Reading Group Collections
Single Large Print or Spoken Word version available on request as indicated (LP, SW, MP3)
| Atonement | Ian McEwan | Moving exploration of shame and forgiveness | LP,SW |
| Big boy did it and ran away | Christopher Brookmyre | Blackly comic crime | SW |
| Birdsong | Sebastian Faulks | Drama set before and during the First World War | SW |
| Black Dahlia | James Ellroy | Classic American crime | SW |
| Blind Sighted | Karin Slaughter | Crime thriller | LP,SW |
| Book Thief | Markus Zusak | Story of Jewish girl's experience during WW2 | |
| Buddha Da | Anne Donovan | Modern novel set in Glasgow | LP,SW |
| Can you keep a secret? | Sophie Kinsella | Lighthearted and witty story of a nervous flyer | LP,SW |
| Case Histories | Kate Atkinson | Three unsolved crimes and a private eye hero | LP,SW |
| Clara | Janice Galloway | Novel based on the life of Clara Schumann | |
| Cold Mountain | Charles Frazier | Historical novel set during American Civil War | LP |
| Crow Road | Iain Banks | Contemporary Scottish classic | SW |
| Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time | Mark Haddon | Novel told from the perspective of a 15 year old autistic boy | LP,SW |
| Cutting Room | Louise Welsh | Winner of the John Creasey memorial Dagger Award 2002 | SW |
| Day | A.L. Kennedy | Costa Book of the Year winner 2007 | LP |
| Deja Dead | Kathy Reichs | Forensic crime featuring Dr Temperence Brennan | |
| Death of a murderer | Rupert Thomson | Story of one long, thoughtful night in the life of a policeman | LP |
| Dreams from my father | Barack Obama | Autobiography | LP |
| Eight Months on Ghazzah Street | Hilary Mantel | A haunting novel of life in Saudi Arabia | |
| Franchise Affair | Josephine Tey | Classic Crime | LP |
| Gallery Whispers | Quintin Jardine | A Bob Skinner mystery | LP,SW |
| Gargoyle | Andrew Davidson | A burn victim meets a stranger with a medieval past | |
| Glass Palace | Amitav Ghosh | Spanning three generations in Burma, India and Malaya | |
| Gods in Alabama | Joshilyn Jackson | Deeply humorous American Deep South novel | |
| Grace Notes | Bernard MacLaverty | Saltire Scottish book of the Year wiiner 1997 | LP |
| Historian | Elizabeth Kostova | Powerful retelling of the Dracula story | SW |
| How late it was, how late | James Kelman | Glasgow life through the eyes of an ex-con | |
| Inheritance of Loss | Kiran Desai | Man Booker Prize winner set mainly in India | LP,MP3 |
| Joseph Knight | James Robertson | Novel based on the true story of a black slave in Edinburgh | |
| Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | Novel set in Afghanistan and America | LP,SW |
| Kindness of Strangers | Kate Adie | Autobiography | LP,SW |
| Lie about my father | John burnside | Autobiography | |
| Little friend | Donna Tartt | Mississippi mystery from the author of 'The Secret History' | SW |
| Living with mother | Michelle Hanson | Tragic and comic tales from her Guardian column | |
| Memoirs of a Geisha | Arthur Golden | Insight into the Japanese world of the geisha | LP,SW |
| Never Somewhere Else | Alex Gray | Page turning modern crime set in Glasgow | SW |
| Nineteen Eighty Four | George Orwell | Modern classic | |
| No 1 Ladies Detective Agency | Alexander McCall Smith | Gentle crime story set in Botswana | SW |
| One thing more | Anne Perry | Mystery set in France during the Revolution | LP |
| Promise of Happiness | Justin Cartwright | Novel about the meltdown of a wealthy family | SW |
| Pure land | Alan Spence | Historical novel set in Japan | LP,SW |
| Purple Hibiscus | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Growing up in Nigeria during a military coup | SW |
| Rachel's holiday | Marian Keyes | Witty novel dealing with addiction | SW |
| Reader | Bernhard Schlink | A story of love, guilt, betrayal and shame | LP,SW |
| Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier | Modern classic | LP,SW |
| Regeneration | Pat Barker | Part one of WW1 trilogy | SW |
| Secret Life of Bees | Sue Monk Kidd | Coming of age story set in the deep south of the 1960s | LP |
| Shadow of the wind | Carlos Ruiz Zafon | Bestseller set in post war Barcelona | SW |
| Sopranos | Alan Warner | Controversial former Saltire Book of the Year | |
| Suite Francaise | Irene Nemirovsky | Novel set in France during the Occupation | LP,SW |
| Time traveller's wife | Audrey Niffenegger | Unconventional love story | |
| Untold Stories | Alan Bennett | Collected writings | |
| We need to talk about Kevin | Lionel Shriver | A mother tries to come to terms with the horrific actions of her son | SW |
If your reading group would like to borrow one of these titles, please email liz.patrick@library.s-lanark.org.uk
