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Holiday Reading Booklist

These titles are in our library and are recommended by staff (in no particular order):
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All the light we cannot see          Anthony Doerr
Big little Lies                                   Liane  Moriarty

The light on the Water                  Olga Lorenzo
The Husband's secret                    Liane Moriarty
​Room                                                Emma Donoghue
Eyrie                                                 Tim Winton
Jack Maggs                                       Peter Carey
Amnesia                                           Peter Carey
The Girl in the Spider's Web        David Lagercrantz
Things I want my daughters to know             Elizabeth Noble
Will Grayson, Will Grayson         John Green
The Fault in our Stars                   John Green
Paper Towns                                   John Green
The Secret Scripture                      Barry Sebastian
On Canaan's Side                            Barry Sebastian
The Shroud                                       John Banville
The Sea                                              John Banville
Letters from Berlin                        Margerette Dos & Kiersten Lieff
Where the streets had a Name     Rada Abdel-Fattch
Dear Fatty                                         Dawn French
Riding the bus with my Sister       Rachel Simon
Stay with Me                                     Maureen McCarthy
Married by Force                            Leila
The Hundred year old man who climbed out the window and     disappeared                           Jonas Jonassan
Gone Girl                                            Gillian Flynn
Barracuda                                            Christos Tsolkas
Hotel on the corner of Bitter and Sweet        Jaime Ford
The 5th Horsemen                            James Patterson
The boy on the wooden box            Leon Lleison
The Book Thief                                   Marcus Zusak
The Long Way Home                        Saroo Brierley
Underneath the Southern Cross    Michael Hussey 769.358092
Mothers & Liars                                  Bourett, Amy 
Boy's Don't Cry                                    Blackman, Malorie 
A Thousand Splendid Suns              Hosseini, Khaled  
The Secret Lives of Dresses              McKean, Erin 
The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul      Deborah Rodriguez 
The Kite Runner                                 Hosseini, Khaled  
One Good Turn                                  Atkinson, Kate 
Mao's Last Dancer                            Cunxin Li      792.8092 LI
Year of Wonder                               Brooks, Geraldine 
People of the Book                          Brooks, Geraldine 
Caleb's Crossing                               Brooks, Geraldine 
Theodore Boone                             Grisham, John 
Jasper Jones                                     Silvey, Craig 
Sixty Lights                                       Jones, Gail 
The Memory Keeper's Daughter     Edwards, Kim 
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen        Torday, Paul 
The Lightkeeper's Wife                   Viggers, Karen 
Lolli's Apple                                       Fleischmann,Thomas 940.5309
The Apple                                           Holt, Penelope 940.5309 HOL
The Pillars of the Earth                   Follet, Ken
Embraced                                           Jessica Shirvington
Enticed                                                 Jessica Shirvington 
Never let me go                                   Ishiguro, Kazuo
Sarah's Last Wish                              Hillary, Eve
Manberry Black Brother White      Jackie French
Sarah Thornhill (Sequel to Secret River) Kate Grenville
One Day                                              David Nicholls
Marley & Me                                      John Grogan
Threes Cups of Tea                           Greg Mortinson
Come Back to me                              Sarah Foster
The Island                                           Victoria Hislop
Poisonwood Bible                             Barbara Kingslover
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas    John Boyne
The Shipping news                          Proulx , Annie

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