Get deep into discussion at your next book group with these handpicked reads from our expert library staff. This list covers our favourite titles for book groups and since they are our top picks, we have many copies and formats available.
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Recommended reads for book groups
Fiction
- Limberlost* by Robbie Arnott
- Shrines of Gaiety* by Kate Atkinson
- Cold enough for snow* by Jessica Au
- Paper cage* by Tom Baragwanath
- Old God's time by Sebastian Barry
- The white girl* by Tony Birch
- The anniversary by Stephanie Bishop
- Horse by Geraldine Brooks
- The mother* by Jane Caro
- Birnam Wood* by Eleanor Catton
- Chai time at Cinnamon Gardens* by Shankari Chandran
- The guest* by Emma Cline
- Paper Palace* by Miranda Cowley Heller
- A country of eternal light* by Paul Dalgarno
- The librarianist* by Patrick De Witt
- Day's end* by Garry Disher
- The way it is now* by Garry Disher
- The trees* by Percival Everett
- Mrs Harris goes to Paris* by Paul Gallico
- Lessons in chemistry* by Bonnie Garmus
- The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies* by Alison Goodman
- Restless Dolly Maunder* by Kate Grenville
- The tilt* by Chris Hammer
- The tea ladies* by Amanda Hampson
- Exiles* by Jane Harper
- The soulmate* by Sally Hepworth
- Broken bay* by Margaret Hickey
- Klara and the sun* by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Pineapple street* by Jenny Jackson
- The registrar* by Neela Janakiramanan
- Vladimir* by Julia May Jonas
- Prettier if she smiled more by Toni Jordan
- The seven moons of Maali Almeida* by Shehan Karunatilaka
- Foster* by Claire Keegan
- Small things like these* by Claire Keegan
- Demon Copperhead* by Barbara Kingsolver
- Seven sisters* by Katherine Kovacic
- Yellowface* by Rebecca Kuang
- The sun walks down* by Fiona McFarlane
- The orphans* by Fiona McIntosh
- The torrent* by Dinuka McKenzie
- I have some questions for you by Rebecca Makkai
- Lenny Marks gets away with murder* by Kerryn Flynn
- The hummingbird effect* by Kate Mildenhall
- A brief affair* by Alex Miller
- First person singular* by Haruki Murakami
- Still by Matt Nable
- Hello beautiful* by Ann Napolitano
- Our missing hearts* by Celeste Ng
- My father's house* by Joseph O'Connor
- The marriage portrait* by Maggie O'Farrell
- Tom Lake* by Ann Patchett
- Home before night by J. P. Pomare
- The maid* by Nita Prose
- Seeing other people* by Diana Reid
- The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo* by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- The seven skins of Esther Wilding* by Holly Ringland
- Beautiful world where are you?* by Sally Rooney
- The bandit Queens* by Parini Schroff
- Dirt town* by Hayley Scrivenor
- The settlement* by Jock Serong
- Best of friends* by Kamila Shamsie
- Romantic comedy* by Curtis Sittenfeld
- Return to Valetto* by Dominic Smith
- Tuesday evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance* by Kate Solly
- Black river* by Matthew Spencer
- Everyone in my family has killed someone* by Benjamin Stevenson
- Lucy by the sea* by Elizabeth Strout
- Young Mungo* by Douglas Stuart
- Clarke* by Holly Throsby
- Here goes nothing* by Steve Toltz
- Lincoln Highway* by Amor Towles
- The covenant of water* by Abraham Verghese
- The couple upstairs* by Holly Wainwright
- The albatross* by Nina Wan
- The book binder of Jericho* by Pip WIlliams
- To paradise* by Hanya Yanagihara
- The wakes by Dianne Yarwood
- Tomorrow, tomorrow, and tomorrow* by Gabrielle Zevin
Non-fiction
- Love stories* by Trent Dalton
- Apollo and Thelma* by Jon Faine
- Unorthodox: the scandalous rejection of my Hasidic roots* by Deborah Feldman
- Wifedom* by Anna Funder
- The Queen is dead* by Stan Grant
- Spare* by Prince Harry
- Empire of pain* by Patrick Radden Keefe
- The remarkable Mrs Reibey* by Grantlee Kieza
- The erratics* by Vicki Laveau-Harvie
- Did I ever tell you this? by Sam Neil
- The light we carry* by Michelle Obama
- A question of age* by Jacinta Parsons
- Nothing bad ever happens here* by Heather Rose
- Taste: my life through food* by Stanley Tucci
- The boys club by Michael Warner
- Educated* by Tara Westover
- Nellie* by Robert Wainwright
- The Jane Austen remedy by Ruth Wilson
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