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The titles we are pointing readers to first this season.

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Romance

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy misread each other for most of a novel that invented the modern love story.

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Science Fiction

1984

by George Orwell

Winston Smith rewrites the past for a living, until he decides to keep one honest thought of his own.

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Literary Fiction

To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

A small-town Alabama childhood, a courtroom, and a father who tries to explain both to his daughter.

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Fantasy

The Hobbit

by J. R. R. Tolkien

A comfortable hobbit is talked into a dragon-sized adventure and turns out to be rather good at it.

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Historical Fiction

The Book Thief

by Markus Zusak

Narrated by Death, the story of a girl in Nazi Germany who steals books and reads them aloud in a basement.

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Biography & Memoir

Educated

by Tara Westover

A woman raised off-grid in Idaho, who first set foot in a classroom at seventeen and kept going to Cambridge.

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Editor's picks

Chosen by Our Editors

A short shelf of books we keep coming back to.

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Literary Fiction

To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

A small-town Alabama childhood, a courtroom, and a father who tries to explain both to his daughter.

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Literary Fiction

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

A bootlegger throws parties for a woman across the bay, and Nick Carraway watches the whole thing come apart.

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Books by genre

Find Your Kind of Story

Every genre below currently holds books in the catalogue.

Fiction

Stories that carry you somewhere else and return you slightly changed.

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Literary Fiction

Sentences you slow down for and endings that keep rearranging themselves.

49 booksExplore

Romance

Slow burns, second chances and the satisfying inevitability of a good ending.

18 booksExplore

Mystery & Thriller

Clever puzzles, unreliable narrators and the pages that vanish after midnight.

62 booksExplore

Fantasy

Invented worlds with their own rules, economies and unforgettable maps.

16 booksExplore

Science Fiction

Futures worth arguing about, told at a human scale.

33 booksExplore

Historical Fiction

The past rendered close enough to touch, and complicated enough to believe.

10 booksExplore

Biography & Memoir

Real lives told with craft, candour and the occasional score to settle.

41 booksExplore

Nonfiction

Ideas, reporting and history from writers who did the reading first.

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Self-Help

Practical, evidence-minded books that respect your time.

25 booksExplore

Young Adult

First loves, high stakes and voices that land at any age.

18 booksExplore

Children's Books

Read-alouds, early chapter books and the ones they'll ask for nightly.

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Classics

The books that keep being reprinted, argued over and rediscovered.

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Horror

Dread built slowly, and the kind of book best finished before midnight.

18 booksExplore

True Crime

Reported cases, investigations and the questions they leave behind.

23 booksExplore

Poetry

Collections to read a page at a time and return to often.

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Books by reading mood

What Kind of Reading Week Is It?

Mood is often a better filter than genre. Pick the one that fits tonight.

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Romance

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy misread each other for most of a novel that invented the modern love story.

View Book
  • Featured

Fantasy

The Hobbit

by J. R. R. Tolkien

A comfortable hobbit is talked into a dragon-sized adventure and turns out to be rather good at it.

View Book

Fiction

The Alchemist

by Paulo Coelho

A shepherd leaves Andalusia for the pyramids, following a dream he is told to trust.

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Books by audience

Who Is It For?

Adult, young adult, children's and all-ages reading, filtered by who tends to enjoy it most.

Adult

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Romance

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy misread each other for most of a novel that invented the modern love story.

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  • Reading Challenge Pick

Science Fiction

1984

by George Orwell

Winston Smith rewrites the past for a living, until he decides to keep one honest thought of his own.

View Book
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Literary Fiction

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

A bootlegger throws parties for a woman across the bay, and Nick Carraway watches the whole thing come apart.

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Adult · Young Adult

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Literary Fiction

To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

A small-town Alabama childhood, a courtroom, and a father who tries to explain both to his daughter.

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  • Reading Challenge Pick

Historical Fiction

The Book Thief

by Markus Zusak

Narrated by Death, the story of a girl in Nazi Germany who steals books and reads them aloud in a basement.

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All ages

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Fantasy

The Hobbit

by J. R. R. Tolkien

A comfortable hobbit is talked into a dragon-sized adventure and turns out to be rather good at it.

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Children · Young Adult

Reader interest

Readers Are Talking About

Books generating strong reader interest right now, selected by hand. Any bestseller or rating detail shown has been verified before publishing.

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Historical Fiction

The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini

A childhood betrayal in Kabul that takes a lifetime, and a return journey, to answer for.

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Fantasy

The Night Circus

by Erin Morgenstern

A circus arrives without warning, opens at nightfall, and hosts a duel neither magician chose.

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Biography & Memoir

Educated

by Tara Westover

A woman raised off-grid in Idaho, who first set foot in a classroom at seventeen and kept going to Cambridge.

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Biography & Memoir

Books in Biography & Memoir

41 titles, each with a cover, a blurb and a reason to read it.

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Biography & Memoir

Educated

by Tara Westover

A woman raised off-grid in Idaho, who first set foot in a classroom at seventeen and kept going to Cambridge.

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Biography & Memoir

Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor E. Frankl

A psychiatrist's account of the camps, and the therapy he built from what he observed there.

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Biography & Memoir

Becoming

by Michelle Obama

From the South Side of Chicago to the White House, told in her own voice.

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Biography & Memoir

Into the Wild

by Jon Krakauer

Chris McCandless gave away his savings and walked into the Alaskan interior.

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Biography & Memoir

The Wright Brothers

by David McCullough

Two bicycle mechanics from Dayton, and the four years that ended with flight.

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Biography & Memoir

The Diary of a Young Girl

by Anne Frank

Two years in a hidden annexe in Amsterdam, written by a teenager who wanted to be a writer.

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