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HM The Queen's Reading Room is a hub for literary communities worldwide. Inspired by the success of two lists released in 2020 as the Duchess of Cornwall's Reading Room, it expanded to include book club resources, author interviews, a podcast, and more. Beginning January 2021, four books are added per quarter season (these are listed first, with additional books from the discussion following in the list below). One may join the conversation by following on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/thequeensreadingroom/ or https://royalreadingroom.uk/
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Season Eleven
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Archangel: A Novel
Robert Harris - Random House
Format: Print book
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Present-day Russia is the setting for this stunning new novel from Robert Harris, author of the bestsellers Fatherland and Enigma. Archangel tells the story of four days in the life of Fluke Kelso, a dissipated, middle-aged former Oxford historian, who is in Moscow to attend a conference... |
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The House of Doors
Tan Twan Eng - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Garden of Evening Mists, a spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redemption.. The year is 1921. Lesley Hamlyn and her husband, Robert, a lawyer and war veteran, are living at Cassowary... |
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Mapp & Lucia
E. F. Benson - London : Hesperus Press
Format: Book
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Meet Mapp and Lucia--two of the most unpleasant, disgraceful women you're ever likely to encounter, in E.F. Benson's carefully observed tale of 1930s village life and social ranking Emmeline Lucas (known as Lucia to her friends) is emerging from mourning following the death of her husband.... |
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Pachinko
Min Jin Lee - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP TEN OF THE YEAR * NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017 *A USA TODAY TOP TEN OF 2017 * JULY PICK FOR THE PBS NEWSHOUR-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB NOW READ THIS * FINALIST FOR THE 2018 DAYTON LITERARY... |
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Tom Lake: A Novel
Ann Patchett - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America's finest writers."Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature." - The GuardianIn the spring of 2020, Lara's three... |
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I Capture the Castle
Smith, Dodie - Vintage
Format: Book
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Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain wants to become a writer. Trouble is, she's the daughter of a once-famous author with a severe case of writer's block. Her family--beautiful sister Rose, brooding father James, ethereal stepmother Topaz--is barely scraping by in a crumbling... |
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Rebecca
Daphne Du Maurier - Everyman's Library
Format: Hardcover
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The only hardcover edition of the beloved, internationally best-selling gothic mystery. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS. The unassuming young heroine of Rebecca finds her life changed overnight when she meets Maxim de Winter, a handsome and wealthy widower whose sudden proposal... |
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The Lord's Day (Harry Jones)
Michael Dobbs - Simon & Schuster UK
Format: Paperback
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The drama of the greatest siege since Troy is set in the House of Lords in the fourth innovative Harry Jones thriller that breaks all the rules The boundaries of parental love and filial devotion are explored to their breaking point in this unique and breathtaking thriller.... |
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Season Ten
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The Secret History
Donna Tartt - Alfred A Knopf
Format: Paperback
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Donna Tartt, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for her most recent novel, The Goldfinch, established herself as a major talent with The Secret History, which has become a contemporary classic.Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever,... |
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My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrell - Collectors Library
Format: Print book
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Apart from naturalist Gerald Durrell (the youngest) and Larry (Lawrence Durrell, the novelist) , the family of Gerald comprised their widowed mother, the gun-mad Leslie, and diet-obsessed sister Margo together with Roger the dog. This title offers an autobiographical account of five years... |
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Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Mary Shelley - Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
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For the bicentennial of its first publication, Mary Shelley's original 1818 text, introduced by National Book Critics Circle award-winner Charlotte Gordon. 2018 marks the bicentennial of Mary Shelley's seminal novel. For the first time, Penguin Classics will publish the original... |
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Miss Benson's Beetle: A Novel
Rachel Joyce - Dial Press Trade Paperback
Format: Paperback
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From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry comes an uplifting, irresistible novel about two very different women on a life-changing adventure where they must risk everything, break all the rules, and discover their best selves - together. She's going too far to go it alone.... |
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Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
Anne Glenconner - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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Anne Glenconner has been at the center of the royal circle from childhood, when she met and befriended the future Queen Elizabeth II and her sister, the Princess Margaret. Though the firstborn child of the 5th Earl of Leicester, who controlled one of the largest estates in England, as a daughter... |
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A Tale of Two Cities:
Charles Dickens - Signet Classics
Format: Paperback
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The French Revolution comes to vivid life in Charles Dickens's famous novel about the best of times and the worst of times...The storming of the Bastille ... the death carts with their doomed human cargo ... the swift drop of the guillotine blade - this is the French Revolution that... |
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Black Beauty
Anna Sewell - Signet Classic
Format: Paperback
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One of the best loved animal stories ever written, the dramatic and heartwarming Black Beauty is told by the magnificent horse himself, from his idyllic days on a country squire's estate to his harsh fate as a London cab horse. No one can ever forget the gallant Black Beauty, a horse... |
