Normal People by Sally Rooney
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A universal story of love, friendship, and growing up. At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well-adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her job at Marianne ...Show more
Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
Category: Fiction
Let me tell you about our brother. The fourth Dunbar boy named Clay. Everything happened to him. We were all of us changed through him. The Dunbar boys bring each other up in a house run by their own rules. A family of ramshackle tragedy - their mother is dead, their father has fled - they love and figh ...Show more
Paris Echo by Sebastian Faulks
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Faulks is beyond doubt a master' Financial TimesHere is Paris as you have never seen it before - a city in which every building seems to hold the echo of an unacknowledged past, the shadows of Vichy and Algeria.American postdoctoral researcher Hannah and runaway Moroccan teenager Tariq have little in c ...Show more
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: good
'The best Australian novel I have read in more than a decade' Sydney Morning Herald 'Astonishing, captivating ... a wild, beautiful, heart-exploding ride' Elizabeth Gilbert The bestselling novel that has taken Australia, and the world, by storm. Winner of Book of the Year at the 2019 Indie Book Awards, ...Show more
Sixty Summers by Amanda Hampson
Category: Fiction
Disenchanted with their lives, three old friends set off on a journey through Europe retracing the steps of a backpacking trip forty years earlier. What could possibly go wrong? Life is too short for compromise ... When Maggie, Fran and Rose met in their youth, they had dreams and ambitions. Forty years ...Show more
Attraction by Ruby Porter
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
The present reckons with the past in Attraction. Porter's unnamed narrator is on a road trip between Auckland, Whangara and Levin with her friends Ashi and Ilana, haunted by the spectre of her emotionally abusive ex-boyfriend, her complicated family background and New Zealand's colonial history. Jealous ...Show more
The Unreliable People by Rosetta Allan
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Is all love doomed under a heartless regime? Antonina is a student at the prestigious Academy of Art in St Petersburg, though at times she feels she might be a better fit at the Centre of Non-conformist Art across town. She knows she stands out as different, being neither Russian, Korean nor Kazak - and ...Show more
Ellie and the Harpmaker by Hazel Prior
Category: Fiction
A rich, heartwarming and completely charming debut that reminds us that sometimes, you don't find love--love finds you. Dan Hollis lives a happy, solitary life carving exquisite Celtic harps in his barn in the countryside of the English moors. Here, he can be himself, away from social situations that he ...Show more
The Department of Sensitive Crimes - A Detective Varg Novel by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: Fiction | Series: Detective Varg Ser. | Reading Level: very good
From the beloved and bestselling author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series comes a lighthearted comedic novel about a Swedish police department tasked with solving the most unusual, complicated, and, often, insignificant crimes. The detectives who work in Malmo Police's Department of Sensiti ...Show more
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 1 Phantom Blood, Vol. 1 by Hirohiko Araki
Category: Fiction | Series: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
The legendary Shonen Jump series, now available in English for the first time, in a deluxe edition featuring color pages and newly drawn cover art JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is a groundbreaking manga famous for its outlandish characters, wild humor and frenetic battles. A multigenerational tale of the her ...Show more
The Children Act by Ian McEwan
Category: Fiction
Now a Major Motion Picture starring Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci, and Fionn Whitehead. One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, BookRiotFiona Maye is a leading High Court judge who presides over cases in the family division. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactit ...Show more
The Pearl Sister (#4 The Seven Sisters) by Lucinda Riley
Category: Fiction | Series: The Seven Sisters
CeCe D'Apli se has always felt like an outcast. But after the death of her father -- a reclusive billionaire affectionately called Pa Salt by the six daughters he adopted from around the globe -- she feels more alone than ever. With nothing left to lose, CeCe delves into the mystery of her familial orig ...Show more