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Readers group book collection

Readers group book collection

Readers groups meet in libraries across South Lanarkshire to share their love of books and reading. To support this activity we maintain a readers group book collection with multiple copies of a wide range of titles.

List of available titles

Some titles have a single large print (LP) or spoken word (SW) version available on request as indicated. Mood-busting titles are indicated as (MB).

Following is a list of the book titles available to our readers groups as at 25 February 2020:

Adler-Olsen, Jussi - Mercy
Albom, Mitch - Tuesdays with Morrie
Alharthi, Jokha - Celestial Bodies
Backman, Fredrik - A Man Called Ove
Backman, Fredrik - The Scandal
Baker, Dorothy - Cassandra at the Wedding
Bakewell, Joan - Stop the Clocks
Barker, Pat - Regeneration (SW)
Barton, Fiona - The Suspect
Beckerman, Hannah - If only I could tell you
Benioff, David - City of Thieves
Benjamin, Chloe - The Immortalists
Berry, Julie - All the truth that’s in me
Bivald, Katarina - The Readers of the Broken Wheel Recommend
Bjork, Samuel - I’m Travelling Alone
Boyd, William - Sweet Caress (SW)
Boyd, William - Any Human Heart
Boyne, John - The Congress of Rough Riders
Bradley, Alan - The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Brookmyre, Christopher - Black Widow
Brookner, Anita - Look at Me
Bryson, Bill - The Road to Little Dribbling (MB)
Bunyan John - The Pilgrim’s Progress (LP)
Burke, Alafair - The Wife
Burnet, Graeme Macrae - His bloody project (SW)
Burton, Jessie - The Miniaturist (LP, SW)
Burton, Jessie - The Muse (SW)
Bussi, Michel - Black Water Lilies
Byatt, A. S. - Possession
Cannon, Joanna - Three Things about Elsie
Carr, J.L. - A Month in the Country
Chamberlain, Mary - The Dressmaker of Dachau (LP, SW)
Cisneros, Sandra - The House on Mango Street
Cleeves, Ann - Cold Earth (SW)
Constantine, Liv - The Last Mrs Parrish
Copleton, Jackie - A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding (LP)
Cullen, Helen - The lost letters of William Woolf
Davidson, Andrew - The Gargoyle
Day, Elizabeth - The Party
Dean, Will - Dark Pines
Didierlaurant, Jean-Paul - The Rest of their Lives
Doerr, Anthony - All the Light we Cannot See (MB)
Donovan, Anne - Buddha Da
Douglas, Robert - Night Song of the Last Tram
Du Maurier, Daphne - Rebecca (SW)
Dunmore, Helen - The Lie (LP, SW)
Dunmore, Helen - A Spell of Winter
Dunn, Dot May - Bread, Jam and a Borrowed Pram (LP)
Durrell, Gerald - My Family and Other Animals (MB)
Eberlen, Kate - Miss you (MB)
Evans, Lissa - Old Baggage
Faber, Michel - The Crimson Petal and the White (SW)
Fallada, Hans - Alone in Berlin (LP, SW)
Fallon, Jane - My Sweet Revenge
Ferrante, Elena - My Brilliant Friend (MB)
Finn, A.J. - The Woman in the Window
Flynn, Gillian - Gone Girl (SW)
French, Dawn - According to Yes (SW)
French, Tana - The Wych Elm
Galbraith, Robert - The Cuckoo’s Calling (LP)
Galloway, Janice - Clara
Gayle, Mike - The Man I think I Know
George, Nina - The Little Breton Bistro (MB)
George, Nina - The Little Paris Bookshop (LP, SW)
Gower, Imogen Hermes - The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock
Graham, Winston - Ross Poldark (MB)
Gray, Alex - Never Somewhere Else (SW)
Greene, Graham - The End of the Affair
Grisham , John - The Whistler
Haag, Michael - The Durrells of Corfu
Hannah, Kristen - The Nightingale
Hannah, Sophie - The Carrier (LP, SW)
Harper, Jane - The Dry (SW)
Harper, Jane - Force of Nature
Harris, Joanne - Chocolat (MB)
Harris, Robert - Conclave (SW)
Harris, Robert - Fatherland (SW)
Hashimi, Nadia - The Pearl that Broke its Shell
Hayes, Terry - I am Pilgrim
Hendricks, Greer - The Wife Between Us
Henry, Veronica - A Family Recipe
Hillenbrand, Laura - Unbroken
Hislop, Victoria - Cartes postales from Greece (MB)
Hislop, Victoria - The Thread (LP, SW)
Honeyman, Gail - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (MB)
Hosseini, Khaled - The Kite Runner (SW)
Hurley, Andrew Michael - The Loney
Jeffries, Dinah - The Sapphire Widow
Jewell, Lisa - Watching You
Johnson, Denis - Jesus’ Son
Jones, Tayari - An American Marriage
Kay, Adam - This is Going to Hurt
Kay, Jackie - Red Dust Road (SW)
Kelly, Erin - He Said / She Said
Kent, Hannah - Burial Rites
Kerr, Philip - Prague Fatale (LP, SW)
