A Must-Read Book List for Lovers of All Genres

We asked our Instagram followers for the best books they’ve read recently. As we’re all finding ourselves with some extra time to spend indoors, or safely socially distanced outside, we thought a fan-favourite book list could help you find your next read.

Thanks to an overwhelming number of responses, we have compiled this reading list featuring top choices from a variety of genres, from contemporary fiction to young adult novels, and everything in between.

Top Picks

• In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust
• The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
• Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
• The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss

Other Favourites

Contemporary Fiction

• Queenie, Candice Carty-Williams
• Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney
• Sharks in the Time of Saviors, Kawai Strong Washburn
• Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata
• Flights, Olga Tokarczuk
• Three Women, Lisa Taddeo

Domestic Fiction

• Pedro Páramo, Juan Rulfo
• A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
• All Your Perfects, Colleen Hoover
• Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee

Fantasy

• The Black Witch, Laurie Forest
• The Last Smile in Sunder City, Luke Arnbole
• The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer
• The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
• Neverending Story, Michael Ende
• Iron Council, China Miéville

Historical Fiction

• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
• Circe, Madeline Miller

Magic Realism

• The Green Mile, Stephen King
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

Non-Fiction

• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, John Carreyrou
• The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Disney Company, Robert Allen Iger
• Becoming, Michelle Obama
• The Choice, Edith Eva Eger
• The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee

Novel Series

• The Witcher, Andrej Sapkowski
• Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling
• Outlander, Diana Gabaldon
• Mistborn, Brandon Sanderson

Poetry

• Satura, Eugenio Montale
• Poésies, Stéphane Mallarmé

Romantic Fiction

• Call Me by Your Name, André Aciman
• Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
• South of the Border, West of the Sun, Haruki Murakami
• Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy

Satire/Criticism

• Animal Farm, George Orwell
• Bleak House, Charles Dickens

Science Fiction

• Dune, Frank Herbert
• Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Jules Verne

Thriller/Mystery

• Perfect Prey, Helen Fields
• The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• Say You’re Sorry, Michael Robotham
• Live by Night, Dennis Lehane

Young Adult Fiction

• Simon vs. the Homosapien Agenda, Becky Albertalli
• S.T.A.G.S., M.A. Bennett

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