Someone asked: “I haven't read a book in five years.”
Books to get back into reading.
The way back in is a book you can't put down. Forget what you think you should read: these are the books we give to people who've lost the habit.
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Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir · 2021
A man wakes up alone on a spaceship with no memory. Funny, clever and propulsive — pure momentum.
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke · 2020
A strange, short novel set in an infinite house full of statues. You'll finish it in two sittings and want to talk about it.
The Secret History
Donna Tartt · 1992
Students, Greek, murder. Long, but it grips you from page one — the definitive 'one more chapter' book.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin · 2022
Thirty years of friendship between two video-game designers. Warm and easy to fall into.
The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman · 2020
Four pensioners solve murders. Light, funny and built to be read on a train.
Educated
Tara Westover · 2018
A memoir that reads like a novel: a girl from a survivalist family teaches herself her way to Cambridge.
Normal People
Sally Rooney · 2018
Two people who keep missing each other. Short chapters and dialogue that make the pages disappear.
Not quite it?
Tell the bookseller what you've already read and what you're in the mood for. We'll narrow it down.