Found in a Bookshop

by Stephanie Butland

Zoe: Books to Absorb Children – and Their Mother Tove Jansson, The Book About Moomin, Mymble and Little My L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Nadia Shireen, Billy and the Dragon Max Velthuijs, Frog and the Wide World Paul Pritchard: Books For Someone Who Wants Fiction To Bring Ideas To Life Kate Atkinson, Transcription Michael Dobbs, House of Cards Anthony Doerr, All the Light We

Cannot See Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies Val McDermid, Union Jack Chris Mullin, A Very British Coup Bella: Everyday Books About Everyday Things Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Liza Dalby, The Tale of Murasaki Paul Gallico, Flowers for Mrs Harris Nella Last, Nella Last’s War: The Second World War Diaries of ‘Housewife, 49’

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ Maria Semple, Where’d You Go, Bernadette Craig: Books for Someone In Love And Out Of His Depth Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet Lily King, Euphoria Ann Patchett, Bel Canto Jennifer: Old Favourites George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Toni Morrison, Beloved Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea Donna Tartt, The Secret History Milo: Bedtime Reading Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline Werner Holzwarth, The Story of the Little Mole Who Knew It Was None of His Business Tove Jansson, Moomin and the Wishing Star Laura Numeroff, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

Jonno: Books for Someone To Whom Nothing Seems Funny Oyinkan Braithwaite, My Sister, the Serial Killer Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation Helen Oyeyemi, Mr Fox Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day Adjoa: Books That Represent Difference With Joy Sebastian Barry, Days Without

Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton Vanessa Diffenbaugh, The Language of Flowers Bernadine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing Laline Paull, The Bees Tara Westover, Educated Simone: Books to Get You Away From Here Eileen Chang, Lust, Caution Homer’s Odyssey (translated by Emily Wilson) Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the

Coffee Gets Cold (translated by Geoffrey Trousselot) Per Petterson, Out Stealing Horses Jamie: Books to Read in the Middle of the Night Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner Miranda Mellis, None of This is Real Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus Cheryl Strayed, Wild Chris Yates, Nightwalk Max and Kate: Books That Embrace Worlds of Equality and Equity Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the

Homo Sapiens Agenda Kristin Cashore, the ‘Graceling Realm’ novels Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness E. Lockhart, We Were Liars Jay: Pure, Escapist Terror Lauren Beukes, The Shining Girls Joël Dicker, The Truth About the Harry Qu...

Stephen King, Pet Sematary H. P. Lovecraft, ‘The Call Of Cthulhu’ and Other Weird Stories Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca Silvia Morena-Garcia, Mexican Gothic Bram Stoker, Dracula Helen: Books That Make Me Feel That It’s Okay to Be Me Min Jin Lee, Pachinko Maggie O’Farrell, I Am, I Am, I Am Barbara Pym, Excellent Women Kiley Reid, Such A Fun Age Ella Risbridger, Midnight Chicken Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries

John Williams, Stoner Trix: Books to Fix Heartbreak Diana Athill, Instead of a Letter Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt bell hooks, All About Love Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles Sally Rooney, Conversations With Friends George and Rosemary: Books for a Lifetime Jane Austen, Persuasion

Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland (original illustrations by John Tenniel; newer by Helen Oxenbury) Ian McEwan, Atonement Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence And Some More Books You Might Find of Use Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

Elizabeth Barratt Browning Judy Blume, Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures Roald Dahl, Matilda Caroline Dooner, The F*ck It Diet Kate Forsyth, Bitter Greens Jane Gardam, A Long Way from Verona James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small Andrew Kaufman, All My Friends Are Superheroes Marian Keyes, Sushi for Beginners Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird Carson McCullers, The Heart Is

Lonely Hunter Alice Munro, Dear Life Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar Louis Sachar, Holes Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

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