Inspire's Favourite Reads

Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Naomi Alderman - The Power

Simon Armitage - Walking Home

Kate Atkinson - Shrines of Gaiety

Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale

Fredrik Backman - Beartown

Robert Jackson Bennett - The Tainted Cup

Karen Bixen - Out of Africa

Sharon Bolton - The Neighbour's Secret

Ezekiel Boone - Skitter

Stephen Booth - Drowned Lives

James Bowen - A Street Cat Named Bob

Bill Bryson - Notes from a Small Island

Lee Child - Better Off Dead

Richard Chizmar - Memorials

Susanna Clarke - Piranesi

Ann Cleeves - The Heron's Cry

Genevieve Cogman - The Invisible Library

Hunter Davies - The Co-op's Got Bananas

Claire Douglas - The Couple at No.9

Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca

Bernardine Evaristo - Girl, Woman, Other

Percival Everett - James

John Gardner - Grendel

Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry

Elizabeth Gaskell - North and South

Mike Gayle - The Man I Think I Know

William Gibson - Neuromancer

Elly Griffiths - The Frozen People

Elly Griffiths - The Locked Room

Matt Haig - The Midnight Library

Stacey Halls - Mrs England

Kristin Hannah - The Great Alone

Thomas Hardy - Far From the Madding Crowd

Robert Harris - Act of Oblivion

Victoria Hislop - The Island

Colleen Hoover - It Ends with Us

Khaled Hosseini - 1000 Splendid Suns

Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day

Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men in a Boat

Lisa Jewell - The Night She Disappeared

Milly Johnson - The Woman in the Middle

Adam Kay - This is Going to Hurt

Marian Keyes - Again, Rachel

Stephen King - It

Stephen King - Cujo

Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead

Mark Lawrence - The Book That Wouldn't Burn

Christy Lefteri - Beekeeper of Aleppo

T. M. Logan - The Mother

Rachel Lynch - Dark Game

Patty Lyons - Patty Lyon's Knitting Bag of Tricks

Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall

Sujata Massey - The Mistress of Bhatia House

Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City

Val McDermid - 1979

Freida McFadden - The Housemaid

Suzie Miller - Prima Facie

Bob Mortimer - The Satsuma Complex

David Nicholls - One Day

Michelle Obama - Becoming

Maggie O'Farrell - Hamnet

Beth O'Leary - The Flatshare

Richard Osman - Thursday Murder Club

Delia Owens - Where the Crawdads Sing

Natasha Pulley - The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

Laura Purcell - The Silent Companions

Ian Rankin - A Heart Full of Headstones

Jessica Redland - Tomorrow Starts Today

Simon Reeve - Step by Step

Lucinda Riley - The Light Behind the Window

L. J. Ross - Angel

Hallie Rubenhold - The Five

W. C. Ryan - A House of Ghosts

Simon Scarrow - Tyrant of Rome

V. E. Schwab - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

V. E. Schwab - Bury our Bones in the Midnight Soil

David Sedaris - A Carnival of Snackery

Elif Shafak - There are Rivers in the Sky

Samantha Shannon - The Bone Season

Samantha Shannon - The Priory of the Orange Tree

Mary Shelley - Frankenstein

Lemn Sissay - My Name is Why

Rebecca Skloot - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

George R. Stewart - Earth Abides

Emma Stonex - The Lamplighters

Gwen Strauss - The Nine

Douglas Stuart - Shuggie Bain

Donna Tartt - The Little Friend

J. R. R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings

Isabella Tree - Wilding

Anne Tyler - Three Days in June

Uketsu - Strange Houses

Andy Weir - Project Hail Mary

Matt Wesolowski - Six Stories

Sarah Winman - Still Life

Val Wood - The Doorstep Girls

Yael van der Wouden - The Safekeep

Chip Zdarsky - Spider-Man: Life Story

Markus Zusak - The Book Thief