Kidd, Sue Monk - The Invention of Wings
Kincaid, Jamaica - A Small Place
Kym, Min - Gone
Lapena, Shari - A Stranger in the House
Larsson, Steig - Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (SW)
Laurain, Antoine - The President’s Hat (MB)
Leith, Prue - The Food of Love (SW)
Lester, Jem - Shtum (MB)
Lewis, Sinclair - It Can’t Happen Here
Lipman, Laura - Sunburn
Lispector, Clarice - Hour of the Star
McCann, Colum - Let the Great World Spin
McCarthy, Cormack - The Road (LP, SW)
McIlvanney, Liam - The Quaker
Mackay, Malcolm - The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter (LP)
MacNeil, Kevin - The Stornoway Way
McPartlin, Anna - The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes (LP, SW)
Magnusson, Sally - The Sealwoman’s Gift
Mandel, Emily St. John - Station Eleven
Marshall, Laura - Friend Request
May, Peter - The Black House (LP, SW)
May, Peter - Entry Island (LP, SW)
Messud, Claire - The Woman Upstairs (LP)
Mina, Denise - Sanctum (LP, SW)
Montefiore, Santa - The Temptation of Gracie
Montefiore, Simon - Sashenka (LP, SW)
Moriarty, Liane - Big Little Lies
Moriarty, Liane - Truly Madly Guilty
Morrison, J.B - The Extraordinary Life of Frank Derrick, age 81 (MB)
Morton, Kate - The Secret Keeper (SW)
Mosse, Kate - The Winter Ghosts (LP)
Moyes, Jojo - The One plus One (MB)
Moyes, Jojo - The Giver of Stars
Nesbo, Jo - The Devil’s Star (SW)
Nesbo, Jo - The Snowman (SW)
Nesser, Hakan - The Living and the Dead in Winsford
Neville, Stuart - Those we left behind (SW)
Ng, Celeste - Little Fires Everywhere
Niffenegger, Audrey - The Time Traveler’s Wife (SW)
Noble, Elizabeth - Letters to Iris
Nugent, Liz - Skin Deep
O’Farrell, Maggie - I am, I am, I am
O’Farrell, Maggie - This Must be the Place
O’Farrell, Maggie - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
Oswald, James - The Gathering Dark
Otsuka, Julie - The Buddha in the Attic
Paris, B.A. - Bring Me Back
Parry, Ambrose - The Way of All Flesh
Paull, Laline - The Bees (LP)
Paulson-Ellis, Mary - The Other Mrs Walker
Penney, Stef - Under a Pole Star
Perks, Heidi - Now You See Her
Picoult, Jodi - Small Great Things (MB)
Plampin, Matthew - The Devil’s Acre (LP)
Rankin, Ian - Rather be the Devil (LP)
Reichs, Kathy - Deja Dead
Riley, Lucinda - The Love Letter
Roberts, Nora - Island of Glass
Robertson, Craig  - Murderabilia
Robertson, James - The Testament of Gideon Mack (SW)
Rous, Emma - The Au Pair
Runcie, James - Sidney Chambers and the Forgiveness of Sins (LP, SW)
Sansom, C.J. - Dissolution (LP)
Sebald, W.G. - The Rings of Saturn
Shaffer, Mary Ann - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
Shetterley, Margot Lee - Hidden Figures
Silver, Josie - One Day in December
Sittenfield, Curtis - American Wife
Slaughter, Karin - The Good Daughter
Slimani, Leila - Lullaby
Smith, Betty - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (MB)
Smith, Ethyl - Changed Times
Stedman, M L - The Light between Oceans (LP)
Stibbe, Nina - Love Nina
Stockett, Kathryn - The Help (SW)
Strayed, Cheryl - Wild
Strout, Elizabeth - My Name is Lucy Barton
Stuart, Keith - Days of Wonder
Sund, Erik Axl - The Crow Girl
Theriault, Denis - The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman (MB)
Thien, Madeleine - Do Not Say We Have Nothing (SW)
Towles, Amor - A Gentleman in Moscow
Turton, Stuart - The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Tyce, Harriet - Blood Orange
Tyler, Anne - A Spool of Blue Thread
Vaughan, Sarah - Anatomy of a Scandal
Verghese, Abraham - Cutting for Stone (SW)
Vickers, Salley - Miss Garnet’s Angel (MB)
Von Arnim, Elizabeth - The Enchanted April
Walker, Alice - Overcoming Speechlessness
Wallace, David Foster - Infinite Jest
Ware, Ruth - The Death of Mrs Westaway
Wark, Kirsty - The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle
Watson, SJ - Before I go to Sleep (SW)
Webb, Katherine - The Legacy
Whipple, Dorothy - Someone at a Distance
Whitehead, Colson - The Underground Railroad (LP)
Whitehouse, Lucie - The Bed I Made (LP, SW)
Winman, Sarah - When God was a Rabbit (LP)
Woolf, Virginia - Mrs Dalloway (SW)
Zafon, Carlos Ruiz - The Shadow of the Wind (LP, SW)
Zephaniah, Benjamin - Refugee Boy
Zusak, Markus - The Book Thief (LP, SW)
Zusak, Markus - Bridge of Clay


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