Due to staff training on Wednesday 4 February 2026 - Central, Bletchley and Wolverton Libraries will open at 11.30am. Libraries Xtra will operate at Kingston, Westcroft and Newport Pagnell Libraries from 8am until they open at 11.30am. Olney Library will open at 10am (with storytime at 11am) and Stony Stratford Library will open at 9am thanks to our volunteers.
Book collections for reading groups
The sets are listed in alphabetical order by author's surname:
A
- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi - Americanah
- Ahmad, Jamil - Wandering Falcon
- Alderman, Naomi - The Power
- Amis, Kingsley - Lucky Jim
- Atkins, Dani - This Love
- Atkinson, Kate - Case Histories
- Atwood, Margaret - The Handmaid's Tale
B
- Backman, Fredrik - Anxious People
- Baddiel, David - The Death of Eli Gold
- Bainbridge, Beryl - The Birthday Boys
- Baker, Jo - Longbourn
- Barnes, Julian - The Noise of Time
- Bauby, Jean-Dominique - The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly
- Bauer, Belinda - Rubbernecker
- Bilston, Brian - Diary of a Somebody
- Blackman, Malorie - Noughts and Crosses
- Blake, Fanny - A Fresh Start (Quick Read combination with Sofia Khan and the Baby Blues by Ayisha Malik)
- Boo, Katherine - Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- Boyd, William - Any Human Heart
- Boyd, William - Restless
- Braithwaite, Oyinkan - My Sister, The Serial Killer
- Broad, Chris - Abroad in Japan
- Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights
- Buchanan, Tracy - The Atlas of Us
C
- Carew, Keggie - Dadland
- Carr, J L - A Month in the Country
- Carson, Jan - The Raptures
- Carter, Angela - Wise Children
- Carty-Williams, Candice - Queenie
- Chevalier, Tracy - Remarkable Creatures
- Chidgey, Catherine - Pet
- Chua, Amy - Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
- Cohen, Julie - Together
- Collins, Bridget - The Binding
- Craig, Amanda - Hearts and Minds
- Cronin, Marianne - The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
D
- De Jong, Eleanor - Delilah
- De Waal, Kit - My Name is Leon
- Dickens, Charles - Our Mutual Friend
- Didierlaurent, Jean-Paul - The Reader on the 6.27
- Doerr, Anthony - All the Light We Cannot See
- Donoghue, Emma - Room
- Doughty, Caitlin - Smoke Gets in your Eyes
- Du Maurier, Daphne - The House on the Strand
- Du Maurier, Daphne - Rebecca
- Dunmore, Helen - Birdcage Walk
E
- El Akkad, Omar - American War
- Eliot, George - Silas Marner
- Elmhirst, Sophie - Maurice and Maralyn: An Extraordinary True Story of Shipwreck, Survival and Love
- Everett, Percival - James
F
- Fiennes, William - The Music Room
- Filer, Nathan - The Shock of the Fall
- Fitzgerald, F Scott - The Great Gatsby
- Frayn, Michael - Spies
- Frenkel, Francoise - No Place to Lay One's Head
- Funder, Anna - All That I Am
G
- Gale, Patrick - A Place Called Winter
- Gardam, Jane Old Filth
- Garmus, Bonnie - Lessons in Chemistry
- Gaskell, Elizabeth - The Cranford Chronicles
- Gibbons, Stella - Cold Comfort
- Godfrey, Jennie - The List of Suspcious Things
- Gordon, Bryony - Mad Girl
- Grant, Linda - The Clothes on Their Backs
- Greene, Graham - The Heart of the Matter
- Gregory, Philippa - The Kingmaker's Daughter
- Gregory, Philippa - A Respectable Trade
- Groff, Lauren - Matrix
H
- Haig, Matt - The midnight Library
- Haig, Matt - Reasons to Stay Alive
- Halls, Stacey - The Familiars
- Hardinge, Frances - The Lie Tree
- Harper, Jane - The Dry
- Harris, Robert - An Officer and a Spy
- Harris, Robert - The Ghost
- Harris, Robert - The Second Sleep
- Hartley, L P - The Go-Between
- Haruf, Kent - Our Souls at Night
- Healey, Emma - Elizabeth is Missing
- Heaney, Seamus - New Selected Poems 1966-1987
- Hensher, Philip - Tales of Persuasion
- Herron, Mich - Slow Horses
- Highsmith, Patricia - The Talented Mr Ripley
- Honeyman, Gail - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
- Hosseini, Khaled - The Kite Runner
- Household, Geoffrey - Rogue Male
I
- Ishiguro, Kazuo - The Remains of the Day
J
- Jackson, Mick - The Widow's Tale
- James, Clive - Play All/Latest Readings (5 of each)
