set up to ensure that there are multiple copies of titles that we hope Reading Groups will want to read.
The list is below, click on the blue title to read a synopsis and request copies for your reading group.
If the title you want to read is on loan we can add your group to the waiting list and let you know when the title is available again.
These are not the only books your Reading Group can borrow. Other titles can be borrowed from your library in the usual way.

The collection has recently been updated - some titles have been removed and new ones added.  We have added the new titles to the list and will be creating detailed information for them over the coming weeks.

Across the Bridge Morag Joss
Alentejo Blue Monica Ali
The Almost Moon Alice Sebold
The Amateur Marriage Anne Tyler
Arthur and George Julian Barnes
Atonement Ian McEwan
Bleeding Kansas Sara Paretsky
Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
Bitter Sweets Roopa Farooki
Brick Lane Monica Ali
Buddha Da Anne Donovan
Burning Bright Tracey Chevalier
Cloth Girl Marilyn Heward Mills
Cranford Elizabeth Gaskell
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon
The Daisy Club Charlotte Bingham
Daniel isn't Talking Marti Leimbach
The Dead of Summer Camilla Way
December Elisabeth H Winthrop
The Diary of a Nobody George & Weedon Grossmith
Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert
Enemies of the Heart Rebecca Dean
Fixing Shadows Susan Barrett
The Flight Bryan Malessa
For One More Day Mitch Albom
The Friday Night Knitting Club Kate Jacobs
Friday Nights Joanna Trollope
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis Giorgio Bassani
The Gathering Anne Enright
The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society Mary Ann Schaffer
The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood
The Help Kathryn Stockett
The Historian Elizabeth Kostova
How to Seduce a Ghost Hope McIntyre
How to Talk to a Widower Jonathan Topper
Ice Road Gillian Slovo
The Importance of Being Kennedy Laurie Graham
The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai
In the Country of Men Hisham Matar
Jamaica Inn Daphne Du Maurier
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
The Last Concubine Lesley Downer
Lasting Damage Sophie Hannah
Little Dorrit Charles Dickens
The Lollipop Shoes Joanne Harris
The Madonnas of Leningrad Debra Dean
Mansfield Park Jane Austen
The Map of Love Ahdaf Soueif
Measuring the World Daniel Kehlmann
Middlemarch George Eliot
Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
The Moment You Were Gone Nicci Gerrard
My Cleaner Maggie Gee
Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead Nick Drake
Netherland Joseph O'Neill
Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro
Not the End of the World Kate Atkinson
The Notebook Nicholas Sparks
On Beauty Zadie Smith
One Day David Nichols
The Other Side of You Salley Vickers
The Outcast Sadie Jones
The Painted Drum Louise Erdich
Parky: My autobiography Michael Parkinson
Paths of Glory Jeffrey Archer
People of the Book Geraldine Brooks
The Pink Hotel Anna Stothard
The Pirate's Daughter Maragaret Cezair-Thompson
Pistache Sebastian Faulks
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee Rebecca Miller
The Private Patient P D James
The Return Victoria Hislop
The Room of Lost Things Stella Duffy
The Rose of Sebastopol Katharine McMahon
The Secret River Kate Grenville
Seeds of Greatness Jon Canter
Sepulchre Kate Mosse
A Short History of Tractors in the Ukrainian Marina Lewycka
Silver River Daisy Goodwin
A Simple Act of Violence R J Ellory
Small Island Andrea Levy
So He Takes the Dog Jonathan Buckley
South Riding Winifred Holtby
Star of the Sea Joseph O'Connor
Suite Francaise Irene Nemirovsky
Sunday at the Cross Bones John Walsh
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher Kate Summerscale
Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad: The True Story of an Unlikely Friendship Bee Rowlatt and May Witwit
Things I Want My Daughters To Know Elizabeth Noble
A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini
The Truth About Love Jane Elizabeth Varley
The Uncommon Reader Alan Bennett
The Vienna Assignment Olen Steinhauer
Villette Charlotte Bronte
The Visible World Mark Slouka
We are all made of Glue Marina Lewycka
Where There's a Will Matt Beaumont
Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel

 


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