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The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd - Viking; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Sue Monk Kidds first novel The Secret Life of Bees, a heartwarming coming of age tale set in 1960s South Carolina, a New York Times bestseller for more than 125 weeks, and a Good Morning America Read This Book Club pickFans of The Helpwill love Sue Monk Kidds Southern coming of age tale.... |
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Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel
Bonnie Garmus - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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A delight for readers of Where'd You Go, Bernadette and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, this blockbuster debut set in 1960s California features the singular voice of Elizabeth Zott, a scientist whose career takes a detour when she becomes the star of a beloved TV cooking show.Chemist Elizabeth... |
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Charlotte Gray
Faulks, Sebastian - Random House
Format: Book
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: A young Scottish woman who falls in love with a World War II RAF pilot shortly before his plane is lost over France joins the Resistance movement to find him, only to discover a larger meaning in her new role. |
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A Suitable Boy: A Novel
Vikram Seth - Harper Perennial
Format: Book
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While a widowed mother agonizes over her daughter's future, the newly independent India of the early 1950s struggles through a time of great crisis when its varied cultures clash. 100,000 first printing. |
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Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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"A love story of astonishing power." - Newsweek The International Bestseller and modern literary classic by Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia MarquezIn their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy,... |
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Season Nine
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Great Circle: A novel
Maggie Shipstead - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There--after encountering a pair of barnstorming pilots passing through town in beat-up biplanes--Marian commences her lifelong love affair... |
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The Far Pavilions
Kaye, M. M. - St. Martin's Press
Format: Book
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This epic, sweeping romance tells the story of Ashton Pelham-Martyn, an English man brought up as a Hindu, and his undying love for Juli, an Indian princess. Inspired by Kaye’s childhood in India, her family’s experiences of military life and her grandfather’s autobiographical... |
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Labyrinth
Kate Mosse - Putnam Adult
Format: Hardcover
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In this extraordinary thriller rich in the atmospheres of medieval and contemporary France the lives of two women born centuries apart are linked by a common destiny July In the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne Alice a volunteer at an archaeological dig stumbles into a cave and makes... |
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Mrs Harris Goes to Paris & Mrs Harris Goes to New York
Paul Gallico - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Paperback
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The delightful, uplifting story of Mrs. Harris, an ordinary woman whose life is transformed by one beautiful dress-now a motion picture starring Lesley Manville and Isabelle Huppert-and its sequel, set in New York. Mrs. Harris is a salt-of-the-earth London charlady who cheerfully cleans... |
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Season Eight
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The Whalebone Theatre: A novel
Joanna Quinn - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A transporting, irresistible debut novel that takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from the gargantuan cavity of a beached whale into undercover operations during World War II - a story of love, bravery, lost innocence, and self-transformation."Utterly heartbreaking and joyous ... I just... |
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Dracula
Bram Stoker - Macmillan Collector's Library
Format: Print book
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When Jonathan Harker is summoned to Transylvania to finalise a property deal for the mysterious Count Dracula he little suspects that he is unleashing a terrible evil on his fellow countrymen. In this classic novel about vampires Bram Stoker captured the fears of his age. Dracula represents... |
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The Book Thief
Markus Zusak - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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DON'T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK'S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF. This 10th-anniversary edition of the extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller features pages of bonus content, including marked-up manuscript pages, original sketches, and pages from the author's... |
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City of Girls: A Novel
Elizabeth Gilbert - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!A great holiday gift, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and The Signature of All Things, a delicious novel of glamour, sex, and adventure, about a young woman discovering that you don't have to be a good... |
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Season Seven.
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Dark Tides: A Novel
Philippa Gregory - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory's new historical novel tracks the rise of the Tidelands family in London, Venice, and New England. Midsummers Eve, 1670. A wealthy man waits outside a poor London warehouse to meet with Alinor, the woman he failed twenty-one years... |
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Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo - Hamish Hamilton
Format: Hardcover
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Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain, to black womanhood, to the ever-changing heart of LondonGirl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their... |
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The Fair Botanists: Could One Rare Plant Hold the Key to a Thousand Riches?
Sara Sheridan - Hodder & Stoughton
Format: Book
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It's the summer of 1822 and Edinburgh is abuzz with rumours of King George IV's impending visit. In botanical circles, however, a different kind of excitement has gripped the city. In the newly-installed Botanic Garden, the Agave Americana plant looks set to flower - an event that only... |
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen - Collectors Library
Format: Print book
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Excerpt from Pride and Prejudice: A Novel The most conspicuous qualities of Pride and Prejudice are its infectious, high-spirited gaiety and a certain emotional hardness towards characters themselves sharply outlined without the more sympathetic subtlety which is conspicuous in almost all Miss... |
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Season Six.