- James, Henry - Turn of the Screw
- Jones, Wendy - The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price
- Jordan, Hilary - Mudbound
K
- Kalanithi, Paul - When Breath Becomes Air
- Kane, Jessica Francis - The Report
- Kawaguchi, Toshikazu - Before the Coffee Gets Cold
- Kay, Jackie - Red Dust Road
- Kelly, Erin - The Poison Tree
- Kent, Hannah - Burial Rites
- Kingsolver, Barbara - Demon Copperhead
- Kingsolver, Barbara - Pigs in Heaven
- Knight, Renee - Disclaimer
- Kohler, Sheila - Once We Were Sisters
- Krakauer, Jon - Into Thin Air
- Kuang, R F - Yellowface
L
- Lahiri, Jhumpa - The Namesake
- Laing, Olivia - To the River
- Lampedusa Tomasi Di - Leopard
- Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
- Lessing, Doris - The Grass is Singing
- Lindqvist, John Ajvide - Let the Right One In
- Lively, Penelope - Making It Up
- Lyndsey, Anna - Girl in the Dark
M
- McCarthy, Cormac - The Road
- McCormack, Mike - Solar Bones
- McCreight, Kimberley - Reconstructing Amelia
- McEwan, Ian - Nutshell
- McEwan, Ian - The Children Act
- Magnusson, Sally - The Sealwoman's Gift
- Mahmood, Imran - You Don't Know Me
- Makkai, Rebecca - The Borrower
- Malik, Ayisha - Sofia Khan and the Baby Blues (Quick Read combination with A Fresh Start by Fanny Blake)
- Marquez, Gabriel Garcia - Love in the Time of Cholera
- Maupin, Armistead - Tales of the City
- May, Peter - Coffin Road
- Miller, Kirsten - Lua Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
- Moore, Liz - Heft
- Morrison, Toni - Beloved
- Moyes, Jojo - Me Before You
- Moyes, Jojo - One Plus One
- Munro, Alice - Dear Life
N
- Nafisi, Azar - Reading Lolita in Tehran
- Ness, Patrick - A Monster Calls
- Nielsen, Susin - We Are All Made of Molecules
- Norris, Barney - Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain
O
- O'Farrell, Maggie - I Am, I Am, I Am
- O'Farrell, Maggie - Instructions for a Heatwave
- Osman, Richard - The Thursday Murder Club
- Owens, Delia - Where the Crawdads Sing
P
- Paull, Laline - The Bees
- Paver, Michelle - Dark Matter
- Perry, Sarah - The Essex Serpent
- Persaud, Ingrid - Love After Love
- Picoult, Jodi - Nineteen Minutes
- Pinborough, Sarah - Insomnia
- Pym, Barbara - Quartet in Autumn
R
- Reid, Melanie - The World I Fell Out Of
- Rennett, Philip - Paths Not Yet Taken
- Roffey, Monique - White Woman on a Green Bicycle
- Rooney, Sally - Conversations with Friends
S
- Sahota, Sunjey - The Year of the Runaways
- Said, S F - Tyger
- Schlink, Bernard - The Reader
- Segrave, Elisa - The Girl from Station X
- Shafak, Elif - The Island of Missing Trees
- Shaffer, Mary Ann - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
- Shroff, Parini - The Bandit Queens
- Simon, Rachel - The Story of a Beautiful Girl
- Sixsmith, Martin - Philomena
- Smith, Ali - Public Libraries and Other Stories
- Smith, Dodie - I Capture the Castle
- Smith, Emma - The Great Western Beach
- Smith, Wilbur - Elephant Song
- Spark, Muriel - A Far Cry from Kensington
- Spufford, Frances - Golden Hill
- St John Mandel, Emily - Station Eleven
- Stedman, M L - The Light Between Oceans
- Steidele, Angela - Gentleman Jack: A Biography of Anne Lister
- Strachan, Mari - The Earth Hums in B Flat
T
- Taylor, Elizabeth - Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
- Tearne, Roma - Bone China
- Thomas, Angie - The Hate U Give
- Toibin, Colm - Brooklyn
- Twan Eng, Tan - The Garden of Evening Mists
V
- Van Pelt, Shelby - Remarkably Bright Creatures
- Vickers, Salley - Miss Garnet's Angel
- Vickers, Salley - The Librarian
W
- Walker, Adrian J - The End of the World Running Club
- Walter, Jess - Beautiful Ruins
- Waters, Sarah - The Night Watch
- Weir, Alison - Innocent Traitor
- Wells, H G - The Invisible Man
- Westover, Tara - Educated
- Wharton, Edith - The Age of Innocence
- Williams, Pip - The Dictionary of Lost Words
- Wilson, Kevin - Now is Not the Time to Panic
- Winman, Sarah - Still Life
- Winman, Sarah - Tin Man
- Winn, Raynor - The Salt Path
- Woolf, Virginia - Orlando
- Wyld, Evie - After the Fire, A Still Small Voice
