Staff top reads
Staff top reads 2016
See a selection of staff top reads in 2015. Think of it as our personal recommendations!
Anne
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Reckoning: a memoir by Magda Szubanski
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Us by David Nicholls
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The inheritance of loss by Kieran Desai
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The Bertie project by Alexander McCall Smith
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Beautiful ruins by Jess Walter
Silvana
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The light between oceans by M.L. Stedman
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By Grand Central Station I sat down and wept by Elizabeth Smart
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Salt creek by LucyTreloar
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Time and time again by Ben Elton
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The Strays by Emily Bitto
Jeff
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The road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson
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The Strays by Emily Bitto
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Burning down George Orwell’s house by Andrew Ervin
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The hate race by Maxine Beneba Clarke
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Grant and I : inside and outside the Go-Betweens by Robert Forster
Brooke
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A little life by Hanya Yanagihara
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Our souls at night by Kent Haruf
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Tell the truth, shame the devil by Melina Marchetta
Michael
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A little life by Hanya Yanagihara
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Submission by Michel Houellebecq
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My name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
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The blue guitar by John Banville
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The green road by Anne Enright
Teishan
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The end of San Francisco by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
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Jandamarra & the Bunuba Resistance by Howard Pedersen and Banjo Worrunmurra
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Gifts (Annals of the Western Shore # 1) by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Voices (Annals of the Western Shore # 2) by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Powers (Annals of the Western Shore # 3) by Ursula K. Le Guin
Ellie
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Disclaimer by Renee Knight
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The carrier by Sophie Hannah
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The eye of the sheep by Sofie Laguna
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Station eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
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The last painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith
Janine
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Disclaimer by Renee Knight
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Tell the truth, shame the devil by Melina Marchetta
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Reckoning: a memoir by Magda Szubanksi
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Station eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
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The road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson
Clare
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To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee
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Everything tastes better crumbed : and other big statements by Dave O’Neill
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Prick with a fork by Larissa Dubecki
Jude
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The Cuckoo's calling (Cormoran Strike series) by Robert Galbraith
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Silkworm (Cormoran Strike series) by Robert Galbraith
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Career of evil (Cormoran Strike series) by Robert Galbraith
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Casual vacancy by J.K. Rowling
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Bright lights dark shadows : the real story of ABBA by Carl Magnus Palm
Mike
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Just kids by Patti Smith
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Stoner by John Williams
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I, Partridge; we need to talk about Alan by Alan Partridge
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Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson
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The minotaur takes a cigarette break by Steven Sherril
Justin
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St Kilda blues by Geoff McGeachin
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The heat by Garry Disher
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Ravenspur by Conn Iggulden
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The big short by Michael Lewis
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The keeper by John Lescroart
Ruby
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Love and terror in the howling plains of nowhere by Poe Ballantine
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Our souls at night by Kent Haruf
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The lonely city by Olivia Laing
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Blue nights by Joan Didion
Haylee
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The Paris architect by Charles Belfoure
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The light on the water by Olga Lorenzo
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Scattered pearls by Sohila Zanjani
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Love in the first flight by Tess Woods
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Darkest secret by Alex Marwood
Lachlan
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All that man is by David Szalay
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The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
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A Murder Without Motive: The Killing of Rebecca Ryle by Martin McKenzie-Murray
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Everywhere I look by Helen Garner
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Magic Beach by Alison Lester
Anne
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Come in Spinner by Florence James and Dympna Cusack
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Noonday by Pat Barker
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His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet
Sue
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The elegance of the hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (Translated by Alison Anderson)
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The most good you can do : How effective altruism is changing ideas about living ethically by Peter Singer
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The course of love by Alain De Botton
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Sushi and beyond: What the Japanese know about cooking by Michael Booth
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Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
Nicola
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The year of the runaways by Sunjeev Sahota
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Skellig by David Almond
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Our souls at night by Kent Haruf
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The rise, the fall, and the rise by Brix Start Smith
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Grant and I, inside & outside the Go-Betweens by Robert Forster
Andrea
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A proper family holiday by Chrissie Manby
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Where is bear? by Jonathan Bentley
Zoe
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I'm supposed to protect you from all this by Nadja Spiegelman
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The wicked & the divine (Book one) by Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie
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A climate of fear by Fred Vargas
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Reckoning: a memoir by Magda Szubanski
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When breath becomes air by Paul Kalanithi
Gayle
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The guest cat byTakashi Hiraide
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The one and only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
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Still in the bush by Len Beadell
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Valour confederation series by Tanya Huff
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The amazing tale of Ali Pasha by Michael Foreman
Maryanne
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White gardenia by Belinda Alexandra
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Station eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
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The shining girls by Lauren Beukes
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Next to die by Neil White
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Jack Reacher series by Lee Child