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Atonement: A Novel
Ian McEwan - Alexandria Library
Format: Hardcover
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On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper's son Robbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along with... |
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The Paper Palace
Miranda Cowley Heller
Format: Book
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It is a perfect July morning, and Elle, a fifty-year-old happily married mother of three, awakens at "The Paper Palace" - the family summer place which she has visited every summer of her life. But this morning is different: last night Elle and her oldest friend Jonas crept out the back... |
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Suite Francaise
Irene Nemirovsky - Vintage; First Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in Suite Franaise tells the remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control As Parisians flee the city human folly surfaces in every imaginable way a wealthy mother searches for sweets in a town... |
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The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini - Riverhead; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestseller and international classic loved by millions of readers.The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his fathers servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process... |
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A Golden Age
Anam, Tahmima - Perennial
Format: Book
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As she plans a party for her son and daughter, Rehana Haque's life will be transformed in a story of one family caught in the middle of the 1971 Bangladesh war of independence, as they face changes and decisions that will have a profound impact on their lives. |
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Paradise
Abdulrazak Gurnah - New Pr; First edition.
Format: Hardcover
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Paradise is at once the story of an African boy's coming of age, a tragic love story, and a tale of the corruption of traditional African patterns by European colonialism. It presents a major African voice to American readers - a voice that prompted Peter Tinniswood to write in the London... |
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The Promise
Damon Galgut - Europa Editions
Format: Hardcover
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A modern saga that could only have come from South Africa, written in gorgeous prose by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author Damon Galgut. Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately... |
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River of Stories: Tales and Poems Across the Commonwealth
Jan Pieńkowski; Alice Curry - Commonwealth Education Trust
Format: Book
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From tiny island to vast territory, each of the member countries of the Commonwealth of Nations has a vibrant heritage of storytelling. With a central theme of water, this glorious collection of children s stories brings together a tale or poem from each of the fifty-four countries of the Commonwealth.... |
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Season Five.
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My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels, Book One
Elena Ferrante - Europa Editions
Format: Paperback
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Book One in Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan QuartetA modern masterpiece from one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante's inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous... |
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The Queen's Necklace
Alexander Dumas
Format: Book
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The second in a series of four novels focused on the character of Cagliostro, it is based on the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, an episode involving fraud and royal scandal that made headlines at the court of Louis XVI in the 1780s. |
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Hamnet: A novel
Maggie O'Farrell - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A thrilling departure: A short, piercing, deeply moving new novel from the acclaimed author of I Am, I Am, I Am, about the death of Shakespeare's eleven-year-old son Hamnet--a name interchangeable with Hamlet in fifteenth-century Britain--and the years leading up to the production of his great... |
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Magpie Murders: A Novel
Anthony Horowitz - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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"Magpie Murders is a double puzzle for puzzle fans, who don't often get the classicism they want from contemporary thrillers." --Janet Maslin, The New York Times*A New York Times bestseller *#1 Indie Next Pick *NPR best book of 2017*Amazon best book of 2017*Washington Post best... |
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All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation... |
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Season Four.
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Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Anchor; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s. We experience this tumultuous decade alongside... |
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The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins - Flame Tree Collectable Classics; Unabridged, Deluxe edition
Format: Hardcover
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The FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CRIME CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library of classic crime and mystery thrillers. Each stunning unabridged edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges.The Woman in White, along with... |
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The Island
Victoria Hislop - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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The Petrakis family lives in the small Greek seaside village of Plaka Just off the coast is the tiny island of Spinalonga where the nations leper colony once was locateda place that has haunted four generations of Petrakis women Theres Eleni ripped from her husband and two young daughters... |
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Dead Man's Time
Peter James - Minotaur Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In Dead Mans Time, the latest from international bestselling author Peter James, Roy Grace finds himself up against that most dangerous of all adversaries--a man with fury in his heart who has nothing to lose.New York, . Five-year-old Gavin Daly and his seven-year-old sister, Aileen, are boarding... |
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Season Three.
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War Horse
Michael Morpurgo - Scholastic Press
Format: Book
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A powerful tale of war, redemption, and a hero's journey.In 1914, Joey, a beautiful bay-red foal with a distinctive cross on his nose, is sold to the army and thrust into the midst of the war on the Western Front. With his officer, he charges toward the enemy, witnessing the horror... |
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The Light Years
Elizabeth J. Howard - Pocket Books
Format: Book
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Tells of the relationships between three generations of various Cazalet households in England beginning in 1937.
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The Various Haunts of Men: A Simon Serrailler Mystery
Susan Hill - Overlook Press
Format: Paperback
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When Susan Hill first introduced us to the city of Lafferton, to its meticulously crafted cast of characters, and to its chief police inspector Simon Serrailler, readers went wild. When it was released in hardcover, The Various Haunts of Men was named a BookSense Pick and was immediately... |
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The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro - Vintage International; 1st edition
Format: Print book
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The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world postwar England. At the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over his career to reassure... |
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21 April 2021. Season Two.
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The Red Notebook
Antoine Laurain - Gallic Books
Format: Book
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Dates of discussion: May 28 – June 11, 2021. Heroic bookseller Laurent Letellier comes across an abandoned handbag on a Parisian street. There's nothing in the bag to indicate who it belongs to, although there's all sorts of other things in it.
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A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel
Amor Towles - Viking
Format: Book
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Dates of discussion: May 14 – 27, 2021.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility - a transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel.
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Girl: A Novel
Edna O'Brien - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Book
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Dates of discussion: April 30 – May 13, 2021 . Girl, Edna O'Brien's hotly anticipated new novel, envisages the lives of the Boko Haram girls in a masterpiece of violence and tenderness.
I was a girl once, but not anymore.
So... |
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The Book of Dust: The Secret Commonwealth
Philip Pullman - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Book
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Dates of discussion: April 16 – 29, 2021.
Return to the parallel world of His Dark Materials in the second volume of Philip Pullman's new bestselling masterwork The Book of Dust, and discover what comes next for Lyra, "one of fantasy's... |
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15 January 2021. Season One.
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The Architect's Apprentice: A Novel
Elif Shafak - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed author of The Bastard of Istanbul, a colorful, magical tale set during the height of the Ottoman EmpireIn her latest novel, Turkey's preeminent female writer spins an epic tale spanning nearly a century in the life of the Ottoman Empire. In 1540, twelve-year-old Jahan... |
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Restless: A Novel
William Boyd - Bloomsbury USA; 1st edition
Format: Paperback
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It is Paris, 1939. Twenty-eight year old Eva Delectorskaya is at the funeral of her beloved younger brother. Standing among her family and friends she notices a stranger. Lucas Romer is a patrician looking Englishman with a secretive air and a persuasive manner. He also has a mysterious... |
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Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent,... |
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The Mirror & the Light
Hilary Mantel - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering... |
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August 21, 2020. Summer Reading List.
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The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins - Knopf
Format: Book
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Wilkie Collins's classic thriller took the world by storm on its first appearance in 1859, with everything from dances to perfumes to dresses named in honor of the "woman in white." The novel's continuing fascination stems in part from a distinctive blend of melodrama,... |
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Looking Good Dead
Peter James - Carroll & Graf
Format: Book
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Tom Bryce did what any decent person would do. But within hours of picking up the CD that had been left behind on the train seat next to him, and attempting to return it to its owner, he is the sole witness to a vicious murder. Then his young family are threatened with their lives if he goes... |
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The Pure in Heart (Simon Serrailler Crime Novels)
Susan Hill - Overlook Hardcover
Format: Hardcover
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The Pure in Heart continues the story of Simon Serrailler, the Detective Chief Inspector to whom readers were introduced in The Various Haunts of Men. Simon is on vacation in Venice, trying to come to terms with the brutal murder of a young woman who had been in love with him. But soon... |
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The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy - HarperOne
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From the revered British illustrator, a modern fable for all ages that explores life's universal lessons, featuring 100 color and black-and-white drawings.
"What do you want to be when you grow up?" asked the mole.
"Kind," said the boy.
Charlie Mackesy... |
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11 April 2020. Easter Reading List.
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A Tale of Two Cities:
Charles Dickens - Signet Classics
Format: Paperback
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The French Revolution comes to vivid life in Charles Dickens's famous novel about the best of times and the worst of times...The storming of the Bastille ... the death carts with their doomed human cargo ... the swift drop of the guillotine blade - this is the French Revolution that... |
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Marking time
Howard, Elizabeth Jane - Pocket Books
Format: Book
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"A multi-generational saga by this brilliant author, of a British family before, during and after World War II. If I were sent to a desert island with one book this would be my choice...!"
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The Light Years
Elizabeth J. Howard - Pocket Books
Format: Book
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"A multi-generational saga by this brilliant author, of a British family before, during and after World War II. If I were sent to a desert island with one book this would be my choice...!"
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Travels on my elephant
Shand, Mark. - Overlook Press
Format: Book
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"My late brother’s tale of his love affair with Tara, an Asian elephant, on their journey across India… it always brings a tear to my eye."
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